One unusual thing you might want to try? Lemon smoke. Cinnamon, anise or herbs also do the trick. For example, I like cinnamon smoked with a dark rum, and smoked rosemary can go well with gin and tequila.”Īnd, as Gilmore notes, you don’t necessarily have to stick with those wood chips. “But I think you just need to find pairings that you enjoy. “I find applewood chips to work well with rye whiskey,” says Barlow Gilmore, the Weekend Mixologist and a photographer. I had three wood chip choices for my smoking gun - cherrywood, applewood and mesquite - and no idea what paired with what. My first problem was wood (that’s what she … nm). To help assuage my smoking fears - and get past my procrastination - I asked a few bartenders with extensive smoked cocktails knowledge for tips. “The idea with smoke on a cocktail is to allow the flavors of the liquid and the smoke to infuse one another - the longer you let them sit with each other the more their flavors get to play,” says Dan Stern, the Head Bartender at the recently-opened NYC bar Bandits (whch makes a Cuba Libre riff called the Smoky Cokey). Somehow the idea of using a smoking gun, burning wood chips and working with a glass dome - none of which seems that difficult - seemed too much effort to add a little smack of campfire to my whiskey tipple.īut, yes, the final product is worth the small extra expense and effort. The problem with smoked cocktails is that while they look cool - and the idea of infusing drinks (or food) with a smoky flavor is always welcome in my house - I really didn’t know what I was doing. And I promptly set it next to the $200 smoking kit (from another company) I had received as a gift from my girlfriend a year before and just let the two of them collect dust. A few months back Bespoke Post introduced a $70 cocktail smoking and infusion kit that seemed revolutionary … as most like-minded kits are twice the price, if not more.
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