A really delightful equal-parts recipe from The Garret in NYC, presumably it’s a play on The White Lady or The Pink Lady? This is certainly the most recent of the three, and wow, it’s so great… where has it been all my life??

  • 1 ½ oz mezcal
  • 1 ½ oz Aperol
  • 1 ½ oz John. D. Taylor’s Velvet Falernum liqueur
  • 1 ½ oz lime juice
  • Hugin@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    One of my favorites. Doesn’t it usually have a mint sprig garnish? A few drops of jalapeno bitters or a splash of Ancho Reyes really adds something.

    • mpg@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      6 days ago

      Not sure, it might! Good suggestion on a little bit of spice, I bet that would add a great dimension!

  • glorkon@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 days ago

    I really do like Velvet Falernum. It’s great in a Chartreuse Swizzle, which currently is my favorite drink:

    • 1 oz pineapple juice
    • ¾ oz lime juice
    • 1 ½ oz green Chartreuse
    • ½ oz Velvet Falernum
    • mpg@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      7 days ago

      I love that swizzle! Too bad chartreuse is so hard to come by now. Still working through old bottles?

      • glorkon@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        I’m lucky enough to live in Europe where Chartreuse is still pretty easy to get. Plenty of online shops to order from, about 45 € a bottle.

    • mpg@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      7 days ago

      I found it to be pretty well balanced! Probably depends a bit on how wild your mezcal is, too. This one is pretty smoky, which helps.

  • Subtracty@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 days ago

    1 ½ oz John. D. Taylor’s Velvet Falernum liqueur

    Well, I can’t say I have the in my liquor cabinet. That’s a new ingredient I haven’t come across before. But I want to try this!

    • Hugin@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      It’s good. Herbal, citrus, and sweet. I think of it as a caribbean version of sweet red vermouth. It has a similar use in cocktails.

    • mpg@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      9 days ago

      I hadn’t heard of it until I got a tiki cocktail book; it comes up a lot in that context! It’s a super syrupy, sweet, warm spiced liqueur. It’s really quite delicious!