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Stinger cocktail: Three ways to make it

Classic, the Stinger cocktail only requires of two ingredients, which makes it easy to play with measures in order to create different versions for every palate.

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The cognac and crème de menthe cocktail was created in the 1900’s in the United States. The following recipes are three options to make different Stinger cocktails. There is a Stinger Cocktail for everyone, however keep in mind that these variations might suit your state of mind, mood and what you’re on!

 

Recipes by Jason O’Bryan

 

1. The Middle Way

Ingredients

2.25 oz. Cognac

0.75 oz. creme de menthe

Method

Add ingredients to a rocks glass with crushed ice and stir for five to eight seconds. Garnish with a mint sprig and enjoy.

This is my favorite version—sufficiently dry enough to not be confused with a dessert cocktail, but still explosively flavorful. Now, the Stinger is unusual in that it’s an all-booze drink that many recipes nonetheless instruct to shake (as opposed to stir). I do not recommend this, as it thins out the texture and makes it all a little weird. But what those recipes are aiming at—a healthy amount of dilution—is absolutely correct and important. Crushed ice solves that problem handily. In fact, this cocktail is nearly impervious to overdilution: The longer it sits on the crushed ice, the better it gets.

 

2. The Cognac Old Fashioned with a hint of Mint

Ingredients

2 oz. Cognac

0.25 oz. creme de menthe

Method

Add ingredients to a mixing glass with ice and stir well. Strain into a cocktail glass without ice and garnish with a mint sprig.

This recipe, taken more or less whole from Jim Meehan’s Bartender’s Guide, is the most subtle of all the Stinger builds, the creme de menthe subdued to the point where it’s just a slightly minty exhale on what is otherwise a Cognac Old Fashioned.

A great substitution for an Old Fashioned any time an Old Fashioned would be called for, which is to say, pretty much any time after sundown.

 

3. Dessert for Someone Named Gertrude

Ingredients

1.5 oz. Cognac

1.5 oz. creme de menthe

Method

Add ingredients to a rocks glass with crushed ice and stir for five to eight seconds. Garnish with a mint sprig and enjoy.

This is the closest thing to what most people imagine when they imagine a Stinger—something very sweet and intensely minty. This is designed to be the last cocktail you have on any given night, as it’s the mixological equivalent of brushing your teeth.

 

Read the original article to know more facts about the Stinger cockail.

 

Don’t drink and drive. Enjoy responsibly.

 

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