Whisky · Stir · Coupe · 4 min
Bobby Burns
A Rob Roy with a spoonful of Bénédictine, which adds honey and spice. Usually taken to be named after Robert Burns, which makes it the drink for Burns Night.
What's in it
- 50ml (1⅔ oz) Scotch whisky
- 25ml (¾ oz) Sweet vermouth
- 7.5ml (¼ oz) Bénédictine
- 1 Lemon twist optional
How to make it
- Chill a coupe.
- Stir the Scotch, sweet vermouth and Bénédictine with ice in a mixing glass.
- Strain into the chilled coupe and express a lemon twist over the top.
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What cocktail can I make?Where it came from
The name goes back to at least 1899, when the National Police Gazette printed a Bobby Burns Cocktail, and 'Baby Burns' and 'Robert Burns' recipes followed, few of them alike. The Bénédictine version comes from Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book of 1930, which called it one of the very best whisky cocktails. Most take the name as a nod to the poet, but a year later Albert Stevens Crockett, recalling the old Waldorf-Astoria bar in New York, wrote that it was more likely christened for a cigar salesman who drank there.
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