Name: Cardboard Plane
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Bourbon whiskey; 22.5 ml Triple sec; 15 ml Amaro (e.g. Meletti); 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Ingredients

1 fl oz

Bourbon whiskey

³⁄₄ fl oz

Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Amaro (e.g. Meletti)

³⁄₄ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

2 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 grapefruit zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Cardboard Plane contains 172 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
19.11% alc./vol. (38.22° proof)
21.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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Frederic D. Premium Member 22w

Since I am not the biggest fan of sours, I took inspiration from this, removed the lemon, and made a version with 1 Old Forester, 1 grapefruit juice, 3/4 Nonino, 3/4 Combier. This was actually quite tasty, but I might workshop different amaros - based on comments below, I think Averna is next on the list.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 31w

Meletti or Averna sounds preferable to the Amaro dell'Etna I used in this. I was, however, quite delighted with the flavors I got. Oh so moreish.

Marie-Therese Straus 1y

This was outstanding. We were looking for a lighter, more refreshing whiskey cocktail to beat the heat here in California and this was it. We did not have Meletti on hand but used Averna instead. This is just a beautiful balance of varied citrus flavours and richer notes from the bourbon and amaro. One of the best sour variations I've had in recent years; we'll be adding this to our permanent repertoire.