Name: Simon Says
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Oude genever; 15 ml Gentian liqueur; 5 ml Galliano liqueur; 5 ml Génépi liqueur; 5 ml White crème de cacao

Simon Says
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Serve in a Rocks glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Oude genever
¹⁄₂ oz	Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Salers etc)
¹⁄₆ oz	Galliano L'Autentico liqueur
¹⁄₆ oz	Bigallet Genepi Grand Tetras
¹⁄₆ oz	White crème de cacao liqueur

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Rocks glass.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Review:

A great aperitif drink which uses bready genever and gentian liqueur as its backbone with spoons of herbal Galliano, genepi and chocolate liqueurs adding interest and complexity. (Be sure to use Galliano L'Authentico – not Galliano Vanilla.)

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History:

Created in 2016 by Joaquín Simó at Pouring Ribbons, New York City, USA, based on and named after Rutte's Old Simon genever.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Simon Says contains 142 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
27.68% alc./vol. (27.68° proof)
20.7 grams of pure alcohol

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Caspian Berggren

14th June at 13:56

A *lot* of flavours, where some work and some doesn't. I kind of like it though. It's very unique. If you ever want a cocktail that you could drink av entire evening then this is it.

John CARR

13th May at 13:43

There’s a lot going on here. I had after dinner, but suspect that the apéritif hour may change my perception significantly. Improved as it warmed and diluted.

Chris VanDoren

7th April 2024 at 00:24

This doesn't really come together, interesting but too many unique flavors

Stephan Gröhn

3rd February 2023 at 16:29

Since I have no Genever available at the moment I replaced it with one half of non-peaty blended Scotch with high malt content (The Antiquary) and the other one with a new western style of gin where juniper is only in the background. It worked very well!

Patrick Varner

22nd November 2021 at 03:07

Gentian and cacao compete for mainstage, dancing between symphony and cacophony. All my friends hate it.
I bought a satchet of genepi from Vars, France, just to make this convoluted drink.

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