This is my Friday drink after a tough week -- not for the faint of heart but if you are love scotch whisky but want to have it as a fancy cocktail with a mix of sweet, sour and packing some heat while not drowning out the scotch, this is your drink.
It will like Penicillin cure almost anything or at least make you forget it happened. This is also a drink (like the Lexington Kiss), I first had at the W Hotel Lexington Street in NY, which was my go to hotel for many years in NY. I was a good no frills business hotel with a nice vibe and great bar and bar food.
Ingredients
2 oz of good single malt scotch whisky (ideally one thats not too peaty, that part comes later)
1 oz simple syrup
.5 teaspoon of lavender honey
About 5 slices of freshly peeled ginger (cut them like discs across the root)
1/2 a lemon juiced
1/4 oz of Islay scotch whisky
Candied ginger discs
In a cocktail shaker put the fresh ginger pieces and muddle them with a muddler until the juice collects above the ginger fibers. Pour in the single malt whisky and stir well, now add the honey -- its a little messy but with some persistence you can get it off the spoon and into the mix. Add the simple syrup and lemon juice. Fill the shaker with ice and shake vigorously.
Put a large cube of ice in an old-fashioned glass.
Now pour the drink with a double filter into the glass (i.e. with the cocktail shakers own filter as well as a tea strainer type filter so that the fine bits of ginger don't get into the drink). Spear two candied ginger pieces with a bamboo or other cocktail pick and add to the glass.
Now sit back and be prepared to forget the week and start the weekend.
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