I'm not sure how to rate this. The scotch gets a bit lost I think. I can see why you'd want to serve this with an olive because it's surprisingly savoury. Almost like a scotch based dry Martini. Interesting but don't know if I'll make another.

Wasn’t sure how this would come out but it really works. Super savoury and you must like dry flavours, although the Kummel adds plenty of sugar and body. I used J&B and was happy with the match.

We added 10ml elderflower liqueur and sipped it from a rocks glass with a single large block of ice - for the dilution, as our host advises. We think that this adds floral to the herbal complexity and tames the fierce dryness of the original recipe.

My first Kümmel cocktail…intriguing and fascinating. A mixture of flavours; earthy, wood, oil, mint, maybe citrus and liquorice to name a few. A touch sweet to me as well.

Realy liked it. I am quite fond of Kümmel though. Because of Chris statement that IT would BE top dry, i added about 5ml simple Sirup. Its very boozy but still very nicely balanced.

Oh no! Maybe I'm too young for this, but it's one of the worst drinks I've had. Super savoury, and mostly not in a good way, unfortunately. It was like drinking iodine-y (probably due to the J&B), herbaceous alcohol. Any balancing sweetness from the Kummel is non-existent.