Ep 60: Canadian Jail with Sari Kamin & Jess Kiefer

The Episode:

The Situations:

Sari Kamin and Jess Kiefer from The Morning After had a terrible Cinco De Mayo and a confrontation at the Canadian border respectively, Chris is checking out some bands he listened to in high school, and Ben is doing some spring gardening.

The Drinks:
Matador Norteño
A few cilantro leaves
2 ounces sotol
.75 ounce pineapple juice
.75 ounce lemon juice
.5 ounce agave syrup
6 dashes habanero bitters

Muddle cilantro in a cocktail shaker. Add remaining ingredients. Add ice, shake briefly and strain into a glass. Pour back into the shaker, strain again into a stemmed cocktail glass and serve.

Old Pal
2 oz Rye
.75 oz dry vermouth
.75 oz Campari

Stir with ice until well chilled and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange peel.

Celine Fizz
2oz Plymouth Gin
.75 oz St. Germain
.75 oz lemon juice
.75 oz simple syrup
1 egg white
Club soda

Dry shake all ingredients (except club soda), then shake again with ice. Double strain into a fizz glass then top w/ club soda. No garnish.

La Luna
1.5 oz Hendrick’s Gin
.75 oz Cucumber Juice*
.75 oz Fresh Lime Juice
.75 oz Mild Jalapeno Syrup*
1.5 oz Soda
Garnish: (Kosher) Salted Cucumber Spear

Combine gin, cucumber, lime and syrup in a tall glass with ice. Top with soda, stir to combine.

*Cucumber Juice: put whole, unpeeled cucumbers through a juicer. If you don’t have one, peel and seed the cucumbers, throw them in a blender and strain through a fine sieve.

*Jalepeno Syrup: Muddle four seeded, chopped jalapeños with one cup of sugar. This should form a thick paste. Combine it with one cup of water in a pot on the stove and heat until the sugar dissolves. Increase the heat slightly and reduce down a bit.

Leapfrog
2oz. Plymouth Gin
.75oz Lemon juice
.5oz Rothman & Winter Orchard Apricot
.25oz simple syrup
2 dashes orange bitters
6 mint leaves

Muddle the mint leaves with the simple syrup. Add everything else, then shake with ice and fine strain into chilled coupe. No garnish.