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Copper Illusion

Name: Copper Illusion
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Triple sec; 22.5 ml Red bitter liqueur

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
3/4 fl oz	Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur
3/4 fl oz	Italian red bitter liqueur

How to make

Glassware

Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Prepare

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

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

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

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Copper Illusion contains 204 calories

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
29.02% alc./vol. (58.03° proof)
26.2 grams of pure alcohol

History

Unknown but brought to my attention in 2005 courtesy of Angus Winchester.

Review

Basically, a Negroni with liqueur replacing sweet vermouth. Like the Italian classic, this is both bitter and sweet.

Variations/similar cocktails

Negroni

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$67.99 $4.12 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Cointreau L'Unique 375ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$21.99 $1.33 per cocktail Cointreau L'Unique image

Campari Bitter 375ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$19.99 $1.21 per cocktail Campari Bitter image

$6.66 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Graham Taylor 18w

Subbed out triple sec for the fairly sweet Giffard orange Curacao, to try and bring it back on the dry side

Nick Bull Premium Member 4y

Meh. The substitution of Cointreau for vermouth is interesting, but ultimately this lacks the complexity and depth of a classic Negroni. You'll just feel like you asked for a Negroni and the bartender was having an off day.

Zach Schwartz 2y

I agree. It sounded good on paper, but I found it to be disappointingly unbalanced.

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