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Night Cap

Name: Night Cap
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 cube Brown sugar; 1 dash Aromatic bitters; 8 drop Chocolate bitters; 15 ml Hot water; 60 ml Cognac (brandy)

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Ingredients
1 cube	Demerara / dark Muscovado / brown sugar
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
8 drop	Chocolate bitters
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hot water
2 fl oz	Cognac (brandy)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

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

Method

Dash bitters over sugar cube in base of mixing glass.
Add hot water, crush cube with muddler and stir to dissolve sugar.
Add brandy and STIR with ice
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS flamed orange zest twist over cocktail, then use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

19 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a 2015 recipe by Gregory Goins at BO Beau Kitchen & Roof Tap in Long Beach, California.

Review

Diluted brandy with the orange zest twist adding much of the flavour.

Variations/similar cocktails

Night Cap (Sloppy Joe's 1935 recipe)

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Comments & Discussion

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Matt Premium Member 1y

Sweet (I didn't find it cloying though), demarara sugar gives a boost to the delicious spice notes from the chocolate and Ango bitters. Cognac is delicious, but definitely in the background - I wonder how a whiskey would work (I think it would do well). Wonderful night cap.

Fredie Martineau 5y

I have really enjoyed a recipe of a cocktail of the same name (as served at Sloppy Joe’s bar in 1935) which is made of equal proportion (3/4oz) of white creme de cacao, cognac, gin and freshly squeezed lime juice. Ref Beachbum Berry’s potions of the Caribbean.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 5y