1 1/2 oz Four Roses Single Barrel
3/4 oz Rothman & Winter Cherry Liqueur
1/2 oz Averna Amaro
1/4 oz Cynar
1 dash (15 drops) Bitter Truth Allspice Dram
Stir everything with ice and strain into a chilled Cocktail glass. Garnish with a little ground Nutmeg and steel yourself against the consumerist Hell of the holidays.
I wanted to start with something solid, cheap and inoffensive like a Four Roses Bourbon. Give it a bit of forced sweetness with some Cherry Liqueur and then blacken it like the hearts of all the oligarchs profiting on the holidays with a nice bit of Averna. Next it needed a shot of harsh bitterness to reflect dismal dark side of the holidays with some Cynar as people further descend into their deep pits of holiday despair and a finish with a splash of Allspice Dram just for that reminder that this is Xmas and the most wonderful time of the year.
An original entry into my list of Blackened Cocktails. See the original post here.
