Name: Fail-Safe
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Navy strength gin; 22.5 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 15 ml Orange Curaçao; 15 ml Orange-red aperitivo; 2 dash Aromatic bitters

Fail-Safe
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Glass:

Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Ingredients:
³⁄₄ fl oz	Hayman's Navy Strength Royal Dock Gin
³⁄₄ fl oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Ferrand Dry Curaçao
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

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 zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

There are delicate and pleasing floral notes to this complex, well-balanced riff on a Negroni.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2013 by Scott Teague at Death & Co. in Manhattan, New York City, and featured in the 2014 Death & Co. Modern Classic Cocktailsbook.

FAIL-SAFE
Scot Teague, 2013
Some drinks are just happy accidents. One night I saw several bottles sitting next to each other behind the bar, and I thought, Why not? I started playing around with them in Negroni proportions, and it worked.–ST
¾ ounce Perry's Tot Navy-strength Gin
¾ ounce Plymouth Sloe Gin
¾ ounce Aperol
½ ounce Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Stir all the ingredients over ice, then strain into double rocks glass over 1 large ice cube. No garnish.
Death & Co. Modern Classic Cocktails, 2014

Nutrition:

One serving of Fail-Safe contains 205 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
27.7% alc./vol. (55.4° proof)
21 grams of pure alcohol

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