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Another dinner disguised as a martini apparently 😭 This time I wanted to do carbonara. I didn’t have guanciale, so we went pancetta instead, with a pepper vermouth and Parmesan crisp.

🍝 Pancetta fat-washed vodka
Around 50g pancetta
Around 150ml Hepple Wheat Vodka
Cook the pancetta until the fat has properly rendered, pour over the vodka and leave together before freezing overnight. Remove the solid fat the next day and strain through a coffee filter until clear.

🍝 Black pepper vermouth
Mixed peppercorns
Around 150ml dry vermouth
I honestly eyeballed this one. Added the peppercorns to a container, topped up with vermouth and left it in the fridge overnight before straining.

🍝 For the martini
60ml pancetta fat-washed vodka
50ml black pepper vermouth
Stir with plenty of ice until freezing cold and strain into a frozen glass.

🍝 Parmesan crisp
Finely grated Parmesan
Cracked black pepper
Spread the Parmesan onto a lined tray, add plenty of black pepper and bake for around 10 minutes until crisp. Leave to cool and use as the garnish.

Salty, silky, peppery and super savoury.

More weird savoury drinks here if anyone’s interested:
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I mean… I personally drink them all year round but I feel like I’ve been neglecting the changing of the seasons so I decided to embrace it last night and make a Jack Rose, followed by a local dry hard cider.

My preferred Jack Rose:

2oz/60ml Laird’s Bonded Apple Brandy

.5oz/15ml Fresh lemon juice

.5oz/15ml Homemade pomegranate grenadine (1.5:1)

Combine all ingredients in a shaking tin. Add ice and shake until chilled and diluted (~10-15 seconds depending on your ice). Double strain into a chilled coupe. Reminisce about autumns past.

My spec is a bit more spirit forward than most, but if you give it a good hard shake it balances out real well. I want the applejack flavor to be the star of the show, with the grenadine and lemon as accents.

Typically Equal Parts Licor 43 and Cuban Espresso but spike it up more if ya want to. Ordered at Loews hotel bar on South Beach

Perfect for fall!

1 oz Braulio

1 oz Sfumato Rabarbaro

3/4 oz lime juice

1/2 oz simple syrup (2:1)

Shake all ingredients over ice, double strain into a coupe and garnish with lime wheel

I watched the recent Anders Erickson video focused on cocktails made with a homemade Apple Cider syrup. It looked delicious so I made a batch of the syrup to experiment with.

This cocktail is the clear winner so far.

1.5 oz Apple Brandy

0.25 oz Connemara Peated Irish Whiskey

0.75 oz lemon

0.75 oz cinnamon-infused apple cider reduction

0.25 oz Domaine de Canton

4 drops saline

Shake and strain into a chilled coupe. Dried apple ring garnish.

Had some solid seafood pasta and was craving an Italian cocktail on the walk home. Spitballed with my bartender and we/he came up with this.

The Ides of Rye
2 oz Michter's Single Barrel Straight Rye
3/4 oz Amaro dell'Etna
5-6 dashes Peychaud's bitters
Strega rinse (instead of absinthe)
Expressed lemon twist

Prep:
Chill a rocks glass and rinse with Strega, discarding the excess.
Stir the rye, Amaro dell'Etna, and Peychaud's bitters with ice until well chilled.
Strain into the prepared glass, served neat without ice.
Express a lemon peel over the cocktail and garnish.

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A contemporary interpretation of a Margarita, the Flor de Jalisco was originally created by Joaquin Simó for the Death & Co*.* in NYC. While it uses lemon instead of lime, it is perfectly balanced with the addition of orange marmalade that stands in for Cointreau. A delightful cocktail best served up.

Ingredients:
2oz Blanco Tequila
0.75oz Fresh Lemon Juice
0.25oz Agave Nectar
1 heaped teaspoon Orange Marmalade
Garnish: Orange twist

Preparation:
Combine the ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
Shake vigorously until well-chilled and the marmalade is fully integrated.
Double strain into a chilled coupe.
Garnish with an orange twist (I used a dolce orange twist).

I’m making a cocktail for each Iowa State game. Today's game is against the West Virignia Mountaineers. The state of West Virginia is closely associated with the business of coal mining. They even did a “coal rush” theme when my wife and I went to Morgantown as visitors (28-16, Iowa State). So when I came across this recipe I knew I had to make it for this game.

This is not an original. I’ve found it in a few places online, but none of them say who the original creator is. If you happen to know, please credit them in a comment for me.

Coal Miner

• 1½ oz Laphroaig 10 (Islay Scotch)
• ¾ oz Campari
• ½ oz Amaro Averna
• ¼ oz Honey Syrup (3:1 honey to water)
• 2 dash Peychaud’s Bitters

Shake it all up and strain over fresh ice.

But wait there’s more. I knew a drink with scotch and Campari would not go over well at a tailgate, but the name was too perfect so I had to make one for myself. For everyone else, I made this:

Pumpkin Spice Margarita

• 1 oz Tapatio Añejo (Añejo Tequila)
• 1 oz Tres Agaves Reposado (Reposado Tequila)
• ½ oz Callieres (Triple Sec)
• ½ oz Licor 43 (Vanilla Liqueur)
• ¾ oz Lime Juice
• ½ oz Pie Spice Syrup (2:1 demerara syrup with pie spice)
• 1 dash The Empress Bitters (from Wynnwood Farms)
• ¾ oz Pumpkin Puree

Shake it all up and fine strain over fresh ice.

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