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Mist & Mysterious
Floral peaty whisky with bittersweet gentian and refreshing lemon juice, invigorated with a splash of soda
12th March at 21:25
Just added a couple of dashes of VÉGÉTAL de la Grande-Chartreuse. Makes a great cocktail even better.
8th January 2025 at 17:58
A very mature drink, complex and bitter. The first few sips gives the impression it should be sweetened a little, but that would ruin the cocktail. This is one of those rare cocktails that needs your palate to get accustomed to it and gets better the more you drink of it.
12th March at 21:26
100% agree. It's a difficult cocktail to get your head around, but the reward is significant.
1 fl oz Peated Single Malt Whisky (Bowmore 8yo)
5⁄6 fl oz Elderflower liqueur (St. Germain)
1⁄2 fl oz Blended Scotch whisky (Chivas Regal 12)
1⁄2 fl oz Gentian liqueur (Suze)
1⁄2 fl oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1 1⁄2 fl oz. Sparkling Water (S. Pellegrino)
Kind of a wake-up call to the palate. Smoky, bitter, floral and tart with the effervescence providing and all too easy drinkability. Keeps getting better the further the level drops in the glass.
My suggestion is to use a very peaty single malt to help counterbalance the sweetness and bitterness from the mix of ingredients. That Bowmore has a very phenolic creosote pitch character to produce a balanced cocktail.