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Smoky Spicy Strawberry (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by RBWells to c/cocktails

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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!

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[–] NeptuneOrbit 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RBWells 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Rosemary syrup sounds interesting. Any tips on other things in goes well with?

[–] RBWells 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Thanks, that’ll give me a starting point to try things out.