Name: Corn-on-the-Cob
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Mexican corn whisky; 22.5 ml Corn/maize liqueur; 30 ml Americano bianco; 6 drop Coriander bitters; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Corn-on-the-Cob
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Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Mexican corn whisky
³⁄₄ oz	Corn/maize liqueur
1 oz	Americano bianco
6 drop	Bob's Coriander Bitters
3 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 grilled baby corn (or Candy Corn).
STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).
Garnish with corn resting on ice.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Americano bianco - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Cocktail of the day:

11th June 2025 is National Corn On The Cob Day

Review:

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History:

Created in January 2021 by yours truly at The Clocktower in Rye, England.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Corn-on-the-Cob contains 232 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
25.06% alc./vol. (25.06° proof)
24.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Michael Zuercher

25th January at 23:00

Outstanding cocktail! (If you like corn whisky and liqueur.)
As others contributed: cut down the Nixta a little if you don't like it too sweet, but - as Simon says - the coriander bitters* and the saline really are essential.
* add some crushed coriander seeds if you don't have these bitters and maybe ad some tonic bitters.

Charlie Forbes

26th November 2024 at 00:42

Perhaps in ignorance or frustration, this might be the most inaccessible cocktail I've found on this site so far. Mexican corn whisky? Haven't ever seen it. Corn/maize liqueur? Nope. Coriander bitters? C'mon, brother! lol

Evan Cribb

2nd July 2024 at 02:17

Would have been far too sweet at 1:1:1. I did .5 of the corn liqueur and even that was pushing it, but tasty nonetheless. I'd guess 1.5:.75:1 is fairly balanced.

Simon Difford

2nd July 2024 at 17:57

I like the richness of the original equal-parts recipe (perhaps better straight-up), but looking at the comments, I can see the desire to turn this more towards an Old Fashioned riff. Your 1½:¾:1 works well, but it is even better with coriander bitters and saline.

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Chris Garner

16th March 2024 at 20:31

This is a great cocktail. I just bought Cocchi American Bianco to make vespers and happen to stumble open this drink and happened to have Nixta and Mexican corn whiskey. It’s smells and taste like corn with a little bit a bitterness from the Chocchi Americano Bianco. I’m glad to have more recipes that use Nixta.

Herr Grogg

9th September 2023 at 23:01

Smells more than it tastes, mild and unintrusive on the palate lasting taste of corn and bittersweet ethenol. Made with recommended ingrediens except corn whiskey, spirit of vhen corm whisky used instead of abaloso

Christopher Day

14th July 2023 at 13:29

Having just recently picked up Abasolo to try, being a fan of Old Fashioneds and enjoying Nixta I was really looking forward to this. Unfortunately I found it unbearably sweet and unpleasant as a result. Not just slightly sweet; really cloying when made 1:1:1 with Abasolo/Nixta/Cocchi Americano; and I'm not someone who is averse to sweet cocktails in general. I re-made it yesterday with 2:1:1 proportions and this was much nicer, though even still I thought could do with a bit more whisky.

Kevin Duffy

25th November 2022 at 20:41

Well I had to make a variation of this as the ingredients are outside even my array. I used 30ml of bourbon, 30 ml of Bianco, 20ml of metzendorff and 10 of popcorn syrup. Not sure how close to the recipe it is but tasted well balanced and complex.

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