I made this with Nordes Gin, Noisy Prat and Cointreau finished with both a lemon and orange twist and wow, super cocktail. The salty, herbal nature of the Nordes with the sweet orange of the Cointreau really works well. Will continue to experiment with this combo.

Even with this recipe waiting more heavily to gin than the original, I still found myself adding extra gin to balance it out, plus a decent amount of wet ice. I enjoyed this but it's definitely quite a sweet, after dinner cocktail cocktail.

Like many cocktail recipes using absinthe, this seems very wasteful of the green fairy! I kept the full 10ml of absinthe and diluted with wet ice, cocktail was good but definitely absinthe forward. Next time I'll try 5ml and again keep all of it and shake (not stir) with ice. Will update.

Due to the gin bottle running dry, I made this with 50ml of gin and 25ml of dry vermouth and the result was an pleasantly surprising, lighter but still distinctly a Tuxedo No 2

Try mixing out half the lemon with orange juice, works really well.

I tried with the addition of 1 dash of black walnut bitters and thought it added to this recipe

Excellent, for me superior to the traditional Old Fashioned. The herbaceous flavours of the Benedictine work incredibly well with a strong bourbon like Jim Beam Black Label, really makes for a very refined and complex cocktail.

I’d probably prefer just a dash of grenadine - it comes through too clearly using 1/4 oz.

I agree, it's just too overpowering with the current mix

I find the cachaca overpowers the other ingredients. The Patron XO is fairly sweet too, so not sure you need to include the sugar syrup.

I like this but would use a little less cane syrup to reduce the sweetness a bit

I like this ratio, but prefer half of the Vermouth to be extra dry, and the other half sweet. I find this gives a depth of flavour, especially when shaken.