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Red Rot Cocktail

Named for a chemical mix used to recondition red leather book bindings, this gin-based cocktail incorporates its own "chemicals" of elderflower and cherry liqueurs. Invented by Lauren Clark and Misty Kalkofen as a tribute to the Boston Athenaeum, it's destined to become a classic.

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Red Rot Cocktail

Named for a chemical mix used to recondition red leather book bindings, this gin-based cocktail incorporates its own "chemicals" of elderflower and cherry liqueurs. Invented by Lauren Clark and Misty Kalkofen as a tribute to the Boston Athenaeum, it's destined to become a classic.

About Lauren Clark

Drinkboston.com is written by Lauren Clark, a freelance journalist and former bartender and brewer, with input from a research team headed by fellow barfly Scott Howe, several Boston-area bartenders, and other assorted experts of the Boston bar scene. Lauren has written for the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Boston Herald, Jane magazine and Yankee magazine, as well as the trade publications Ale Street News and Nightclub and Bar.

Recipe

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Ingredients

  • 1½ oz London dry gin
  • ½ oz St~Germain elderflower liqueur
  • ½ oz Cherry Heering (Dutch cherry liqueur)
  • ½ oz fresh lemon juice
  • 2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
  • ice

How-to

  1. Have a chilled champagne saucer or cocktail glass ready
  2. In a cocktail shaker, to 1½ oz of London dry gin add ½ oz each of St~Germain elderflower liqueur, Cherry Heering and fresh lemon juice, and 2 goodly dashes of Peychaud’s bitters
  3. Shake vigorously with ice and strain into chilled glass

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