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Country Life No. 2

Name: Country Life No. 2
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Bourbon whiskey; 10 ml OP high ester aged pot still rum; 10 ml Aged Jamaican rum; 30 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 2 dash Aromatic bitters

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz	Bourbon whiskey
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Overproof aged pot still rum (high-ester 4-6 years old)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Crossfire Hurricane Jamaican Rum
1 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth (chilled)
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB 1910 Old Fashioned 10.5oz

Prepare

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

Method

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

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Country Life No. 2 contains 195 calories

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
28.74% alc./vol. (57.48° proof)
26.1 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a riff on the County Life cocktail in Crosby Gaige's 1944 Standard Cocktail Guide, created by Sam Ross in 2009 at Milk & Honey in Manhattan, New York City.

More cocktails by Sam Ross

Review

Rum adds a pleasing touch of funk to this Manhattan variation.

Maker's Mark bourbon 375ml - makes 9 cocktails
$18.99 $2.11 per cocktail Maker's Mark bourbon image

Hampden Estate HLCF Classic Rum 750ml - makes 75 cocktails
$99.99 $1.33 per cocktail

Crossfire Hurricane Gold 750ml - makes 75 cocktails
$34.99 $0.47 per cocktail Crossfire Hurricane Gold image

Angostura Aromatic Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Aromatic Bitters image

$3.98 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 9 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Jonathan Goldthorpe 17w

I loved this one. Made it with rye and flor de Cana rum with orange and angostura bitters. Delicious and no element overpowering

Vince Whitacre 19w

So... I'm not gonna say I'm a better bartender than Sam MFing Ross, far from it... but this didn't speak to me.

Neither did the original, though it was a little bit closer.

Both were *almost there*, though. So I made it this way:

1 1/2 oz bourbon
3/4 oz aged Jamaican rum
1/2 oz Amontillado sherry
1/4 oz Carpano Antica
1 barspoon ginger syrup
with oils from lemon *and* orange expressed over the final product.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 19w

At first sip this was a bit 'thin' for us. We thought that it might open out as it warmed. But not really. At a bit of a loss, we decided to add 2.5ml Falernum. For us, this helped to harmonise the drink but maybe there are better solutions.

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