Filene
Source: http://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2016/10/filene.html
Ingredients
- 1 dash Picon bitters (1/4 oz amer picon)
- 1 dash Orgeat (1/4 oz)
- 0.33 Sweet vermouth (3/4 oz alessio)
- 0.67 Rye (1 1/2 oz sazerac)
Instructions
Two Thursdays ago, I began to flip through Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars: 1903-1933 in search of my post shift nightcap. There, in the whiskey section was an intriguing Manhattan variation called the Filene that utilized orgeat and Picon as the modifiers (and bitters). Looking back, I did find in that book and make a similar Brooklyn variation using that modifier pairing in the
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