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Dead Man's Handle

Long drinks and highballs · Summer

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Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Blanco tequila
1/2 oz Orange-red aperitivo
1/2 oz Lime juice
1/2 oz Orgeat syrup

How to make

Serve in a poco grande glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a POCO GRANDE GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of Tajín seasoning.

Method

  1. 3 SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.

Garnish

  1. 5 Dust with Tajín seasoning.

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Flavour profile

16.1% alc./vol. · 1.1 standard drinks · 185 calories

History

Rich almond syrup meets delicately bittersweet undertones with a tequila charge.

This cocktail is adapted from a 2019 recipe by Tiffany Kirk at Miss Carousel bar in Houston, USA. Its name may derive from the dead man's switch, a safety mechanism designed to activate or deactivate if an operator becomes incapacitated. Also referred to as a dead man's handle, these switches were initially used in trains and other machinery but the term now encompasses various fail-safe devices and computer software.

Created by Tiffany Kirk