Golden Dawn

[muckefuck]

• equal parts dry gin, Calvados, apricot brandy, and Cointreau
• dash of grenadine

This sounded good on paper, but ends up as a sickly sweet concoction. On second glance, I can't figure out what the grenadine is doing there at all, since a drink that's half Cointreau and/or apricot brandy should be more than sweet enough already. Unlike with some sweet cocktails, though, the taste of the gin was still there, so this one might be worth tinkering with. (Perhaps my mistake was using bottled grenadine instead of lacerating a pomegranate plucked under a gibbous moon with a silver dagger and letting two exquisite trembling drops fall into the glass at the first light of dawn on the equinox? Still time to rectify that.)

Comments

[lhn.livejournal.com]

The grenadine is AFAICT just for effect-- the recipe I have says to dribble a little in at the end and don't stir (after dropping in a stemless cherry), so that the bottom of the glass is red and it gradually lightens up towards the top for a "dawn" look.

(It also includes one part orange juice, but if it's already too sweet for you then that's probably not something you'd want to add.)

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

yikes. I'm scared to do that to my Calvados (especially since it will shortly be even further beyond my reach).

Thanks for doing this, BTW.

[his-regard.livejournal.com]

Try upping the gin to replace the Cointreau, and adding orange bitters.

[foodpoisoningsf.livejournal.com]

I'd lose the apricot brandy or the Calvados. Mostly because I think it's sinful to waste good Calvados. A sin, I tell you.

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

Gosh. Learning cocktails is in my list of must-learn
But I don't drink at home!