PLUM BLOSSOM
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 oz (30 ml) St-Germain elderflower liqueur
1 oz (30 ml) plum wine, preferably Nakano Umé
½ oz (15 ml) fresh lemon juice
2 oz (60 ml) sparkling wine
long lemon zest, for garnish
Instructions
- In a mixing glass with ice, stir St-Germain, plum wine and lemon juice. Strain into a Champagne flute and top with sparkling wine. Garnish with a long coil of lemon zest.
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ROSA AHUMADO
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Jaral De Berrio mezcal
½ oz (15 ml) Chambord
1 barspoon Rose Honey Syrup
5 dashes lemon bitters
dried rosebuds, for garnish
wide lemon zest, for garnish
rose water, for garnish
Instructions
- Stir first 4 ingredients on ice for 30 seconds. Strain over ice cubes in a rocks glass. Garnish with dried rosebuds and wide lemon zest with oils expelled over the drink. Finish with a spray of rose water.
- To make ROSE HONEY SYRUP: Heat 1 cup (250 ml) water to boil, remove from heat, add 10 dried rosebuds. Let sit for 5 minutes and strain through a fine strainer. Add 1 cup (250 ml) honey to rosebud tea. Stir to dissolve so that honey becomes syrup. Add 1 tsp (5 ml) rose water to honey syrup. Store in a clean glass bottle. Keep refrigerated.
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LION’S BREATH
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Beefeater London Dry gin
½ oz (15 ml) Lillet
½ oz (15 ml) Lemon Thyme Syru
1 dash chocolate bitters
1 egg white
Instructions
- Dry shake all ingredients for 10 seconds, add ice and shake 10 seconds more. Double strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with freshly grated lemon zest or a sprig of thyme.
- To make LEMON THYME SYRUP: In a saucepan, heat 1 cup (250 ml) fresh lemon juice with six 4-in (10 cm) sprigs of thyme and 1 cup (250 ml) sugar on low until sugar dissolves. Add 1 tbsp (15 ml) lemon bitters to syrup. Let sit for 30 minutes. Strain into a glass bottle and place one of the thyme sprigs in the bottle. Keep refrigerated.
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FLORENCE FENNEL COCKTAIL
Ingredients
Serves 1
2 oz (60 ml) Hendrick’s small batch gin
½ oz (15 ml) Martini Bianco
¼ oz (8 ml) Fennel Syrup
2 dashes lemon bitters
1 dash Okanagan Spirit Taboo absinthe
Instructions
- Stir all ingredients on ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail coupe. Garnish with thinly sliced fennel bulb strips and wide lemon zest with oils expelled over the drink. Discard zest.
- To make FENNEL SYRUP: In a saucepan, bring 1 cup (250 ml) water to a boil and add 1 cup (250 ml) thinly sliced fennel bulb. Let sit for 15 minutes. Strain through a cheesecloth. Add equal parts sugar to fennel water. Store in a glass bottle. Keep refrigerated.
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BITTER DAISY
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Long Table London Dry gin
½ oz (15 ml) Cointreau
½ oz (15 ml) Lavender Bitter Orange Cordia
¾ oz (22 ml) fresh lemon juice
dried candied orange slice, for garnish
Instructions
- Shake all ingredients on ice and fine strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with dried candied orange slice.
- To make LAVENDER BITTER ORANGE CORDIAL: Heat 1 cup (250 ml) water to a boil. Remove from heat and add 2 tbsp (30 ml) dried lavender buds and let sit for 10 minutes. Strain out buds and add equal parts honey to lavender water (about 1 cup/250 ml each). Add ⅓ cup (75 ml) orange bitters to the Lavender Honey Syrup. Store in a glass bottle, keep refrigerated.
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BUFFALO STANCE
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Zubrówka vodka
½ oz (15 ml) Alvear Medium Dry sherry
½ oz (15 ml) lemon juice
½ oz (15 ml) allspice syrup
2 dashes Mystic Caravan Smokey Pear bitters
fresh slices of pear, for garnish
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients into a mixing glass and stir. Strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with fresh slices of pear.
- To make ALLSPICE SYRUP: In a saucepan, combine 2 cups (500 ml) sugar to 2 cups (500 ml) water to 1 tbsp (15 ml) ground allspice. Bring to a boil and let cool.
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LOW TIDE
Ingredients
Serves 1
1½ oz (45 ml) Sailor Jerry Spiced Navy Rum
½ oz (15 ml) Giffard Ginger of the Indies
¼ oz (7 ml) Okanagan Spirits Poire Williams
½ oz (15 ml) lemon juice
2 dashes Angostura bitters, to top
ginger beer, to top
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients into a shaker (except for ginger beer and bitters). Strain into a mason jar over fresh ice and top with ginger beer and bitters.
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SWANN SONG
Ingredients
Serves 1Instructions
- In a mixing glass, stir Goldschläger with ice to chill. Strain into a champagne flute. Top with Piper-Heidsieck Brut. Soak sugar cube with 3 dashes of Plum & Rootbeer bitters and slowly lower into the champagne flute with a long spoon.
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KYLO
Ingredients
Serves 1
½ oz (15 ml) Luxardo Sambuca Passione Nera
2 oz (60 ml) Barbieri Aperol Aperitivo
¾ oz (22 ml) Cointreau
1 oz (30 ml) lemon juice
black Twizzler straw, cut on each end, for garnish
Instructions
- Pour Sambuca into a Collins glass. Fill glass with ice. In a mixing glass, shake Aperol, Cointreau and lemon juice with ice and strain over ice in the Collins glass. Garnish with a black Twizzler.
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TAR PIT
Ingredients
Serves 1
1 oz (30 ml) Diplomatico Riserva Rum
½ oz (15 ml) Galliano Liqueur
½ oz (15 ml) butterscotch liqueur
1 oz (30 ml) chilled espresso
Instructions
- Shake rum, Galliano, butterscotch liqueur and espresso with ice in a shaker glass until very cold. Strain into a cocktail coupe glass and garnish with coffee beans.