Tin Can Telephone

Name: Tin Can Telephone
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 2 dash Orange Bitters; 8 ml Bénédictine; 38 ml Apple Brandy; 1 twst Lemon Twist; 38 ml Sweet Vermouth; 38 ml Salers Gentiane

A stirred, bittersweet drink of equal parts apple brandy, sweet vermouth and Salers Gentiane, with Bénédictine, orange bitters and a lemon twist adding herbal sweetness and citrus. Created by Frederic Yarm at Russell House Tavern, Cambridge, MA in 2013.

Frederic Yarm devised the Tin Can Telephone at Russell House Tavern in Cambridge, MA, in 2013 as a riff on the Marconi Wireless. It began with the way a gentian liqueur such as Salers sits alongside sweet vermouth, as in the Harry Palmer; Benedictine was added to make up the missing quarter ounce, for its earthy, chocolatey notes and its use with apple brandy in the Full House #2. The result ended up closer to a Vieux Carré than a Negroni, and the name keeps to the theme of communication.

Method

Stirred

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Citrus

Dry

Herbal

Sweet

Ingredients

Servings:

Your bar: 0/6

Orange Bitters

2 dash

Bénédictine

8 ml

Apple Brandy

38 ml

I used Laird's Bonded

Lemon Twist

1 twst

As garnish

Sweet Vermouth

38 ml

I used Cocchi Vermouth di Torino

Salers Gentiane

38 ml

Suze or Aveze would work too

🌱 Vegan🌾 Gluten-free🍷 Contains sulphites

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Instructions

Chill the mixture by stirring over ice, then pour it through a strainer into a cocktail coupe or an equivalent glass. Finish by adding a lemon peel twist as a garnish.

Tin Can Telephone

Ingredients

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