The Final Transformation
Every avant-garde technique applied to one drink — fat-washed spirit, clarified acid, unusual sweetener, and tableside smoke. Not a recipe so much as a meditation on what a cocktail can be when craft and curiosity are given no boundaries.
Served in a nick and nora glass · Garnish: Cherry wood smoke cloche, black sesame seed on surface · Difficulty: hard
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz Duck Fat-Washed Bourbon
- 0.5 oz Sesame-Washed Rye
- 0.25 oz White Miso Caramel Syrup
- 0.25 oz Tamarind Concentrate
- 0.25 oz Black Sesame Honey Syrup
- 3 dashes Angostura Bitters
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass with ice.
- Stir slowly for 40 seconds — this drink is dense and needs time.
- Strain into a chilled Nick & Nora glass.
- Using a smoking gun, fill a cloche with cherry wood smoke.
- Place smoke cloche over the drink.
- Carry to the table; lift the cloche tableside. The smoke and the drink meet for the first time in front of the guest.