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Peter Fredrik Suhm Heering opened a business in the centre of Copenhagen, Denmark in 1818. Peter Heering developed an old recipe & soon owned owned a mansion in Copenhagen and a fleet of ships. Kings and Emperors ordered it for their table due to its characteristic taste.

Spirits were local - West Indies rum, in London most likely gin. But as the British Empire grew, Heering Cherry Liqueur achieved fame & became one of the first global brands.

In 1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles landed in Singapore and created a trading post for the British East Asian Trading Company. A hundred years later, in the lobby of the infamous Raffles Hotel, legendary bartender Mr Ngiam Tong Boon invented the Singapore Sling :

Mixing
30 ml of Gin,
15 ml Heering Cherry Liqueur,
120 ml pineapple juice,
15 ml lime juice,
7,5 ml Cointreau,
7,5 ml DOM Benedictine,
10 ml Grenadine, and a
dash of Angostura Bitters.
Shaken not stirred, served on ice in a cocktail glass.

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