Name: Tiger's Claw
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Reposado tequila; 15 ml Coffee liqueur; 15 ml Cinnamon syrup; 40 ml Pineapple juice; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 2 dash Orange bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Tiger's Claw
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Photographed in an UB Koto Collins 35cl

Ingredients:
2 oz	Patrón Reposado tequila
¹⁄₂ oz	Galliano Espresso Coffee liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Cinnamon Syrup
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Pineapple juice
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of half orange slice wheel and mint sprigs.

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish:

Garnish with orange slice and mint sprigs bouquet.

Strength & taste guide:

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Review:

A tequila-laced coffee and pineapple sour with mild cinnamon spice.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created by Erick Castro at Gilly's House of Cocktails in San Diego, California.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Tiger's Claw contains 251 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
13.77% alc./vol. (13.77° proof)
21.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Niccolò Murtas

1st August at 22:05

Look, it's a great cocktail, but especially for those in Europe (or outside of NAFTA) who cannot source (good) tequila at "cheaper" prices as our fellow discerning american drinkers.....i suggest tailoring the amount of cinnnamon quite carefully. It is great, and well integrated - but you might easily hide a tequila you have spent 30 euros importing.... also, although this might have been more easily guessed by the community than it was by me, we are in a tiki-cocktail - the sweetness is tiki. So if you are up for something more mexican, don't be afraid of dropping the cinnamon to even 5 (mine is, perhaps too cinnamon forward - the sweetness (to "anglosaxon", rather than tiki) standards - is in the pineapple. But for those who can pay a reposado 20 bucks, and want a tiki cocktail with a slightly-hidden tequila, then the ingredients are there and I am happy to have tried it. Surprisingly well "integrated".

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Robert Spain

12th July at 23:19

It's an excellent cocktail, really tasty. But please, it's impossible that 120 ml of tequila plus some coffee liqueur adds up to just 2 standard drinks. One of those figures is awfully wrong. Unless, of course, that me and my Scottish pal, Richard, have redefined what a standard drink is. Period.

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Daniel Mlonchin

1st May at 18:43

For me it was a great cocktail where the individual ingredients come up one after another in a beautiful combination.
You really get the agave notes then the coffee and cinnamon hits you.

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