Opera Comique

Name: Opera Comique
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 dash Orange Bitters; 30 ml Aquavit; 1 twst Orange Peel; 8 ml Green Chartreuse; 30 ml Sweet Vermouth; 23 ml Cynar

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Stir Aquavit, Sweet Vermouth, Cynar, Green Chartreuse with ice. Strain into a coupe.

Negroni Week sparked my creativity, leading me to experiment with a drink that diverged from the classic Negroni. Inspired by the Cynar-Chartreuse blend of the Drink of Laughter & Forgetting and the Tailspin’s structure, I initially thought about using gin but decided against it to avoid similarities with my Continuum cocktail from 2018. The Cynar reminded me of aquavit in the Trident, so I made that substitution instead. Naming this creation after Happy Jack Harrington's raucous concert saloon, the Opera Comique (also known as Murderer’s Corner), which I learned about from Herbert Asbury’s book The Barbary Coast.

Method

Stirred

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Citrus

Dry

Herbal