These uplifting drinks may sound exotic, but they are really simple to prepare.
The cocktail called Brilliance is a malt shaken with freshly ground ginger and a hint of pineapple juice
Infused with cinnamon smoke, Smokehattan combines bitters, whiskey and vermouth.
Photograph: Kind courtesy Bayroute, Mumbai
Brilliance
Recipe courtesy: Bayroute, Mumbai
Serves: 1 or 2
Ingredients
- 60 ml Brilliance, a kind of malt produced in Goa by Paul John
- 6 small pieces of ginger
- 90 ml pineapple juice
- 100 gm ice
- An old-fashioned glass
For the masala rim
- ½ tsp of black sesame seeds
- ½ tsp of white sesame seeds
- ½ tsp red chilly powder
- ¼ tsp clove powder
Method
- Using a mortar and pestle mash the pieces of ginger.
Transfer into a cocktail shaker and add the Brilliance, pineapple juice and ice.
Shake well and double strain before pouring into an old-fashioned glass.
NOTE: To rim the glass, combine the seeds and powders and place on a flat surface.
Roll one side of the glass in the masala so that it is well-coated. Please see picture above.
Photograph: Kind courtesy Hitchki, Mumbai
Smokehattan
Recipe courtesy: Hitchki, Mumbai
Serves: 1 or 2
Ingredients
- 60 ml whiskey
- 4 drops Angostura bitters, an herbal concotion from Trinidad and Tobago available in larger liquor shops
- 15 ml vermouth, a kind of aromatised wine
- 60 ml apple juice
- 100 gm ice
- Several cubes ice
- Long slices cucumber sprinkled with chilly powder
- Cinnamon smoke
- Half cut martini glass + a fish bowl glass (please see picture above)
Method
- In a cocktail shaker, combine the whiskey and vermouth along with the ice.
If you don't have a shaker, transfer the ingredients into a glass and give it a good stir.
Strain and transfer into the half cut martini glass.
- Pour the apple juice and bitters along with the ice cubes into a fish bowl glass.
- Place the martini glass over the fish bowl glass and flavour with cinnamon smoke.
Garnish with a slice of cucumber laced with chilly powder.
Serve chilled.
NOTE: To create the cinnamon smoke, take a cinnamon stick and smoke it using a lighter. Do not burn it.
It just needs to be heated to give a smoky effect like an agarbatti.
Do insert the stick into the fish bowl glass.
