Brannan Street Batida
Makes 1 drink
6 to 8 pink peppercorns
2 1/4 ounces Pira Pora cachaca
2 ounces fresh squeezed ruby red grapefruit juice
1 ounce fresh squeezed tangerine or clementine juice
3/4 ounce lemon juice
3/4 ounce egg white
3/4 ounce ginger syrup (made with equal parts water and sugar, steeped with pureed ginger)
2 big dashes of Grapefruit bitters
1/2-inch-wide grapefruit twist
Instructions: Put peppercorns in a mixing glass and smash with muddler. Add rest of ingredients together with ice, shake very hard for 15-20 seconds. Strain into a collins glass. Garnish with grapefruit twist.
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This original Drambuie cocktail created by Adam Elmegirab was the winning drink in the regional heat as well as the national final for the Drambuie Cocktail Competition 2010.
Fosbury Flip
- 1 Barspoon Caraway seeds
- 50ml Drambuie
- 25ml Bacardi 8 year old
- 1 whole egg, preferably free range.
- 2 Dashes Chocolate Bitters
- 5ml Sugar syrup
- Grind Hawaiian red lava salt
- Grind black pepper
Muddle caraway seeds in base of mixing glass, add liquor and steep for 2 minutes. Add all other ingredients and dry shake for 5 seconds. Fill with ice and shake for a further 10 seconds. Fine strain.
Glass: Goblet
Garnish: Fresh grated nutmeg
Ice: None
Friar Serra Flip
Makes 1 serving
Adapted from a recipe by H. Joseph Ehrmann at Elixir in San Francisco.
- 1 ounce Dry Sack sherry
- 1 ounce Combier orange liqueur (see Note)
- 3/4 ounce Bols Genever
- 1 egg
- 4 dashes Jerry Thomas’ Own Decanter Bitters from The Bitter Truth
- Pinch of ground cinnamon
- 1 orange twist, as garnish
Instructions: Add all ingredients, except garnish, to a cocktail shaker and shake without ice for 10 seconds to emulsify the egg. Add ice, shake again, strain into a small wine goblet, and add the garnish.
Note: Substitute Cointreau or another high-quality triple sec if you can’t get your hands on Combier.
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Pisco Sour
50 ml Pisco
20 ml fresh Lemon Juice
10 ml Sugar Syrup
Egg White
1 dash The Bitter Truth – Old Time Aromatic Bitters
Shake with ice & strain into a sour glass. Put bitters on top.
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Wedding March Cocktail
50 ml (2 oz) golden Rum
20 ml (3/4 oz) fresh Lime Juice
2 dashes The Bitter Trutht – Jerry Thomas Bitters
1 Eggwhite
1 tsp white Sugar
Stir and serve straight up with a lime twist. |
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Whiskey Sour
60 ml Bourbon Whiskey
20 ml fresh Lemon Juice
20 ml Sugar Syrup
2 dashes The Bitter Truth Jerry Thomas Bitters
1 Eggwhite
Shake with ice & strain into rock glass. |