29/06/2021
We don’t just repost photos and texts. But this repost from is 🙏; “The Godfather
Few days ago, Matthias started a series of cocktails from Diffords guide: we can only recommend you to follow the hashtag because the reads are thought-provoking and his opinions clear and honest: exactly what we value most.
In our series we had already foreseen to post cocktail, knowing it is one of the underrated and quite despised cocktails in the opinion of many. And what did Matthias post? A Godfather! Along with his thoughts. And an articulate discussion in the comments thanks to so many who wanted to share their opinions about this out of fashion drink.
It is, especially in it’s 1:1 original ratio, a rather unbalanced cocktail lacking depth and complexity. There have been several twists on it, the ratio between Amaretto and whisky was variously adjusted, some add bitters to reduce the sweetness. You can play with different whiskies but probably this is one of those cocktails you either like or not.
We are dancing out of the row together with few others like
Sure, it’s not our favorite cocktail, but we try to put in the context of the time it was created. How many other cocktails of much celebrated bartenders who were considered kings of their métier in the 80s’ are totally out of balance and seem simply juice with some booze?
The original Godfather can be listed, in our opinion, as one of those boozy slap-in-the-face concoctions of times when high ABV was considered totally different than today with the low ABV and no-sugar trend. When placed in its context, it can make sense. Especially to us for all the childhood memories connected to Amaretto (so often used in sweet treats and as a Sunday “water stainer” for children – ok, for Stefano it was rather Campari 🤫😎).
We tried a couple of versions, starting from the original equal parts and preferred a slightly more contemporary twist with less Amaretto.
The Godfather
2 oz Scotch Whisky ( - gifted)
1 oz Amaretto ( - gifted)