I have a handful of traditional Negroni loving friends who are very sceptical about the concept of a Blue Negroni. I have dabbled with them trying to generate something that isn't sweet and my traditionalists then added in to the challenge that to be authentic any recipe should be of 'equal parts'. After some experimentation and a green version produced using Gin, Suze & Blue Coração, I came up with the following combination which seemed sufficiently Negroniesque in taste and was made using 15 mls of each of the following ingredients:
London Dry Gin
Vodka (Stoli)
Tequila (Don Angel - I'm not much of Tequila drinker)
Luxardo Bitters
Cocchi Americano
Blue Coração
Those who sampled it gave it the thumbs up, but I'm yet to win over all of the traditionalists who merely saw the photo!
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I committed to making this today following a request for a 'something different' drink. I knew my version would involve improvisations but I wasn't expecting to have use guava juice in lieu of pineapple! Nevertheless I pressed on: (all in mls) 50 Edinburgh Gin, 20 Wild Kirsch, 10 Cointreau, 2.5 Becherovka, 15 lime juice, 2.5 agave syrup, 60 guava. Surprisingly good, perhaps more Pratapgarh, than Singapore, Sling, but I'd do it again!
Italicus is rather nice! Goes well as an addition to champagne (as indeed does St. Germaine) and can be used as Aperol for a more monochromatic experience. With Gin & Mediterranean tonic it is excellent. Going half and half with Suze seems to work as well. Currently I'm enjoying (appx measurements) 40 mls London Dry Gin, 20 mls Italicus, 5 mls of agave syrup, 100 mls soda water and 20 mls guava juice. Needs refining but maybe, in the absence of Mezcal, it could be called Cinco de Mayo Falso!
So did it with no alterations to proportions (Degroff recipe) and I'm inclined to say my initial suspicion that the spice would bully the other ingredients was right. Still a decent drink but would probably be better if the Becherovka was touched down to 5ml or so.
Many thanks, I'll have a dabble in due course and might start with a teaspoonful or two and see how it goes. I indulged in a stout with a separate shot of Becherovka over the weekend for a bit of Prague nostalgia to reacquaint myself with the stuff.
Benedictine isn't nearly as intense in it's spiced notes, so if you're going to sub Becherovka you might wish to touch it down a bit in volume and make up the difference with perhaps a wee bit more triple sec. I like the idea though, might give it a shot this weekend.
Thanks, great tip, and please let me know how you get on, I'm not sure I'm going to get the chance this weekend.
I've drunk this in the past in Prague, typically in the amusing, but touristy, U Fleku, as accompaniment to their dark beer - ordering 1 and 1, as was their way, it was a long time ago!
I have "inherited" a bottle from someone who wasn't keen, and I'm looking forward to experimenting with the site's cocktails and recreating 1 and 1 with UK stout. My query is, could this drink be used as an alternative to Benedictine (in sling business) for a Singapore Sling? Might it work, or is it crazy talk? I've not had Benedictine for a very, very long time. I remember liking it, as opposed to Chartreuse (which I wasn't keen on, even longer ago).
I guess I'll have to experiment, we all need a hobby, but if anyone has already tried, and has useful advice, please let me know.