Chartreuse Julep
Sick of boring ole mint juleps? This one is for you.
If you haven’t had Chartreuse vegetal elixir before, you need to find a bottle. It has all the herbaciousness of Chartreuse without the sweetness. It works really well in a julep and really complements the mint and bourbon, y’all gotta try it out.
Big thanks to @jameswitty for hooking me up with my first bottle! 🙏🏽
ingredients:
2 oz | 60 ml Bourbon
¾ oz | 22.5 ml Simple Syrup
6 Dashes Chartreuse Vegetal
4 Dashes Angostura Bitters
8 Mint Leaves
Mint Sprig (Garnish)
instructions:
Add bourbon, simple syrup, chartreuse vegetal and mint leaves to a julep glass. Muddle gently. Fill half way with crushed or pebble ice and stir vigorously. Top with more crushed/pebble ice (think snow cone here). Garnish with a mint sprig and a julep spoon.
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I’m your huckleberry 🤠
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