Blinker
Ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 oz WhistlePig 10yo Straight Rye Whisky
- 2 oz Pink grapefruit juice
- 1⁄2 oz Monin Grenadine Syrup
- 6 drop Bob's Grapefruit Bitters
- 2 drop Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s
Method
Glass:
Photographed in an Urban Bar Retro Optic Coupe 21cl
Prepare:
- Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
- Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.
Method:
- SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
- FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish:
- EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.
Nutrition:
One serving of Blinker contains 169 calories
History:
First published in Patrick Gavin Duffy's 1934 The Official Mixer's Manual.
Review:
Back in the 1940s, in his book The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David Embury said of this cocktail, "One of a few cocktails using grapefruit juice. Not particularly good but not too bad." Depending on your ingredients: choice of rye whiskey, freshness of grapefruit juice, and particularly use of homemade pomegranate juice grenadine, Embury may have underestimated this cocktail's potential.
