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Pisco Bell Ringer

Pisco Bell Ringer

3.8 23 ratings

Ingredients

1/6 oz Apricot liqueur
2 oz Pisco
1/2 oz Lemon juice
1/4 oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)
1 dash Orange bitters
2 dash Creole bitters

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 No garnish to prepare.

Method

  1. 3 RINSE chilled glass with apricot brandy (swirl liqueur around inside of glass to coat and then shake out excess).
  2. 4 SHAKE other ingredients with ice.
  3. 5 FINE STRAIN into apricot-rinsed glass.

Garnish

  1. 6 Serve naked, without garnish.

22.4% alc./vol. · 1.5 standard drinks · 131 calories

History

Go easy on the bitters for a delicate, aromatic pisco cocktail.

David Wondrich, a historian of drinks, is thanked once more for bringing this cocktail and its story to light. The drink was invented by Jim Maloney, a bartender, and it made its first appearance in his 1903 book, How to Mix Drinks. Maloney had previously secured a patent for the term 'Bell-Ringers,' which he used to describe cocktails prepared in glasses that had been rinsed with apricot brandy.

Created by David Wondrich