Name: Archbishop
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Jamaican OP aged rum; 20 ml Red bitter liqueur; 10 ml Chartreuse Green

Archbishop
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Photographed in an UB Ginza Old Fashioned 10.5oz

Ingredients:
1 oz	Jamaican-style overproof aged pot still rum
²⁄₃ oz	Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)
¹⁄₃ oz	Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of 2 orange zest twists.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).
EXPRESS first orange zest twist over the cocktail and discard. Express the second orange zest twist and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

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Review:

Bittersweet and spirit-forward. The orange zest twist is key to this cocktail's success; hence I use two.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created circa 2019 by Brandon Bramhall at Attaboy in Nashville, Tennessee. (For reasons of sobriety and to make this challenging cocktail more approachable, I reduced the original volumes by a third.)

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Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
37.4% alc./vol. (37.4° proof)
22.4 grams of pure alcohol

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Ben Littlechilds

17th May at 00:40

Just had this, as the last post mentioned, shocked how balanced it was! That funky S&C banana note was well matched by the bitterness and herbal-ness. A banger for me!

Calvin Grant

11th May at 02:17

I used Smith & Cross, Campari, Green Chartreuse, and generous orange zest and found this to be remarkably well balanced. And unique. ♡♡♡♡♡

Loïc Pierre

6th March at 21:28

Tried with Cross and Smith. I found it too strong... I've added 1/4 oz white vermouth (not dry) and preferred it.

Loïc Pierre

6th March at 21:29

* Smith & Cross

Caspian Berggren

16th February at 18:40

As Simon said before me, this is not for the faint of heart. I'm glad Difford decreased the volume by a third but it could've honestly been by like half, because the amount of dilution required is still enough for a "normal" cocktail.

Otherwise it's a very interesting cocktail. The combination of flavours brought out a bergamot taste I've never noticed in any of the ingredients before. If nothing else this is a great cocktail to find new flavours with!

Caspian Berggren

16th February at 19:13

I do wonder how upping the Chartreuse to 3:2:2 would work. Maybe it would stabilise the other ingredients. To be honest I kind of love/hate this cocktail. It's out of balance right now but I believe that with the right proportions this could become one of my favourites of all time.

Simon Sedgley

16th February at 10:41

Not for the faint of heart...even at the reduced volumes. In an attempt to calm this unruly cleric we added 10ml fino sherry and 5ml dry vermouth...better for us.

Simon Sedgley

16th February at 10:47

And, as our host says, the zest garnish is essential. Not having any oranges, we went with lime.

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