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Swiss Account

Name: Swiss Account
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Vodka; 15 ml Gentian liqueur; 10 ml Bénédictine D.O.M.; 6 drop Hop grapefruit bitters

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Gentian liqueur Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Avèze, Salers)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur
6 drop	Hopped grapefruit bitters

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB Nick and Nora Gold 6oz

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Swiss Account contains 158 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
28.06% alc./vol. (56.12° proof)
19.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 2017 by Griffin Cox at Lot Six in Halifax, Canada.

Hailed as a venerable French bitter, the story of Suze veritably began to the west in Switzerland before it was brought across the border by Fernand Moureaux in 1885. The Swiss Account pays homage to that beginning and shows how Suze finds its home alongside other French spirits just as it found its home in French palates over a century ago.
Griffin Cox, 2017

45ml Grey Goose Vodka, 15ml Suze, 5ml Bénédictine and 2 dash Bittermens Hopped Grapefruit Bitters.
Original recipe by Griffin Cox, 2017

Review

A vodka charged bittersweet aperitif with herbal notes laced with grainy vodka.

Ketel One Vodka 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$19.99 $1.21 per cocktail Ketel One Vodka image

Suze gentian liqueur 750ml - makes 50 cocktails
$32.99 $0.66 per cocktail Suze gentian liqueur image

Benedictine D.O.M. 750ml - makes 75 cocktails
$37.99 $0.51 per cocktail Benedictine D.O.M. image

$2.38 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Tim Cull 10w

I found two dashes of grapefruit bitters to be too acerbic. Hard to say what one dash would have been, but I suspect maybe better

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 10w

Agreed. I've reduced to 6 drops of hopped grapefruit bitters.

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 4y

Found it rather sweet so tried gin instead of vodka. Not a great improvement. Might try chucking in some lemon juice at the risk of making a completely different drink.

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