Bullseye
Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.
Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.
Shake with ice and pour into a frozen coupe glass.
Currently watching the movie "Ratatouille" and enjoying the motivational aspects of perseverance.
Add grenadine to shaker and muddle the plum pieces in it. Add tequila, lime juice, rose and ice and shake until cold. Strain either up into a chilled coupe or over crushed ice in a rocks glass. Double strain if you worry about plum bits in your glass.
An ounce of plum purée may be substituted for the half plum. If shaken with frozen plum purée rather than ice, the drink has a velvety mouthfeel almost like a frozen drink (and an absurdly rich red hue). If using purée, double-straining is a must.
Ross' El Niño calls for blanco tequila and strawberries. One day, I had neither and decided to double down on the drink's redness: red syrup and plum. It is the first tequila drink I actually enjoyed.
I assume Ross named the drink for the meteorological phenomenon. The phenomenon is named for the infant child of the Nativity—there's already a La Niña, so this is named in honor of the Blessed Mother, the Virgin of the Nativity.
Shake with ice and strain into a frozen coupe glass.
Rub A Dub Dub
3 SWO's In A Tub
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, and stir gently to chill. Strain into a cocktail coupe, and garnish with a twist of orange.
Created at Golden Moon distillery which makes Amer dit Picon, based off the original recipe of Amer Picon
Stir, strain over a big rock, lemon twist
Stir ingredients with ice, strain into chilled coupe or double rocks glass.
This 50:50 version of the Manhattan showcases the qualities of the Catalonian sweet vermouth rather than the rye spirit. Timbal Vermut de Reus is flavorful, but not overly sweet, and it is wormwood forward.
Sweet Vermut de Reus is excellent for sipping, the central feature of Spain's tradition of "La Hora del Vermut." I was surprised by how good this vermouth was by itself, setting it apart from the Italian and French vermouths I am accustomed to (and which I am less inclined to drink by themselves.)
I used Rittenhouse Rye and Regan's Orange Bitters. Wild Turkey is suggested by Haus Alpenz.
Haus Alpenz: https://alpenz.com/recipe-fR4Zjtp2hB.html
Stir with ice and strain into a glass (coupe or single old fashioned).
I was inspired by the mezcal-Braulio combination in the Montañista that I made a few nights before. From there, I drew influences from the 1910 Cocktail by matching the mezcal with Cognac as well as its recipe structure; the Cognac aspect first came about when I thought of the St. Bernard's Pass that essentially makes a Cognac Black Manhattan with Braulio. Since Bonal pairs elegantly with both mezcal and Cognac, I decided to take that route instead of the 1910's Punt e Mes. For a name, I dubbed it La Jetée after the 1962 French science fiction movie that inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys.
Stir, strain, one big rock, twist.
Spiced Demerara Syrup: 2 parts by weight demerara sugar to 1 part double-steeped Harney & Sons Organic Rooibos Chai Tea, blended or stirred until integrated.
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
American Trilogy x Oaxaca Old Fashioned.
Stir with ice, strain into an old fashioned glass with a large ice cube, and garnish with an orange twist.
Recently, my chef wanted a drink with Strega in it, so I made him Chris Hannah's Night Tripper. That inspired me to riff on the drink when I got home, and I swapped out the Bourbon and Averna for mezcal and Cynar while keeping the Strega and Peychaud's Bitters in place. Besides knowing that Cynar works well with mezcal, I recalled that I had two drinks, Alex Day's La Bateleur and Mike Steele's The Truth that elegantly paired Cynar and Strega. For a name, I kept Chris' Dr. John song title concept and dubbed this one the Right Place Wrong Time.
Surprisingly peachy/pink/red--this color comes from the Fee Cranberry Bitters which are hard to dispense with their viscous glycerin solvent through a dropper orifice top, I might have gone a little heavy trying to reach ~30 drops for 3 dashes (I sometimes remove the orifice tops from Fee bitters so that I can measure drops directly with a dropper.) Maybe the color is where the bullseye name arises? The ancho heat plays well with the mild whiskey providing some lingering depth to the floral bergamot liqueur, and orange juice. The drink lacks any bitter backbone to the finish, but other than that it works.