Income Tax Cocktail
The Income Tax Cocktail is basically a Bronx Cocktail (one of the 5 NYC borough cocktails) with the addition of bitters, presumably because tax time is a bitter experience for most of us.
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Ingredients
- 1 1/2 oz. gin
- 3/4 oz. dry vermouth
- 3/4 oz. sweet vermouth
- juice of 1/4 of an orange (squeezed right into the shaker)
- 2 dashes of Angostura Bitters
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to an iced shaker while looking over your shoulder for any IRS agents who may be lurking
- Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass
- Garnish with a wheel of orange
- Sip slowly while allowing your revenue bitterness to dissolve
