1/2 oz Rothman & Winter Apricot Liqueur
1/2 oz Nux Alpina Walnut Liqueur
1/2 oz Suze Gentiane Liqueur
Stir with ice and strain into a rocks glass.
For my second drink at Brick & Mortar, I asked bartender Kenny Belanger if he had the recipes from the Spin the Bottle event in late February that featured Hollis Bulleit on the turntables as the DJ for the evening. The drink that caught my eye, the Human Rocket, was crafted by Misty Kalkofen; I surmise that this fruity, nutty, and bitter Bourbon drink was named after a DEVO song, but I did not ask that night to confirm. It also seemed like a fruitier variation of Misty's Penn Cocktail that she crafted for the Ivy League College menu last autumn.

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2 comments:
C'mon now, would you have wanted a drink called Jocko Homo?
I played with this a couple of times and couldn't help but feel like the bourbon dominated to the expense of the modifiers, so I started subbing in rum. Most any dark, moderately-aged rum works, but something like Real McCoy 5 Year, with its barrel notes, splits the difference especially well.
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