Weekly Special

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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
1⁄2 oz Kummel liqueur
1⁄2 oz Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
1 oz Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 5/10
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Review:

Not far removed from an Aviation. Depending on your grapefruit juice, this particular "Special" may be very slightly on the sweet side, but it's fantastically aromatic. If you find it too sweet, then slightly up the grapefruit juice.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe first published in William James "Billy" Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Bar Book.

WEEKLY SPECIAL
1/3 Grapefruit Juice.
1/3 Gin.
1/6 Maraschino.
1/6 Wolfschmidt Kummel.
Shake and serve with a cherry.

William James Tarling, 1937
More cocktails by William "Billy" Tarling

Nutrition:

One serving of Weekly Special contains 157 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.2 standard drinks
  • 18.68% alc./vol. (18.68° proof)
  • 16.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Erik Lindgren’s Avatar Erik Lindgren
28th April 2024 at 15:03
I felt this was a bit too sweet, but after I added a pinch of citric acid it was fantastic. Maybe they liked their cocktails sweeter back then? Used a homemade kümmel.
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Florian Ruf’s Avatar Florian Ruf
28th June 2022 at 12:10
Maybe our grapefruit are especially bitter, so I added a good barspoon of Luxardo cherry syrup and reduced the Luxardo a tiny bit.
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Jeff Newcastle’s Avatar Jeff Newcastle
17th June 2022 at 18:02
Delicious…. I think I’ll have another. I would say this is a 3 to 4 on the sweetness scale
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chitranjan sharma’s Avatar chitranjan sharma
24th March 2020 at 20:30
Nice one plz share some more cocktail with kummel liqueurs
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Tom W’s Avatar Tom W
21st May 2021 at 21:50
There are now 22 Kummel cocktails
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
25th March 2020 at 08:00
If you click on “Mentzendorff Kummel” in the recipe above, this will take you to a page with link: "View 19 cocktails with Kummel liqueur". Alternatively, use the search box to find the "Kummel cocktails" page.
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