Curmudgeon Clive

Name: Curmudgeon Clive
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 3 dash Peychaud's Bitters; 23 ml Junmai Sake; 45 ml Gin; 30 ml Blue Curaçao; 30 ml Sweet Vermouth

Gin and sweet vermouth are shaken with blue curaçao and junmai sake, then finished with three dashes of Peychaud's bitters. Orange sweetness meets herbal vermouth, with a mild rice-wine edge from the sake. By Carl N., 2022.

Carl N. created the Curmudgeon Clive in 2022 as a tribute to a Naval Academy alumnus, after whom the drink is named.

Method

Shaken

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Medium

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Citrus

Floral

Herbal