Name: Red Light
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 37.5 ml Oude genever; 45 ml Grand Marnier; 10 ml Underberg

Photographed in an

UB Retro Coupe 1920 7.75oz

Ingredients:
1 1/4 fl oz	Rutte Old Simon Genever
1 1/2 fl oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
1/3 fl oz	Underberg/ Brasilberg
Loading... × 1

Read about cocktail measures and measuring.

How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe 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.

New Year's Day

If Auld Lang Syne left your throat dry? And dancing left your feet sore? And drinking left your head fuzzy? Then resist the temptation to curl up in bed

Hot Toddy Day

In the days before ice was easily available - and in most parts of the world, you needed to be pretty much royalty to own an ice house and keep it stocked

The day Prohibition started

One minute after midnight on this day in 1920, the Volstead Act became law and Prohibition descended on the United States, making it illegal to possess,

Beer Can Appreciation Day

Here at Difford's Guide we're huge fans of beer cans – indeed we prefer cans to bottles. So we're happy to support this marketing gimmick of a day from

Burns Night

The evening of January 25th is when Scots everywhere hold Burns Suppers in honour of the birth of Scotland's favourite poet and son, Robert Burns. Born

Brandy Alexander Day

For no particular reason we know of, today has been declared Brandy Alexander Day. Hoorah!

Strength & taste guide:

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

More cocktails with similar booziness and sweet/dry/sourness

Review:

Spirituous and bittersweet. Rich zesty orange with underlying maltiness and bittersweet herbal notes.

View readers' comments

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2009 by Charles Joly at the Drawing Room in Chicago, USA.

More cocktails by Charles Joly

Nutrition:

One serving of Red Light contains 179 calories.

Alcohol content:

2 standard drinks
30.24% alc./vol. (60.48° proof)
28 grams of pure alcohol

More Herbal cocktails
More Spirit-forward cocktails

Difford's Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

Previous Cocktail
The Symphony No.2

Next Cocktail
Sheroni

Join the Discussion

... comment(s) for Red Light

You must log in to your account to make a comment.

Red Light

Photographed in an