Moonlight Cocktail (Gaz Regan's)
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Ingredients
How to make
Serve in a flute glass
Prepare
- 1 Select and pre-chill a FLUTE GLASS.
- 2 Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
Method
- 3 SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
- 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish
- 5 EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.
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Flavour profile
23.0% alc./vol. · 1.7 standard drinks · 191 calories
History
Similar to an Aviation but using triple sec in place of maraschino and lime instead of lemon juice. Lime juice was used originally due to availability, but this adaptation mellows the citrus sourness by using both lime and lemon juice.
Gary "gaz" Regan developed this variation of the traditional Aviation cocktail, and it first appeared in his The Cocktailian column in the San Francisco Chronicle on 27 September 2007. Gaz recounted, "After making my new baby I took it for a stroll around my deck and gazed up at the moon. It was off-white that evening, but it had a faint purplish hue to it. Just like my drink. The Moonlight Cocktail was born." Information regarding the history of the Aviation and its numerous other interpretations can be found elsewhere.
Created by Gary 'gaz' Regan