Name: Paris is Burning
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Mezcal; 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Pineapple juice; 15 ml Elderflower liqueur; 15 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Ingredients

1 fl oz

Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal

1 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1 fl oz

Pineapple juice

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Elderflower liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

3 drop

Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of aromatic bitters.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with drops of aromatic bitters drawn through the foam.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Paris is Burning contains 201 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
16.44% alc./vol. (32.88° proof)
22.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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Heidi Della Pesca Premium Member 11w

Oh, my, yes. Fruit, flowers, gin (the Botanist was excellent in this as a botanical backbone)bitters, citrus, all lovely. But.... this mezcal note is so unexpected. Suddenly its tiki +. (And its pineapple.) God help me.

Heidi Della Pesca Premium Member 11w

Yeah.... not only did I scale it up 1.5x, I had two of 'em
If this leads to a hangover, it was totally worth it.

trendomexico Premium Member 12w

Came here after 'Yellow Cactus Flower' and this is the upper class version, but is so well behaved is a little boring. Certainly equilibrated but the marriage of the mezcal and the gin, is the kind of union like Salma Hayek and Pinault, yes certainly now the mezcal is refined, but when it was rough we had from Dusk til Dawn.

Joseph Murray 31w

Made exactly as written - Really good and very balanced. No element is dominant but all are discernible.

Steven Jepson Premium Member 1y

What can I say after Calvin Grant's description.
I used a less smoky mezcal and found this was just perfect.
One of those drinks you got a bottle of Old Tom Gin for.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 20w

Just saw a bottle of Hayman's Old Tom at the Liquer store whilst shopping for sloe gin. Should have grabbed it!

Calvin Grant Premium Member 1y

Wow a vertically integrated cocktail. First, the lovely aromatics from the bitters, then an inviting greeting from the fresh pineapple giving way to the lemon floral complex and finally the sophistically boozy base reveales itself. This sour's a keeper!