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Amaro Sfumato Rabarbaro
RECIPES
All the Difference
Stir with ice:
1.25 oz rye whiskey
1.25 oz Mattei Rouge
0.5 oz Amaro Sfumato
Strain into a coupe.
Garnish with a grapefruit peel.
Amaro Manhattan
Stir with ice:
1.5 oz bourbon
0.75 oz Cardamaro
0.5 oz Amaro Sfumato Rabarbaro
Strain into coupe or double rocks glass. Garnish with cherry.
Campfire Sour
Shake with ice:
1.5 oz Amaro Sfumato Rabarbaro
1.5 oz 90-proof bourbon
0.5 oz lemon juice
Strain into a double rocks glass filled with ice.
Garnish with a lemon wheel.
Charming Man
(Adapted from Joaquín Simó, NYC)
Stir with ice:
1 oz Amaro Sfumato
1 oz anejo tequila
1 oz cream sherry
2 dashes mole bitters
Strain into rocks glass over ice.
Garnish with orange peel.
King's Cobbler
(Neal Bodenheimer, New Orleans)
Shake without ice:
1/2 strawberry, muddled
2 oz Amaro Sfumato
0.75 oz lemon juice
0.75 oz simple syrup
Strain into metal cup over crushed ice.
Garnish with mint and half strawberry.
Lucky Duck Collins
(Kevin Bradel, Raines Law Room, NYC)
Shake with ice:
2 muddled strawberries
0.75 oz lemon juice
0.75 oz simple syrup
0.5 oz Amaro Sfumato Rabarbaro
1.5 oz Plymouth gin
Strain into collins glass filled with ice.
Top with seltzer.
Garnish with a strawberry.
Lush Interlude
(Braden LaGrone, Cure, New Orleans)
Shake with ice:
1 oz aged rum
0.75 oz lime juice
0.5 oz orange-flavored liqueur with an aged brandy base
0.25 oz Demerara syrup (2:1)
Strain into a cocktail glass.
Garnish with an orange peel.
Man on a Wire
(John Dempster, Portland, OR)
Dry shake:
2 oz blanco tequila
0.75 oz demerara syrup
0.75 oz lime
Egg white
Shake with ice
Strain into coupe
Mist with Amaro Sfumato
Mezzo-Mezzo
1.5 oz Aperitivo Cappelletti
1.5 oz Amaro Sfumato Rabarbaro
Build in a rocks glass filled with ice.
Garnish with a lemon twist.
Top with 1 splash club soda.
Negroni con Fumo
Stir with ice:
1 oz Hayman’s Royal Dock Navy Strength Gin
1 oz Timbal Vermut de Reus Sweet Red
Strain into a double rocks glass filled with ice.
Garnish with an orange peel.
Pruned Plume
Shake with ice:
1.5 oz Averell Damson Gin
1 oz bourbon
0.5 oz Amaro Sfumato
Strain over ice in rocks glass.
Garnish with lemon twist.
La Revuelta
(Lynn Falk, Acacia, Pittsburgh)
Stir with ice:
1.5 oz dark rum
0.75 oz Cocchi Dopo Teatro
1 bar spoon Rabarbaro Sfumato
5 drops Bittermens Xocolatl Mole Bitters
1 mint sprig
Strain into a cocktail glass.
Garnish with an orange twist
Rum al Pastor
Stir with ice:
2 oz Plantation Pineapple Original Dark Rum
1/2 oz Amaro Sfumato Rabarbaro
1 dash orange bitters
Strain into coupe or double rocks glass.
Garnish with grapefruit peel.
The Smoke Also Rises
(Orestes Cruz, Atlanta)
Shake with ice:
2 oz white rum
0.5 oz Amaro Sfumato
0.5 oz grapefruit juice
0.5 oz lime juice
0.25 oz maraschino liqueur
0.25 oz simple syrup
Double strain into a coupe.
Garnish with a lime wheel.
Walk With a Smoke
(adapted from the Swagger Cocktail by Jamie Boudreau, Canon, Seattle)
Shake with ice:
1.5 oz Hayman’s Old Tom Gin
0.5 oz Dolin Rouge
0.5 oz Amaro Sfumato Rabarbaro
0.5 oz grapefruit juice
Strain into a double rocks glass filled with ice.
Garnish with a grapefruit slice.
Welcome, Ghosts
(Nic Christiansen, Louisville, KY)
1.5 oz Copper & Kings Immature Brandy
.75 oz Amaro Sfumato Rabarbaro
.5 oz lemon juice
.5 oz honey syrup (2:1)
2 dashes angostura bitters
Shake with ice.
Strain into rocks glass over ice.
Garnish with 1 dash mole bitters
Garnish with a lemon twist