MxMo August 2010: Brown, Bitter, and Stirred

[thirtyoneknots]

Oh and as a bonus offering, I have a drink too: Not sure if it's bitter enough, and I normally build it on the rocks, but its definitely brown. Playing around with Smith & Cross Rum and thinking about my upcoming trip to New Orleans:

Lafitte's Pardon (working title)

1 oz Smith & Cross

1 oz Cognac

1 oz Carpano Antica

1 bsp Benedictine

3 dashes Angostura bitters

3 dashes Peychaud's bitters

Build on rocks and stir or stir with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass. Lemon twist is nice either way.

[Chris Amirault]

That looks great, Andy -- and thanks for the tale!

Great round of drinks, folks. I'm closing this topic up and will submit the entries to Lindsey. Cheers!

[EvergreenDan]

Thanks, Andy. Fun read. But ... no Underburg cocktail? ;-)

[thirtyoneknots]

Thanks, Andy. Fun read. But ... no Underburg cocktail? ;-)

I've bought and used Underburg for medicinal purposes before and it occurred to me that it might work well in place of Angostura in some applications but I've never really played around with it. Mea culpa. I did recently score a bottle of the old Zwack Unicum and it is very similar indeed, to my palate (sort of like a mix between Underburg and Fernet, really), so I may eventually come up with something to use it.