Bela Lugosi
Shake, double strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with bruleed wheel of sugar (sugar coating top of lemon, doused in angostura and bruleed )
- Not For Everyone — Fernet Branca, Elderflower liqueur, Mezcal, Lime peel
Shake, double strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with bruleed wheel of sugar (sugar coating top of lemon, doused in angostura and bruleed )
Shake with ice and crushed ice and pour into a lowball. Top with more ice.
Garnish:Pineapple leaf (from freezer), basil leaves and dehydrated lime
This is a Cordial from Trash Tiki
Green Pineapple Cordial:
2 cups white or confectioners' sugar
Rinds from one pineapple
5-6 basil stems with leaves attached
1/2 cup water
Blend sugar and water until almost dissolved. Add basil stems and pineapple and blend until sugar is fully dissolved. Strain through a fine strainer. Bottle and refrigerate for up to 5 days.
I created this for the Equiano cocktail competition. My goal was to make a sustainable cocktail that was a mix between a Piña Colada and a Mai Tai.
Combine with ice. Shake. Strain. Coupe.
To make fig demerara syrup heat 1 cup demerara sugar with 1 cup water until dissolved. Add cut up dried figs. Let sit 1/2 hour. Strain.
Inspired by a first taste of Amaro Della Sacra.
Combine with ice. Shake. Strain. Coupe.
To make rhubarb simple syrup heat 1 cup sugar in 1 cup water until dissolved. Add cut up rhubarb. Cook 5 minutes. Let sit 1/2 hour. Strain.
Combine with ice. Shake. Strain. Coupe.
To make blueberry simple syrup combine 1 cup sugar, a handful of fresh blueberries and one squeeze of lemon juice in 1 cup water. Simmer 10 minutes. Let cool 15 minutes. Strain.
Inspired by local blueberry patches.
Stir with ice, strain into a double old fashioned glass pre-rinsed with absinthe, and garnish with lemon oil from a twist.
I began with the concept of a Ferrari (the Fernet Branca-Campari duo) crossed with a Red Hook, and I felt that it needed additional flavors. With Maraschino in the mix, it made me think of an Improved Cocktail, so I thought absinthe, and that flowed into doing a Sazerac treatment along with the addition of Peychaud's Bitters and lemon oil. The end result was akin something between the Diamonds & Spades as a Ferrari Sazerac and the Tin City Sazerac as a mashup of Red Hook and a Cognac Sazerac. For a name, I dubbed this one Trash Polka after the tattoo style that originated in Germany that combines motifs using black and red ink.
Fred,
I can almost make this - do you think Dopo Teatro would be a decent sub for Punt e Mes? Thanks, Zachary
No clue. Would you use it in a Red Hook with good success?
Rinse Nick & Nora. Stir and strain into prepared glass. Express and discard lemon peel.
Comoz Vermouth Blanc and Bodegas Yuste Aurora are preferred brands.
Shake; strain; up; garnish.
I used Skinos Mastiha and Beefeater.
Great name. This is a well balanced cocktail, with the lime proportion being a good match for the richness of the Skinos Mastiha. The virtue of this elegantly simple drink is that the mild, warm piney resin flavor come through as the central flavor.
Stir with ice in the glass of your choice
Inspired by the French drink named "tomate" : pastis, grenadine syrup and fresh water
Muddle cucumber, add rest of the ingredients and shake with ice then strain into stemmed beer glass over crushed ice. Garnish with a cucumber ribbon.
Complex and balanced. 5 stars!