Improved Brandy Cocktail — Iberian Edition

This is the second in my Improved Cocktail series in the spring of 2021. With deep, dark flavors, this Improved Brandy Cocktail - Iberian edition - emphasizes the importance of products from Portugal and Spain in the history of the American Cocktail and, before that, in Punch and early modern drinking history, generally.

INGREDIENTS

1½ oz. Spanish brandy
½ oz. aged Jamaican rum
¼ oz. ruby port
¼ oz. Swedish Punsch
¾ teaspoon coffee syrup
1 dash Bogart’s bitters
Orange peel, for garnish

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ABV LEVEL

Combine all in a mixing glass. Fill three-quarters with ice and stir for 20 seconds. Strain into a small, stemmed cocktail or sherry glass. Garnish with an expressed orange twist.