Sunday, July 21, 2024

jimmy hoffa

1 1/2 oz Rittenhouse Rye Whiskey
3/4 oz Punt e Mes
3/4 oz Amaro Lucano
1 dash Orange Bitters (Angostura Orange)

Stir with ice, strain into an old fashioned glass with a large ice cube, and garnish with a flamed orange twist (unflamed).
Two Sundays ago, I decided to open up my new purchase of J.E. Clapham's recently published That's Amaro: An Amaro Cocktail Book. There, I landed on the Jimmy Hoffa by Andy Aitken of the Dutch site Proof Cocktails in 2017 as an American whiskey riff on his Scotch-based Lord Lucan named after Britain's Jimmy Hoffa equivalent. Once prepared, the Jimmy Hoffa orchestrated an orange and caramel bouquet. Next, caramel and grape on the sip drove into rye flavors, dark orange peel notes, and a rounded herbal bitterness on the swallow.

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