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Midnight

Name: Midnight
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Scotch whisky; 20 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 2 dash Orange bitters

Difford’s Guide

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Serves:

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Blended Scotch whisky
²⁄₃ fl oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange 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 Midnight contains 203 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
32.01% alc./vol. (64.02° proof)
25.9 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe in Dominique Migliorero's 1925 book L'Art du Shaker.

Midnight Cocktail
2 traits d'orange Bitter, 2/3 Whisky, 1/3 Chartreuse jaune.
Dominique Migliorero, L'Art du Shaker, 1925

Review

Lovers of Scotch whisky and Chartreuse should only consider this spirit-forward, herbal cocktail. (It's more approachable when served in an old-fashioned glass over ice.)

Variations/similar cocktails

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J&B Rare 750ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
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Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

$2.07 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 12w

A very gentle splash of Braulio makes this nice tipple a wee bit more interesting.

Jeremy Harrold 12w

Is it a Scotch Old Fashioned?
I used Whyte & MacKay blended Scotch which I tend to use for cocktails.
I tried both up and on the rocks and preferred up, though I shook a bit longer than usual
The Orange bitters elevate it…I used The Bitter Truth.

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