Name: Ink No. 2
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Vodka; 15 ml Blue curaçao liqueur; 40 ml Cranberry juice

Ingredients

1 ²⁄₃ fl oz

Ketel One Vodka

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Bols Blue Curaçao

1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz

Cranberry juice (sweetened)

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR 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 Ink No. 2 contains 140 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
17.36% alc./vol. (34.72° proof)
18.3 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Tuber Magnatum Premium Member 1w

As this was the cocktail of the day and for a long time wanting to try a "blue" cocktail, I decided to try and make it. Not having blue Curaçao and not really wanting to buy a whole bottle, I used Cointreau and simply added one drop of blue food colouring, and voila, blue! I quite enjoyed this; the colour makes it a fun cocktail but I would say not a particularly complex drink. An excellent apéritif though.

Annabelle Egginton 1y

Simple, smooth and sophisticated

David Hoyle 4y

I've made this following the recipe in the 15th Edition, so it's with the darker blue of the de Kuyper Curaçao. Part of the fun of experimenting with different cocktails and brands is the delight of the resultant colour. "Mussel purple" captures it well. The orange-cranberry flavour is very agreeable. If using unsweetened cranberry juice (as I did), add 5-10 mls sugar syrup to taste.

John Hinojos Premium Member 5y

This is great. It is the colour I always imagined Elizabeth Taylor's eyes. Great balance, but you must use a good Blue Curacao, none of the nasty, cheap ones. Will do again.