Name: Night Vision
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Cachaça; 30 ml Carrot juice; 10 ml Agave syrup; Top up with Tonic water

Night Vision
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Serve in a Flute glass

Ingredients:
1 oz	Cachaça
1 oz	Carrot juice (freshly extracted)
¹⁄₃ oz	Agave syrup
Top up with	Thomas Henry Tonic Water

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Flute glass.
Prepare garnish of baby carrot.
SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
TOP with tonic water.

Review:

Cachaça, carrot and tonic water make for a very interesting combo in this cocktail. Perhaps more health shop/juice bar than speakeasy, but unusually tasty all the same.

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History:

Adapted from a drink originally called "Natural" created in 2015 by Jorge Balbontin, Barcelona, Spain.

Carrots are packed full of Vitamin A, in the form of beta carotene, so are good for the health of our eyes, but contrary to popular belief, carrots don't help you see in the dark. This urban myth stems from WWII. During the 1940 Blitzkrieg, the Luftwaffe struck the southeast of England under the cover of darkness, but the Royal Air Force had the upper hand in the dark skies due to new radar technology. First installed in RAF aircraft in 1939, the secret onboard Airborne Interception Radar (AI) could spot enemy bombers before they reached the English Channel. Not wanting the Germans to develop similar technology, to explain the success of the British pilots, the Ministry of Information spread the myth that they could see in the dark due to eating carrots.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Night Vision contains 105 calories

Alcohol content:

0.6 standard drinks
12.61% alc./vol. (12.61° proof)
8.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Luca Sorriso Valvo

4th March at 19:35

I used homemade carrot cordial instead of carrot juice (that's what I had), so I cut by half the agave syrup. Then, I tried, and liked, both with or without tonic water. This is a cocktail with a very simple flavor, and yet well balanced and rich. Excellent.