Cocktails & Cheese: Color War with Bonne Bouche & St. Albans
Servings:
1
prep time:
10 mins
Total time:
10 mins
Ingredients
-
½ ounce blueberry-grapefruit shrub
-
¼ ounce cucumber-infused Pimm's
-
¾ ounce whiskey
-
¾ ounce single barrel gin
Directions
to make blueberry grapefruit shrub
- Combine 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar in small saucepan. Heat until sugar is dissolved. Stir in 1 pint blueberries and 1 pink grapefruit (zested and quartered); heat until blueberries pop. Remove from heat; strain out fruit. Add 2/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons cider vinegar. Stir to combine.
to make cucumber-infused pimm's
- Peel and seed 1 English cucumber. Combine with 1 bottle Pimm's in large glass container. Allow to infuse 3 days; strain cucumber out.
to make the cocktail
- Combine ½ ounce shrub, ¼ ounce Pimm’s, whiskey and gin in shaker glass; fill with ice. Shake 8-12 seconds. Strain into rocks glass filled with ice. Garnish with fresh thyme sprig.
