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Whizz-Bang

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

Difford’s Guide

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

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Whizz-Bang contains 151 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
23.39% alc./vol. (46.78° proof)
17.9 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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

Review

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

J&B Rare 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$24.99 $1.51 per cocktail J&B Rare image

Monin Grenadine Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 100 cocktails
$14.99 $0.15 per cocktail Monin Grenadine Syrup (US) image

La Fee Parisienne absinthe 200ml - makes 320 cocktails
$17.99 $0.06 per cocktail La Fee Parisienne absinthe image

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

$1.79 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 1y

Really need to make some more grenadine. However, needs must when the devil drives so crappy bottled stuff had to do. Really very pleasant balance.

Aleksey Savkin Premium Member 1y

Thanks! Very nice one. I would suggest to reduce Grenadine to 5ml max.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 1y

Dang this is downright delicious. Kind of like a whizzky martini.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

You're a punny guy Calvin. So now we await your Whizzky Martini recipe with high expectations. 🙂