Name: Pompier
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Dry vermouth; 15 ml Crème de cassis; 60 ml Soda (club soda) water

Pompier
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Serve in a Highball (max 10oz/300ml)

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
¹⁄₂ oz	Joseph Cartron Double Crème de Cassis de Bourgogne
2 oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

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Garnish: Lemon slice wheel

How to make:

STIR first 2 ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring soda.

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:

Strike the right balance and there's a note reminiscent of cola. A tad too heavy on the cassis or not quite enough dilution and that cola note turns Ribena-like.

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History:

French for firefighter, Pompier was a popular cocktail in New York during the late 1930s.

Nutrition:

One serving of Pompier contains 96 calories

Alcohol content:

0.6 standard drinks
7.19% alc./vol. (7.19° proof)
8.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Sandip Gohil

19th October 2023 at 02:39

I do a 90ml vermouth/15ml cassis/120ml soda method. You're right it does taste like cola when the proportions are done right.

A very underrated cocktail using simpler spirits/liqueurs

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G. M. Genovese

7th May 2022 at 19:35

This is fantastically delicious!; used La Quintinye and Mathilde Cassis... the above measures fall well short of filling a Collins or highball, so I'd scale up. But, my word, what a treat! (7 May 2022, 3:35p)

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