Sidecar
Sugar rim if you like. Paris, roughly a century ago.
Ingredients
- 50 ml Brandy / Cognac
- 20 ml Triple sec
- 20 ml Lemons
Method
Shake hard, double strain into a chilled coupe.
- Glass
- Coupe
- Ice
- None in the glass — served up, chilled
- Garnish
- Orange twist
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Takes
- About 3 minutes
- Strength
- Strong
- Style
- Sour
- Tastes
- citrus-forward
If you're missing something
- Triple sec → Cointreau or dry curaçao — the same category — Cointreau is the benchmark and worth the difference
Where it comes from
Paris or London around the end of the First World War, claimed by both Harry’s New York Bar and the Ritz. The name supposedly comes from a customer who arrived at the bar in a motorcycle sidecar.
About this recipe
Charlie Tyler — Editor, Drinki
Specs cross-checked against standard published recipes and IBA measures.
Specs last checked .