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Cocktails, the libationary art!
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This seems pretty complicated but I was making some sort of paloma/lazy Margarita hybrid with mezcal at a party. And I ran out it mezcal so I made a batch that was half rye/half mezcal. Worked quite well.
Oh grapefruit and mezcal are so good together that even my kid who says she hates mezcal likes it in a grapefruit drink. I made her one with grapefruit, I think tequila (don't remember!) mezcal and rosemary syrup. Grapefruit juice not soda, for that one. Need to keep better notes, putting the drinks on Lemmy is actually helping with that.
Rosemary syrup sounds interesting. Any tips on other things in goes well with?
I mostly use rosemary with grapefruit, the rest of it went into a home fermented grapefruit soda. But the rosemary flavor is good with anything citrusy, good in Aperol spritz or tonic water, and I think it would be possible to make an unsweetened tincture of rosemary that might be more useful overall, and store longer.
Thanks, that’ll give me a starting point to try things out.