Autumn Ash

Creator Notes

Scotch is assuredly an bought taste. The peat-smudged smoke will also be too intense for every other folks. Nonetheless, the hint of apple and elderflower in this drink sweetens the smokiness fair enough to allure to a broader vary of palates. Unruffled, I delight in the restrained manner the smoke in this cocktail wafts into your consciousness a millisecond after the truth. This drink is from my e book Pretty Cocktails (Ulysses Press, 2013)

—Sippity Sup (Greg Henry)

Take a look at Kitchen Notes

Finally, it’s fall again — that’s what the Autumn Ash says to me. Spoil out the Scotch that’s been hiding for your hutch all summer season, add some apple brandy, elderflower liqueur, and orange bitters, and appreciate the smokiness of Scotch with a gentle-weight, fruity undertone. I primitive an apple brandy from Ironworks Distillery in Nova Scotia, Johnny Walker Purple, and St. Elder’s Elderflower Liqueur, alongside with Regan’s Orange Bitters. The St. Elder’s can have added a piece extra vitality to the cocktail — it has the next alcohol narrate material than St. Germain — making this one significant drink. I’m going to mix up a batch of Autumn Ash for a cocktail birthday party very soon. —Alison

Formulation

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  2 ounces
  
  blended Scotch whisky
  
• 
  1 ounce
  
  apple brandy
  
• 
  ¹/₄ ounce
  
  St. Germain elderflower liqueur
  
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  2 dashes
  
  orange bitters
  
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  1
  

  tall large lemon peel ‘chip’, as garnish