Name: Gun Metal Blue
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Mezcal; 15 ml Blue curaçao liqueur; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Peach liqueur; 10 ml Cinnamon syrup; 2.5 ml Gentian liqueur

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Bols Blue Curaçao

³⁄₄ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Giffard Crème de Pêche de Vigne liqueur

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Monin Cinnamon Syrup

¹⁄₁₂ fl oz

Gentian liqueur Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Avèze, Salers)

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist (coin sized).

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over cocktail and float as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Gun Metal Blue contains 163 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
17.04% alc./vol. (34.08° proof)
18.7 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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Caspian Berggren Premium Member 31w

It's honestly really great. The mezcal is perfectly accentuated by the cinnamon and peach where the Suze adds just a little more body without making the cocktail bitter. A thing I like about the blue curacao is that it's not too orangey. It's there in the background supporting the other components.

Don't be scared off by any preconceptions you might have about "blue cocktails" - this one is seriously good.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 31w

It's a little too easy to consign blue drinks to the category 'party time'. This would certainly go down a treat at your next soiree but there is nothing frivolous about it. We can imagine sipping on it late night while listening to Billie Holiday singing plaintively of her blues. We didn't have the peach liqueur so used an apricot liqueur (Merlet) instead.

Christopher Jameson 33w

Made this before and really liked it, made again and replaced the quantities of the cinnamon syrup with peche de vigne.... 5+*

Rik de Boer 1y

Nice! More serious in flavour than its gimmicky colour suggests.

Added a little Suze, gentian liqueur, which added not only a pleasant bitter dimension, but also changed the colour towards the turquoise/aqua spectrum, as Suze is yellow.

Lilly Marson 1y

This has been basically the only drink I've drunk this year.

It's genuinly made me less interested in trying other drinks because I kmow I can just make this and be delighted.

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 1y

As previously noted this is a wolf in disco clothing. However not especially memorable.

John Hinojos Premium Member 2y

A hit. Much stronger than it looks. Went perfectly with our spicy dinner. Well balanced with just a hint of smoky.

Scott Noonan 4y

Really recommend peach bitters if you're making this with a cinnamon syrup that isn't infused with gentian. Fantastic.

Peter Halpern Premium Member 4y

Substituted with:
Komos Anejo Cristalino Tequila
Drillaud Blue Curaçao
Montbisue pêche
Vincenzi Blanco Aperitif lemon & ginger 15ml

No syrup & no water

Just shaken over ice