The Brave
Recipe:
- 30ml Del Maguey Vida mezcal
- 30ml Siembra Azul blanco tequila
- 15ml Averna amaro
- 7.5ml Royal Combier
- Angostura bitters (mist)
Pour all ingredients except the Angostura bitters into a wine glass without ice, swirl around for at least 30 seconds. Spray 3-4 mists of Angostura bitters over the drink. Express the oils of an orange zest over the drink, leave it in the drink. This is a room temperature drink.
"The Brave" brings you an intense but beautiful combination of roasted orange, that agave goodness, nutmeg, cloves and elegant smoke. As the name implies, not one for your first time room temperature drinker but one of the few modern icons within the category.
It stems from the opening menu of the Anvil Bar & Refuge in Houston and the interesting change to the old formula of scaffa cocktails (room temperature drinks) here is the use of a mister, to spray the inside of the glass with the Angostura bitters and give the drink additional depth in its aroma. Combine this with serving it in a wine glass, and you have a density of scents that can rarely matched by any cocktail mixed with ice.
Source: Bobby Heugel, Anvil Bar & Refuge, Houston
