Name: Alcazer
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 15 ml Triple sec; 7.5 ml Fernet liqueur; 15 ml Orange juice

Alcazer
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Photographed in a Speakeasy Nick & Nora 4.75oz

Ingredients:
1 oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
¹⁄₂ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Fernet Branca liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

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Medium

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Review:

Even with the fruity dilution of the orange juice I've added to this recipe, it remains punchy with even half the original amount of Fernet dominant. (Fernet fanciers should use 15ml (½oz).

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Variant:

Hanky Panky

History:

Adapted from a recipe Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars 1903-1933 by Charles Christopher Mueller.

ALCAZER
1/2 Rye
1/4 Cointreau
1/4 Fernet Branca
Glass No. 1 Stir.
In Glass 1 Pear Onion.
Charles Christopher Mueller, Charles Christopher Mueller, 1903-1933

I was introduced to this cocktail in 2018 by Daryl Lieuw-On at Concrete Shakers in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Daryl's spec. adhered to that in Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars.

Nutrition:

One serving of Alcazer contains 125 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
27.94% alc./vol. (27.94° proof)
18.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Frederic Yarm

5th November 2023 at 03:41

Original (without orange juice) was one I found in Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars: 1903-1933:
https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2011/08/alcazer.html

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Simon Difford

5th November 2023 at 09:30

Many thanks, Fred. I've amended the above and added Pioneers of Mixing recipe.

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Herbert Brant

16th January 2023 at 20:24

Question: is the name of the drink "Alcazer" or "Alcázar", referring to a Spanish-Moorish castle? The spicey-orange flavors remind me of a castle in Valencia, where the magnificent oranges grow.
Quick review: excellent cocktail. There's a fire (the Fernet botanicals) hidden underneath the orange, and it makes for a fascinating drink. Buenísimo.

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