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American Troubadour

Name: American Troubadour
Yield: 1 cocktail
Ingredients: 1 oz Wild Turkey 81 bourbon; ½ oz Fernet-Branca Menta; ½ oz Grand Marnier; 1 oz nitro cold brew; ¼ oz Demerara Syrup; 2 dashes 18.21 Japanese Chili Lime Bitters

Bourbon, Fernet Menta, and Grand Marnier over cold brew. Bitter, minty, and wide awake.

GlassHighball glass

GarnishFresh mint, freshly grated nutmeg, strip of orange peel

8ozHighball holds 8 oz of liquidTall glass over ice, so the liquid tops out around 8 oz.

Build

Wild Turkey 81 bourbon	1 oz30 ml1 ½ oz45 ml2 oz60 ml2 ½ oz75 ml3 oz90 ml
Fernet-Branca Menta	½ oz15 ml¾ oz20 ml1 oz30 ml1 ¼ oz35 ml1 ½ oz45 ml
Grand Marnier	½ oz15 ml¾ oz20 ml1 oz30 ml1 ¼ oz35 ml1 ½ oz45 ml
nitro cold brew	1 oz30 ml1 ½ oz45 ml2 oz60 ml2 ½ oz75 ml3 oz90 ml
Demerara Syrup	¼ oz7.5 ml⅜ oz10 ml½ oz15 ml⅝ oz20 ml¾ oz20 ml
18.21 Japanese Chili Lime Bitters	2 dashes

Already built on your 1 oz30 ml pour.

Rescaled to your 1 ½ oz45 ml pour. Written around 1 oz30 ml.

Rescaled to your 2 oz60 ml pour. Written around 1 oz30 ml.

Rescaled to your 2 ½ oz75 ml pour. Written around 1 oz30 ml.

Rescaled to your 3 oz90 ml pour. Written around 1 oz30 ml.

Tools

Contains caffeineCaffeine does not make you less drunk, it makes you feel less drunk — the impairment is the same and only your read on it changes. Judge this one by what went into the glass rather than by how alert you feel, and give it the same distance from bedtime you would give a coffee.

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Preparations

Demerara Syrup20 minutessee method

Place 1 cup water in a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Add ½ cup demerara sugar and 1 ½ cups sugar and stir until they have dissolved. Remove the pan from heat and let the syrup cool completely before using or storing.

Method

Add everything to a shaker, fill it two-thirds with ice, and shake hard until cold.
Strain, discard the ice in the shaker, and return the cocktail to the shaker. Dry shake for 10 seconds.
Pour the cocktail over ice into the highball glass. Garnish with fresh mint, freshly grated nutmeg and strip of orange peel.

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