Tropikalia
I’m going to just keep feeding y’all more recipes if y’all don’t mind it. I think we could all practice being amateur home bartenders, right? If theres anything y’all want to me to create with a particular spirit/modifier/ingredient, let me know!
This is recipe is made with a unique spirit I received this recently called @drinktrakal which is made in Patagonia with native ingredients. They use local apple and pear varietals to create the base alcohol and work with local communities to hand-pick seven native herbs and four native berries. Figured why not add more fruit and make a tiki-style cocktail and this one worked out perfectly.
ingredients:
1½ oz | 45 ml Rum
½ oz | 15 ml Zucca Rabarbaro
1 oz | 30 ml Pineapple Juice
½ oz | 15 ml Fresh Lime Juice
½ oz | 15 ml Agave Nectar
Dehydrated Pineapple and Lime (for garnish)
instructions:
Combine Rum, Zucca, fruit juices and agave nectar in a shaker with ice. Shake and pour over crushed ice. Garnish with the dehydrated pineapple and lime. Serve and enjoy!
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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