welcome friends welcome back to cocktails after dark so I've been I've
been looking around trying to figure out what to do with this this dis aronia
amaretto to me it is so typical 1970s and I like the flavor but I find it
overly sweet so I've been turning in a bunch of cocktails to see what I like so
I went out and I found this one online it's called dolce Amaro
it is it's on a lot of different cocktail websites and nobody seems to
give reference to where it came from so let's just give it a try and see what
happens so 3/4 of the Amaro and then one and a half of vermouth white vermouth
dry vermouth one and a half of the Campari and that'll give a real bitter
note to this and ice our mixing glass and give it a stir okay so I've got a
chilled glass here and I've had a lot of comments people ask me why I put ice in
the glass instead of sticking it in the fridge well I will shoot eight or nine
of these in a day and I don't have eight or nine of these glasses so I won't be
able to chill them down quick enough in the fridge you can do that definitely at
home if you've got enough glasses I don't so I put ice in them now I'm gonna
pour this in we strain out the ice into this Nick and Nora
okay and there you have the Dolce Amaro let's give this a try so off the top Wow
off the top that's kind of strange off the top I'm getting cherry right off the
top it's like a black cherry pop or Cheerwine
if you've been to the American South or mid South Cheerwine smells like
Cheerwine kind of strange okay no that is not for me
not for me not for me not for me at all so on the nose I'm getting Cheerwine
maybe even a super-sweet Dr Pepper smell but in the flavor the Campari is just
taking over it's super super bitter but it's super bitter in a way that's really
strange because there's still that sweet from from the Amaro or the amaretto or
the DISA Rono that stuff is just sickly sweet and it's it's in there it's
cloying and then it smashes you in the head with bitter now that's just my
opinion it's not for me it may be for you you may absolutely love this I mean
it's a very pretty drink it's nice and red but
know that flavor is just not for me so I'm gonna strike that one off the
list not for me tell me do you like this have you had
this cocktail is it something that you make at home is it something that you
have had at a bar or a restaurant and what do you do with Campari Campari is
really divisive a lot of people find it too bitter I find it too bitter in a lot
of cocktails and then in other cocktails I find it to be absolutely fantastic so
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