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Fade To Black Cocktail

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Discerning Drinkers (19)
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Measurements in:
Serves:
1
Ingredients
5 fresh Blackberries
2 fl oz Spiced rum
3⁄4 fl oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1⁄2 fl oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
1⁄2 fl oz Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dash Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer
1 barspoon Charcoal powder

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Garnish: Float 3 drops Angostura Bitters

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Method:

MUDDLE blackberries in base of shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and strain back into shaker. DRY SHAKE (without ice) and fine strain into chilled glass.

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

  • 18.9 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

  • Spiced rum — Nuts
  • Egg white (pasteurised) — Eggs

Hazardous ingredients

Recipe contains the following hazardous Ingredients:

Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

History

A cocktail which was widely made to celebrate the total solar eclipse which worked its way across the USA on 21 August 2017 – the first for 38 years.

Review

A Rum Sour blackened with blackberries and charcoal powder. The black charcoal which makes this cocktail black does little for the taste and given the potential issues with charcoal this tasty cocktail is perhaps best appreciated without its addition (as illustrated photographed here).

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Comments & Discussion

Florian Ruf Premium Member
As I very seldom use spiced rum I switched to a mixture of 4,5cl aged rum and 1,5cl Bitter Truth Falernum which worked well. I would love to test Simon's Falernum and the Easy Jiger and ..., but the Brexit makes sending from UK very sorrily very difficult...
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Difford’s Shop logo
$2.70 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
Shipping and applicable tax calculated at checkout.


Orders are processed by a licensed Fulproof retailer. The buy now button is added simply for convenience.

Checkout

* May not include all ingredients. Price per cocktail is an estimate based on cost of one cocktail with ingredients shown above and does not include shipping.

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