Tuxedo Park, New York, ~1900.
| 1½ oz · 45 ml | GIN | 40 % |
| 1½ oz · 45 ml | DRY VERMOUTH | 18 % |
| ½ barspoons | MARASCHINO LIQUEUR | 32 % |
| 2 dashes | ORANGE BITTERS | 25 % |
| ½ barspoons | ABSINTHE | 60 % |
1 oz taken as 30 ml in the metric column.
1 oz taken as 30 ml in the metric column.
| Pre-batch | 3.23 oz mixed with ice, 0.96 oz of it pure alcohol |
|---|---|
| Melt | Stirred: +15 % of the pre-batch, +0.48 oz of water |
| Served | 3.23 + 0.48 = 3.71 oz in the glass |
| Strength | 0.96 ÷ 3.71 = 25.9 % ABV as served |
| Ethanol | 0.96 oz × 29.57 ml × 0.789 g/ml = 22 g · about 157 kcal from the alcohol alone |
FROM GIN
The pine note in juniper berries, and the reason gin tastes like a forest. Co-distilled with the spirit during production. Found in actual pine trees, rosemary, basil, and a good London Dry. The "Christmas tree" smell of gin and the smell of a forest floor share a single molecule.
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FROM DRY VERMOUTH
The bitter from gentian root, used across Campari, Aperol, sweet vermouth, Angostura, and most amari. Bitter compounds activate TAS2R taste receptors that evolved to detect plant alkaloids. The same machinery that makes broccoli taste bad to children also makes a Negroni taste like an adult ordered it.
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FROM ABSINTHE RINSE · the wormwood compound, mythologized
The wormwood compound that got absinthe banned for ninety years over a panic that turned out to be mostly wrong. A GABA-A antagonist at high doses, but the doses in actual absinthe, both modern and historical, were always too low to cause the hallucinations the lore promised. Bans lifted between 1988 and 2007 once the chemistry was finally measured properly.
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Gin, dry vermouth, maraschino and an absinthe rinse. It is the Martinez's drier cousin: equal parts gin and dry vermouth with a whisper of maraschino. Anethole from the absinthe rinse lifts the nose.
Named for Tuxedo Park, the exclusive Hudson Valley residential community opened in 1886 by Pierre Lorillard IV, the same Tuxedo Park that gave the dinner jacket its name. The Tuxedo Cocktail came later, first printed in Harry Johnson's 1900 Bartenders' Manual. The 'No. 2' is the Savoy Cocktail Book's 1930 numbering: Johnson's recipe with dry gin in place of his sweeter Old Tom. Modern bartenders prefer Tuxedo No. 2 as the more elegant variant.
