Gustin Gang

Name: Gustin Gang
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 2 dash Peychaud's Bitters; 23 ml Gin; 1 twst Lemon Twist; 30 ml Sweet Vermouth; 15 ml Cynar; 23 ml Sloe Gin

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Stir Gin, Sloe Gin, Sweet Vermouth, Cynar with ice. Strain into a coupe.

At Our Fathers, I took inspiration from the 1919 Cocktail and used dry gin alongside sloe gin to match our bar's focus on gin-based drinks. Keeping Punt e Mes in place but substituting molé with Peychaud’s Bitters for their compatibility with sloe’s fruity profile, and replacing Benedictine with Cynar as a nod to Phil Ward’s Lipspin, I crafted the Gustin Gang cocktail. The name pays homage to the notorious Boston-based Gustin Gang, which emerged in the mid-1910s and thrived during Prohibition by running rum boats from international waters into South Boston. They supplied their local speakeasy, the Sportlight, as well as other establishments with illicit alcohol.

Method

Stirred

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Dry

Herbal

Sweet