Name: High King
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 2 Raspberries (fresh); 40 ml Whisk(e)y - Irish blended whiskey; 10 ml Aperol (orange-red aperitivo); 15 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 15 ml Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed); 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' 2 sugar to 1 water; 1 Peychaud's / Creole bitters; 15 ml Soda (club soda)

Serve in a

Collins glass

Photographed in an

Urban Bar 1890 Highball 12.3oz / 35cl

Garnish:

Lemon wheel & raspberry sail

How to make:

MUDDLE raspberries in base of shaker. Add next 6 ingredients (all but soda), SHAKE with ice and fine strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with soda.

2 fresh	Raspberries (fresh)
1 1/3 fl oz	The Busker Blended Irish Whiskey
1/3 fl oz	Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo
1/2 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 fl oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
1/4 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°brix)
1 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters
1/2 fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water
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Review:

Berry fruit and citrus gently caressed by mellow Irish whiskey with a splash of enlivening soda.

History:

Adapted from a recipe created by Joaquín Simón at Pouring Ribbons in New York City, USA.

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Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
13.51% alc./vol. (27.02° proof)
13.9 grams of pure alcohol

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