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2017 Science of Cocktails Recipes

Base Spirit:
  • Gin
  • Tequila
  • Vodka
  • Whiskey/Bourbon
  • Wine
  • Other

Base Spirit: Gin

Bee’s Knees

Sponsor: Reed & Greenough

Ingredients:
2 oz. Hendricks Gin 
1 oz. fresh, locally produced honey
1 oz. fresh lime juice

Instructions:
Combine all ingredients, shake, and pour into a highball glass with fresh ice.


Gin Cocktail

Sponsor: Spirit Works Distillery
Mixologist: Keli Rivers
 
Ingredients:
1.5 oz. Spirit Works Navy Strength Gin
1 barspoon rich simple syrup (two parts demerara to one part water)
3 dashes Boker's Bitters
Lemon peel

Instructions:
Combine all ingredients and stir. Pour over large ice cube into a rocks glass. Garnish with lemon peel.

Improved Gin Cocktail

Sponsor: Spirit Works Distillery
Mixologist: Keli Rivers

Ingredients:
1.5 oz. Spirit Works Navy Strength Gin
0.25 oz. CapRock Organic Barrel-Aged Pear Brandy 
1 barspoon simple syrup
2 dashes Abbott’s Aromatic Bitters
Grapefruit peel

Instructions: 
Combine all ingredients and stir. Pour over large ice cube into a rocks glass. Garnish with grapefruit peel. 


Pipette Dreams
by Suzanne Miller

Sponsor: Distillery No. 209

Ingredients:
1.5 oz. pea-flower-extract-infused No. 209 Gin 
1 oz. sweetened coconut cream 
1 oz. clarified lime juice (served in pipette)

Instructions:
Shake gin and coconut cream over ice. Strain over ice into a rocks glass. Garnish with toasted coconut and pipette. The drink will change color from blue to purple after the imbiber squeezes citrus into the drink.

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Base Spirit: Tequila

Chameleon

Sponsor: Don Julio
Mixologist: Christopher Miano

Ingredients:
1.5 oz. Don Julio Blanco® Tequila
0.5 oz. Green Chartreuse
0.5 oz. Pamplemousse grapefruit liqueur
0.75 oz. clarified lime juice
0.75 oz. Bluechai tea or butterfly pea flower

Instructions: 
Mix all ingredients and stir. Pour drink into a rocks glass that can accommodate a 2” x 2” cube.

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Base Spirit: Vodka

The Andy Warhol Martini 

Sponsor: Ketel One
Mixologists: Travis Tucker and Andrew Meltzer

Ingredients:
1.5 oz. Ketel One® Vodka 
0.75 oz. Dolin Vermouth de Chambéry Dry
1 dash Cointreau 
1 dash absinthe 

Instructions:
Stir with ice in a mixing glass. Pour cocktail into a coupe glass.

Hemp Highball

Sponsor: Humboldt Distillery
Mixologists:  Humboldt Distillery team

Ingredients:
30 mL cannabis-infused Humboldt's Finest Vodka
15 mL cucumber-infused Humboldt Distillery Organic Vodka
30 mL jasmine simple syrup
15 mL fresh-squeezed lemon juice
Sliced cucumber
Seltzer water
Ice

Instructions:
Combine ingredients in a highball glass with ice.  Top with seltzer water, garnish with a slice of cucumber, and enjoy.

Additional Notes:

  1. Humboldt's Finest is made with food-grade hemp, and contains no THC.
  2. To prepare cucumber vodka, combine approximately half a peeled and diced cucumber and one bottle Humboldt Distillery Organic Vodka.  Allow to infuse for a few minutes before straining to separate and discard cucumber.
  3. To prepare jasmine simple syrup, create a strong tea using jasmine green tea bags at twice the suggested rate.  Combine 1 part hot tea with 1 part sugar, mixing until dissolved.
  4. 30 mL = 1 oz.

Italian Sunset

Sponsor: Square One Organic Spirits

Ingredients:
1.5 oz. Square One Bergamot
0.75 oz. Aperol
San Pellegrino Pompelmo (grapefruit soda)
Mandarin wheels

Instructions:
Pour spirits into a rocks glass with ice and stir briefly. Top with pompelmo soda. Garnish with mandarin slice.

Metro

Sponsor: Square One Organic Spirits

Ingredients:
1 oz. Square One Basil
0.75 oz. pear liqueur
0.5 oz. fresh lemon juice
0.25 oz. agave nectar or simple syrup
0.5 oz. cranberry juice* 
Dried cranberries
Lemon wedge
 
Instructions:
Combine all ingredients into a mixing cup and shake with ice. Strain into a martini glass and garnish with dried cranberries and a tiny lemon wedge on a skewer.

*Use an unsweetened cranberry juice like Knudsen.

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Base Spirit: Whiskey/Bourbon

Alchemist

Sponsor: DOSA

Ingredients:
1.5 oz. Rittenhouse Rye
0.5 oz. Tempus Fugit Kina L’Aéro d’Or
0.5 oz. J. Witty Spirits Organic Chamomile Liqueur
0.5 oz. Amaro Montenegro
3 dashes Scrappy's Grapefruit Bitters
Smoked green cardamom

Instructions:
Combine all ingredients in a shaker and stir vigorously for eight seconds. Single strain into a small coupe glass. Place cocktail on wooden platform under a bell jar, and light ground green cardamom on fire using a smoke gun. Fill the bell jar with smoke. Serve cocktail in coupe glass after one minute of resting in the smoke.

Hot Harper

Sponsor: Blade and Bow Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey/I.W. Harper Bourbon
Mixologists: Kyle McHugh, Ryan Hall, and Laurentine Gardella 

Ingredients:
0.75 oz. I.W. Harper Bourbon 
5 oz. hot coffee
0.25 oz. demerara simple syrup

Instructions:
Combine all ingredients into fluted coffee mug. Stir with cocktail bar spoon.

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Base Spirit: Wine

Red Moon over Manhattan 

Sponsor: Bluxome Street Winery

Ingredients:
1 oz. bourbon
0.5 oz. simple syrup
4 oz. Bluxome Street Winery Russian River Valley Pinot Noir
1 maraschino cherry (soaked overnight in the pinot noir)
Dash of bitters
Ice
Orange peel

Instructions:
Combine the bourbon, pinot noir, simple syrup, and ice in shaker. Rub orange peel around the rim of a lowball glass. Add ice to the glass and strain the cocktail over the ice. Place one maraschino cherry in the drink, and garnish with two more cherries. Enjoy!

Sauvignon Blanc Gin Spritzer

Sponsor: Bluxome Street Winery

Ingredients:
4 oz. Bluxome Street Winery Russian River Valley Sauvignon Blanc
1 oz. gin
0.5 oz. mint simple syrup  
Muddled mint

Instructions:
Combine sauvignon blanc, gin, mint simple syrup, and ice in shaker. Muddle fresh mint in a highball glass. Add ice to glass and strain the cocktail over the ice. Enjoy!

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Base Spirit: Other

Cocoa-Menta

Sponsor: Carpano Antica Formula/Fernet-Branca
Mixologist: Erik Ginther

Ingredients:
1.5 oz. Brancamenta
6 oz. hot chocolate
Caffè Borghetti whipped cream

Instructions:
Heat your favorite hot chocolate and add the Brancamenta. Top with whipped cream and serve in a coffee mug.

Pisco Sour

Sponsor: La Mar Cebicheria Peruana
Mixologist: Preetha Saint-Auguste

Ingredients:
3 oz. Pisco
1 oz. Quebranta simple syrup
1 oz. lemon juice
1 oz. egg white

Instructions:
Combine with one scoop of ice and blend in blender. Garnish with three drops of Angostura® bitters and serve in a rocks glass.

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