Accidental Cocktail

(adapted from the Occidental, PDT, New York City)

Prepare a coupe rinsed with Elisir Novasalus.

Combine in a mixing glass:

1.25 oz Batavia Arrack van Oosten

0.75 oz orange liqueur

0.5 oz Cardamaro Vino Amaro

1 pinch kosher salt

Stir with ice.

Strain into the prepared glass.

Garnish with an orange peel.

Amaricanto

1.5 oz Cocchi Vermouth di Torino ‘Storico’

0.25 oz Elisir Novasalus

2 dash orange bitters

Build in a rocks glass filled with ice.

Champagne Supernova

Build in a flute:

0.25 oz Elisir Novasalus

0.5 oz Rothman & Winter Orchard Apricot Liqueur

4 oz Cocchi Asti DOCG or other sweet sparkling wine

Garnish with a grapefruit peel

 

Crazy Kitten Smile

(Lindsay Matteson, Seattle, WA)

Stir with ice:

1.5 oz Japanese whisky

0.75 oz Cocchi Americano Bianco

0.5 oz braulio amaro

1 tsp Elisir Novasalus

Strain into cocktail coupe.

Express and Discard lemon peel.

Hackensack

(based on the Newark, PDT, New York City)

Stir with ice:

2 oz apple brandy

0.75 oz Cocchi Vermouth di Torino ‘Storico’

0.25 oz maraschino liqueur

0.5 bar spoon Elisir Novasalus

1 pinch kosher salt

Strain into a coupe.

Garnish with an orange peel.

 

Manna & Thistle

(based on the “Honey & Thistle”, Matthew Schrage, Cambridge, MA)

1.5 oz Cardamaro

0.75 oz Cocchi Americano

1 barspoon Elisir Novasalus

2 oz tonic water

Build in a tall glass filled with ice.

Garnish with a grapefruit peel.

Nod to Ada Coleman

(Ada Coleman)

Stir with ice:

1.5 oz Hayman’s London Dry Gin

1.5 oz Dolin Rouge Vermouth de Chambéry

0.5 bar spoon Elisir Novasalus

1 dash orange bitters

Strain into a coupe.

Poker Face

Stir with ice:

0.5 oz Elisir Novasalus

0.5 oz Salers Gentiane Aperitif

0.5 oz Zirbenz Stone Pine Liqueur of the Alps

Strain into a collins glass filled with ice.

Top with 4 oz Fentiman’s Curiosity Cola.

Stir gently.

Garnish with a long, wide grapefruit peel.

 

Toronto Adjacent

Stir with ice:

2 oz rye whiskey

0.25 oz Elisir Novasalus

0.25 oz simple syrup

1 dash Angostura Bitters

Strain into a coupe.

Garnish with an orange peel.