Ep 72: We Burned Off Chris Hastings’ Eyebrows

The Episode:

The Situations:

Chris Hastings escaped a burning car, Ben tended a bar for the first time, and Chris nabbed a foul ball at the baseball game!

The Drinks:

Field Cocktail
2 oz Pierre Ferrand Ambre Cognac
1 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth
.75 oz Pineapple juice

Stir with ice and strain in a chilled coupe. Garnish with a pineapple leaf.

Queens Park Swizzle
3 oz Demerara Rum
1 oz Fresh Lime Juice
.5 oz Demerara Sugar Syrup
4 to 6 Mint Leaves

Swizzle everything in a double old-fashioned glass partly filled with crushed ice. Add more crushed ice to fill. Swizzle again until glass frosts. Garnish with a mint sprig and your spent lime shell.

Samba
2.0 oz Cachaca
1.0 oz cane sugar syrup
3 dashes Bittered Sling Lem Marekesh Bitters (lemon bitters will work)
0.5 Aperol or Campari
1 lime
151 proof rum
Cinnamon, sugar and nutmeg to garnish

Fill an Old Fashioned glass with crushed ice. Muddle one whole lime cut in quarters. Add Cacacha, cane sugar syrup and bitters. Strain the mixture over the crushed ice and drizzle with a half ounce of Aperol or Campari. On top of the drink, fill a spent lime shell with 151-proof rum and dust it with cinnamon, sugar and nutmeg. Set on fire.

The Journey
1.5 oz The Macallan 12
.5 oz Heering Cherry Liqueur
.5 oz Taylor Fladgate Tawny Porto 10 Year
.25 oz Grand Marnier
1 Dash Fee Brothers Peach Bitters
Orange Zest Twist

Combine liquids in a mixing glass with ice. Stir until well chilled. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Zest a fresh orange twist over the cocktail and drop twist into the drink.