Drinking The World

Jaguar

1-1/2 oz Milagro Silver tequila
3/4 oz Amer Picon
3/4 oz Green Chartreuse
3 dashes fee Brothers Orange Bitters

Shake well on ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a flamed orange peel.

Flying Mermaid

2 oz Imo Shochu (Sweet potato Shochu)
3-1/2 oz Moscato d'Asti
1/2 oz yuzu juice

Stir shochu and yuzu juice (or pineapple juice) on ice. Strain into a chilled champagne flute and top with chilled Moscato d'Asti and gently stir.

Weed Wacker created by Chris Patino for USBG Sisters in Spirit Bar Makeover

1-1/2 oz Cruzan Single Barrel Rum
1/2 oz Sirene Absinthe
1 oz fresh lemon juice
1 oz pineapple juice
3 dashes Peychaud's bitters

Shake and strain all ingredients except bitters into and ice filled highball glass, top with bitters.

Honey Soda Gin Gin created by Jason Crawley
1-1/2 oz Plymouth Gin
1/4 oz Fee Brothers Lemon Bitters
1 oz Ginger Beer
1 lemon
7 mint leaves
2 oz Float Honey Soda

Gently muddle mint and lime in a tall glass. Add ice, gin, bitters, and stir well. Top with ginger beer and honey soda.

Maggie's Midnight created for the magnificent Maggie John

2 oz LBV Port
1/2 oz Buffalo Trace Bourbon
7 oz rogue Stout

Into a 12 oz glass pour Port and Bourbon. Top with Stout.

The Emerald Necklace

1-1/2 oz Cruzan Blackstrap Rum
3/4 oz BOLS Blue Curacao
1-1/2 oz cranberry juice
1-1/2 oz pineapple juice
1/2 oz fresh lime juice

Shake well on ice and strain into a punch glass. Garnish with a thin lime wheel.

G'Vine Nouaison Gin is 43.9% abv. / 87.8 proof. I wrote about G'Vine Floraison Gin and now have the pleasure to write about their new product which just rolled out in the US. Normally I let samples of spirits sit for awhile, but I was waiting eagerly to try this gin and had it opened the evening it arrived. G'Vine Nouaison contains nine main botanicals: ginger root, licorice, green cardamom, cassia bark, coriander, cubeb berries, juniper berries, nutmeg, and lime. Plus an additional botanical that their Floraison Gin is known fro, a small touch of grape vine flowers, but nowhere near the amount seen in the G'Vine Floraison

The aroma is elegant and refined, clean and pure, like how the air smells right after a Autumn downpour. Hints of ginger, lime, and juniper come through, with floral and spicy tones as well. A classic gin aroma, but with just a bit more oomph to it. Almost a metallic aroma at times, in a good way, like titanium and platinum. This is ginny, gin, gin. The taste starts off with a nice juniper hit, followed by hints of nutmeg and other spices, and lime. It's smooth, elegant, and in the classic London Dry Style, but with a slightly bigger and bolder, but not overwhelming, taste.

The G'Vine Nouaison Gin is a much more refined gin than the floral powerhouse of the G'Vine Floraison. This is a gin that seems made for sipping on the rocks, but even more so, for a classic dry martini, Just a little vermouth, and a lemon twist, or maybe a lime twist to bring out more of the light lime that's hiding in the background. I think you will see a lot of this gin in premium cocktails starting very soon, and from what I've heard it's sweeping the awards.

Jupiter Sour

1 oz Boca Loca Cachaca
3/4 oz Purkhart Nocino
1/4 oz Fee Brothers rock candy syrup
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 oz egg white

Shake on ice and strain into an ice filled tumbler.

La Fleur de Paradis created by Kenta Goto - The Pegu Club, NYC

1/2 oz Plymouth gin
3/4 oz St. Germain Elderflower liqueur
1/4 oz Fee Brothers Rock Candy syrup
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 ox fresh grapefruit juice
1 dash Pegu HoB*

Shake on ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

* Pegu HoB (Pegu Club House Bitters- equal parts of Regans Orange Bitters & Fee Brothers Orange Bitters)

The Silver Monk

2 oz Partida Blanco tequila
3/4 oz Yellow Chartreuse
3/4 oz Fee Brothers Rock candy syrup
juice of 1 lime
1 pinch of salt
2 cucumber slices

Shake everything except cucumber on ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with cucumber slices.