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

A stirred drink of gin, sweet vermouth and sloe gin, with a bitter edge from Cynar and a finish of Peychaud's bitters and a lemon twist. Created by Frederic Yarm at Our Fathers in Allston, MA, in 2018.

Similar names: Bang Bang Gang, Vito's Gang

Frederic Yarm made the Gustin Gang in 2018 at Our Fathers in Allston, Massachusetts, as a variation on the 1919 Cocktail. Dry gin and sloe gin suit the bar's gin focus, Punt e Mes stays, Peychaud's Bitters replaces molé because it goes well with the fruitiness of the sloe, and Cynar takes the place of Benedictine as a nod to Phil Ward's Lipspin. The name refers to a Boston gang that was active from the mid-1910s and, during Prohibition, carried rum by boat from international waters into South Boston, supplying the speakeasy Sportlight and other venues.

Method

Stirred

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Dry

Herbal

Sweet