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Humdinger

Name: Humdinger
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 37.5 ml Pisco; 22.5 ml Gentian liqueur; 30 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 3 dash Orange bitters

Difford’s Guide

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₄ fl oz	Pisco
³⁄₄ fl oz	Gentian liqueur Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Avèze, Salers)
1 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
3 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

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Method

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Humdinger contains 133 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
14.89% alc./vol. (29.78° proof)
16.1 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a drink (originally with very much less sugar syrup) created in 2017 by Cooper Tardivel at Bar Kismet, Halifax, Canada, who says, "I have been in love with Suze since the first sip I had in 2010. So in love that I sought out a vintage bottle from my birth year ('77) which now sits proudly as the jewel of my spirits collection. I always enjoyed it over ice - sometimes with tonic - yet always searching the far corners of my creativity to develop an appropriate cocktail to represent the magic of Suze respectfully. Then, in 2015, while directing the Bar Program at Hawksworth in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada it hit me! The HUMDINGER! It was summertime and I was drinking a lot of pisco (as one does...) and something about the delightful balance of pisco through all the herbaceousness brought my mind to Suze; and within minutes the Suze cocktail I had been searching for was finished."

Review

Zesty lemon and bittersweet gentian laced with pisco.

Suze gentian liqueur 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$32.99 $1.00 per cocktail Suze gentian liqueur image

Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 75 cocktails
$14.99 $0.20 per cocktail Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) image

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 128 cocktails
$13.99 $0.11 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

$1.31 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 33 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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John Grant Premium Member 1y

Very nice. Although I dialed the Lemon back to 2/3 oz, and I think the other flavors came out more.

Christine Babb Premium Member 5y

Very tasty, but I think I will try this with 1/4 oz simple next time (more along the lines of the original recipe, as noted in the History above).

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