exploding plastic inevitable

1 1/2 oz Mezcal (Peloton de la Muerte)
1/2 oz Amaro Braulio
1/2 oz Apricot Liqueur (Rothman & Winter)
1/2 oz Lime Juice
2 dash Peychaud's Bitters

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail coupe.After seeing folks make my As I Lay Dying on Instagram, I thought about the Braulio-apricot combination and merged it with the Pendennis Club. In retrospect, I could have left out the Pendennis Club's Peychaud's akin to the Campari acting like the Pegu Club's Angostura in the Jasmine, but Peychaud's has a good track record of improving drinks. I named this weird one after the multimedia events in the 1960s thrown by Andy Warhol and friends called the Exploding Plastic Inevitable that I read about in Ada Calhoun's St. Marks is Dead book. In the glass, the Exploding Plastic Inevitable evolved a smoke, apricot, vegetal, and pine bouquet. Next, lime and orchard fruit on the sip spun into smoke, bitter pine and apricot, and vegetal flavors on the swallow.