The Fig Apple

• 2.0 oz. Laird’s Bonded apple brandy
• 0.75 oz. blackberry liqueur
• 0 25 oz. fig arrak
• 2 dashes Crude orange & fig bitters

Stir with ice and strain into coupe. Express orange peel over drink, then discard. Garnish with an apple slice.

I’m going through my stores and trying to work through some bottles I’ve had for a while but not really used. Enter the fig arrak and blackberry liqueur. I started with rye but as the name came to me I switched the base to apple. Ideally it would be NY based, but I had NJ on hand. Fuggedaboutit.

Pukana Lā

• 2.0 oz. aged rhum agricole (Barbancourt 5)
• 0.5 oz. Yellow Chartreuse
• 0.5 oz. lime juice
• 0.25 oz. pimento dram (St. Elizabeth’s)
• 0 25 oz. Velvet Falernum
• 0 25 oz. passion fruit liqueur (Giffard’s)
• dash of falernum bitters

Shake with ice and strain into coupe.

I don’t have too much to comment on this one. It likely started with passion fruit and bloomed from there. I love the passion fruit in combination with Green Chartreuse, so likely was exploring its yellow counterpart.

The name translates to “sunset” in Hawaiian. Not really a Hawaiian cocktail, but definitely made me think of a tropical sunset, both in taste and in where I’d like to be sipping it.