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Loaded Pistol

Nightcap/sipping · Short and stirred · Spirit-forward

4.5 110 ratings

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Mezcal
3/4 oz Rosso/sweet vermouth
1/2 oz Strega liqueur
4 drop Grapefruit bitters

How to make

Serve in a old-fashioned glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
  2. 2 RIM glass with salt (moisten outside edge with grapefruit juice and dip into salt).

Method

  1. 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish

  1. 5 No additional garnish. (The preprepared rim is garnish enough.)

Flavour profile

27.2% alc./vol. · 1.6 standard drinks · 166 calories

History

Mezcal provides the strength, balanced by sweet vermouth and rich herbal liqueur. A great late-night sip.

This is an adaptation of a recipe created in 2019 by Erick Castro at Polite Provisions in San Diego, USA. Erick's original recipe includes a "grasshopper salt rim," which is made by blending ½ cup sea salt with 2 spoons of dehydrated grasshoppers.

Created by Erick Castro