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Blue Star

Name: Blue Star
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Blue curaçao liqueur; 15 ml Aromatized wine; 15 ml Orange juice

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Bols Blue Curaçao
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

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

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Blue Star contains 114 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
17.33% alc./vol. (34.66° proof)
16.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

Recipe from W. J. Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Cocktail Book (Coronation Edition) which says this drink was "Invented by A. A. Tarling". Arthur Tarling was the head bartender at London's Café Royal and was also the older brother of W. J. "Billy" Tarling, the book's author.

BLUE STAR
1/3 Gin.
1/3 Blue Curaçao
1/6 Lillet.
1/6 Orange Juice.
Shake.
W. J. Tarling, 1937

More cocktails by Arthur Tarling

Review

Consider using a third as much more gin to give this cocktail much-needed oomph.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$33.99 $1.36 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Bols Blue Curaçao 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$14.99 $0.60 per cocktail Bols Blue Curaçao image

Lillet Blanc 750ml - makes 50 cocktails
$22.99 $0.46 per cocktail Lillet Blanc image

$2.42 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 25 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Alan Cattermoul Premium Member 4y

Agree with other comments that it needs more gin. Darker turquoise color when made with blood orange juice. Will try again!

Lee Harris 4y

Really benefits from 1/3oz lime juice

Matthew Spritzsimmons 4y

This cocktail is so smooth drinking that the gin almost gets lost in the mix. The next time, (and there will certainly be one), I'll be increasing the gin by a quarter or half ounce.

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