Club Cocktail (Craddock's recipe)

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Ingredients:
2 oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 oz Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
16 oz Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of skewered chilled Fragata Green Olive..
  3. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. Garnish with skewered olive.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 8/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10

Review:

A Sweet Martini with a splash of Yellow Chartreuse.

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Variant:

Bijou Cocktail

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

CLUB COCKTAIL.
2/3 Dry Gin.
1/3 Italian Vermouth
1 dash Yellow Chartreuse.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.

Harry Craddock, 1930

Nutrition:

One serving of Club Cocktail (Craddock's recipe) contains 195 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.8 standard drinks
  • 26.25% alc./vol. (26.25° proof)
  • 24.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Andy Parnell-Hopkinson’s Avatar Andy Parnell-Hopkinson
1st January at 20:17
No Chartreuse so used Suze. Really good!
Jerry Bryant’s Avatar Jerry Bryant
10th May 2024 at 21:44
I’m always on the lookout for vintage tipples made with Chartreuse, and had found a reference to this drink some time ago. Alas, the lack of that essential ingredient, but genepy is doing OK as the understudy. I couldn’t find this the first time I searched within Difford’s Guide, because I didn’t review the 81 additional search returns beyond the first page. But an Internet search for the name of this drink and its ingredients led right back here, with the key parenthetical about Craddock.
Jerry Bryant’s Avatar Jerry Bryant
11th May 2024 at 01:11
This cocktail clearly descends from the Fourth Degree, with the (insert available alpine liqueur here) replacing the absinthe. It’s as the scale above indicates. Very drinkable.
Florian Ruf’s Avatar Florian Ruf
9th September 2021 at 19:40
Works very good with an amarena cherry on a rosemary branch
Jason Edward CLAPHAM’s Avatar Jason Edward CLAPHAM
1st July 2020 at 09:16
This is a little bit too sweet. Works far better served perfect.