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Benjamin Kay

Benjamin Kay

Australia

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Benjamin Kay

Make sure to use a decent prosecco, made the mistake of a cheap one that was canned and it drowned out the taste of everything else, in my defense I don't drink it unless its in a cocktail so I didn't want to be wasteful.

Anyway still nice and refreshing, next time I'll get a proper bottle and give it a crack!

Amai-Tai
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Benjamin Kay

Great riff mate, I've been looking through user submissions to try something different, I will make this again and throw some chocolate bitters in the shaker, I didn't have dark chocolate but will definitely try it with some next time. Maybe add a sprinkle of cinnamon on top of the foam to.

Benjamin Kay

Recommend trying this one with a 2:1 ginger syrup, I had some I needed to use up and it melded very well with the bourbon, pineapple and lemon juice, didn't have pimento bitters so I gave it a hefty 2 dashes of regular angostura. Buffalo Trace was the bourbon.

Sake Manhattan
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Benjamin Kay

Chefs kiss on this one! I used a dry/mellow sake, You get a strong maraschino punch upfront, followed by the sweet floral notes from the sake cutting through with the bourbon to tie it off at the end of a sip. Loved how consistent it was even as it warmed.

11/10 going out of my way to get another bottle of good sake to try this one again.

Banana Stand
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Benjamin Kay

Made this to Spec apart from swapping the 30ml of Speyside for Plantation Barbados Grand Reserve, and used Laphroaig 10yr for the Peat, what a stellar tiki drink, huge potential to play around with, looking forward to trying it again with some Speyside, maybe even a more rum forward variant with Agricole Volcanique.

Little Venice
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Benjamin Kay

Brilliant, I used a Junmai Ginjo Hiyashibori from Konishi (Dry/Crisp/Mellow flavour), Dolin Red and Buffalo Trace, a very refreshing, moreish sipper, can't wait to play around with other combinations.