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Byculla

After dinner/digestif · Short and stirred · Spicy (e.g. Spicy Fifty)

3.8 22 ratings

Ingredients

1 oz Fino sherry
1 oz Tawny port
2/3 oz Orange Curaçao
2/3 oz Ginger liqueur

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of skewered crystallised ginger.

Method

  1. 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 Garnish with skewered crystallised ginger.

Flavour profile

18.3% alc./vol. · 1.3 standard drinks

History

Wine-like orange notes with a warming ginger spice.

Drawn from a recipe featured in Harry Craddock's The Savoy Cocktail Book, published in 1930, this cocktail is widely considered to bear the name of a neighbourhood located in South Mumbai, India. "BYCULLA COCKTAIL. 1 Liqueur Glass Ginger 1 Liqueur Glass Curaçao. 1 Liqueur Glass Port. 1 Liqueur Glass Sherry. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass."