Moo'lata

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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 oz Blended Scotch whisky
1⁄4 oz Dark crème de cacao liqueur
1⁄4 oz Dutch Cacao white crème de cacao
1⁄2 oz Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1⁄6 oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 dash Angostura Cocoa Bitters
3 drop Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of lime wedge.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. Garnish with lime wedge.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 7/10
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Review:

Scotch soured with lime (works better than lemon) and sweetened with a touch of chocolate liqueur.

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History:

Created in January 2011 by Yours truly at the Cabinet Room, London, England after mistakenly taking a bottle of Scotch from the speedwell to make a Mulata Daiquiri. It proved a tasty mistake.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Moo'lata contains 196 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.5 standard drinks
  • 21.5% alc./vol. (21.5° proof)
  • 20.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Angela Knox’s Avatar Angela Knox
7th August 2024 at 00:31
Wanted to make it less boozy so used half whiskey but 5mls each cacaos, a drizzle of syrup, 1 good dash bitters and 10ml lime. Decorated with a Luxardo cherry for a bit added sweetness
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Vera Lycaon’s Avatar Vera Lycaon
24th February 2024 at 07:10
Didn't nix the sugar syrup, did add two dashes of cocoa bitters per people's tips here. Scotch, lime and chocolate make for odd bedfellows - but it works, and I like it.
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
24th February 2024 at 21:49
I've added the worthy addition of Cocoa Bitters and subtly tweaked my recipe. Many thanks.
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Avery Garnett’s Avatar Avery Garnett
22nd October 2023 at 20:17
Lime and chocolate will always sit a bit strange with me.
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Jim Plante’s Avatar Jim Plante
13th August 2023 at 22:18
I joined Sally and John, I made mine without the simple syrup and used 2 dashes of Angostura cocoa bitters! Very Nice, hey Simon the link to your Mulata Daquiri is broken. Thanks for everything!
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Paloma Difford’s Avatar Paloma Difford
14th August 2023 at 07:34
oopsy, thanks for letting us know Jim, that link is now fixed
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Sally Morgan’s Avatar Sally Morgan
19th February 2023 at 20:12
A tad too sweet for me- dropped the sugar syrup to 5ml and added 2 drops chocolate bitters and it upped it’s game considerably
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John Hinojos’ Avatar John Hinojos
24th May 2021 at 00:25
Excellent mixture of Scotch and cacao. May try with a dash of chocolate bitters.
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Mark Hay’s Avatar Mark Hay
29th July 2020 at 04:43
Yeah, tasty. May have put the lime in twice, but if so, it worked. ;-)
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