Near & Dear (Batched Recipe)
Here’s your new favorite “Freezer Door” cocktail.
Just wanted a quick second to feature my dude Joey Goetz of lastsaintchs. He’s doing us a favor by showing us how to make a batch of SIX bottles of liquid gold - aka a chocolate + coconut-fat washed Negroni. My god, this was so good.
“Coconut and Chocolate visit a classic Negroni in an updated take on everyone’s favorite gin cocktail.
We build our standard house negroni, add Cacao Nibs and Coconut Oil to fat wash and infuse the entire cocktail. Freeze it and then strain everything off. It give you a classic negroni backbone but with wonderful notes of coconut and chocolate to compliment.”
Cheers y’all!
ingredients:
Recipe below is for 6 bottle batches
(scaled down by half in video)
2 bottles of Gin
2 bottles of Campari
2 bottles of Cocchi Torino
Coconut Wash:
Heat 32 oz Coconut Oil and pour into Negroni batch, along with 60 Grams Cacao Nibs
Stir Well, Freeze overnight. After freezing take off frozen ‘oil cap’ and run through a fine strainer or coffee filter.
instructions:
Add 3 oz of the batched cocktail above in a rocks glass with ice. Stir and strain over a large cube in a rocks glass. Garnish with orange twist and serve. Cheers.
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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