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I was curious. I googled the name.

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While the drink's origins are unknown, the most widely reported account is that it was first mixed in Florence, Italy, in 1919, at Caffè Casoni (formerly Caffè Giacosa), located on Via de' Tornabuoni and now called Caffè Roberto Cavalli. Count Camillo Negroni concocted it by asking the bartender, Fosco Scarselli, to strengthen his favorite cocktail, the Americano, by adding gin rather than the normal soda water. The bartender also added an orange garnish rather than the typical lemon garnish of the Americano to signify that it was a different drink.[2][3][4][5]

After the success of the cocktail, the Negroni family founded Negroni Distillerie in Treviso, Italy, and produced a ready-made version of the drink, sold as Antico Negroni 1919.[6] One of the earliest reports of the drink came from Orson Welles in correspondence with the Coshocton Tribune while working in Rome on Cagliostro in 1947, where he described a new drink called the Negroni, "The bitters are excellent for your liver, the gin is bad for you. They balance each other."[7][8]

Cocktail historian David Wondrich has researched Camillo Negroni, who was born on 25 May 1868 to Enrico Negroni and Ada Savage Landor, and died in Florence on 25 September 1934. While his status as a count is questionable, his grandfather, Luigi Negroni, was indeed a count.[9]

Descendants of General Pascal Olivier de Negroni, Count de Negroni claim that he was the Count Negroni who invented the drink in 1857 in Senegal. A Corse-Matin Sunday Edition article dated 2 February 1980 is translated on a descendant's blog: this claims he invented the drink around 1914.[10] An article in the New Hampshire Union Leader reported on the controversy.[11]

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Classic cocktail. If you don’t appreciate it, you are still in your “I have shit taste” 20s, or...you just have shit taste. It’s easy enough to make that any simpleton can pull it off, and it’s a perfect blend of bitter and sweet.

 

An Old Pal (sub rye for gin and dry vermouth for sweet) and Boulevardier (sub bourbon for gin) are both excellent riffs on the classic.

 

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as previously posted, am not a fan of campari. even a drop can overpower a drink, in my opinion.  i am proud to stand up and avow that i will be campari-less for the rest of my life.

now a pimm's cup is another story.  pimm's is the elixir of the gods and flies under the radar.  put a splash of that in with your tanqueray and noilly pratt and report back to me.

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8 hours ago, Horn21 said:

Classic cocktail. If you don’t appreciate it, you are still in your “I have shit taste” 20s, or...you just have shit taste. It’s easy enough to make that any simpleton can pull it off, and it’s a perfect blend of bitter and sweet.

 

An Old Pal (sub rye for gin and dry vermouth for sweet) and Boulevardier (sub bourbon for gin) are both excellent riffs on the classic.

 

agreed on the Boulevardier. Easy and tasty. I also mix up the dry or sweet vermouth, and I also mix up Compari or Aperol too. Aperol works great with Bourbon. 

Hated negronis till I was like 38 or some shit. Love em.

Also, when traveling and you see this on the cocktail menu - this is your go to. Most places suck at making whiskey cocktails, so just learn to like this and order it. Its boozy and easy AF to make

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1 minute ago, thrillhammer said:

as previously posted, am not a fan of campari. even a drop can overpower a drink, in my opinion.  i am proud to stand up and avow that i will be campari-less for the rest of my life.

now a pimm's cup is another story.  pimm's is the elixir of the gods and flies under the radar.  put a splash of that in with your tanqueray and noilly pratt and report back to me.

take Aperol for a drive

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My go-to pretty much all year 'round.  At home, I actually up the gin and reduce the vermouth so it's like 2-3-1 parts Campari-Gin-vermouth and definitely add some orange bitters.  Another variation I made recently is to do 2-1-1 parts Gin-Campari-Grand Marnier.    I also used to have a home barrel that I made a big batch in to age for a few weeks.  Kinda mellows out the bitterness a little but generally overkill... the key to the drink is it's summery mediterranean-coast Italian simplicity.

And there is no such thing as a vodka negroni.  There's no such thing as a Grand Marnier negroni either, I suppose, for that matter.

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18 minutes ago, ohchaucer said:

My go-to pretty much all year 'round.  At home, I actually up the gin and reduce the vermouth so it's like 2-3-1 parts Campari-Gin-vermouth and definitely add some orange bitters.  Another variation I made recently is to do 2-1-1 parts Gin-Campari-Grand Marnier.    I also used to have a home barrel that I made a big batch in to age for a few weeks.  Kinda mellows out the bitterness a little but generally overkill... the key to the drink is it's summery mediterranean-coast Italian simplicity.

And there is no such thing as a vodka negroni.  There's no such thing as a Grand Marnier negroni either, I suppose, for that matter.

Im a fan of drink what you like, fuck the haters

 

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8 hours ago, staboner said:

agreed on the Boulevardier. Easy and tasty. I also mix up the dry or sweet vermouth, and I also mix up Compari or Aperol too. Aperol works great with Bourbon. 

Hated negronis till I was like 38 or some shit. Love em.

Also, when traveling and you see this on the cocktail menu - this is your go to. Most places suck at making whiskey cocktails, so just learn to like this and order it. Its boozy and easy AF to make

try equal parts rye, aperol, and cocchi americano.  seriouseats called it a "new friend"

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