Thursday, October 30, 2025

crooked kilt (accomplice bar)

1 oz Laphroaig 10 Year Scotch (*)
1/2 oz Oloroso Sherry (*)
1/2 oz Green Chartreuse
1/2 oz Falernum
1/2 oz Pineapple Juice
1/2 oz Lime Juice

Whip shake, pour into a Cobbler-appropriate glass, fill with crushed ice, and garnish with mint sprigs.
(*) Original has: 1 1/2 oz J&B Blended Scotch as the base spirit and a Laphroaig spritz as part of the garnish; this is my guess on the Laphroaig and sherry amounts assuming that the Accomplice Bar held everything else constant from the NoMad recipe.
The Wednesday night of Portland Cocktail Week, I stopped by an unofficial event at the Scotch Lodge after the last official event of the evening, ChurroFest, was over. Scotch Lodge was hosting the Accomplice Bar with their menu of "The Accomplice Guide to Los Angeles Cocktails." The one I selected was the Crooked Kilt which appeared to be their take on Leo Robitschek's recipe from The NoMad Cocktail Book. All the ingredients appeared the same except for the removal of the blended Scotch base and perhaps shifting the aromatic Laphroaig garnish to replace it; moreover, Oloroso made an appearance. Therefore, the above recipe is my best guest using the original combined with Accomplice's menu's ingredient list and my intuition from tasting it. The two visiting bartenders were way too frantic to keep up with all the service tickets to ask, and the bar never replied to my Instagram message, so I figured that this was the best that I could do. Leo described his creation as "A Scotch Cobbler with bitter, green pineapple notes," and I was all for that with an upping of Islay smoke and the addition of dried fruit notes. In the glass, this Crooked Kilt emanated mint and herbaceous aromas. Next, pineapple, grape, and lime on the sip blossomed into smoky Scotch, pineapple, nutty sherry, and clove flavors on the swallow.

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