Name: Whizz-Bang
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Scotch whisky; 22.5 ml Dry vermouth; 7.5 ml Grenadine syrup; 2 dash Absinthe; 2 dash Orange bitters

Whizz-Bang
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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Blended Scotch whisky
³⁄₄ oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup
2 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Dry (don't be misled by the grenadine) and equally suited to enjoying as an aperitivo or late-night tipple.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe first published in Robert Vermeire's 1922 book Cocktails: How to Mix Them, where its creation is credited to "Tommy Burton at the Sports' Club in London in 1920." The cocktail is named after high-velocity German shells fired from small calibre field guns during the First World War. The shells travelled faster than the speed of sound, so soldiers heard the "whiz" noise of the flying shell before the "bang" of the gun the shell had been fired from reached them.

Whiz-Bang
Fill the bar glass half full of broken ice and add:
2 dashes of Orange Bitters.
2 dashes of Grenadine.
2 dashes of Absinthe.
1/6 gill of French Vermouth.
2/6 gill of Scotch Whisky.
Stir up well and strain into a cocktail-glass. Squeeze lemon-peel on top.
(Recipe by Tommy Burton, Sports' Club, London 1920.)
This cocktail is named after the high-velocity shells, so called by the "Tommies" during the war, because all you heard was a whiz and the explosion of the shell immediately afterwards.
Robert Vermeire, Cocktails - How to Mix Them, 1922

Nutrition:

One serving of Whizz-Bang contains 151 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
23.39% alc./vol. (23.39° proof)
17.8 grams of pure alcohol

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