Name: Black Hawk
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 30 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 6 drop Boker's style bitters

Black Hawk
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Glass:

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
1 fl oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin
6 drop	Boker's style bitters optional

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Garnish with maraschino cherry dopped into cocktail.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Rich, tart berry-slow gin mellows the spirituous spiced rye whiskey with delicate vanilla and liquorice. A must-try if you like Manhattans.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in R. de Fleury's 1934 book 1700 Cocktails for the Man Behind the Bar.

BLACK HAWK
½ Seagram's Canadian Rye Whisky
½ Sloe Gin
Stir well and serve with a Cherry.
R. de Fleury, 1700 Cocktails for the Man Behind the Bar, 1934

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Nutrition:

One serving of Black Hawk contains 170 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
31.84% alc./vol. (63.68° proof)
24 grams of pure alcohol

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