Name: Five Keys
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Bourbon whiskey; 22.5 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 7.5 ml Maraschino liqueur; 7.5 ml Cynar/carciofo amaro

Five Keys
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Photographed in a Speakeasy Nick & Nora 4.75oz

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Bourbon whiskey
³⁄₄ oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
¹⁄₄ oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Cynar or other carciofo amaro

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare garnish of Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A bourbon-laced, spirit-forward after-dinner digestive.

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Variant:

Maloney No. 2

Nutrition:

One serving of Five Keys contains 164 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
25.64% alc./vol. (25.64° proof)
19.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Shay Dabush

25th May 2024 at 01:02

Personally found it not so balanced. Too sweet.
I might test it again, only this time with a bar spoon of Luxardo Maraschino.

Sam Donaldson

31st May 2022 at 23:08

Very good and balanced cocktail, especially when made with quality bourbon and sweet vermouth. Bourbon purists will cringe at mixing their holy water with anything but ice, but this is a great drink to win over those who might find the base spirit a little too overpowering.

G. M. Genovese

27th February 2022 at 12:40

By my count, this is at least my third time making this. Didn't think much of it prior to this most recent try. Used Antica Torino for the vermouth, as well as lowered the bourbon (this time, Four Roses) from 45 to 40 ml. All of a sudden, near perfection! Wow! (27 Feb 2022, 7:40a)

Suzanne Corbett

26th April 2021 at 02:35

I bumped up the Luxardo just a smidge and it took enough of the bite out of the cynar without masking it completely. This will be a regular cocktail for me!

John Speck

13th January 2021 at 23:32

Thanks for this! I like it, but more so when I serve it over a large cube. Undiluted, it’s a bit cloying for me.

Tuber Magnatum

5th July 2024 at 22:57

Reading your comment prompted me to give a good long stir as I am not keen on cloying drinks. I found it nicely balanced and not too cloying. As an experiment, I contrasted this after drinking one half with then adding a 2" ice sphere; maybe too much dilution after a long stir! Next time "normal" stir and try on rocks to see if dilution to cloyedness better.

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