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Golden Dawn

Name: Golden Dawn
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Gin; 30 ml Calvados apple brandy; 30 ml Apricot liqueur; 30 ml Orange juice; 2 dash Aromatic bitters; 2.5 ml Grenadine syrup

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Ingredients
³⁄₄ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1 fl oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
1 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
¹⁄₁₂ fl oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup

Garnish: Orange zest twist

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Martini glass

Method:

SHAKE first 5 ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass. Carefully POUR grenadine into centre of drink so that it sinks to create a sunrise effect.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Golden Dawn contains 213 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
19.43% alc./vol. (38.86° proof)
24.1 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created in September 1930 by Tom Buttery at the Berkeley Hotel, London and first published in William J. "Billy" Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Bar Book. There are now many versions of this classic cocktail (David Embury's The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks lists three), the above recipe is my favourite.

GOLDEN DAWN
Invented by the late T. Buttery
¼ Orange Juice.
¼ Apricot Brandy.
¼ Calvados (Trou Normand).
¼ Gin (Booth's Dry).
A dash of Grenadine to be added after the cocktail is poured out.
W. J. Tarling, 1937

Review

Although it spoils the sunrise effect, this drink is less tart if the syrup lying on the bottom is stirred into the drink (or, better, included when shaking).

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$33.99 $1.03 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$29.99 $1.20 per cocktail

Angostura Aromatic Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Aromatic Bitters image

Monin Grenadine Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 301 cocktails
$14.99 $0.05 per cocktail Monin Grenadine Syrup (US) image

$2.35 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 25 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

Great tasting. It is a bit sweeter than I was expecting; however, found adding a dash of orange bitters did enhance the orange flavour and lessen the sweetness. Our oranges are tree ripend so the juice could have been the cause of the sweetness. I know it would ruin the effect, I would make again without the grenadine.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 4y

Quite nice. Finely balanced complex of fruity flavors with just enough depth or structure from the aromatic bitters and the gin botanicals. My orange juice was lightly flavored and I shook the grenadine. Do try.

Beverly Stanton 4y

Not as tasty as it sounds. Found this combination to be missing something. Not bad however would not make again. Perhaps my orange juice was not up to par.

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