January's Perfect Serve - Short & Spicy
January's Perfect Serve is the Short & Spicy cocktail
The Perfect Serve will titillate your tastebuds with a delicious whisky cocktail featured every month...
Dr Rachel Barrie, also known as the 'first lady of Scotch whisky', dissected the flavours found in Benriach's The Original Ten and The Smoky Ten and discovered five core flavour themes – malt, fruit, spice, citrus and sweet. Using these flavours as a creative springboard, Benriach Distillery teamed up with a number of UK bars to develop a variety of highball and shorter, more intense cocktails. The Short & Spicy is just one of them...
Ingredients
- 50ml Benriach The Original Ten
- 15ml sugar syrup
- 10ml lemon juice
- ¼ chopped habanero chilli
- Splash of ginger ale
Method
- Muddle the chilli before adding and shaking all the ingredients (except ginger ale) with ice.
- Then, strain into an ice-filled rocks glass.
- Top with a splash of ginger ale.
- Garnish with a sliced chilli and a slapped mint sprig.
Find out more about Benriach Distillery at its dedicated listing here.
Author:
by David Riddell
Published:
December 21, 2023