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Bitches' Brew cocktail

Name: Bitches' Brew cocktail
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Red quinquina e.g. Dubonnet, Byrrh; 22.5 ml Oude genever; 22.5 ml Vodka; 22.5 ml India pale ale (IPA) beer

Difford’s Guide

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Serves:

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Dubonnet, Byrrh etc. rouge light quinquina
³⁄₄ fl oz	Oude genever
³⁄₄ fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
³⁄₄ fl oz	India pale ale (IPA) beer

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

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

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over cocktail and discard.
Garnish with skewered maraschino cherry.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Bitches' Brew cocktail contains 121 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.58% alc./vol. (39.15° proof)
19.1 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

India pale ale (IPA) beer — Cereals containing gluten

History

Created by yours truly on 21st February 2015 at the Cabinet Room, London, England and so named due to its ingredients including beer and Byrrh aperitif (also pronounced 'beer') so "brew" seemed appropriate, helped by the track Bitches Brew on the brilliant 1970 Bitches Brew studio album by Miles Davis, the American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader.

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Review

Beer has never tasted so complex - sweet aperitif, dry hoppy IPA beer, bready jenever and cleansing vodka.

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Makes a minimum of 25 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Doug Charnock Premium Member 7w

Very tasty and interesting with a touch of IPA. I did skip the ice in the coupe though.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 15w

We'd love to try this but, where we are, aren't within coo-ee of a bottle of Oude genever. Is there an acceptable substitute?

Ian Lessels Premium Member 15w

A pedant writes: Bitches Brew was actually recorded in 1969 and released in 1970. In 1961, Miles released Someday My Prince Will Come.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 15w

Thanks for the correction, Ian.

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