🍒 Make Cocktail Recipe for Darling's?
Creating/adapting 3 recipes for my friend's resturant
Boat Juice!
Below you can read my plans for drinks I wanted to pitch but in the end, Madi (owner of Darling's) approached me to make a cocktail using liquor she had already ordered for another cocktail that was taking to long to build (aka too slow for a busy bar).
The liquor I needed to use was:
- Pisco
- Banana Liqueur
- Coconut Rum
After many iterations, I sent Madi a recipe, with one small, incredible tweak we co-create Boat Juice.
Original Plan Follows...
What's the goal?
Create/adapt 3 cocktail recipes for Darling's to taste with the aim that they take one and add it to their menu.
Drink 1 - New Recipe
- playing with watermelon juice led to
- playing with acid adusted watermelon juice led to
- next I want to play with a saline solution, I love my salted watermelon electrolyte drink from MVMT
- saline solution recipe
- update Watermelon Daiquiri with saline solution, 3 drops
- tried making Watermelon Daiquiri with tequila and mezcal and it was just ok
- tried making Fruit Season with acid watermelon in place of lemon and it was pretty darn nice
sketch notes:
- cocktail called "acid washed jeans" - blue curaçae, acid adjusted ? juice
- acid adjusted juice recipes
Drink 2 - Finding a great Mai Tai (for my summer too)
- Reconstructed mai tai video with The Educated Barfly with Garret Richard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZUjOS4BaUs&ab_channel=TheEducatedBarfly that builds to Garret Richard's Mai Tai.
- Wont do: I dont have crushed ice, so we'll have to make do
- New idea: Spent lime widege swirled around in the glass!
- New idea: Am I missing lime and lemon oils in my juice because I use a rimmer and not a press??
- Maybe wont do: Pineapple wedge as garnish
- Lets get some of the liquors called out in this video
Drink 3 - Cachaça based drink
I wanna bring cachaça to darlings and see if they are into it.
Step 1
Taste these three cocktails:
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this came out wonderfully complex. similar to a jungle bird. perhaps make again with the following adjustments:
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Adjust: acid adjusted pineapple juice
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Adjust: Fernet-Branca -> fancy fernet amaro on my self (that Im forgetting the name of)
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Adjust: spent lime wedge swirled around in the glass
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- this had a little more welcome complexity than caneflower. it came out a little too sweet. and the scotch was a little bit lost. tweak the ratios a bit and this could be better. perhaps batch this for taking to a party
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- This was nice, simple, and refreshing. A bit flat. Might prefer a version over rocks with splash of seltzer.
Step 2
- remake pencil thin mustache with adjustments -> ???
- Artichoke Hold is similar, perhaps use it as inspiration here
- remake esmeralda with adjustments -> Esperanza
- try to make something that sits between the two?
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