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Recipes

Civil Works’ Strickling Bar cocktail

A complex and lightly sweet mix of bitter, heat and umami, according to Civil Works’ Élise Hanson and Nick Kennedy, is the perfect drink to “level off” the evening.

Strickling Bar

Makes 10 drinks.

INGREDIENTS


  • 300 ml (1¼ cups) miso rum
  • 220 ml (1 cup) pasilla-cinnamon Campari
  • 220 ml (1 cup) Amontillado sherry
  • 70 ml (⅓ cup) cacao liqueur
  • 40 drops salted coffee bitters

 

METHOD


In advance, whisk 15 g (1 tbsp) of white miso paste into 300 ml (1¼ cups) of Appleton Estate Signature Rum and let rest at room temperature for 24 hours. Strain through a fine sieve and coffee filter. Also in advance, combine 3 cinnamon sticks and 3 dried and deseeded pasilla peppers in one bottle of Campari. Leave at room temperature for 2 days and strain through a fine-mesh sieve. Also in advance, add 10% kosher salt to your favourite coffee bitters.

Batch
Stir all ingredients well over ice. Bottle and refrigerate.

Serve
Shake well and then pour into a chilled Nick and Nora glass. Add four drops of salted coffee bitters to each glass.

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Photography by Ashley Van Der Laan


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