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Night Owl Cocktail
Cocktails & Beverages from Issue 7 – Summer 2015 – Spectrum
The LBD of your cocktail wardrobe. (pictured right)
Gather Journal
Night Owl Cocktail
The enigma of this moody-hued cocktail by Natasha David of New York’s Nitecap lies in the Ancho Reyes, a spicy thread woven through a core of dueling rums.
makes 1 cocktail (pictured right)
- 2 oz aged rum (we like Zacapa 23)
- ¾ oz Antica Formula sweet vermouth
- ¼ oz Ancho Reyes chile liqueur
- 1 tsp dark rum (we like Cruzan Blackstrap)
- orange peel
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Stir the cocktail ingredients with ice for 15-20 seconds. Strain into a coupe glass. Express and discard orange peel.
