Name: Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Blanco tequila; 30 ml Espresso coffee (hot); 15 ml Galliano Espresso; 15 ml Oloroso sherry; 7.5 ml Lemon oleo; 3 dash Xocolatl mole bitters; 3 dash Orange bitters; 5 drop Saline solution 4:1

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Patrón Silver blanco tequila
1 oz	Espresso coffee (freshly brewed & hot)
¹⁄₂ oz	Galliano Espresso Coffee liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Lustau Oloroso Don Nuño Sherry
¹⁄₄ oz	Lemon oleo saccharum
3 dash	Xocolatl mole bitters
3 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
5 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of dust with chocolate-orange Java salt over 1/3 of cocktail.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Oloroso sherry - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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History:

Created in August 2023 by Nicole Salicetti in New York City, USA, this was the winning cocktail of the Galliano Espresso Martini Competition.

I happened to learn that the Espresso Martini was one of George Michael's favorite drinks. He is one of my all-time favorite artists and another major hit out of Great Britain. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, a hit by Wham!, encapsulates the spirit of the cocktail as Dick Bradsell was inspired to create the original while he was frequently requested for a drink that would 'wake me up but keep me properly buzzed' (to paraphrase). I decided to use tequila as the base spirit because it pairs so perfectly with the notes that also go perfectly with espresso, keeping the nod to the original Difford's recipe, I used lemon peel as orange to add the essence of expressed peels. Using sherry helped dry this cocktail while the saline rounds it out, and the use of orange and mole bitters truly tie together every ingredient and make Galliano Espresso shine!
Nicole Salicetti, August 2023

Nutrition:

One serving of Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go contains 190 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
16.86% alc./vol. (16.86° proof)
19.3 grams of pure alcohol

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