Gin, shaken
Barbary Coast
Barline Q,Q,Q,Q,c
The code is the shorthand off my printed menu; the Key tab decodes every letter.
- 3/4 oz Gin
- 3/4 oz Scotch
- 3/4 oz Crème de cacao
- 3/4 oz Cream
Shake hard with ice, then strain.
Coupe.
Taste
Three-quarters each of gin, Scotch, crème de cacao, and cream, so the two spirits are half the glass and the cream is a quarter of it. Shaken, coupe. Chocolate and smoke over a thin cream body, with juniper coming up behind the whisky.
History
The Barbary Coast is a Prohibition-era drink with no known author. Harry Craddock prints it in The Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930 as equal parts gin, Scotch, crème de cacao, and cream, and Crosby Gaige runs the same drink in his 1941 Cocktail Guide and Ladies' Companion under the name Death and Mr. Morgenthau. The name is San Francisco's: the nine blocks around Pacific Street that worked as a red-light district for sailors from the 1850s until the city shut it down. This menu pours three-quarters of each, shaken, coupe.
Same shape, other bottles
The Fancy family, with the bottle that changed.
- Alexanderwithout scotch
- Angel Faceapple brandy and apricot liqueur for scotch, crème de cacao, and cream
- Brandy Alexandercognac for gin and scotch
- Brandy Milk Punchcognac for gin and scotch
- Friscobourbon and Bénédictine for gin, scotch, crème de cacao, and cream
- Cock 'n' Bull Specialbourbon, cognac, Bénédictine, and orange liqueur for gin, scotch, crème de cacao, and cream
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