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Bryan

Name: Bryan
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Mint fernet amaro; 30 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 30 ml Ferro China

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (10)

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Serves:

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Brancamenta
1 fl oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
1 fl oz	Ferro China Baliva

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Method

Select and pre-chill a DOUBLE OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
POUR ingredients into frozen glass.
Fill glass with ice and briefly stir.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
26.51% alc./vol. (53.02° proof)
23.9 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created in January 2025 by yours truly.

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Review

Short for "Branca, Rye & Iron": this is a rustic shot turned digestivo. End your night with a Bryan; you won't regret it! (This recipe only works with a minty fernet, so if using another fernet, try adding a barspoon of crème de menthe).

AKA: Another Bryan, I Blame Bryan

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Comments & Discussion

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Sport Murphy 17w

This is a great nightcap. It really needs a good, bold rye to hold up to the other intense flavors, and when it does... wow. Also seems to improve when a little dilution begins cutting the richness and the interplay of these unusual flavors emerges.

Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

This honestly surprised me. The Brancamenta *should* dominate everything yet it kind of doesn't. The mint is obviously up front and center but then it quickly mellows out into the warmth of rye and Baliva with quite little of the Fernet bitterness. Really a delicious cocktail albeit strange.

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