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.