CASBS 2019 graduation cocktails

Name Ideas

• "It is Hard to Give a Nice Presentation"
• Two-Finger
• Extraordinary Dish Walk Spritz

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

Stirred

Bold, herbaceous and spirit forward . Think of it as a Rye Old Fashion that lingered just long enough in the rosemary bushes on the way up the stares from CERC.

• 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 vaguely in the Old Fashioned family.

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

Balance achieved by using more than a little bit of everything. Smokiness and citrus tartness are balanced by sweetness and richness of aged spirits. This is the drink you want once the sun goes down at the end of all those hot days we never had this year. Think of as a smokey but prickly pear Margarita.

• 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
• Smoked salt rim
• Mole bitters

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.