Ding Dong, Aunt Roberta’s here for the holidays lol. The Aunt Roberta cocktail is known as the strongest cocktail in the world. Created in the 1800’s by an Alabaman woman only known as Aunt Roberta, who as a child fled an abusive home, worked as a cotton picker and prostitute before getting into the moonshine business. She sold cocktails of Gin and Moonshine from a makeshift shack where she processed the alcohol herself. It is said she died at the young age of 32 in poverty, but it was one of her customers, Billy Joe Spragg, a racoon hunter, who brought the cocktail to a wider audience after introducing it the bars he opened and made millions off it. Some say the backstory is a myth, but whatever the case may be, it is definitely interesting. The original Aunt Roberta recipe consisted of 1 oz Brandy, 3 oz Vodka, 2 oz Absinthe, 1.5 oz Gin and 1 oz Blackberry Liqueur for a total of 8.5 oz of alcohol in one serving with no mixers! I’ve kept the same ingredients but altered the ratios significantly to make a more reasonable but delicious cocktail with the flavor of the blackberry shining through. Cheers!
Equipment
- Cocktail Shaker
- Jigger
- Coupe Glass
- Cocktail Pick
Ingredients – Serves 1
- .5 oz Brandy (I used Apple Brandy)
- .5 oz Vodka
- .25 oz Absinthe (Absinthia Absinthe)
- .5 oz Gin
- 1 oz Blackberry Liqueur
- 3 Luxardo Cherries
Method
- Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Shake to combine (30 seconds).
- Strain into a chilled coupe glass.
- Garnish with 3 Luxardo cherries on a cocktail pick.
- Cheers!
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