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Juschu

Name: Juschu
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Blanco tequila; 15 ml Lime juice; 10 ml Honey and water syrup; 2 dash Aromatic bitters; 7.5 ml Chilled water

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (75)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Blanco tequila
1/2 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/3 fl oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
1/4 fl oz	Chilled water/mineral water (omit if using wet ice)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare lime slice wheel (ideally dehydrated) for garnish.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with (dehydrated) lime wheel floated on surface.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Juschu contains 158 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.17% alc./vol. (38.34° proof)
19.2 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe in Hyman Gale and Gerald F. Marco's 1940 The How and When (2nd Edition).

Jupiter Cocktail
1 jigger Tequila
2 teaspoons Strained Honey
1 teaspoon Lime Juice
1 dash Angostura Bitters
Shake well
Strain into Cocktail Glass
The How and When, 1940

I added this classic to Difford's Guide in September 2021 but in July 2023 at Cure, New Orleans I was reminded how good this cocktail can be.

Review

Your choice of honey will greatly impact this bite-honeyed Tommy's Margarita with bitters, but whether light floral honey or more robust dark honey, the result is bound to be delicious.

Patron Silver tequila 375ml - makes 6 cocktails
$24.99 $4.17 per cocktail Patron Silver tequila image

Angostura Aromatic Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Aromatic Bitters image

$4.24 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 6 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Rae Hopcroft 2y

Not my favourite despite using good tequila. I think very overpowered by a strong thyme honey which dominated. Would prefer with agave syrup.

Peter Jones 3y

Some real complexity despite a seemingly simple list of ingredients. I swapped out 1 dash of Angostura (keeping 1) and added 1 dash of lavender bitters as I love they way it picks up the floral nature of tequila.

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

What a great tequila cocktail without all the usual ingredients. This was light and bright. The flavour of the tequila is prominent, so use a good bottle as well as good honey.

Chris Dimal 2y

Agree with all of this.

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