All Betts Are Off Recipe

Nick Caruana
All Betts Are Off Recipe
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  • Yield:makes 1 cocktail
  • Active time:2 minutes
  • Total time:2 minutes
This recipe appears in:
5 Cocktail Recipes That Will Help You Love Mezcal

[Photograph: Nick Caruana]

Featuring mezcal, sweet and herbal Yellow Chartreuse, and easy-drinking Dolin Blanc vermouth, this drink was created by Matt Lanning of The Bitter Bar in Boulder, CO to help ease customers into the taste of mezcal.

The Betts part is a nod to Richard Betts, owner of Sombra Mezcal, and the cocktail's name suggests that you might just change your opinion of the smoky spirit after tasting it. As Lanning puts it "Think you don't like mezcal? With this one all 'betts' are off."

About the author: Nick Caruana is the author of The Straight Up, where he shares his love of classic and modern cocktails, including a slight obsession with whiskey, bitters and amari. Stalk him on Twitter @The_Straight_Up, Facebook, and other social media outlets.

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 ounces mezcal
  • 3/4 ounce Dolin Blanc vermouth
  • 3/4 ounce Yellow Chartreuse
  • 2 dashes grapefruit bitters
  • Garnish: grapefruit twist

Directions

  1. 1.

    Add the mezcal, Dolin Blanc, Yellow Chartreuse, and grapefruit bitters to a mixing glass. Fill 2/3 full with ice and stir until well chilled, about 20 seconds. Strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with the grapefruit twist and serve.

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