Shark Attack
It’s my favorite time of the year: #SharkWeek 🦈
Well… between that and @tales - I’m here in New Orleans for the week just a couple blocks away from where the original cocktail originated, The Tropical Isle (@thetropicalisle). After a 2 year hiatus, #TOTC2022 is back in full force! I’m excited to get out there and see my industry peeps and use this time as a way to learn and network. If you’re here in NOLA this week, make sure to hit me up! Hope to run into y’all!
ingredients:
1½ oz | 45 ml Haitian Rum
1 oz | 30 ml Blue Curaçao
½ oz | 15 ml Lemon Juice
Ginger Beer
¼ oz | 7.5 ml Grenadine via Shark
instructions:
Combine all ingredients except ginger beer in a shaking tin with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a rocks glass with ice. Top with ginger beer. Add grenadine, shark optional. 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