Beverages
The Afterthaw
Ingredients
- 2 ounces Michter’s Sour Mash Whiskey
- ½ ounce Amaro Nonino
- ¼ ounce grade B maple syrup
- 4 dashes Bar Argos mushroom bitters, recipe follows
Preparation
In a mixing glass, combine liquors, syrup and 2 dashes of bitters. Stir well with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Top with 2 remaining dashes of mushroom bitters.
To make mushroom bitters: In a quart jar, combine ½ ounce chopped dried porcini mushrooms, 3 cut black cardamom pods, 2 tablespoons yellow dock, 1 tablespoon Pau d’Arco bark, 6 halved juniper berries, 4 smashed hawthorn berries and 1 teaspoon bilberries. Fill rest of quart jar with 100-plus-proof vodka. Steep in a cool dark place for 2 weeks. Strain twice through a coffee filter.
Bartender Autumn Greenberg; Bar Argos; Ithaca, New York