Name: Black Spring
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 30 ml Byrrh; 30 ml Nardini Amaro; 75 ml Ginger beer

Black Spring
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
1 oz	Byrrh aperitif aromatised wine
1 oz	Amaro (e.g. Nardini)
2 ¹⁄₂ oz	Thomas Henry Ginger Beer

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Garnish: Skewered Luxardo cherries

How to make:

STIR first 3 ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with ginger beer and briefly stir.

Review:

Ginger spice with a bittersweet fruity rye bread bite.

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History:

Believed to originate from Denver, USA.

Nutrition:

One serving of Black Spring contains 222 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
14.19% alc./vol. (14.19° proof)
23.4 grams of pure alcohol

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Matt

4th August 2024 at 20:45

Tasty and refreshing, like you want from a ginger beer highball. Ginger flavor rules here - I also pick up a hint of the minty flavor from the Nardini (complementing the ginger). I used Bonal (no Bryyh on hand) - it gave a small bitterness in the during the finish, did not linger. I couldn't pick out the spicy notes of the rye with the ginger and Nardini, but the high proof kept the cocktail interesting without seeming boozy.

Chris Brislawn

23rd May 2023 at 01:43

I'd been looking for a good use for this bottle of Byrrh I picked up recently, and I think this is it. No Nardini Amaro but Averna is similar to the description Simon gives for Nardini. No Thomas Henry so used Fever-tree ginger beer. The liquorice, caramel and cola flavors from the Amaro blend splendidly with the spices from the rye and the ginger beer. And it looks just right for World Goth Day. B.t.w., WHERE (at which bar) in Denver did this originate? Any clues? It's a big city....

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