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A Farewell to Arms No. 1

Name: A Farewell to Arms No. 1
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Fernet liqueur; 22.5 ml Falernum liqueur; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 4 drop Saline solution 4:1

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (30)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Fernet Branca liqueur
³⁄₄ fl oz	Falernum liqueur
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
4 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar 1920 Alto Coupe 18cl

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of mint leaf.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with mint leaf floated on the cocktail or pegged/stuck with spot of honey to the rim.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of A Farewell to Arms No. 1 contains 203 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
14.71% alc./vol. (29.42° proof)
15.8 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 2013/14 by Chad Owen at Manifesto speakeasy in Kansas City, Missouri. Eponymously named after Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel.

Review

Wakey, wakey! Fernet replaces rum in this falernum-influenced Daiquiri-like cocktail to enliven your taste buds.

Fernet Branca 375ml - makes 8 cocktails
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Velvet Falernum 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
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Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 75 cocktails
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$3.25 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 8 cocktails.
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Mookie Premium Member 21w

I have a much milder fernet and with this much lime and sugar it almost gets drowned out, but it's still there and this drink is pretty fantastic

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