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Six Cylinder

After dinner/digestif · Aperitivo/aperitif · Bittersweet (e.g. Negroni)

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Ingredients

1/2 oz Navy strength gin
1/2 oz Cherry brandy
1/2 oz Red bitter liqueur
1/2 oz Red quinquina e.g. Dubonnet, Byrrh
1/2 oz Dry vermouth
1/2 oz Rosso/sweet vermouth

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of orange zest twist and skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

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

Garnish

  1. 5 EXPRESS orange zest twist over cocktail and discard.
  2. 6 Garnish with skewered cherry.

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Flavour profile

20.3% alc./vol. · 1.3 standard drinks · 187 calories

History

A bittersweet Negroni-style aperitif or digestif with pleasing, subtle, rich cherry notes. The cocktail is much improved with Navy-strength gin.

Raymond Latour created this drink, which won the 1928 Paris Cocktail Championship, according to thrillist.com on November 7, 2017. The competition, billed as the "Inter-national Championship of Cocktails," took place at Hôtel Claridge on the Champs-Élysées. While thrillist.com claims it was sponsored by the Paris-Midi and the Chicago Tribune newspapers, no reference to the competition or its winner has been found in either publication. The drink's name, Six Cylinder, references the automotive boom of the 1920s, suggesting the smooth power of a straight-six engine, a type first introduced in the 1903 Spyker 60-HP racing car. The recipe appears in Harry McElhone's 1930 book, Harry's Of The New York Bar Paris (Late of Ciro's) ABC of Mixing Cocktails: Six Cylinder Cocktail. 1/6 Cherry Brandy, 1/6 Gin, 1/6 Campari, 1/6 Dubonnet, 1/6 French Vermouth, 1/6 Italian Vermouth. The name also appears in supplementary lists of cocktails "which space forbids giving the recipes" in both the 1937 Café Royal Cocktail Book and UKBG's Approved Cocktails, with the following proportions: SIX CYLINDER Cocktail Glass Shake 1/2 oz gin 1/2 oz cherry flavoured brandy 1/2 oz Campari 1/2 oz Dubonnet 1/2 oz dry vermouth 1/2 oz sweet vermouth