Ep 114: Someone Took It Off the Curb with Dave Shumka

The Episode:

The Life Events:

Dave Shumka is going full dad, Ben is scared of another neighborhood weirdo, Lizzie bought a mattress, and Chris is protecting his precious melon.

The Recipes:

The Vessel 75
3 oz Bourbon
3 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
Maple Syrup foam*

Stir bourbon and bitters with ice until well chilled and strain into a rocks glass. Fill the glass the rest of the way with your maple syrup foam. Garnish with an orange peel.

*Maple Syrup Foam
2 egg whites
1 oz lemon juice
2 oz maple syrup
3 oz water

Whip with a whisk until you get stiff peaks.

Three Dots and a Dash
.5 oz fresh lime juice
.5 oz fresh orange juice
.5 oz honey syrup (1:1)
.25 oz John D. Taylor’s Velvet Falernum
.25 oz St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram
1.5 oz rhum agricole (Smuggler’s Cove uses AOC Martinique vieux 8)
.5 oz blended aged rum
1 dash Angostura bitters
3 cherries for garnish

Add all the ingredients to a blender tin. Fill with 12 ounces of crushed ice, flash blend, and pour contents into a footed pilsner glass. Add garnish.

White Lady
2 oz Plymouth gin
.5 oz Cointreau or Combier
.5 oz Fresh lemon juice
1 Fresh egg white

Shake all ingredients without ice, then shake again with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Mind Eraser
2 oz Coffee liqueur
2 oz Vodka
2 oz Club soda

Pour the coffee liqueur and vodka over ice, top with club soda and serve with a straw.