Town Crier

Name: Town Crier
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 2 dash Peychaud's Bitters; 15 ml Bénédictine; 30 ml Apple Brandy; 1 twst Lemon Twist; 15 ml Sweet Vermouth; 30 ml AñEjo Rum

Apple brandy and añejo rum are stirred with sweet vermouth and Bénédictine into a rich, lightly sweet drink, sharpened by Peychaud's bitters and a lemon twist. Created by Frederic Yarm at Loyal Nine in Cambridge, MA, in 2016.

Frederic Yarm created the Town Crier in 2016 at Loyal Nine in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to replace an apple brandy drink removed from the menu with another spirit-forward cocktail. It draws on New Orleans classics such as the Vieux Carré and on Boston's 1919 Cocktail, using aged rum and Benedictine, which blended in better than the Punt e Mes and Yellow Chartreuse first considered. The name comes from a local who turned up before opening hours asking for work or free meals and later disrupted diners with loud nonsense, and it also nods to the town criers of Colonial times.

Method

Stirred

Glass

rocks

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Citrus

Floral

Herbal

Strong