Light Rum, stirred
Country Club
Barline 1h,1,h,1,cl
The code is the shorthand off my printed menu; the Key tab decodes every letter.
- 1 1/2 oz Light rum
- 1 oz Dry vermouth
- 1/2 oz Orange liqueur
- 1 dash Orange bitters
Stir with ice until cold, then strain.
Coupe, lemon twist.
Taste
An ounce and a half of light rum against a full ounce of dry vermouth, nearly even. Half an ounce of orange liqueur is peel and sugar, and one dash of orange bitters sits under both. Stirred, coupe, lemon twist. Lean rum, dry grape, candied orange.
History
Albert Stevens Crockett prints the Country Club in the 1935 Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book as half Bacardi, half French vermouth, and a dash of orange curaçao, among the amendments to the old Waldorf list. William T. Boothby's 1934 World Drinks has a different Country Club, whiskey with orange bitters in a bar glass. The Savoy Country Club Cooler is French vermouth, grenadine, and soda, a different drink. Crockett's light rum, dry vermouth, and orange liqueur are measured here at an ounce and a half, a full ounce, and a half ounce, with a dash of orange bitters added, coupe, lemon.
Same shape, other bottles
The Martini family, with the bottle that changed.
- 1910mezcal, cognac, and sweet vermouth for light rum and dry vermouth
- Dry Orange Martinigin for light rum
- El Presidentewith grenadine
- Vancouvergin and Bénédictine for light rum and orange liqueur
- Fitchettgin and sweet vermouth for light rum and dry vermouth
- Journalistgin for light rum
This is one drink on my home bar's menu. Tick the bottles you own and the menu lists which of all 185 drinks they pour.