Suns out, Gins out
It's here, folks! Today marks the first day of #NegroniWeek.
ingredients:
½ oz | 15 ml Campari
1½ oz | 45 ml Gin
1 oz | 30 ml Lillet Rose
¼ oz | 7.5 ml Yellow Chartreuse
1 Pinch Smoked Salt
2 Drops Orange/Fig Bitters
Dried Rosemary (for smoking)
Dehydrated Blood Orange
instructions:
Combine Bulldog Gin, Campari, Lillet, Yellow Chartreuse, salt and bitters in a mixing glass with ice. Stir for 10 seconds. Strain and pour into a carafe. Using a @breville Smoking Gun, smoke dried rosemary and transfer the smoke into the carafe. Swirl for 10 seconds. Pour the smoked Negroni over a crystal clear ice cube and garnish with fresh rosemary and a dehydrated blood orange.
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I’m your huckleberry ðŸ¤
I just got back from Montana with my friends at @traegergrills. It was strictly a grilling event but given what I do, of course I had to get behind the bar. I knew I wanted to incorporate local Montana ingredients like huckleberry, juniper (grown on site) and honey but also wanted to incorporate smoke from the grill. So I had the idea to make a bramble type cocktail.
For the smokey element, I smoked some local raw honey along with some juniper berries on the Traeger to just get a kiss of smoke. I then constructed the cocktail originally using gin like a traditional bramble, but the juniper botanicals overpowered the recipe so I switched to a reposado tequila and knew it was the perfect fit. They also had some locally made huckleberry liqueur which was the perfect last ingredient to top the cocktail and bring that sweet/sour/fruity element to the cocktail. Finally topped it with that smoked juniper berry branch to give it that botanical pop and tricking your brain into thinking you’re drinking a bramble when you’re actually drinking something closer to a margarita.
Given the ingredients and location, it was just fitting to call this the ‘Big Sky Bramble.’ Cheers y’all.
Big thanks to @i_drewcifer for the R&D help!
🎥: @tobojosh / @grillvaultbbq