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Archibald's Last Memory

Autumn/fall · Down & Brown · Brown and Brown

4.2 224 ratings

Ingredients

2 oz Rye whiskey 50% abv
1/2 oz Fernet liqueur
1/2 oz Bénédictine D.O.M.
1/6 oz Maraschino liqueur

How to make

Serve in a old-fashioned glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

  1. 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 STRAIN into chilled glass. (No ice in glass.)

Garnish

  1. 5 EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour profile

50.0% alc./vol. · 2.4 standard drinks

History

This spirituous drink may have finished Archibald off, but his last drink was a proper sharpener. The perceived herbal benefits of Fernet and Bénédictine combined might have revived him. Served on-the-rocks, dilution takes the edge off the spirituous attack and opens the cocktail, releasing more herbal complexity.

Adapted from a recipe that originated at the Flatiron Lounge in New York City around 2010.

Also known as Down & Brown