Macbeth

Difford’s Guide

Glass:

Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

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

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

How to make:

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

Garnish:

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

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 8/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 7/10

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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