Bijou Redou Cocktail Kit High West Double Rye Whiskey more caramel

more caramel

sweet and striking

before sweetening the final liqueur with a domestic Belgian-style candi syrup

sourced from Indiana's MGP

It drinks like a more bitter

Bijou Redou Cocktail Kit High West Double Rye Whiskey more caramelThe Bijou is a troubled cocktail, so promising with its ingredients Gin (Yay!), Sweet Vermouth (Classic, who can deny it?), and Green Chartreuse (Oh La La Magnifique!), yet so unfortunately muddled when mixed. It reads like a less bitter, more herbal Negroni on paper, but never quite comes off that way in the glass. The original form, all equal parts, is clearly too cloyingly sweet, but even when adjusting ratios to suit modern palates, we could never