dogfight

2 oz Eagle Rare Bourbon (Old Grand-Dad Bonded)
1/2 oz Amaro Nonino
1/2 oz Aperol
2 dash Bitter Truth Orange Bitters (Scrappy's)
2 Lemon Peels expressed and dropped into the mixing glass

Stir with ice, strain into a coupe glass, and garnish with a paper plane.Two Thursdays prior, I was looking through online recipe flashcards and honed in on the Dogfight from Alter Ego in San Jose, California. Their stirred riff on the Paper Plane that I found in a 2023 recipe set is still currently on their menu. In the glass, the Dogfight took off with orange and herbal aromas. Next, caramel and orange notes on the sip were chased by Bourbon, orange, and lightly bitter herbal flavors on the swallow with a lemon and orange pith finish.