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Mezcal Old Fashioned

This post originally appeared at The Sugar House’s Blog of Cocktails and general malaise.

I’ve been drinking lots of mezcal lately and was inspired to get off my fat and lazy ass and actually make a post for yous alls.

Mezcal Old Fashioned

2 oz. Del Maguey Vida Mezcal

.5 oz. Cucumber Syrup

Dash Peychaud’s

Build in glass, add ice, stir.

If you’re not down with the mezcal yet, I suggest you leave work early, head straight to the local liquor store, buy a bottle and drink it your car in the parking lot. But please friends, don’t drive drunk. No, instead, just sit there, drinking in your car for a few hours, and then pass out, and then wake up at 11:15pm and wonder where the hell you are, and then look at your phone and you’ve got all these angry text messages from your wife and you’re like shit dude, not again… not again.

Anyways, mezcal is to tequila as Islay scotch is to corn whiskey. Smokey, peppery, delish. I recently used it instead of Laphroaig in a tequila variation on the Penicillin with much success. And Vida is the cheapest kind from Del Maguey. I think it retails for around $45.00, as opposed to Chichicapa or some of the other ones that are $65.00+.

Cucumber Syrup

In your Champion juicer that your mom got you for Christ day, juice one half of an English style cucumber (skin and all). To this, add just a tiny squeeze of lemon juice – maybe 1/4 of an ounce – and go about 3:2 juice to sugar ratio. Pour the sugar and juice into a large bottle and do the cold shake method… you don’t want to heat up the cucumber juice, it gets rather shitty.

Posted on 2011.01.11 by Dave Kwiatkowski at 1:48 pm
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