Manhattan (cocktail)
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The Manhattan is a classic cocktail made from American whiskey and red, sweet vermouth and, as a small, aromatic and strongly alcoholic short drink, belongs to the group of aperitifs or before dinner cocktails . There are numerous variants, some of which are known under their own names.
history
The cocktail probably originated in the USA in the 1870s . According to a popular legend, a certain Dr. Ian Marshall invented the drink, it was created for a banquet on December 29, 1874 in the New York Manhattan Club that Jennie Churchill - the mother of the later pleasure drinker and Prime Minister Winston Churchill - gave in honor of presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden . Later, guests would have asked about this "Manhattan Cocktail" in other bars. However, the story has now been disproved because Jennie Churchill was in France at the time claimed, where she was pregnant with her son Winston. Perhaps the Manhattan was already the club's house drink back then , because vermouth had been imported from Italy and France since the middle of the 19th century and opened up new possibilities for American bartenders . What is certain, however, is that Manhattans were mixed in 1884 when the first recipe appeared in a bar book.
Manhattans were originally mixed with the strong rye whiskey that was common in the USA at the time or with bourbon whiskey . Since after the end of Prohibition in the United States no domestic distillates were available in sufficient quantities for the foreseeable future - because of the several years of barrel storage - blends of Canadian whiskey were imported on a large scale in the 1930s and ultimately became the main ingredient for many decades of the Manhattan. Rye whiskey is stronger than Canadian whiskey and has been increasingly rediscovered in bars as an ingredient for classic Manhattan in recent years.
At the end of the 19th century the Manhattans mostly consisted of equal parts of whiskey and vermouth, as in Harry Johnson's Bartender Manual from 1882, today more whiskey is usually used than vermouth and the addition of sugar syrup , curacao , maraschino or, which was still common around 1900 Absinthe waived.
preparation
A Manhattan is usually made from two parts (e.g. 4 cl ) of rye whiskey , bourbon whiskey or Canadian whiskey , one part (e.g. 2 cl) of red vermouth and 2 dashes of Angostura bitters. The ingredients are stirred in a mixing glass filled with ice cubes and strained through a bar strainer into a pre-chilled martini cup or cocktail bowl. Finally, a red cocktail cherry is traditionally added to the drink and, as is usual with classic short drinks, "straight up", i.e. without ice in the glass , served.
Depending on the vermouth used, the Manhattan is called dry (only dry French vermouth), perfect (half and half) or sweet (only sweet, red, mostly Italian vermouth).
American guests often request that this cocktail be mixed with bourbon instead of Canadian whiskey.
Variations
In variations, other types of whisk (e) y are used, the mixing ratio sometimes changes in favor of whisk (e) y or vermouth, and other ingredients replace the Angostura bitter as a flavoring part . Well-known Manhattan variants are the Rory O'More with Irish whiskey and orange bitters , the Rob Roy (also Affinity ) with Scottish whiskey (with Bobby Burns adding a few dashes of Bénédictine ) and finally the Brooklyn with rye whiskey and a few dashes of maraschino .
Trivia
The Manhattan is considered the "national drink " on the island of Föhr .
literature
- Stefan Gabányi: Manhattan legends. In: Mixology No. 1/2012 (February 2012), pp. 86-89.
Web links
- Frank Poremba, Armin Zimmermann: Manhattan Cocktail. In: bar-vademecum.de. August 27, 2017. Retrieved August 31, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harry Schraemli - The Master Mixer (6th edition) page 163, Manhattan Cocktail (original recipe)
- ^ "National drink of the island" on foehr.de.
- ↑ "Tutoring lessons in terms of biike kale" , Insel Bote, February 23, 2010.