Created by: Cesar Perez II, Bartender, TradeCraft Coffee & Cocktails, El Paso, TX.
Recipe:
- 1 1/2 ounces Reyka vodka
- 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 ounce light chamomile syrup (see recipe page 00)
- 10 drops of 18.21 chamomile bitters
- Atomizer/spritzer of 18.21 ginger lemon tincture
- 3/4 ounce Gosling’s ginger beer
- Lemon flower, for garnish (see recipe page 00)
Directions:
- Shake and strain first four ingredients over an iced mule cup.
- Top with Gosling’s ginger beer, and garnish with the lemon flower.
- Lastly, spritz the top of the cocktail with 18.21 Ginger Lemon tincture for an added aroma.
- Serve and watch your friends enjoy!
Garnish: Lemon Flower
Using a channel knife, make eight vertical equidistant/symmetrical peel lines going down the long side of a fresh lemon. Turn lemon on its side and slice lemon wheels as you normally would. This should give you some awesome flower/cog looking lemons. Lastly, use a paring knife to cut a semicircle right between the flesh and pith of the lemon, leaving the outer peel intact, This gives you a lip of lemon flesh that can be bent back into a serving glass that leaves the outer peel hanging off the edge of the glass.
Chamomile Syrup:
You’ll need loose chamomile tea/flowers and clover honey. Bring four cups of water to gentle boil and add about one cup of chamomile tea/flowers and simmer for 10 minutes. Fine strain while still warm and add in a 1:2 ratio of honey (E.g. Four cups of tea to two cups of honey). Let cool, and then bottle.
Inspiration:
Springtime in the borderland. Chamomile tea is used as much more than as a base for the widely popular Sleepy-Time tea. I’ve grown fond of all the individual flavors present in my cocktail, and I worked hard to make a great marriage between them. I believe this is a great riff on the mule, and I love that it is a drink that can be enjoyed year round.
