Alex Hayes

I adore this spec with Bombay Sapphire, but find it a little bitter with Empress 1908. For those of you going for that iconic purple with the 1908, I might add a barspoon of simple syrup.

I made this with a shitty blended scotch (Mash Cut), no peated scotch, and Dolin sweet and I swear to god the aftertaste was Kielbasa. I probably won't make this again unless I have much higher quality ingredients.

I've made this once with homemade ginger liquor and 1:1 honey syrup (excellent), and once with domaine de canton and 3:1 honey syrup (good but quite sweet). I will probably try 1/3 oz 3:1 honey syrup, or a less sweet ginger liqueur on the next go around.

Substituted genepi for the absinthe since I didn't have any and things ended up a little sweet.