Hugo 75
I hear the drink of the summer is the Hugo Spritz, but let’s elevate it, shall we?
Together with my friends over at @empress1908gin, we put together a spin on this trending summer cocktail and crossed it with a French 75. The addition of mint and lime makes this as refreshing as it is delicious. Hope y’all enjoy this one!
Cheers y’all!
ingredients:
1½ oz | 45 ml Gin
¾ oz | 22.5 ml Elderflower Liqueur
½ oz | 15 ml Simple Syrup
1 oz | 30 ml Lime Juice
3-4 oz Prosecco
Lime Wheel (Garnish)
Fresh Mint (Optional/Garnish)
instructions:
Add Empress, elderflower, syrup and lime juice into a stemmed glass over butterfly pea ice cubes. Top with Prosecco. Garnish with a lime wheel + Mint. 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