Name: The Opening Act
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Ginger liqueur; 15 ml Red bitter liqueur; 15 ml Lime juice; 1 dash Orange bitters; Top up with Tonic water

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Ginger liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Italian red bitter liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

1 dash

Orange Bitters by Angostura

Top up with

Thomas Henry Tonic Water

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of The Opening Act contains 226 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
15.34% alc./vol. (30.67° proof)
14.9 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Robert Arnold 4w

Very pleasant and refreshing. Delightful. I slighty over dashed the bitters. Worked great. Also poured 2 oz of tonic into the glass prior to straining in the drink. Added a bit more after. Best use ever for my very dusty bottle of Canton ginger liqueur. Now I see a way forward to using it up.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 2y

This blew away my expectations severalfold, whatever they may have been... Made this with Barrow's, Campari, Ango orange, and Fever Tree Tonic Water... Shot up to my top 25 maybe (at least top 50). Fantastic!

James Casswell 3y

Doesn't taste alcoholic (which is a tad worrying..) but refreshing and delicious. Perhaps my favourite long drink, certainly one of.

James Brooke Premium Member 4y

Excuse me if this is a silly question, but lots of the recipes say “adapted from…” and I’m interested to know what “adapted from…” means?
How different is the recipe given from the original?
This is a lovely drink by the way.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 4y

“Adapted from is something I add to pretty much all origins now as there is almost always some change from the original recipe, some as small as fine straining or not fine straining through to more significant changes in measures or ingredients. It also frees me to stipulate brands that may not have originally been used. I now also tend to add the original recipe or a note to highlight and significant change I’ve made.”