Prohibition-era Hollywood cocktail.
Why you are pouring this tonight
The Brown Derby is a 1930s Hollywood cocktail named after the famous Wilshire Boulevard restaurant shaped like a hat. Bourbon, fresh grapefruit, honey syrup. Three ingredients, served up in a coupe with a grapefruit twist. The drink that Bing Crosby probably ordered in 1937 and that everyone forgot for fifty years until somebody put it back on a menu in Brooklyn in 2005.
Pink grapefruit gives a sweeter, less aggressive cocktail; white grapefruit is more bitter and old-school. Both are correct depending on the day. Use Buffalo Trace or Maker’s Mark for the bourbon. 3:1 honey syrup. Shake hard with ice for twelve seconds, double-strain into a chilled coupe, grapefruit twist expressed over the surface. Pair with brunch, citrus desserts, blue cheese, the kind of Saturday afternoon that was meant to be productive and clearly is not going to be.
What to pour it alongside
Brunch, citrus desserts, blue cheese.
Notes
Pink grapefruit gives a sweeter, less aggressive cocktail; white grapefruit is more bitter and ‘old-school’.
The recipe
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