When Life Gives You Lemons, Be Bitter

• 1.5 oz. Bonded Rye
• 0.5 oz. Cherry Heering
• 0.5 oz. lemon juice
• 0.25 oz. Royal Combier Grande liqueur
• 0.25 oz. Cynar 70

Stir with ice then strain into glass. Garnish with dried lemon.

I wanted a bitter rye drink with lemon. I got one. That’s about it.

The name struck me in an instant and there was no going back.