Japanese cocktail

Brandy

The Japanese cocktail is notorious for a handful of things: it's a very old cocktail, published in Jerry Thomas’s landmark 1862 book How to Mix Drinks; it was the first mixed drink to be named something other than “Whiskey Cocktail”, “Brandy Cocktail”, or some other similarly obvious epithet; it might be the only cocktail Thomas invented himself; and finally, it was the first cocktail to feature more than a dash of a fancy sweetener, orgeat.

Ingredients

Product	Amount	Unit
Brandy	60	ml
Orgeat Syrup	15	ml
Angostura aromatic bitters	2	dashes

Instructions

1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass with ice and stir
2. Strain into a coupe, serve up