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Javier Ortega
Bartender
Javier’s Winning Drink – Pink Thriller
Cocktail Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2oz Empress 1908 Gin
- 0.25oz Green Apple and Cumin infused (Del Maguey Vida)
- 0.75oz Ramazzotti Aperitivo Rosato
- 0.50oz Lemon Juice
- 0.25oz Belvoir Farm Elderflower Cordial
- 4 Drops Of Fermented Beet Solution
- Cocktail Coupe
- Garnish
- Baked beet chip
Directions:
- Add all the ingredients of the cocktail to one of the shaker tins, then fill it with ice
- Holding a shaker tin in each hand, slowly pour the drink into the empty tin
- Slowly pour the drink back into the first tin. Repeat the process a few times to fully chill, dilute and mix all the ingredients in the drink
- Strain the cocktail into a chilled cocktail coupe
- Garnish with a Baked Beet Chip
- Green Apple And Cumin infused Del Maguey Vida (Sous vide a 750ml bottle of mezcal with a chopped green apple and a pinch of cumin for two hours at 145F. Filter through a coffee filter, bottled and put on the fridge)
- Fermented Beet Solution (Fill up a mason jar with chopped beets, water and a teaspoon of salt. Let it ferment at room temperature for two days)
Javier Ortega is a bartender at Legacy Club.