Salted Pineapple Comrade
This original take is a marriage of sweet and bitter, which is then balanced out with smoked salt. All these flavors work perfectly with the full-bodied, 100 proof offering of #CoopersCraft Barrel Reserve and I'm sure you're going to love it. Please remember to enjoy responsibly.
ingredients:
1½ oz Bourbon
¾ oz Dry Vermouth
¾ oz Suze
¾ oz Pineapple Liqueur
5 Drops Ginger/Tumeric Bitters
1 Pinch Smoked Salt
Dehydrated Pineapple (garnish)
instructions:
Combine all ingredients except for the salt and garnish into a mixing glass with ice. Stir and strain into a Nick and Norah glass. Garnish with dehydrated pineapple and leaf (optional), top with smoked salt. Serve and enjoy!
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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