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Spirit-forward · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 2/5

Criterion Cocktail

Criterion Cocktail is a bottled cocktail of brandy, water, Boker's bitters, plain syrup, and Benedictine.

brandy · bokers bitters · benedictine · aperitif

Served in Bottle service. Ice: None.

Variants (1)

American and Other Drinks by Leo Engel (1878, p.39)

0.38 bottlebrandy base
1 liqueur glassBoker's bitters bitter
0.5 pintwater dilution
0.5 liqueur glassBenedictine modifier
1 wine glasssimple syrup — plain syrupsweetener
  1. Build as a bottle cocktail.

Ice: None

Whiskey and gin cocktails in bottles may be made by substitution.