Cockluck #8
Adrian: Untitled Cocktail Recipe
1.50 oz Illegal Mezcal
1.50 oz Lemon/Lime Shrub
0.75 Salers Gentiane Aperitif
Walnut bitters
Candied lemon (saved from the oleo saccharum used to make the Lemon/Lime Shrub)
Shake with ice, strain, serve over ice.
Laura: The Wildest Red Head
1.50 oz Bourbon
0.75 oz Lemon Juice
0.25 oz Allspice Dram
0.50 oz honey syrup*
0.25 oz Cherry Heering
Add bourbon, lemon juice, allspice dram, and honey syrup to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until well chilled. Strain over an ice cube, top with Cherry Heering.
*Honey Syrup:
1.5 ounces honey
0.5 ounce hot water
Stir hot water into honey until honey is dissolved. Let cool.
Holly: Popcorn Sour
50 ml buttered popcorn-infused bourbon*
20 ml lemon juice
10 ml gomme
10 ml egg white
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker along with lots of ice, and shake well to create a good foam. Strain into a rocks glass filled with cubed ice and garnish with an orange (or skewered popcorn!)
*Popcorn-Infused Bourbon:
Fill a medium-sized Mason jar with freshly-made buttered popcorn and fill with bourbon. Infuse for 24 hours. Strain the liquid into a clean jar and put in the freezer for a couple of hours to solidify the fats. Remove from the freezer and skim off the solidified fat, before straining through a coffee filter.
from www.bittersandtwisted.com
Maria: Aztec Orange
1.5 oz Espresso Bean-Infused OYO Honey Vanilla Bean Vodka*
0.5 oz Cointreau
1.0 oz fresh orange juice
3–4 drops Fee Brothers Aztec Chocolate Bitters
Shake with ice, strain, serve up or over ice (slightly diluted)
* Espresso Bean-Infused Vodka
Rough chop espresso beans, and to vodka at a ratio of 1/4 cup beans per two cups vodka, infuse for at least four hours.
form: Middle West Spirits/Cris Delhavi
John: Spicy Margarita
2.0 oz Herradura Tequila
1.0 oz Agave (some drinks were mixed with habanero-infused agave, others were mixed with lavender-infused agave—not sure if I have this right, not sure how to infuse the agave)
1.0 oz Lime Juice
hand-chipped ice chunks using the Neat Ice sleeve @ www.studioneat.com/products/neaticekit
Shake with ice, strain, serve over ice with applewood smoked sea salt (from Saltworks @ www.seasalt.com)
from Cris Delhavi, M at Mirinova
Jessica: Shrub Gimlet
2.0 oz Gin
1.0 oz Lemon/Lime Shrub
0.5 oz St. Germaine Elderflower Liquor
Shake with ice, strain, serve over ice.
Scott: The Sharpie Mustache
0.75 oz Rye
0.75 oz Gin (used Plymouth Gin)
0.75 oz Bonal
0.75 oz Meletti Amaro
2 dashes Bittermens Elemakule Tiki Bitters
Stir over ice, strain into a coupe, and garnish with an orange twist.
from Amor Y Amargo, New York City
Maria: Buffalo Bourbon
0.5 oz Buffalo Trace Bourbon Creme
0.5 oz Buffalo Trace Root Beer
Adrian: Nocino Pepsi (side drink from the host, very tasty)
1.0 oz Watershed Nocino
0.5 oz Campari
Top with craft tonic