Recipes

The Un-Usual Suspect

Name: The Un-Usual Suspect
Ingredients: Ice; 1 1/2 ounces gin; 3/4 ounce fresh grapefruit juice; 1/2 ounce Drambuie; 1/2 ounce Honey Syrup; 1/4 ounce fresh lemon juice; 1/8 ounce Fernet-Branca; Dash of Angostura bitters; 1 grapefruit twist

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At Canlis in Seattle, bartender Kai Braaten offers the Un-Usual Suspect as an alternative to the Negroni, another pleasantly bitter aperitif cocktail. Both drinks use Italian bitters, but Braaten prefers Fernet-Branca's herbal complexity to the Campari in Negronis for this drink.

By Kai Braaten

Updated on June 3, 2021

The Un-Usual Suspect — Photo: © Wendell T. Webber

Yield:

1 drink

Ingredients

Ice
1 1/2 ounces gin
3/4 ounce fresh grapefruit juice
1/2 ounce Drambuie
1/2 ounce Honey Syrup
1/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
1/8 ounce Fernet-Branca
Dash of Angostura bitters
1 grapefruit twist

Directions

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add all of the remaining ingredients except the twist and shake well. Strain the drink into a chilled coupe and garnish with the grapefruit twist.