Name: After Hours
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 10 ml Maraschino liqueur; 10 ml Kummel liqueur; 1 dash Orange bitters; 10 ml Chilled water

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Luxardo Maraschino liqueur

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Kummel liqueur

1 dash

Orange Bitters by Angostura

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Chilled water/mineral water

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of After Hours contains 151 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
26.79% alc./vol. (53.59° proof)
20.2 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe by Satvik "Rick" Ahuja, Quarter Bar & Restaurant, Leicester, England.

I created this drink as gin is usually used in pre-dinner aperitif-style drinks, e.g., Martini, Negroni, G & T etc., or as refreshers in Fizzes, Tom Collinses, Aviations etc. I wanted to create a drink to show how gin could be used to great effect in the after-dinner category where brown spirits usually tend to dominate. Hence my use of a slightly softer yet rooty style of gin [Rick used Plymouth Gin] which marries well with the spice from kummel and the nuttiness of the maraschino also gives it the desired sweetness without making it overly cloying or heavy.

Satvik Ahuja

Comments & Discussion

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Chris Dimal 22w

I do find it funny that Satvik meant it to be an after-dinner drink, yet the classification here is of an 'aperitif'. Nevertheless, pretty good, although I don't find it as spice forward as described in other reviews. Perhaps it's my Helbing Kuemmel.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 22w

Thanks for pointing out, Chris. Now reclassified as an after-dinner cocktail.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

A beautifully delicate and balanced cocktail. But we added a single drop of celery bitters to bring it down from the clouds and back to earth.

John CARR Premium Member 1y

Important to get the micro balancing right on this one - curse the stupid dasher on the bitters bottle! As described, delicate and subtly spicy.

Rebecca Price 1y

Delicious. Also tried it with triple sec instead of maraschino, nowhere near as good

Sarah Shearer 2y

This martini style cocktail works for me. Probably because it isn’t bone dry & also has a lovely slightly nutty flavour.
Enjoying it after a full blown roast dinner & wondering about having another :-)

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After Hours

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