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Irish Negroni

Bushmills' equal-parts Irish Negroni, built and stirred in the rocks glass.

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Bushmills publishes its Irish Negroni as equal parts Black Bush, a Bushmills Irish whiskey, plus a herbal aperitif and sweet red vermouth, with orange peel. It is made entirely in the rocks glass, with no mixing glass and no straining. The source gives parts rather than volumes and names no specific aperitif, so you choose both the size of a part and which herbal aperitif to use. Use the same measure for all three liquids.

Recipe 1 · bushmills.eu

Bushmills: equal parts, built

Contains alcohol

Ingredients

Original recipe quantities.

Method as published

  1. Pour 1 part Black Bush, 1 part herbal aperitif and 1 part sweet red vermouth into a rocks glass.
  2. Add ice to the glass.
  3. Stir in the glass until the ingredients are combined.

Garnish Orange peel. The source lists it as an ingredient but does not say whether to express it or how to place it.

  • Quantities are given as parts only, with no fixed volume, so the calculator scales the ratio rather than a published measure.
  • The source calls for a generic herbal aperitif and does not name a brand.
  • The source does not specify how much ice to use.

Recipe source: bushmills.eu ↗

How it differs from the Boulevardier

The IBA Boulevardier combines bourbon or rye whiskey with Campari and sweet red vermouth in unequal measures: 45 ml whiskey to 30 ml each of Campari and vermouth, a 3:2:2 ratio. It is stirred with ice in a mixing glass and strained into a chilled cocktail glass. Bushmills' Irish Negroni keeps its three liquids equal and builds them over ice in the serving glass, so Black Bush takes a smaller share of the drink than the whiskey does in the Boulevardier, and the drink stays on its ice.

Bushmills also specifies a herbal aperitif rather than naming Campari, as the IBA and Campari Academy Boulevardier recipes do.