It’s getting cold out there folks. Get your plaid pants and tweed blazers out. I think I mentioned a love affair with apples in the last post so it should be no surprise that we started with hot spiced apple cider and bourbon. And it may be not surprise that if I have a bottle of bourbon open, that maybe just maybe I might utilize for more than one drink.
Hot Spiced Cider
1/2 gallon, local apple cider
3 cinnamon sticks
1/2 nutmeg, grated
4 whole cloves
4 black peppercorns, crushed roughly
pinch of kosher or sea salt
-Simmer
-Strain to order into:
2 oz of Eagle Rare Bourbon
-Grate cinnamon over the top.
Bourbon Red Hook. I would be doing Mr Enzo Enrico, the inventor of the Red Hook a slight disrespect by saying that a red hook is a bourbon cocktail. It is a rye cocktail. Bourbon is still quite damn tasty.
2 oz Eagle Rare Bourbon
1/2 oz Punt Y Mes
1/2 oz Luxardo Maraschino
-Stir
-Strain into a cocktail glass
Sherry Highball. Little freestyle something something for anyone looking for a delectable, low alcohol highball.
2 oz Lustau Fino Sherry, “Los Acros”
1/2 oz Mathilde Poire
1/4 oz Freshly squeezed lemon juice
-Shake
-Strain into a collins glass filled with ice
-Top with Fever Tree Bitter Lemon Soda
