Creative Drinking

Tonight: The Filby Cocktail

Our kitchen is being gutted tomorrow and I had to have some help moving my liquor collection to the basement as I have been laid up for a few weeks. During this (delightfully OCD) process, I learned that my bottles clocked in at 217 so I decided to set aside the few bottles that had a maximum of one or two drinks left in them and use them up in a couple well-chosen cocktails. If there is one thing better than getting a shiny new bottle, it's finishing an almost empty one.
The Filby is a drink I have made before but forgot how much I liked it. I received a HUGE bottle of Disaranno a couple years ago that I have never opened due to the fact that it's too really too large to even really handle and i also already had two open bottles of amaretto, for whatever reason. One of these bottles, I noticed, had the required amount left, and I had a bottle of Beefeater that really was on it's last leg. So, back to the Filby. I rarely drink amaretto but this is a good reason to do so. It's Negroni-esque in that it follows the classic recipe but pairs amaretto and dry vermouth instead of the sweet vermouth in the standard 1:1:1 recipe. It is surprisingly delicious. RIP random bottle of unknown amaretto....

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 oz dry gin (I used Beefeater because I was almost out of it)
• 1/2 oz amaretto (I used E Dolce. I have no idea where this came from but it was almost empty when someone apparently left it at my house)
• 1/2 oz dry vermouth
• 1/4 oz Campari

Combine all ingredients in an iced cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into cocktail glass and garnish w/ orange peel.