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Chris Garner

Chris Garner

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Habitant
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Chris Garner

I read about it in the Fine Art of Mixing Drink and David said that it was a sweet Manhattan with as much maple as sweet vermouth.

Caperitif
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Mario Bruno

Thank you very much. It's cristal clear, I'll buy a bottle. Cheers

Chris Garner

It’s more in line with Cocchi Americano across and Byrrh and maybe the European version of Dubonnet. The US version I have just taste like port and I’ve never had the European version of Dubonnet.

Williams
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Jeremy Harrold

Old school cocktail i.e. packs a punch. After a long day it’s a drink to settle down with.
I have the book (not the original!) and it’s full of dash of this and dash of that, though the preface explains a dash is one eighth of an ounce.

Chris Garner

The old manuals loved to call for dashes and drops of things cause glasses were really small, like 2-3oz (60-90ml).

Simon Difford

Your Taste Profile is automatically calculated from that displayed on the cocktails you favourite. You can’t edit this (perhaps something worth us enabling?), but you can stop it from displaying. To do this:
1. Click on your name at the top of the screen to open Your Menu.
2. Click Edit Profile.
3. Click “edit” for My Taste Profile.
4. Uncheck “Show My Taste Profile”.
Done!

Chris Garner

It’s saying I like really boozy drinks and I’d like to try to lower it.

Six Cylinder
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Simon Difford

Many thanks, Chris. I've added this, and all I can find on the history to what I already had. Hopefully, a French speaker will have more luck than me searching online archives of 1928 Parian newspapers.

Chris Garner

You are so right to use navy strength gin for it. The gin comes through.