Name: Foghorn Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Gin; 15 ml Triple sec; 15 ml Aromatized wine; 2.5 ml Absinthe; 10 ml Chilled water

Foghorn Cocktail
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc)
0.08 oz	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
¹⁄₃ oz	Chilled water omit if using wet ice

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Garnish: Lemon zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE (or stir) all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Triple sec sweetens dry gin with zesty orange while aromatised wine adds vinous notes. However, it's absinthe that sets this Martini-style cocktail apart. According to bartending convention, this cocktail should be stirred but I much prefer it shaken as when first served this gives the Foghorn a cloudiness that befits its name.

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Variant:

Foghorn

History:

A riff on the Corpse Reviver No. 2 created in the Noughties by Ryan Fitzgerald in San Francisco, USA. Absinthe is said to "give the drink an opalescence reminiscent of San Francisco's fog", hence this cocktail's name.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Foghorn Cocktail contains 176 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
24.58% alc./vol. (24.58° proof)
22.7 grams of pure alcohol

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Mike Hillis

6th December 2024 at 03:45

Loved this. I wasn’t sure about how much 1/12 of an ounce was and so used a bar spoon. Might have been a tad too much because it dominated…. But I loved this drink!

Calvin Grant

30th July 2024 at 01:14

A lot of excellent martini-style cocktails on the site (thank you Simon) and this is certainly one of them, this worked for me!

John Hinojos

17th April 2024 at 00:27

Very delightful cocktail, but I love almost any cocktail with Absinthe. Did find it a tad sweet for me and may consider backing off the Triple Sec a little, but that may upset the balance.
Did try a few drops of orange bitters which checked some of the sweet, but did not upset the flavours. The bitters also added a few more herbal tones.

G. M. Genovese

13th November 2022 at 19:27

I wouldn't drink this often. But wow is it nicely balanced. Saying this as a unapologetic fan of anise and absinthe. (13 Nov 2022, 2:27p)

Chris Lamb

11th March 2022 at 08:49

This looks like a fairly close variant (or an antecedent?) of the more-famous Corpse Reviver No.2. Given the lack of sugar here, it would be interesting to learn whether the original recipe of this cocktail specified the older (ie. sweeter) Lillet.

Simon Difford

12th March 2022 at 17:55

Good observation Chris. I've added a reference and link to Corpse Reviver. I've also added notes on origin.

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