ghost hardware

1 1/2 oz Bluecoat Gin (Treehouse Hildegard von Bingen)
3/4 oz Aperol
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1/2 oz Demerara Syrup
1/4 oz Marie Brizard White Crème de Cacao (Bols)
2 dash Angostura Bitters
2 wheel Cucumber
1 pinch Salt (5 drop 20% Saline)

Shake hard and double strain into a cocktail coupe.Two Sundays ago, I was scrolling through my to-make list, and I decided to make the Ghost Hardware by Colin Shearn at The Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co. in Philadelphia that the Post Prohibition blog had published. The drink utilized a trick that I first experienced in the 3185 that Aperol and cucumber generate a watermelon notes, and it was something that I used for guests and taught to other bartenders at Drink when there was a request for something that tastes like watermelon (or more specifically for a drink with watermelon which we did not regularly have on hand). In the glass, the Ghost Hardware offered up watermelon, pine, and clove aromas. Next, lemon and orange on the sip slid into juniper, watermelon, and chocolate flavors on the swallow.