Name: Light and Day
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 15 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 7.5 ml Maraschino liqueur; 7.5 ml Orange juice; 3 dash Creole bitters

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1/2 fl oz

Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)

1/4 fl oz

Luxardo Maraschino liqueur

1/4 fl oz

Orange juice (freshly squeezed)

3 dash

Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

No garnish to prepare.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Serve naked, without garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Light & Day contains 206 calories

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
29.39% alc./vol. (58.78° proof)
26.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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Tuber Magnatum Premium Member 14w

Had to try this as I by fluke I came across a bottle of Yellow Chartreuse for sale at a boutique wine store attached to a lovely restaurant at which my wife and I dined. While I find many cocktails with orange juice hit and miss, this is an excellent cocktail, perfectly balanced. It hits all the right notes for me. I miss the garnish though, and on next iteration, I will try expressing an orange zest twist over the cocktail and then use as a garnish!

Jerry Bryant 18w

As a gin lover I’m very pleased to come to know this drink. Its subtlety is delightful; as John CARR noted, the flavors blend magically. It reminds me of the Jupiter cocktail, which also uses gin up front, along with a small amount of orange juice (as well as other arcane ingredients) in a drink that exceeds the sum of the individual parts.Thank you for publishing this!

John CARR Premium Member 19w

One of those subtle, cunning cocktails that you can have a lot of fun with asking guests to guess the ingredients. Another testament to how Luxardo can disappear amongst other glassmates whilst remaining the driver of the whole cocktail.
The contrasting qualities of sweetness and depth with light, fresh herbal notes were really excellent.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 18w

Did try this as per your suggestion in the Six Cylinder thread. Will definitely revisit this when I find that elusive bottle of Chartreuse Juane (subbed Dolin Génépy). Subtle and complex, this one demanded tiny sips to unravel the contents. Might have missed the orange had I not known it was there (navel's not the best juicer) and the cherry notes from the maraschino were rather transparent. Definitely juniper from the gin plus all the bitter hearbals from the gin, the génépy, and the barrel aged Peychaud's. Mostly.

John CARR Premium Member 18w

I guess our old friend Strega could be an option too? This one also came out well as a 2/3 serving; keep ‘em wanting more..! Double checked that yellow chartreuse contains 130 herbs, so perhaps we should be modest in our tasting ambitions! 😂. Maybe think of this as a White Manhattan?!

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John CARR Premium Member 18w

My feeling here is of sun-kissed springtime fields, hay rustling in the breeze, endless summers, wildflower meadows and newmown grass.

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John CARR Premium Member 18w

I assume the title is intended as a faint echo of the Cole Porter song Night and Day.

Florian Ruf Premium Member 19w

For a cocktail with a fruit component it is in our opinion much too much alcohol forward. I suggest to double or tripple the orange juice.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 17w

It does settle down with some warming but was too sharp for our taste on first sip. We subsequently upped the orange juice to 10ml and added 5ml lemon juice. Tamed it a bit for us.

Guy Daniels Premium Member 19w

Very interested to hear what other discerning drinkers think about this. No yellow chartreuse, so i decided to replace with Dom Benedictine and a few drops of absinthe. Obviously not a perfect substitute but it produced an interesting (ie pretty good) result! I am always keen to explore cocktails with fresh orange.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 18w

Benedictine is so incredibly versatile. I think John Carr's onto something with Liquore Strega as a potential substitute also. And absinthe forever!

Guy Daniels Premium Member 18w

Strega… that’s a great idea, i need to experiment with that next. And benedictine has helped me out on numerous occasions, it’s like a swiss army knife.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 18w

Back in the 70's my idea of a cocktail was what we called a Tequila Sunset. Probably Cuervo Gold, O.J. (carton) and 'sloe gin' (not even sure what that stuff was except it had achohol in it) instead of grenadine mixed in a collins with ice. Disco music in the background and the occasional drag show. Thankfully Dionysus is smiling upon our current creatives amongst cocktail culture. Soldier on!