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The Gates of Paradise Cocktail
Cocktails & Beverages from Issue 10 – Winter 2017 – Sin
Paradise found.
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The Gates of Paradise Cocktail
Eden Laurin, managing partner of Chicago’s elegant Violet Hour, conjured up this cocktail for the greedy imbiber who wants a taste of spring in the dead of winter.
makes 1 cocktail
- 1 blackberry
- 2 oz Żubrówka (Bison grass vodka)
- ¾ oz lemon juice
- 1¼ oz ginger syrup* (or all natural spicy ginger beer)
- 1 oz apple cider
- 1 dash of Angostura bitters
- lemon wheels and blackberries for garnishing
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Muddle a blackberry in a cocktail shaker. Add remaining ingredients and ice. Shake then strain into an ice-filled coupe. Garnish with a lemon wheel and a blackberry.
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*Ginger syrup: Juice fresh ginger (in a juicer or with a garlic press and cheesecloth), let the juice sit for 2 hours, strain (to remove the starches), add equal parts refined sugar.
