CASBS 2019 graduation cocktails

• It is Difficult to Give a Good Presentation

Three drinks: (a) something shaken, (b) something stirred, and (c) something non-alcoholic.

Stirred

An herbaceous and rosemary-driven diversion from a rye Old Fashion. Bold and spirit forward.

• 2 1⁄2 oz Rye, Rittenhouse 100
• 1⁄3 oz Rosemary syrup
• 1⁄8 oz Yellow Chartreuse
• 1 ds Bitters, Angostura
• 1 brandied cherry speared by a spring of rosemary

Based on the Herbal Rye which is itself an Old Fashioned variant.

Scaling up to make 40:

• 100 oz / 3.12 qt / 2.96 L rye
• 13.3 oz / 0.4167 qt / 0.4L Rosemary syrup
• 5 oz / 0.1563 qt / 0.15L Yellow Chartreuse

Shaken

• 1 oz Reposado Tequila
• 1 oz Mezcal (Del Maguey's Vida)
• 1 oz Lime juice
• 1⁄2 oz Triple sec, Cointreau
• 1⁄4 oz Demerara syrup
• 1⁄4 oz Prickly pear syrup

A smokey but tart prickly pear Margarita. Based on the Old Pueblo, itself a variant on a Smoked Margarita.

Scaling up to make 40:

• 40 oz / 1.25 qt / 1.18L Reposado
• 40 oz / 1.25 qt / 1.18L Mezcal
• 40 oz / 1.25 qt / 1.18L Lime juice
• 20 oz / 0.625 qt / 0.56L Cointreau
• 10 oz / 0.3125 qt / 0.29L Demarara
• 10 oz / 0.3125 qt / 0.29L Prickly pear syrup

EtOH Free

This is basically a punch and it makes 10-12 8oz drinks:

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cupwater
• 2 teaspoons dried pink peppercorns, lightly crushed
• About 24 kumquats, sliced into rounds and seeded
• About 3 liters soda water

A non-alcoholic kumquat and pink pepper spritz based in part off this recipe.