Name: Fort Lauderdale (by Sam Ross)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Gin; 15 ml Red bitter liqueur; 15 ml Apricot liqueur; 15 ml Orgeat syrup; 20 ml Lemon juice

Ingredients

1 1/3 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1/2 fl oz

Italian red bitter liqueur

1/2 fl oz

Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur

1/2 fl oz

Monin Almond (Orgeat) Syrup

2/3 fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist or dehydrated lemon wheel.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with a lemon zest twist or dehydrated lemon wheel.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Fort Lauderdale (by Sam Ross) contains 207 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
17.32% alc./vol. (34.63° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Orgeat (almond) sugar syrup (2:1) — Nuts

Comments & Discussion

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Mel Donahue 1 month ago

Very much enjoyed, esp. after I reduced lemon juice to 15 ml. 20 ml makes it a tad too sharp.

Ben S 1 year ago

My first thought upon sipping, "this is like pink lemonade for adults." Really terrifically balanced sipper.

Calvin Grant 2 years ago

Great combination of flavors in balance; fruity bitter sweet and sour; and rich. Must try again with a splash or two of soda and maybe some ice.

Calvin Grant 1 month ago

Did make this again, this time with Giffard Sirop Orgeat (so much better than B G Reynolds. I can taste the almond) and lime juice. Still fabulous! No soda, no ice.

Avery Garnett 2 years ago

What an incredibly strange and yet incredibly delicious drink.

Avery Garnett 1 year ago

Coming back a year later: still incredibly strange. Still incredibly delicious. Sam Ross never misses.

Chris Dimal 3 years ago

What an aperitivo. Truly stunning drink with almond richness, apricot fruitiness and sweetness, rounded off by a slight, but appealing bitterness from the Campari. Sam Ross is an absolute legend. I'd rate it 5 stars, personally. Besides stuff like the Jungle Bird, I'd give this to someone who says they hate Campari.

Nicola Adams 4 years ago

I love Campari in anything, I’m very to a Mai tai and everything invented by Sam Ross is to die for, so I was pretty excited to give this a go…. The first few sips definitely had promise, but about half way through, when I was trying to nail some of Fort Lauderdale’s elusive flavours, the word “soap” popped into my head and it was an effort to drink the rest of it - I think apricot liqueur (mine has a very distinctive bitter almond aroma) AND orgeat makes for a very marziapan aka soapy taste

Matthew French 5 years ago

A deliciously complex interplay of flavours

Letti Penguin 5 years ago

As a lover of Mai Tais and more bitter cocktails like Negroni this is a ideal mix. Made with amaretto rather than Orgeat. All the lovely almond of mai tai with a bitter note.