Savory Cocktails: Sour Spicy Herbal Umami Bitter Smoky Rich Strong

by Greg Henry

From an LA Weekly top five food blogger, innovative cocktail recipes that are savory, not sweet, with herbal, sour, smoky and rich flavors.   Move over sweet. Cocktail aficionados are mixing up creative concoctions that are herbaceous, smoky and strong. These rims are anything but sugarcoated. Savory Cocktails shakes, stirs and strains nearly 100 hard-hitting distilled delights for a cornucopia of today’s coolest drinks. Using everything from classic liqueurs to innovative new bitters, the recipes in this book offer a stylish, sophisticated approach to complex-flavored cocktails   •Yuzu Sour •Green Tea Gimlet •Off-White Negroni •Pink Peppercorn Hot Gin Sling •Greens Fee Fizz •The Spice Trail   Packed with carefully crafted cocktails as well as information on tools, ingredients and imbibing history, Savory Cocktails goes way beyond just recipes. The devilish twists in this barman’s companion are taste tested and mixologist approved.

Genres: Cocktails, Food, Cookbooks

146 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 22, 2013

Reviews

[Paula · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is going to be catnip to those of us who love a Bloody Mary, who put hot sauce in tequila and a strip of bacon in a shot of bourbon. Wait I just lost my train of thought. Bacon. Bourbon.

Brrrr- I'm fine! Right from page 6, our buddy Greg Henry distinguishes this book by offering some really interesting syrup recipes. I make ginger, mint, and lemon simple syrup all the time - it's ridiculously easy - so I'd be totally up for keeping some Habanero Agave Syrup (thinly sliced chile, 1/2 cup warm water, 1/2 cup agave syrup, stir it up, let sit an hour, strain) in the fridge.

He also includes directions for making your own bitters, shrubs (infused drinking vinegars that mix divinely with gin), and infusions.

The cocktails are divided into the sections indicated in the subtitle, and hoo hoo! - smoky cocktails? Yes please!