Ingredients

  • 1½ ozgin
  • ½ ozcointreau
  • ½ ozsweet vermouth
  • ½ ozfernet branca
  • 1 dashorange bitters
  • 🍋Orange peel(garnish)

🔧 Tools

mixing glassbar spoonjiggerstrainercoupe glass

Instructions

  1. Combine gin, Cointreau, sweet vermouth, Fernet-Branca, and orange bitters in a mixing glass.
  2. Fill with ice and stir for 20–25 seconds until well chilled.
  3. Strain into a chilled coupe glass.
  4. Express an orange peel over the glass and use as garnish.

📜 History

Don't Give Up the Ship first appeared in Crosby Gaige's "Cocktail Guide and Ladies' Companion" (1941), itself based on the Napoleon Cocktail from Harry Craddock's 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book. The name references the famous dying words of American naval commander James Lawrence in the War of 1812. The cocktail was revived around 2004 at the Zig Zag Café in Seattle and has since become a touchstone for bartenders who appreciate Fernet-Branca's bitter complexity in a spirit-forward format.

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