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Liberal

Nightcap/sipping · Short and stirred · Spirit-forward

4.2 14 ratings

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Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Rye whiskey 50% abv
1 oz Rosso/sweet vermouth
1/12 oz Amer Picon
1 dash Orange bitters

How to make

Serve in a nick & nora glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

  1. 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

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Flavour profile

50.0% alc./vol. · 1.6 standard drinks · 154 calories

History

Spirit-forward, a balanced Manhattan for any preference.

The earliest recorded formulation for a Liberal cocktail is found in George Kappeler's Modern American Drinks, published in 1895. Subsequent renditions of the Liberal are featured in Thos. Stuart's 1904 Stuart' s Fancy Drinks And How To Mix Them; Jacques Straub's 1913 Straub's Manual of Mixed Drinks; and Albert Stevens Crockett's 1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days. "Liberal Cocktail. Fill a mixing-glass half-full fine ice, add one dash syrup, half a jigger Amer Picon bitters, half a jigger whiskey. Mix, strain into cocktail glass. A small piece of lemon peel on top. Serve." "Liberal Cocktail. 1/3 Pecon Bitters. 1/3 whiskey. 1/3 Italian vermouth. 3 0r 4 dashes absinthe." "LIBERAL COCKTAIL. 1/3 Jigger Italian Vermouth. 2/3 Jigger Rye Whiskey. 1 Dash Amer Picon. Stir." "LIBERAL Dash of Orange Bitters Three dashes Amer Picon One-half Whiskey One-half Italian Vermuth Stir."