Cantina Band

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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.

by Julia Moskin

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Servings

1 drink

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Ingredients (7)

serves

1 1/2 ounces Fernet Branca
1/2 ounce gingin
1 ounce fresh lime juicelime-juice
3/4 ounce simple syrup
3 slices cucumbercucumber
Ginger beerginger-beer
Cucumber slice, for garnishcucumber

Instructions (1 steps)

01Combine 1 1/2 ounces Fernet Branca, 1/2 ounce gin, 1 ounce fresh lime juice, 3/4 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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