Breaking Bad (Blue Magic)

One of the cocktail sites I like to peruse is www.gastronomista.com it’s filled with over the top cocktails that are beautiful but not always accessible. Who really drinks out of a nautilus shell? But this cocktail was do-able for me so I gave it a shot and modified it ever so slightly. The blue curacao is usually gross (may be the brand “bols”) so I toned it down and used it mostly for coloring. Oh and yeah it’s named after TV show about meth, what can go wrong?

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Gin
• 1 oz White Rum (or half ounce white and a half 151 rum)
• ½ oz Orange Liqueur (gran Gala) and ¼ ounce of Blue Curacao
• ½ oz Lime Juice
• Tonic Water
• 1 spoon St. George Absinthe
• grated nutmeg

Shake the first four ingredients, strain into a glass with ice. Add just enough tonic water to give it a little sparkle, maybe an ounce or two. Stir gently then float the absinthe on top and add a pinch of grated nutmeg.

Smoking Sazerac

I love me a Sazerac. Its one of those drinks that I don’t get tired of. That being said, I decided to experiment with the recipe but not too much. I’m glad I did because this one is a keeper. Traditionally a Sazerac is done with a wash of absinthe but I did a wash of the smokiest scotch I ever tasted “ardbeg corryvreckan”. It gives such a nice fragrance when you dip your nose in to drink and since it has scotch I thought it would be best served neat. 

Ingredients

• wash of Scotch (Ardbeg Corryvreckan)
• ¼ - ½ ounce Absinthe (St. George)
• 2 ½ ounce Rye Whiskey
• brown sugar cube
• 2 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
• orange peel.

Coat the inside glass with scotch, you should only need a half teaspoon to do this (use a clean finger to get it all covered). Then put the sugar cube at the bottom of the mixing glass dash it with bitters then muddle it down. Add the absinthe and whiskey and stir with ice. Then strain the drink into an old fashioned glass and twist the orange peel over the drink and drop it in.