{"id":1994,"date":"2011-08-29T21:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2011-08-29T21:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T04:00:23","slug":"honeysuckle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1994","title":{"rendered":"Honeysuckle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creating original cocktails from scratch is something that’s always been a challenge for me.\u00c2\u00a0 Where should I start?\u00c2\u00a0 What spirit should I use?\u00c2\u00a0 Often, I find myself stuck.\u00c2\u00a0 So, on the occasion that I’m struck with inspiration, it’s a great feeling.\u00c2\u00a0 I got that feeling when sampling ALO<\/a> last week.\u00c2\u00a0 ALO Elated has a nice green tea flavor and that got me thinking what would work well with tea.\u00c2\u00a0 My first thoughts were of the classic tea garnish, lemon, but what spirit to use.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I had a moment that can best be described as a mix between an “aha” and “well, duh” moment.\u00c2\u00a0 Honey.\u00c2\u00a0 Honey vodka to be specific.\u00c2\u00a0 I recently sampled, and loved, Spring44 Honey Vodka<\/a> so that was the natural choice.\u00c2\u00a0 Enough blather, here’s the recipe.<\/p>\n

\"Honeysuckle\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Honeysuckle<\/strong><\/pre>\n
2 oz ALO Elated\r\n2 oz Spring44 Honey Vodka\r\n1\/4 oz Lemon Juice\r\n2 Dashes Bitters<\/strong><\/pre>\n
1) Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice\r\n2) Shake until well chilled\r\n3) Strain into a chilled cocktail glass<\/strong><\/pre>\n
The flavors in this cocktail are not unexpected.\u00c2\u00a0 Subtle notes of honey and tea run throughout the flavor profile.\u00c2\u00a0 The lemon comes through as only a bare touch of sourness and lemon flavor.\u00c2\u00a0 The drink is not overly sweet and yet not dry, just right.\u00c2\u00a0 The bitters add depth and complexity and a lovely layer of spice.\u00c2\u00a0 Just what this cocktail needed.<\/p>\n
I leave the bitters up to you.\u00c2\u00a0 I used Robert Hess’ House Bitters<\/a> which were great, the ginger and cardamom flavors play really well with the tea and honey.\u00c2\u00a0 That said, I think you could use any other aromatic bitter that you like, or even just some orange bitters to play up the citrus.<\/p>\n
Since this is one of my first forays into creating cocktails from scratch, I have a request.\u00c2\u00a0 If you mix up this drink, please let me know what you think.\u00c2\u00a0 That kind of input will help me improve my cocktail improv going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Creating original cocktails from scratch is something that’s always been a challenge for me.\u00c2\u00a0 Where should I start?\u00c2\u00a0 What spirit should I use?\u00c2\u00a0 Often, I find myself stuck.\u00c2\u00a0 So, on the occasion that I’m struck with inspiration, it’s a great feeling.\u00c2\u00a0 I got that feeling when sampling ALO last week.\u00c2\u00a0 ALO Elated has a nice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[177,10,53],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-original","tag-recipe","tag-vodka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}