Damn the Weather

Made with gin, vermouth and Curaçao, served in a cocktail glass.

Ingredients for one drink
1Gin
0.5Sweet vermouth
0.5Orange juice
0.25Orange curacao or triple sec

Method

  1. Shake all ingredients with ice.
  2. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

About the Damn the Weather

The Damn the Weather is a sour cocktail with gin as its base. It combines the botanical notes of gin with the citrus flavors of orange juice and the sweetness of orange curaçao.

History

Created during Prohibition to mask the taste of homemade bathtub gin, this cocktail first appeared in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

Damn the Weather
Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel,CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

More with gin