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Thursday, December 20, 2018

269. Patrick Cocktail

My interpretation:
  1 oz Aria American Dry Gin
  1 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth
  5 drops McCormick Green food coloring

Fill mixing-glass with broken ice, stir, strain into cocktail glass, serve. — This Martini-riff distinguished by green food coloring (“Breton” was an old brand) first appears in JM 1912 and is presumably designed as a novelty drink for the occasion of St. Patrick’s Day, something akin to green beer.


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