And I like mezcal, I like compari (that's why I could even make it!) but this is just one of the most fetid unpleasant drinks I have ever made. The bite of the mezcal is too cut by the compari, and the herbal notes lose their top notes and just leave you with the dry feeling on the back of your tongue. All the goodness is lost. No joy remains.
Give this to your curious teen and they will gladly stay sober until the day they move out. Jesus.
I subscribe to this blog, they put out vegetarian and vegan recipes, and I feel like if you put out recipes for cocktails you kinda have to do this or else you would just be rerealeasing the recipe for gin and tonic and rum and coke 3 times a month, there's only so many good cocktails, especially if your audience went out and bought themselves a whole bar cart and have to justify using all the weird little potions they now have sitting there.
Sometimes I think "I should get into making my own fancy cocktails" and then I remember that cocktail recipe books for like "mixologist" shit have like 50 obscure bottles of different French liqueurs that you gotta have and then I'm like, you know what? 10 bottles of whiskey and three bottles of vermouth is all I really want.
You can do a lot of fun stuff with just one bottle of base liquor, one or two liquers, and one or two bitters! For instance, I usually have gold tequila or gin, aperol or triple sec, and orange bitters. It's more about combining flavors you want and infusing ahead of time for fun home cocktails.
For instance, I really really like citrus and infused some cheap tequila with orange peels which made a really good shooter with some lime juice and sugar. I almost never have more than 2 bottles in the house but still make a variety of tasty drinks depending on what I'm eating or in the mood for.
The real skill to develop imo is how to balance liquor:sour:sweet:dilution:aromatics. Granted, I don't know the recipe for many classic cocktails, but that isn't really important to me.
I made most of my presents this year and came way under on gifts and put some of that money up for nice liquor this once so right now I have campari, tequila, gin, dry vermouth, triple sec, and mezcal. Found out I don't like vermouth much but I had never tried it before lol.
I mostly drink manhattans or whiskey neat so I have sweet vermouth which is very different to dry vermouth!
Work somewhere with a bar that doesn't keep track of their booze so good
I had something that I'm pretty sure is one of these and ngl it kinda put me off of both mezcal and negronis lmao
Strongly recommend you to try Mezcal again on its own or in a sweet margarita. Probably one of the most delicious liquors ever made in my opinion and most of the production is done by peasant farmer-distiller cooperatives which is neat!
The flavors probably harmonize like a cat falling on a keyboard
I can enjoy a Negroni, but I'd rather take mezcal straight. Same goes for vodka, tbh.
a tequila negroni is a rosita. Doing mescal instead isnt that much of a stretch.
OH MY GOD JUST DRINK WINE YOU WEIRDOS! WE'VE BEEN DRINKING IT SINCE LIKE... FOREVER!
Mezcal is definitely the fashionable booze du jour. Mezcal old fashioned. Mezcal negroni. Mezcal martini
I have no idea what the booze scene is lol. I just got given some a few years ago and really liked it. I really liked smoked food though so it tracks.
