Are you a Discerning Drinker?
Join thousands of like-minded professionals and cocktail enthusiasts, receive our weekly newsletters and see pages produced by our community for fellow Discerning Drinkers.
This is a community recipe contributed by Calvin Grant.
Community recipes are not tested or verified by Difford’s Guide.
Published on 20th of October 2025
Serve in an Old-fashioned glass
| 30 ml | Blended Scotch whisky |
| 15 ml | Bourbon whiskey |
| 10 ml | Monin Almond (Orgeat) Syrup |
| 5 ml | Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup) |
| 3 drop | Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s |
| 30 ml | Smith & Cross Pot Still Jamaican rum |
| 20 ml | Lime juice (freshly squeezed) |
You are trying to view a community recipe, only available to Difford’s Guide members.
To view this recipe in full please log in.
Bourbon
Bourbon is as American as the Stars and Stripes, the Grand Canyon, and pumpkin pie, but there are some common misconceptions about what exactly bourbon...
Orgeat
Orgeat (pronounced 'Ohr-Zsa' as in Zsa Zsa Gabor - with the 't' silent), is a syrup traditionally made from almonds, sugar and rose water or orange flower...
2 to 1 'rich' sugar syrup versus 1 to 1 'simple' syrup
The balance between sweet and sour is crucial to the majority of cocktails and consistently producing balanced cocktails is made easier when using sugar...
Autumn / Fall Cocktails
Summer is fading, leaves are starting to scatter the ground and the weather is turning chillier. It's not yet time for winter warmers, but crushed ice-charged...
20 best Vodka cocktails
Vodka's success is partly due to its being marketed from the 1940s as a clear, pure, clean spirit that will mix with anything. Accordingly, some regard...