# Metropole Cocktail

George Kappeler’s equal brandy-and-French-vermouth cocktail layers three tiny sweet, anise, and orange-bitter accents over an unusually dry core.

Strength: 29% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 45 ml [Brandy](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/brandy.md)
- 45 ml [Dry vermouth](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/dry-vermouth.md) — Keep the opened bottle refrigerated and use it fresh.
- 2 dashes [Gum syrup](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/gum-syrup.md)
- 2 dashes [Peychaud’s bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/peychauds-bitters.md)
- 1 dash [Orange bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/orange-bitters.md)

## Glassware

Cocktail glass

## Garnish

- Maraschino cherry — Use one good preserved cherry.

## Method

1. Stir all the liquid ingredients with cubed ice until thoroughly chilled and diluted.
2. Fine-strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

## Related drinks

- [Rose](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/rose.md): Dry vermouth and clear cherry eau-de-vie make a delicate Parisian aperitif, lightly blushed with raspberry.
- [50/50 Martini](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/50-50-martini.md): An equal-parts Martini that lets fresh dry vermouth share the foreground with gin, lifted by orange bitters.
- [Marguerite](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/marguerite.md): An equal-parts ancestor of the Dry Martini, softer and more wine-led, with orange bitters tying gin to vermouth.
- [Hoffman House Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/hoffman-house-cocktail.md): A shaken two-to-one dry-gin Martini seasoned with orange bitters and fragrant orange oil.
- [Astoria](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/astoria.md): Two parts fresh dry vermouth to one part Old Tom gin make this 1931 Waldorf recipe a true reverse Martini, sharpened only by orange bitters.
- [Ford Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ford-cocktail.md): Equal Old Tom gin and dry vermouth make a soft, wine-led nineteenth-century Martini branch, with mere dashes of Bénédictine and orange bitters supplying honeyed herbal detail.
- [Blackthorn (Irish)](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/blackthorn-irish.md): Irish whiskey and dry vermouth form an austere, aromatic cocktail seasoned with absinthe and Angostura.
- [Tuxedo No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/tuxedo-no-1.md): Equal dry gin and vermouth, a broad lemon peel, and absinthe make Harry Craddock’s 1930 Tuxedo branch austere, aromatic, and deliberately distinct from the sweeter original.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/metropole-cocktail
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/metropole-cocktail-f95275a5.webp
- Recipe source: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/modernamericandr00kapp/modernamericandr00kapp.pdf