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

Copper Illusion
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
³⁄₄ oz	Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Review:

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

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Variant:

Negroni

History:

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

Alcohol content:

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

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Nick Bull

26th July 2022 at 19:36

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

13th January 2024 at 15:12

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

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