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Tiger's Claw

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (25)
Measurements in:
Serves:
1
Ingredients
2 fl oz Reposado tequila (100% agave)
12 fl oz Galliano Espresso Coffee liqueur
12 fl oz Monin Cinnamon Syrup
1 13 fl oz Pineapple juice
34 fl oz Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
2 dash Orange Bitters by Angostura
2 drop Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB Koto Collins 35cl

Prepare

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

Method

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

Garnish

  1. Garnish with orange slice and mint sprigs bouquet.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Tiger's Claw contains 251 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.6 standard drinks
  • 13.77% alc./vol. (27.53° proof)
  • 22.6 grams of pure alcohol

History

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

Review

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

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Comments & Discussion

Peter Barth
I found the cinnamon a bit to owerpowering. Especially with Monin Cinnamon Syrup - where I would dial it back 5-7.5ml. Otherwise refreshing like a tropical downpour!
score: 1
Niccolò Murtas
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".
score: 3
Robert Spain
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.
score: 1
Daniel Mlonchin
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.
score: 2

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$5.26 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 6 cocktails.
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* May not include all ingredients. Price per cocktail is an estimate based on cost of one cocktail with ingredients shown above and does not include shipping.