Harvard

Difford's Guide
Discerning Drinkers (42 ratings)

Serve in a

Coupe glass
Ingredients:
1 1/2 fl oz Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac
1 1/2 fl oz Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
1/12 fl oz Gomme syrup
3 dash Angostura Aromatic Bitters
1/2 fl oz Thomas Henry Soda Water (chilled)
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Read about cocktail measures and measuring.

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist

How to make:

STIR first 4 ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass. TOP with soda.

Allergens:


Recipe contains the following allergens:

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AKA:

New Orleans Manhattan

Strength & taste guide:


Review:

Old-school, but approachably so. Dry and herbal. A great apéritif.

Variant:

Delmonico

History:

This recipe is faithful to the first known reference to this cocktail in George J. Kappeler's 1895 Modern American Drinks – How to Mix and Serve All Kinds of Cups and Drinks.

In his 1931 book Old Waldorf Bar Days, Albert Stevens Crockett notes of this drink, "Named after a school for young men, whose site is contiguous to the Charles River, in a suburb of Boston. Alumni who drunk it sometimes lost the 'Harvard accent'."

Harvard Cocktail.
One dash gum-syrup, three dashes Angostura bitters, half-jigger Italian vermouth, half-jigger brandy in half a mixing-glass of fine ice. Mix, strain into cocktail-glass, fill up with seltzer.

George J. Kappeler, 1895

Manhattan cocktail history

Nutrition:

One serving of Harvard contains 171 calories.

Alcohol content:

  • 1.4 standard drinks
  • 18.6% alc./vol. (37.2° proof)
  • 20.2 grams of pure alcohol
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The founder of Bacardi was a Catalan wine merchant called Facundo Bacardi Massó, who left Spain for Cuba in 1830.

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On this day in 1900, Fernand Pete Petiot was born in Paris, to parents who owned a guesthouse - he would come to fame, correctly or otherwise, as the inventor

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