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This one is described as the love child of a Negroni and a Mai Tai .
Ingredients
1 1/2 oz Gin 1 1/2 oz Pineapple Juice 3/4 oz Campari 1/2 oz Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice 1/2 oz Orgeat Syrup
Method
Combine all ingredients in shaker, fill with ice and shake for 15 seconds.
You’ll want to shake extra hard to get that pineapple juice to froth up nicely.
Strain over a big rock in an old-fashioned glass.
Equipment
Citrus Press
Shaker
Hawthorne Strainer
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A great way to make use of berries at the height of their growing season.
Ingredients
2 cups Fresh Berries 1 cup Water 1 cup Sugar
Method
In small saucepan, simmer 2 cups raspberries,blackberries etc with 8 oz. water and 1 cup of sugar until color has leached into the syrup, 5-10 minutes.
Allow to cool, add 1 oz.
110-proof vodka, fine strain and bottle.
Allow to cool.
Add 1 oz 110-proof vodka, fine strain and bottle.
Equipment
Hawthorne Strainer
Fine Strainer
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For this drink from the Death & Company bars, I used one of my absolute favorite rums, St. Lucia’s Chairman’s Reserve Forgotten Casks aged rum. It’s a great sipper and mixer.
Ingredients
1 oz Chairman’s Reserve Forgotten Casks 1 oz Pierre Ferrand 1840 Cognac 3/4 oz Pierre Ferrand Dry Orange Curaçao 3/4 oz Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice 1 tsp Demerara Gomme Syrup
Method
Combine all ingredients in shaker.
Add ice to tin and shake for 15 seconds until well diluted.
Double-strain into a chilled coupe glass.
Carefully hold peel over drink, ignite lighter and express oils through flame.
Garnish.
Equipment
Peeler or Knife
Citrus Press
Shaker
Hawthorne Strainer
Fine Strainer
Lighter
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Here’s an herbal Mai Tai on steroids. This tiki drink has so many things going on that add up to more than the sum of its parts.
Ingredients
1 oz Smith & Cross Jamaican Rum 1/2 oz Green Chartreuse 1/2 oz John D. Taylor Velvet Falernum 1/2 oz Pierre Ferrand Dry Orange Curaçao 1/2 oz Orgeat 1 oz Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice
Method
Add all ingredients to shaker.
Add ice, shake about 15 seconds.
Double-strain over fresh ice in a double old-fashioned glass.
Garnish with slapped mint sprig.
Equipment
Citrus Press
Shaker
Hawthorne Strainer
Fine Strainer
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