Name: Lakeshore
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 30 ml Red quinquina e.g. Dubonnet, Byrrh; 7.5 ml Fernet liqueur; 7.5 ml Maraschino liqueur

Lakeshore
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Glass:

Photographed in an Urban Bar Plain Retro Coupette 15cl

Ingredients:
2 oz	Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
1 oz	Dubonnet, Byrrh etc. rouge light quinquina
¹⁄₄ oz	Fernet Branca liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
No garnish to prepare.

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Serve naked, without garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A variation on PDT's Newark Cocktail, the Lakeshore is a delicious spirit-forward, herbal, fresh, bittersweet aperitivo or cleansing late-night digestivo.

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Variations/similar cocktails:

DuBoudreau

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2025 by J. E. Clapham of Clapham Cocktails. (The original recipe is based on Planteray 3 Star Rum.)

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Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
25.32% alc./vol. (50.64° proof)
26.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Jeffrey Moore

30th August 2025 at 18:27

Subbed the Dubonnet for Antica Formula & this was terrific. Reminded me of a Red Hook..

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Stephen C

19th August 2025 at 02:28

Subbed the fernet with cynar. liked it well enough.

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Andy Parnell-Hopkinson

16th August 2025 at 17:29

It's good. I like fernet but it's a real attention- seeker, it's all, me me me. Maybe some other accent flavour would allow the others to get some space?

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