Luxe Lime Daiquiri

 

• 1 1/2 oz aged rum
• 1 oz freshly squeezed lime juice 
• 1/4 oz Luxardo maraschino liqueur
• 1/4 oz Hpnotiq liqueur
• 1/2 oz simple syrup

Kiwi Ghost cocktail



I choose to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by avoiding green beer and enjoying a decidedly green cocktail. This is a variation on a Green Ghost, incorporating kiwi fruit. 

• Kiwi fruit
• 1/4 oz lime juice
• 2 oz gin
• 1/4 oz green chartreuse 
• 1/4 oz Cointreau

Muddle the pulp and juice of a kiwi fruit with 1/4 oz lime juice. Add ice to the shaker and then add the gin, chartreuse and Cointreau. Shake until the tin is frosty. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with kiwi berries, if you can find them. They are delicious!

Alta Vista Old Fashioned

Call me old fashioned!

It’s Mixology Monday time again and, as usual, I can’t wait for the deadline to experiment with the theme. This month we were challenged by Laura of Sass & Gin to come up with a newfangled Old Fashioned:

The Old Fashioned is the original “cock tail,” dating to the early 1800′s. In this humble bartender’s opinion, it is the pater familias of all other drinks, and it has taken its place as such in the recent cocktail revival. We have seen many variations of the Old Fashioned (i.e. Mayahuel’s Oaxaca Old Fashioned, PDT’s Benton’s Old Fashioned) and the resurgence of similar cocktails (i.e. the Sazerac). The bitters market has exploded over the last decade, with more flavor profiles than ever before, and with a more health-conscious public, your local grocery store is likely to carry a selection of sugars to play with (agave, coconut sugar, turbinado, etc). So, here’s the challenge: We will be sticking to the traditional ratios of spirit, bitters and sugar, but I’m challenging you to step outside the box with your selections. In addition, how will it be chilled or garnished? Do you want to add a secondary spirit or rinse? Go to town!

I had previously made a blood orange old fashioned and since it is still blood orange season, my thoughts drifted that way again. But things took a bit of an odd turn when I found finger limes in a produce store today. These small, not terribly attractive fruits, when cut in two and squeezed, produce tiny pearls (juice vesicles) that pack a big tart citrus wallop when you bite into them. So I decided to add a bit of lime juice and to throw in the pearls for good measure. So basically this is a riff on a Canadian old fashioned, which uses Canadian whisky, a triple sec and lemon juice.

So here we go:

• Sugar cube
• Dillon’s Bitter Lemon bitters
• Blood orange slice
• Maraschino cherry
• 2 oz Canadian whisky
• 1/4 oz Cointreau or triple sec
• 1 teaspoon lime juice
• Optional: finger lime pearls

In a chilled old fashioned glass, soak the sugar cube in the bitters and muddle with the blood orange slice and maraschino cherry.  Fill glass with ice cubes and add the whisky, Cointreau, lime juice and finger lime pearls if using. Stir well.

Note that the finger lime pearls will sink to the bottom; when you encounter one, bite it to release its flavour.

The round-up of old fashioneds!

Mixology Monday

Sass & Gin