A boozy Saturday drink.
2oz bourbon
.75oz good mezcal
.75oz berry liqueur (any will work, or berry syrup, I used Montbisu Framboise)
Bare splash of vanilla liqueur, shake of bitters, or splash of absinthe or amaro (I used the vanilla, if you have a more interesting berry liqueur it might not need anything here but mine is not complex)
2 dropperful of fire tincture
4 strawberries plus one for garnish
1/2 tsp sugar (might not need if you have better strawberries)
3/4 of a lemon
Quarter the strawberries and put in shaker with 1/4 if the lemon, add the sugar and muddle the fruit. Add the booze, tincture, and juice of the half a lemon. Shake with ice and double strain, serve over big ice, garnish with the remaining strawberry.
It’s very good, I like bourbon with mezcal and like bourbon with strawberry so thought it worth trying. Lemon peel muddled adds bitter edge, don’t omit.
I was trying to make a strawberry heart but it came out more like wings!
This seems pretty complicated but I was making some sort of paloma/lazy Margarita hybrid with mezcal at a party. And I ran out it mezcal so I made a batch that was half rye/half mezcal. Worked quite well.
Oh grapefruit and mezcal are so good together that even my kid who says she hates mezcal likes it in a grapefruit drink. I made her one with grapefruit, I think tequila (don’t remember!) mezcal and rosemary syrup. Grapefruit juice not soda, for that one. Need to keep better notes, putting the drinks on Lemmy is actually helping with that.
Rosemary syrup sounds interesting. Any tips on other things in goes well with?
I mostly use rosemary with grapefruit, the rest of it went into a home fermented grapefruit soda. But the rosemary flavor is good with anything citrusy, good in Aperol spritz or tonic water, and I think it would be possible to make an unsweetened tincture of rosemary that might be more useful overall, and store longer.
Thanks, that’ll give me a starting point to try things out.