Name: Dr Zeus
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 15 ml Fernet liqueur; 20 Raisins; 60 ml Cognac (brandy); 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 5 ml Coffee liqueur; 1 Orange bitters

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Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1/2 fl oz	Fernet Branca liqueur
20 dried	Raisins
2 fl oz	Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac
1/4 fl oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup
1/6 fl oz	Galliano Espresso Coffee liqueur
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
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How to make:

POUR Fernet Branca into ice-filled glass. Separately MUDDLE raisins in base of shaker, add other ingredients and SHAKE with ice. Finally DISCARD contents of glass and strain contents of shaker into the Fernet Branca coated glass.

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Review:

Not that far removed from a Sazerac cocktail, this is innovative and great tasting.

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History:

Created by Adam Ennis in 2001 at Isola, Knightsbridge, London, England.

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Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
26.32% alc./vol. (52.64° proof)
23.1 grams of pure alcohol

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