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• 1.5 oz Johnnie Walker Black Label
• 1 oz Umé Shu plum wine
• 0.5 oz maple green tea cordial (see note)
• 1 dash cardamom bitters
• 3oz club soda
• Garnish: sprig of rosemary, optional candied pine cone.
• 1.5 oz Lyre’s White Cane Spirit
• 0.75 oz simple syrup (1:1)
• 1 oz lime juice
• Pinch salt (optional)
• Garnish: lime zest
This is the season of celebrations, of graduations, weddings, reunions, garden parties and festive brunches. It’s also the season of light, fresh drinks best enjoyed outdoors.
Bringing all that together is a new rose-flavoured gin from Ireland’s Glendalough Distillery. Head distiller Rowdy Rooney created it to honour his late mother, Rose—and used rose petals she planted herself, along with wild roses, mountain herbs and other botanicals. It’s beautifully floral and complex, perfect with tonic or citrus in a spritz. Find Glendalough Rose Gin at private retailers for a suggested price of $58.
It seems there will be no end to the supply chain issues that have drained back bars of essential spirits these past two years. This summer, for instance, it looks like we’re facing a shortage of Aperol, just in time for spritz season, so drink up while you can.
• 2 oz Barsol Pisco – Quebranta
• 1.5 oz fresh pineapple juice
• 0.75 oz fresh lemon juice
• 0.5 oz orgeat (almond syrup)
• Garnish: pineapple slice
• 1 oz Tanqueray gin
• 0.67 oz Blueberry Lavender Oleo (see note)
• 0.67 oz lemon juice
• 0.25 oz Luxardo Bitter Bianco
• 3 oz Blue Mountain Brut (or other sparkling wine)
• Garnish: Thyme flower
• 1.5 oz blanco tequila
• 0.5 oz crème de cassis
• 0.75 oz lime juice
• Ginger beer
• Garnish: lime wheel
1 whole lime
1 Tbsp granulated sugar
2 oz cachaça
Garnish: lime zest
• 2 oz Lapsang Bourbon (see recipe below)
• 1 oz Salted Asian Pear Syrup (see recipe below)
• 4 drops Apothecary Mystic Caravan Bitters
• Absinthe mist
• Garnish: dehydrated pear slice, lapsang tea smoke
Pair with: Prawn or fish tacos.
• 1.5 oz Don Papa Rum
• 0.5 oz 1800 Coconut Tequila
• 1 oz lime juice
• 0.5 oz guava syrup
• 0.5 oz guava juice
• 0.5 oz egg white
• 3 drops lime leaf bitters (such as Ms. Better’s)
• Garnish: Angostura bitters