1.5 oz Famous Grouse Scotch
0.5 oz Bitter Truth Apricot Liqueur
0.5 oz Green Chartreuse
0.25 oz Creme Yvette
3 dashes Bitter Truth Jerry Thomas Bitters
3 drops mint tincture
Stir ingredients well with ice and strain into a coupe. Flame orange peel into drink and drop in to garnish.
NOTES: Bitter Truth was kind enough to send us a little sampler pack this past week with assorted bitters and a few samples of their new liqueurs (we’ll do a little write-up on the while thing once we get them photographed and have a chance to test out everything), but I thought I’d jump the gun a little and try out some of their stuff in a new drink. This one ended up being really good with a little bit of tinkering – the mint and the Jerry Thomas bitters went really well with the Chartreuse, I thought. It was definitely a stiff drink, but the flavors mingled really well, and overall it had a nice burn with kind of a smoky, mint-tinged quality. I’ll definitely be making this one again. I’d be interested to try it with a drop or two of some strong Islay Scotch to really play up that smokiness. Maybe up the volume overall very slightly, too.
God damn your wonderful literary names!
Just wait until I eventually get to Against the Day. I’ll have a whole batch of new names that only you will appreciate, I’m sure! ha