Name: Blue Negroni
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Old Tom gin; 20 ml Bitter bianco liqueur; 20 ml Bianco/blanco vermouth; 10 ml Dry vermouth; 10 ml Blue curaçao liqueur; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Ingredients

1 fl oz

Hayman's Old Tom Gin

2/3 fl oz

Luxardo Bitter Bianco liqueur

2/3 fl oz

Strucchi Bianco Vermouth

1/3 fl oz

Strucchi Dry Vermouth

1/3 fl oz

Bols Blue Curaçao

3 drop

Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Blue Negroni contains 176 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
22.31% alc./vol. (44.62° proof)
20.1 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Bianco/blanc/blanco vermouth, Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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Comments & Discussion

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Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 1y

Further to my earlier comment, use dry gin not old Tom. Negroni should not be sweet.

Viktor Martinsson 7w

Campari and red vermouth in the original Negroni are really sweet

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 7w

Campari really sweet? You must be a very bitter man.

Chris McLean 1y

I have a handful of traditional Negroni loving friends who are very sceptical about the concept of a Blue Negroni. I have dabbled with them trying to generate something that isn't sweet and my traditionalists then added in to the challenge that to be authentic any recipe should be of 'equal parts'. After some experimentation and a green version produced using Gin, Suze & Blue Coração, I came up with the following combination which seemed sufficiently Negroniesque in taste and was made using 15 mls of each of the following ingredients:
London Dry Gin
Vodka (Stoli)
Tequila (Don Angel - I'm not much of Tequila drinker)
Luxardo Bitters
Cocchi Americano
Blue Coração

Those who sampled it gave it the thumbs up, but I'm yet to win over all of the traditionalists who merely saw the photo!

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 1y

qv unless you like them sweet, just use dry vermouth.

Luca Viviani Premium Member 1y

If you happen to have friends over for aperitivo, I suggest serving regular Negronis mixed with a few of these on the same tray. The bright red and light blue of the two look just stunning together and you'll be sure to make an impression.
I found the result a bit too sweet, I will try fully replacing bianco vermouth with extra dry next time.