Name: Macbeth
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Scotch whisky; 15 ml Strega liqueur; 1 dash Orange bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Macbeth
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Glass:

Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Ingredients:
2 fl oz	Blended Scotch whisky
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Liquore Strega
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange and lemon zests.

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish:

EXPRESS orange and lemon zests over cocktail and then use both to garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Herbal, peppermint and vanilla Scotch whisky.

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Variations/similar cocktails:

Make this with Yellow Chartreuse (in place of Strega) and you have Tom Walker's Nova Scotia cocktail.

Nutrition:

One serving of Macbeth contains 169 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
31.44% alc./vol. (62.87° proof)
23.7 grams of pure alcohol

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