Thursday, November 3, 2022

rosa forteleza

1 1/4 oz Cachaça (Novo Fogo Bar Strength)
1/2 oz Aperol
3/4 oz Cocchi Americano
1/2 oz Grapefruit Juice

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail coupe.
Two Thursdays, I decided to make another recipe from the "Drinks of Drink" notebook called the Rosa Forteleza. The recipe was crafted by Misty Kalkofen at Drink and published in a 2011 Boston.com article along with the Two Orchard Thieves, Zocalo, and Sel de la Mer. The recipe surprised me since I had never had any cachaça creations of hers through the years. After a shake and a strain, the Rosa Forteleza sallied up with a grassy, funky, and grapefruit bouquet. Next, grapefruit, orange, and pear notes on the sip twirled into funky rum, grassy, and citrus flavors on the swallow.

3 comments:

sc'Que? said...

This recipe parses quite a bit like my own "La Otra Rosita"--a "tequila-manhattan" build of split-base tequila {Tres Gen plata + Comisario blanco}, Cocchi Americano Rosa, Aperol, Bittermens Burlesque bitters, Peychaud bitters... stirred, strained up, and finished with [in this order --->] alder-smoked salt, rosewater mist, and cracked long-pepper (Frontier Co-op brand).

Curious what you think. We serve this on-the-reg at Pine Grove Hall, Pine Grove Mills, PA.

sc'Que? said...

ha--I typo'd my own recipe! There's no Aperol in there.

sc'Que? said...

... rather, it's Scrappy's Grapefruit bitters.