1.5 oz Bluecoat Gin
0.5 oz Strega
0.5 oz Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
0.5 oz lemon juice
3 drops Cinnamon tincture
Shake ingredients well and pour over crushed ice. Top with soda (not too much. 2 oz max) water and stir briefly. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.
NOTES: I liked this one a lot. I’m finding Strega to be a great, spicy flavor in a light, refreshing-type drink. Really easy to drink while still feeling boozy enough to warrant your time. Cinnamon goes great with the Strega (a lot like it did with the Becherovka), and the Bluecoat is smooth enough without too much of that juniper bite that I think might toss this a little out of balance.
It’s simple: you name a drink after a Pynchon work, and I must drink all of it.
I would suggest using strega with club as a base (or a cocktail by it self, its one of my favorites) and mixing away to your heart’s desire. The club opens up strega in a phenomenal way.
I’d hardly call this amateur – at least not in the United states anyway. Most of the liquors in this drink are Italian and honestly I hadn’t known of their existence until right now (after I looked them up) The Gin, however is American, and also the only liquor I recognized. 😉
I think if I could find the Strega and the Maraschino Liqueur somewhere, I would like to try this.
Honestly, we have a couple hard-to-find things in our collection just from coming across them or picking them up on a trip, but a lot of these are just the bottles in the aisle of the liquor store that you just walk past. I had no idea about most of them until we started messing around and trying new things out.
There’s actually a lot of great stuff in that aisle! haha