A boozy Saturday drink.

2oz bourbon

.75oz good mezcal

.75oz berry liqueur (any will work, or berry syrup, I used Montbisu Framboise)

Bare splash of vanilla liqueur, shake of bitters, or splash of absinthe or amaro (I used the vanilla, if you have a more interesting berry liqueur it might not need anything here but mine is not complex)

2 dropperful of fire tincture

4 strawberries plus one for garnish

1/2 tsp sugar (might not need if you have better strawberries)

3/4 of a lemon

Quarter the strawberries and put in shaker with 1/4 if the lemon, add the sugar and muddle the fruit. Add the booze, tincture, and juice of the half a lemon. Shake with ice and double strain, serve over big ice, garnish with the remaining strawberry.

It’s very good, I like bourbon with mezcal and like bourbon with strawberry so thought it worth trying. Lemon peel muddled adds bitter edge, don’t omit.

I was trying to make a strawberry heart but it came out more like wings!

  • @NeptuneOrbit
    5•15 days ago

    This seems pretty complicated but I was making some sort of paloma/lazy Margarita hybrid with mezcal at a party. And I ran out it mezcal so I made a batch that was half rye/half mezcal. Worked quite well.

    • @RBWellsOPM
      6•15 days ago

      Oh grapefruit and mezcal are so good together that even my kid who says she hates mezcal likes it in a grapefruit drink. I made her one with grapefruit, I think tequila (don’t remember!) mezcal and rosemary syrup. Grapefruit juice not soda, for that one. Need to keep better notes, putting the drinks on Lemmy is actually helping with that.

        • @RBWellsOPM
          3•15 days ago

          I mostly use rosemary with grapefruit, the rest of it went into a home fermented grapefruit soda. But the rosemary flavor is good with anything citrusy, good in Aperol spritz or tonic water, and I think it would be possible to make an unsweetened tincture of rosemary that might be more useful overall, and store longer.