Negroni # 48 "Rorik of Dorestad"

04/01/2015

Negroni # 48 "Rorik of Dorestad"

This excellent was sent in by one of readers, Kyle Godbey, who says

"Just found your site and I'm diggin' it. Keep at it. Thought I'd share, though it is complex and a stretched variation..."

Kyle named his Negroni inspired cocktail, made with the Scandinavian spirit Aquavit, after Rorik of Dorestad a ferocious Viking raider and leader.

Kyle uses two gin like spirits, a great sherry, a red vermouth, two amari, and a bitters.

Aquavit is a flavoured spirit produced in Scandinavia since the 15th century. It is not unlike Gin and a great base for a Negroni inspired cocktail. He also uses Genever, (Holland gin or Dutch gin), a juniper-flavored malty liquor of the Netherlands and Belgium from which modern Gin was derived.

The recipe:

If you use ounces this will make one big or two medium cocktails

.75 Linie Aquavit
.75 Bols Genever
.5 Lustau Amontillado Sherry
.5 Cocchi vermouth di torino
.5 Amaro Montenegro
.5 Campari
1 dash Bitter Truth orange bitters

Enjoy!

Rorik or Hrørek was a Danish Viking, who ruled over different parts of Friesland between 841 and 873 including Dorestad a flourishing settlement establish near a former roman fortress at the point where the Rhine and the Lek Rivers meet. It had a very strategic position on the crossroads of trading routes between Northern Frisia, North Sea area, Scandinavia and France, the Rhineland and the Meuse valley.

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Count Camillo Negroni

As to its origin, the most prevalent story is that it was first created in Florence, Italy in 1919, at Caffè Casoni, an antique shop/bar, (think Il Buco) where now Caffè Giacosa is found. As the story goes Count Camillo Negroni asked bartender Fosco Scarselli to strengthen his favorite cocktail, the Americano, by adding gin instead of the typical soda water. Fosco distinguished the drink with an orange garnish rather than the typical lemon. A Brief History of the Negroni

Count Pascal Olivier Negroni

Of course like most tales in Italy there is another version of the story. In his one it is told that the drink was invented in 1857 in the West African country of Senegal by Corsican General Pascal Olivier de Negroni. They say he created a drink to aide his new wife’s digestion lifting the drink to toast to her health on their wedding day. Negroni family lays claim to namesake cocktail

Sorry Pascal, with no disrespect, we are going with the Italian Count Camillo version.

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