Name: High Kick
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Scotch whisky; 22.5 ml Kummel liqueur; 22.5 ml Dry vermouth

High Kick
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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Blended Scotch whisky
³⁄₄ oz	Kummel liqueur
³⁄₄ oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare garnish of skewered Fragata Green Olives.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with skewered olives.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Plenty of dilution is key to this caraway and Scotch dominated cocktail that is sure to appeal to Kummel fanciers.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created by Arthur Tarling and first published in his brother's (William James "Billy" Tarling) 1937 Café Royal Bar Book.

HIGH KICK
Invented by A. A. Tarling
1/2 Whisky.
1/4 Kummel.
1/4 French Vermouth.
Good dash of Absinthe.
Mix.
William J. Tarling, Café Royal Bar Book, 1937

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Nutrition:

One serving of High Kick contains 190 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
26.77% alc./vol. (26.77° proof)
24.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Caspian Berggren

2nd May at 16:01

I'm not sure how to rate this. The scotch gets a bit lost I think. I can see why you'd want to serve this with an olive because it's surprisingly savoury. Almost like a scotch based dry Martini. Interesting but don't know if I'll make another.

John CARR

18th April at 14:54

Wasn’t sure how this would come out but it really works. Super savoury and you must like dry flavours, although the Kummel adds plenty of sugar and body. I used J&B and was happy with the match.

Simon Sedgley

6th October 2024 at 06:40

We added 10ml elderflower liqueur and sipped it from a rocks glass with a single large block of ice - for the dilution, as our host advises. We think that this adds floral to the herbal complexity and tames the fierce dryness of the original recipe.

Jeremy Harrold

11th January 2024 at 21:45

My first Kümmel cocktail…intriguing and fascinating. A mixture of flavours; earthy, wood, oil, mint, maybe citrus and liquorice to name a few. A touch sweet to me as well.

Soeren

31st July 2023 at 18:30

Realy liked it. I am quite fond of Kümmel though. Because of Chris statement that IT would BE top dry, i added about 5ml simple Sirup. Its very boozy but still very nicely balanced.

Chris Dimal

17th June 2023 at 12:50

Oh no! Maybe I'm too young for this, but it's one of the worst drinks I've had. Super savoury, and mostly not in a good way, unfortunately. It was like drinking iodine-y (probably due to the J&B), herbaceous alcohol. Any balancing sweetness from the Kummel is non-existent.