The Mighty Penguin
Posted By SeanMike on June 16, 2009
Is no match for a Kaiser Penguin!
Yes, tonight’s drink we go after what some might consider an easy target – Rick over at Kaiser Penguin. If you’ve spent any time near him at all you know his love for Fernet Branca, and how could I make a drink named after him without using some?
This one does have a slight variation that I thought up but didn’t try. But enough jibba jabba, let’s see the drink!
The lime wedge is a mighty orca amongst the ice flows inhabited by kaiser penguins.
Kaiser Penguin
2 1/2 ounces Bols Genever (alternate: 2 ounces Citadelle Reserve Gin)
3/4 ounce Fernet Branca
1/4 – 1/2 ounce simple syrup (depending on taste)
Shake over ice. Pour directly – do not strain! – with ice into a glass half filled with smashed ice. Add more smashed ice to fill. Squeeze a lime wedge into it and put it in to model the mighty orca that gets savagely deprived of its food by the sitcom-esque antics of kaiser penguins. Best served with a cigar, I suggest a Padron 3000.
Kaiser Penguin question for the comments: have you tried this with Citadelle Reserve? What did you think? Also, can you spare $5? I need more Fernet.
[Ninth in a series of drinks named after bloggers, mixologists, and random others who'll hopefully be at Tales. The first post in the series is here.]
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I decided to adjust your recipe a touch.
Stirred with 1 dash Ango Orange and strained up. Orange twist. Omit the lime, natch.
I had figured to make yours a swizzle.