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Amen Corner
A shaken bourbon, Aperol, Amaro Nonino and mint drink, plus a different stirred cocktail that shares the name.
Go to the recipe ↓Imbibe presents the Amen Corner as a Paper Plane riff: bourbon, Aperol and Amaro Nonino shaken with muddled mint and served in a coupe. Punch prints the same quantities. A Cocktail Virgin post uses the name for a different, stirred bourbon drink, so check which Amen Corner you mean before you shop.
Imbibe: shaken with mint
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
See the proportions
Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Chill a coupe.
- In a mixing glass, gently muddle 4 to 5 mint leaves.
- Add 2 oz bourbon, 3/4 oz Amaro Nonino, 1 oz Aperol and ice.
- Shake until chilled.
- Double-strain into the chilled coupe and garnish.
Garnish Brandied cherries
- The mint is a range of 4 to 5 leaves rather than a fixed measure, so adjust it separately when scaling.
Recipe source: imbibemagazine.com ↗
Cocktail Virgin: stirred, with crème de pêche
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
Method as published
- Measure 1 1/3 oz bourbon, 1/2 oz Amaro Sfumato, 1/2 oz crème de pêche and 1 tsp Cynar into a mixing glass. For the larger set, use 2 oz Evan Williams Bonded, 3/4 oz Amaro Sfumato, 3/4 oz Mathilde crème de pêche and 1/4 oz Cynar.
- Stir with ice.
- Strain into a rocks glass.
- Garnish with an orange twist.
Garnish Orange twist
- Every line has two quantities. The bracketed set is 1.5 times the first set, and some of its lines name a brand. Use one set for all ingredients.
- The source does not say whether the rocks glass holds ice.
Recipe source: cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com ↗
Same name, different bottles
Punch's Amen Corner uses Imbibe's amounts with three small changes: it lists 'amaro, preferably Amaro Nonino', muddles and shakes in a mixing tin, and calls for a plain strain rather than a double-strain. The chilled coupe and brandied cherries match.
The Cocktail Virgin drink needs neither the Aperol nor the Nonino bottle, and no mint. Its modifiers are Amaro Sfumato, crème de pêche and a small measure of Cynar.