Cantina Band

Name: Cantina Band
Yield: 1 drink
Ingredients: 1 1/2 ounces Fernet Branca; 1/2 ounce gin; 1 ounce fresh lime juice; 3/4 ounce simple syrup; 3 slices cucumber; Ginger beer; Cucumber slice, for garnish

Recipe from Perla

Adapted by Julia Moskin

Rating: 5(28)
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My favorite amaro cocktail was at Perla in Greenwich Village, where I ordered a Cantina Band with some suspicion. A highball with gin and ginger beer as its main components, it also listed lime, cucumber and Fernet, the bitterest of all the amari, among its ingredients. What arrived tasted like the love child of a Pimm’s Cup and a Dark and Stormy. The cough syrup flavor was drowned in a sea of lime and ginger. What remained was a drink as fresh as a breeze on a calm summer sea. —Julia Moskin

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Ingredients

Yield:1 drink

1½ounces Fernet Branca
½ounce gin
1ounce fresh lime juice
¾ounce simple syrup
3slices cucumber
Ginger beer
Cucumber slice, for garnish

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Step 1
Combine 1½ ounces Fernet Branca, ½ ounce gin, 1 ounce fresh lime juice, ¾ ounce simple syrup and 3 slices cucumber in an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake well and strain over a tall glass filled with ice. Top with ginger beer and garnish with a cucumber slice on the rim of the glass.

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Mira2 years ago

I’m not sure I would like the cucumber on top, because most drinks have lemon or lime on top. Also, I don’t think I ever liked lime juice, so I think I’ll leave that out.

Pam5 years ago

Loving it. I used ginger simple syrup and plain seltzer and my Yeti coffee cup as a cocktail shaker and I am such a happy girl. I did not find it too tart, but I like bitter and tart. Try this! Worth having Fernet around.

missmaryB6 years ago

This is VERY drinkable, VERY good. I made it 3 ways, due to the ingredients I had and my forgetfulness. First, made it without the cucumber, it was good. Second, made it with the cucumber, without the lime (I forgot!), it was great! Third, made exactly to the recipe, and we thought it had too much lime. We are now out of Frenet, so can’t try a fourth time with 1/2 to 3/4 of the lime. The second attempt, was sweet, but extremely smooth; and adding less lime would be the absolute best!

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