Name: Solomon Grundy
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Amaro Lucano; 15 ml Vermouth alla vaniglia; 5 ml Fernet liqueur; 4 drop Saline solution 4:1

Solomon Grundy
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Photographed in an Urban Bar Fluet Old Fashioned 1920 34cl

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ oz	Lucano amaro
¹⁄₂ oz	Carpano Antica Formula Vermouth
¹⁄₆ oz	Fernet Branca liqueur
4 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).
Garnish with skewered cherry.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Vermouth rosso alla vaniglia (e.g. Antica Formula) - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

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Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Whether a big meal or a big night, this cleansing bittersweet herbal digestive is a great way to finish it, and by Saturday, according to the nursery rhyme, Solomon Grundy was properly finished.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2011 by Dan Long while bartending in Los Angeles. The Solomon Grundy is eponymously named after the supervillain in DC Comics, who, in turn, is named after a 19th-century nursery rhyme.

Solomon Grundy,
Born on a Monday,
Christened on Tuesday,
Married on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday,
Grew worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday,
That was the end,
Of Solomon Grundy.

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Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
26.3% alc./vol. (26.3° proof)
23 grams of pure alcohol

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Chris Brislawn

20th March 2024 at 02:40

Made it exactly to recipe---Hayman's, Antica, Fernet---except used Nonino Amaro since I don't have Lucano. Not surprisingly, just 5 ml of Fernet obliterates the contributions of all other ingredients in the drink, including the pricey Nonino. There might be a complex cocktail hiding in there, but I can't taste it above all that minty Fernet Branca. I'm going to put Fernet in a dripper bottle and use it like bitters from now on, a few drops or at most a dash at a time. Glad I only have a split.