CLASSIC · RYE WHISKEY

Blinker

Name: Blinker
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 drink
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Rye Whiskey; 45 ml Fresh Grapefruit Juice; 15 ml Raspberry Syrup; Grapefruit Twist

Rye and grapefruit with a spoon of raspberry — a Prohibition-era oddity that modern bartenders rescued by throwing out the original grenadine.

Ingredients

Rye Whiskey60 ml

Fresh Grapefruit Juice45 ml

Raspberry Syrup15 ml

Grapefruit Twist

Glassware

Coupe glass

Chilled.

Coupe glasses, set of 4Ad

Flavor

Grapefruit · Raspberry · Black pepper

Estimated profile

A cigar alongside More like this

Method

1
Chill a coupe glass.
2
Combine the rye, grapefruit juice and raspberry syrup in a shaker.
3
Add ice and shake hard for 10–12 seconds.
4
Fine-strain into the chilled coupe.
5
Garnish with a grapefruit twist.

The kit for this drink

Glassware Shake and strain Prep and serve

From the Bartender

First printed in Patrick Gavin Duffy's Official Mixer's Manual in 1934 with grenadine. The modern raspberry-syrup version is generally credited to Ted Haigh, and it is a clear improvement — grenadine and grapefruit fight, raspberry and grapefruit do not.

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