Americano (cocktail)
dish / dish-americano-cocktail
アメリカーノ
Americano (cocktail) is a cocktail made from Campari, sweet vermouth, and soda water. It appears in the category of the IBA official cocktail list. Campari's official site explains that the Negroni arose by adding gin to this drink.
Photographs (captions in Japanese)
A red-brown Americano poured into a tall glass. Served with ice and a lemon wedge, and fine bubbles are visible
DishShown: N/A (cocktail)Part / state: The finished form. Poured into a tall glass (highball glass) with ice, a lemon slice, and a straw
Photo: Conrad and Peter / CC BY 2.0 / original image / ledger's original image
Scope and provenance of the photo
Identification: Identified as labelled in the source. The description says "Nightwood Restaurant. July 8, 2012", and the file name states Americano cocktail. A photograph from the same series by the same uploader, File:Americano cocktail (8294948800).jpg, is also included as a secondary candidate (a close-up with the glass held against the light, with no bottles or similar objects in the frame). I opened the image and confirmed. A tall glass with a red-brown carbonated drink, ice, a lemon wedge, and a straw is shown. The bubbles are clearly visible
Image shown: Same size as the original on Wikimedia Commons. No cropping or color changes. For display, a WebP capped at 1200 px wide is served; the ledger's original image can be checked from the link above.
On this page (9 sections)
Reading the bitterness
The International Bartenders Association (IBA) lists the Americano as one of "The Unforgettables". Its recipe specifies 30ml Bitter Campari and 30ml sweet red vermouth with a splash of soda water, mixed directly in an old-fashioned glass filled with ice, stirred lightly, and garnished with an orange half-moon slice and lemon peel. Campari is identified here by the word 「ビター」 (in translation: "bitter").
Campari's own official history page gives conflicting indications of when the Americano arose. Its timeline section for 1920 says 「アメリカーノとネグローニがこの時代に生まれた」 (in translation: "the Americano and Negroni were born in this era"); another feature on the same site says 『1919年に考案されたネグローニから、1933年のアメリカーノへ』 (in translation: "from the Negroni created in 1919 to the Americano of 1933"), explicitly giving 1933 for the Americano. These dates do not agree within material from the same company and the same page; there is no basis here to decide which is correct.
Sources for this overview
Americano – IBA Official Cocktail
Checked for this overview: Recorded the quantities and method in the official IBA recipe. / Source for its listing under The Unforgettables.
Checked for this overview: Recorded the disagreement between dates within the official site.
Other names: Americano (it)
Follow the connections
Americano (cocktail) →— origin narrative as told→ Campari
Americano (cocktail) →is listed as→ cocktail
Hypotheses and recipe candidates for this entry are on the Japanese page.
Structured claims — open a section to read each claim's confidence, evidence and limits
How processing and cooking change it (1)
Scope: Official IBA recipe.
Note: Vermouth is linked to the existing ingredient-vermouth entry (the subtype name remains in the object text). Soda water has not been made an entity because it is not directly related to the bitterness theme.
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dish-americano-cocktail —is_prepared_with→ ingredient-campariSafety and regulation (1)
Scope: IBA official cocktail list.
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dish-americano-cocktail —is_listed_as→ concept-cocktailCulture (1)
Scope: Campari's official 『Our History』 page (the company's own account).
Note: This is a mismatch between dates on the same company's same page. In light of the lesson from the erroneous Unicum attribution and invented numbers discovered previously, neither is turned into a definitive claim; both formulations are recorded as written.
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dish-americano-cocktail —has_historical_origin_narrative→ ingredient-campari