Brighton’s Best Cocktail Club: Campfire Old-Fashioned from Embers
‘Elijah Craig is just a great bourbon for spirit forward cocktails like old fashioneds or Manhattans. Caramel and winter spices punch through in this bourbon, all flavours which lend themselves well to such cocktails.
Stirring down is the act of stirring a cocktail over ice as opposed to shaking a cocktail in a shaker (you will almost always do one of the two when making cocktails, but never both). You get three things from this - you achieve the correct temperature, you integrate/mix all the ingredients together, and finally you dilute the drink using the water from the ice which smooths out those alcohol edges.
Most booze-forward cocktails (drinks in which you’re mainly looking to showcase the flavours of the spirits themselves, as opposed to fruit juices, syrups etc) will be stirred down, as you have a little more control than shaking. Some bartenders will also swear that shaking bruises the spirits, but I’m not sure about that one!’
Ingredients for one drink
50ml Elija Craig
20ml Toasted Marshmallow Syrup (see recipe below)
Few dashes of Black Walnut Bitters and Orange Bitters
Method
Combine the ingredients in your chosen glass and stir down over ice. Garnish with a toasted marshmallow and an orange twist.
For the Toasted Marshmallow Syrup
300g vegan marshmallows
100g granulated sugar
200ml boiling water
25ml vanilla essence
Lightly toast the marshmallows over the fire (or lightly grill them if you don’t have a fire on hand), then add them to a saucepan with the sugar, vanilla essence and boiling water untill they have melted. Once the mixture is a thick syrup, cool it down before bottling, and you’re ready to go.
The Details
Embers, 42 Meeting House Lane, Brighton, BN1 1HB.
01273 869222; embersbrighton.co.uk
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