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Fleming Fizz

Created and posted by yarm.
1 1⁄2 oz Blended Scotch
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
3⁄8 oz Honey syrup (See "notes" below on this and the ginger syrup)
3⁄8 oz Ginger syrup
2 oz Sparkling white wine
1⁄8 oz Islay Scotch, Laphroaig 10 (As a float)
1 twst Lemon peel (As garnish)
Instructions

Shake the first four ingredients with ice and strain into a flute glass with 2 oz of sparkling wine. Float 1/8 oz Laphroaig 10 Year and garnish with a lemon twist.

Notes

It will work as 3/4 oz of a ginger-honey syrup. Originally made with 1/2 oz honey syrup with 1/4 oz of our housemade zippy-intense ginger syrup, but with a less intense ginger syrup, using 3/8 oz of each will work.

History

I was inspired by the Penicillin and various riffs including a Flip, and I wondered why there were no smoky sparkling cocktails that I could think of. Therefore, I merged the Penicillin with the French 75 to make an elegant wintery libation. Finally, I named this the Fleming Fizz after the Scottish scientist who discovered the drug back in 1928, Alexander Fleming.

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Who Makes My Bourbon?

This is the fifth in a series on Bourbon by Zach Pearson. Read them all: Bourbon, Bourbon After the Act, Bourbon: What it is ... and isn't, Making Bourbon, Who Makes My Bourbon, Producer Capsules., Finding the Good Stuff, Tasting the Good Stuff, Neat, Mashbills, Geeky Information and Resources.

About a year ago, GQ exerpted this great picture from David Haskell's The Kings County Distiller Guide to Urban Moonshining. Click the image on the left to see the detail. It’s pretty easy to see from this that there are really only thirteen major Bourbon producers in the United States. These 13 distilleries are owned by only nine companies.

Now, I know what you’re thinking. You can’t walk into a liquor store and not see an entire 50 foot shelf of Bourbons with names you’ve never heard of. Some of them are even local. All of them have great stories on the back about how this particular Bourbon was the favorite of Ulysses S. Grant or Al Capone or was made by some hill-William from a secret family recipe only recently rediscovered inside a hollow log in Possum Lick, Kentucky. Like the Templeton Rye label to the left. Click it to expand and read it.

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Recent Discussion

  • Re Up On The Roof, 5 hours 37 minutes ago MixBooze commented:

    love the twist using Madeira and Cocchi Americano

  • Re Churchgoer, 9 hours 2 minutes ago Mixin In Ansley commented:

    With the Terroir, an alpine white Negroni.

  • Re Rating's Ration, 9 hours 34 minutes ago drinkingandthinking commented:

    Not much different than a daiquiri but worth a try

  • Re The Negroni That Wasn't, 5 days ago Artur B commented:

    Just did something like that. 1 1/2 oz Bombay, 1 oz Bianco Vermouth (Fortalquier), 1/2 oz Aperol, 1/4 oz Campari, 2 dashes Orange. Solid. 1/2 oz Cynar instead of Campari will be better, I think.

  • Re Aristocrat, 6 days ago meltingUpwards commented:

    Also yummy with garlic stuffed olives.