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For the competition this month I decided to do a New York sour riff which I named after an area of New York City called Gramercy Park which is one of the few areas to have a private park

Recipe
2oz dry gin, I used Plymouth
1/2oz lemon juice
1/2oz chamomile honey syrup (see below for recipe details)
1/4oz amaro Nonino
1tsp of lemon syrup.
1oz of rose wine
Sprig of mint

In a shaker add the gin, lemon juice, chamomile honey syrup, and lemon syrup and shake with ice until well chilled. Strain into an old fashioned glass over ice , top with rose wine and garnish with a mint sprig

*for the chamomile honey syrup- make a one to one honey syrup while taking one and half tablespoons to three tablespoons of chamomile tea (I used loose leaf so I don’t know how many bags of tea it would take) and chamomile tea. Combine both together and store it. The honey I used was a sugar free alternative which tastes great.

For the lemon syrup, I bought it from Portland syrups company.

Overall this has a really nice summer feel that taste like a boozy lemonade. The rose adds a nice fruity dry element to the drink to help balance the sweetness.

A nice fun low abv drink

1.5oz sake

3/4oz cappelletti

3/4oz sweet vermouth

1/4oz yuzu juice

Add ingredients into a rocks glass and stir over ice.

Here is an obscure recipe I have seen in older cocktail books I modified from The 1936 The Artistry of Mixing Drinks by Frank Meier.

Original recipe

1/3 scotch

1/3 French vermouth (dry vermouth)

1/3 Swedish Punsch

Shake and strain into a cocktail glass

Mine

1.5oz blended Scotch

3/4oz dry vermouth

3/4oz Swedish Punsch

Stir well and strain into an old fashioned glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.

This is a Negroni riff I came up on the spot

5 drops Boston bitahs

3/4oz extra vermouth , perf Noilly Prat

3/4oz Dubonnet rouge

3/4oz Luxardo Bitter Bianco

1oz Old tom gin, prefer vista old tom

Build in glass with ice and stir then add an orange wheel and three cherries.

This is a Negroni riff using a ingredient that I don’t know how many people know about, Caparitif.

1oz Caparitif

1oz Cynar

1oz old tom gin

Build in a rocks glass and stir. Optional Orange wheel garnish

My take on a Negroni using Cynar

1oz Sazerac 100pf

3/4oz Cynar

3/4oz extra dry vermouth

Build in a rocks glass over a big cube and stir. Garnish with a lemon twist. I didn’t have any lemons so I left it out.

Here is a good way to use pisco

3/4oz (22.5ml) lemon juice

1/2oz (15ml) raspberry syrup (I used liber and co)

1.25oz (37.5ml) Peruvian pisco

1/3oz red wine to float

Egg white or alternative

Add ingredients into a shake without ice and shake then add ice and shake for 10-15 seconds. Strain to a cocktail glass and float red wine using the back of a spoon.

I found a YouTube channel called cocktails after dark that did a video on a drink called the Night Hawk which is a an equal parts rye and sloe gin cocktail with a cherry for the garnish. I decided to try it with scotch and named it after the unofficial national bird of Scotland.

The Golden Eagle

1.5oz (45ml) Jonny Walker Double Black

1/2oz Plymouth Sloe Gin

Build in a rocks glass and stir well. Add a twist of lemon and an orange wheel.