# Fernandito

Argentina’s beloved Fernet-and-cola highball puts Fernet-Branca’s menthol, saffron, and bitter herbs against cola’s dark citrus and caramel.

Strength: 11% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 50 ml [Fernet-Branca](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fernet-branca.md)
- 120 ml [Cola](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/cola.md) — Use well-chilled full-sugar cola.

## Glassware

Double old fashioned glass

## Method

1. Fill a chilled double old fashioned glass with cubed ice and add the Fernet-Branca.
2. Add the cola slowly and stir once gently to combine without losing carbonation.

## Related drinks

- [Ferrari](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ferrari.md): An uncompromising equal-parts sipper of Campari and intensely herbal Fernet-Branca.
- [Fernet Cup No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/fernet-cup-no-1.md): A bracing Fernet highball brightened with lime, sugar, and spicy ginger beer.
- [Industry Sour](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/industry-sour.md): Ted Kilgore's equal-parts modern classic turns Fernet-Branca and Green Chartreuse into a bracing, improbably balanced herbal sour.
- [Midnight Stinger](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/midnight-stinger.md): Bourbon and Fernet-Branca meet as equals in a lemon sour over crushed ice, turning the amaro's menthol force into something bracing, cooling, and unexpectedly easy to drink.
- [Piscola](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/piscola.md): Chilean pisco and cola make a direct national highball in which fragrant grape spirit cuts cleanly through caramel, citrus, spice, and fizz.
- [Eeyore’s Requiem](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/eeyores-requiem.md): Toby Maloney's uncompromising Violet Hour aperitivo layers Campari with two amaros, blanc vermouth, gin, and orange bitters.
- [Kalimotxo](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/kalimotxo.md): Young red wine and cola meet as equals in a cold Basque long drink, where tannin, dark fruit, caramel, and phosphoric bite make more sense together than reputation suggests.
- [Toronto](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/toronto.md): A rye Old Fashioned sharpened by the bracing herbal bitterness of Fernet-Branca.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/fernandito
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/fernandito-b203e0ca.webp
- Recipe source: https://iba-world.com/iba-cocktail/fernandito/