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August 2023

Must Mix: National Watermelon Day Cocktails with Broken Shed Vodka!

By | Mixology News

It’s National Watermelon Day and we have two refreshing libations plus a bonus pineapple-infused sip from Broken Shed Vodka that’ll make you lose your rind!

For the third year in a row, Broken Shed Vodka continues to be the fastest growing vodka in the United States. The spirit is created using only three ingredients: ancient mineral-rich aquifer water from New Zealand’s South Island, filtered spring water from the mountains of New Zealand’s North Island, and sustainable whey sourced from free-ranging New Zealand dairy cows. Using whey—a naturally occurring and sustainable byproduct—just might make Broken Shed the most environmentally-conscious vodka yet.

Watermelon Keen

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 oz Broken Shed Vodka
  • 1 oz Aperol
  • 2 oz watermelon shrub*
  • 1/4 oz mint simple syrup

Preparation: Stir all the ingredients over ice, then strain into a double rocks glass over 1 large ice cube. Garnish with a strawberry slice and enjoy!

*Watermelon Shrub

Ingredients:

  • 5 cups fresh watermelon
  • ⅓ cup clover honey
  • ½ cup raw apple cider vinegar

Preparation: Puree the watermelon in a blender until smooth. Pass through a fine mesh strainer, then mix with the clover honey and raw apple cider vinegar. Store in a glass jar and place in the fridge for a few days before impressing your friends with this unique cocktail. The shrub will last in the fridge a few weeks.

Nice One

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 oz Broken Shed Vodka
  • 1 oz fresh watermelon juice
  • 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
  • 1/2 oz ginger simple syrup
  • 1 dash orange bitters

Preparation: Add ingredients into a shaker with ice. Shake and double strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with a cucumber ribbon.

Solar Power

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz pineapple-infused Broken Shed Vodka*
  • 1 bar spoon habanero simple syrup

Preparation: Short shake all the ingredients with 3 ice cubes, then strain into a highball glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with the pineapple wedge and serve with a straw.

*Pineapple-Infused Vodka

Ingredients:

  • 1 fresh pineapple
  • 750 ml Broken Shed Vodka

Preparation: Cut the pineapple into cubes and place in a glass container. Cover with Broken Shed Vodka and let sit at room temperature for 7 days. Strain back into your original bottle, and store in the fridge for up to two weeks.

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In the Limelight Chamoy, the Saucy Mexican Condiment

By | Mixology News

With the rise in popularity of all things briney and spicey—especially in cocktails—Chamoy goes viral with a TikTok pairing .

Wrapping Chamoy soaked pickles in a fruit rollup caused quite the stir blowing up the popular app and driving bartenders to rush and get their hands on the saucy Mexican condiment. In keeping up with what’s hot, the iconic vodka brand Stoli, introduces Stoli Chamoy, its latest addition to the brand’s portfolio. Check out the Stoli Chamoy Pickle Martini recipe and add something saucy to your bar program.

Stoli Chamoy Pickly Martini

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Stoli Chamoy
  • 1 oz pickle juice / spicy spickly juice
  • 2 dashes hot sauce
  • Tajin
  • Fruit Roll Up

Preparation: Rim Martini glass with Tajin. Shake Stoli Chamoy, pickle juice, and hot sauce in a shaker with ice until chilled and pour into glass. Thinly roll the fruit roll up and place into the Martini as an edible garnish.

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Cool Product Report: Jägermeister Retro Inflatable Cooler

By | Mixology News

Jägermeister launched a fun retro inflatable cooler perfect for hot summer days or outdoor parties this season.

Jägermeister’s inflatable cooler was inspired by the retro styles that are now making a comeback. The cooler is awesome and comes equipped with six shot glass holders on the top that are perfect for any summer days on the go and is much easier to transport than standard plastic coolers. You must try this cooler out- it’s perfect for summer convenience and fun!

Now available in a bundle on the website for purchase, each bundle includes: a retro-style inflatable cooler with six shot cups, but 20 Vintage stickers taken straight from Jägermeister’s historical archives in Wolfenbüttel, Germany!

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Entries Are Pouring into Novo Fogo’s Brazilian Cocktail Challenge—Bartenders Enter Now!

By | Mixology News

Bartenders, Enter The Novo Fogo Brazilian Cocktail Challenge Now

Bartenders are invited to create original cocktails featuring any Novo Fogo Bar Cachaça expression and enter them into the categories of Samba and Bossa Nova—two of Brazil’s most beloved musical genres—for a chance to win a trip to Brazil.

SAMBA: tropical, bright, loud, and joyous reflections of Brazil’s alegria!

BOSSA NOVA: harmonious, suave, and spirit-forward compositions!

Enter The Novo Fogo Brazilian Cocktail Challenge Now

How It Works:

The deadline for entries is 11:59PM PDT on August 7th. 10 finalists and 3 alternates will be selected, and they will be asked to submit videos no longer than 5 minutes preparing and describing their cocktail. A panel of judges will evaluate the video submissions and recreate the recipes for in-person tasting to judge the final selections.

TWO grand prize winners will win an all-expenses paid adventure to visit Novo Fogo’s distillery in Morretes, Brazil. In addition to soaking up cachaça culture, you’ll enjoy delicious local food and drink, immerse yourself in the wonders of the Atlantic Rainforest, plant a tree, and experience an array of places, from the bars and museums of Curitiba to the historic coastal towns near the beach. Yes, the carbon footprint of this global adventure will be offset. Vamos!

• The next THREE winners will win $500.

• The next FIVE winners will win $250.

• In case you haven’t been doing the math, all 10 finalists will win something!

Enter The Novo Fogo Brazilian Cocktail Challenge Now

Check Out Some Bartenders Cocktail Entries and Inspiration:

Fogo, Berries & Samba

Recipe by Aistis Zidanavicius

I wanted to create a vibrant, lively and energetic cocktail that could be complex in flavor and playful at the same time. It’s how I see Samba dance—complex, playful and energetic, like a fire—fogo. Raspberries give playfulness, while pomegranate seeds ensure little dryness, all together giving an energetic red color. Sugar and lime balance the flavors, while little salt provides minerality that really complements the star of the show—Novo Fogo Silver Bar strength. I used silver bar strength cachaca because it pairs perfectly with Samba, not so matured (and little stronger to really shine in the cocktail), but very wildly fragrant, lively and energetic. Everything together gives a perfect combination for Samba parties! You can taste Samba in the drink!

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 oz Novo Fogo Silver Bar strength
  • 1/4 oz fresh Lime juice
  • 5-6 fresh Raspberries
  • 1 1/2 bar spoon fresh Pomegranate seeds
  • 1/2 oz Simple & Salt syrup 1:1
  • 1 oz Prosecco

Preparation: Add raspberries and pomegranate seeds into the shaker. 2. Muddle well. 3. Add all other ingredients except Prosecco. 4. Add cubed ice and shake well 5. Add Prosecco 6. Fine strain into Couette glass 7. Garnish with 3 fresh raspberries on a nice cocktail pick Simple & Salt syrup 1L filtered Water 1 kg white Sugar 25 g Salt Add everything into the pot and boil while stirring. Stop the heat as soon as everything dissolves. Chill and use. Garnish with 3 fresh raspberries on a nice cocktail pick

Passionate Pandeiro

Recipe by Tim Weigel

One of the central instruments to Samba is the pandeiro and it is quite a challenge to learn the Samba rhythm (or toque). It involves rocking your curved hand over the pandeiro with one motion tapping the heel of your hand the other motion tapping your fingers. Once the Samba toque is learned, it provides a lively, colorful, and almost trancelike experience to the listener. You can’t help yourself from dancing! The Pandeiro toque provides inspiration for my cocktail as it has a fruity flavor that accompanies the tropical notes of the Novo Fogo bar strength along with a vivid red color which invokes the passion of Samba!

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 oz Novo Fogo silver Cachaça bar strength
  • 1/4 oz lime juice
  • 1 1/2 oz watermelon juice
  • 1/4 oz St George Bruto Americano
  • 0.375 oz Liquid Alchemist prickly pear syrup

Preparation: Shake all ingredients with ice and double strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with a lime wheel and baby’s breath.

Scarlett Macaw

Recipe by Emma Getchell

This cocktail is inspired by the classic Jungle Bird. I like to think of it as a reverse Jungle Bird! Instead of a dark rum, I decided to use silver Cachaca because it’s a little bit funkier and more approachable for people who are not a fan of dark spirits. Novo Fogo Cachaca adds a bit of a savory flavor to this drink. I swapped out Campari for Aperol. I added a tiny bit of lemon juice to balance out the sweetness of the pineapple juice and Aperol. Lastly, instead of using a simple syrup or Demerara syrup, I decided to add our heavy vanilla simple syrup to add just a touch of sweetness but also to add another flavor, vanilla. This cocktail fits the theme of Samba because it is tropical, fun, approachable, and easy drinking. I think it’s a great cocktail for people who want to drink fun spirits like Cachaca and for others who haven’t heard of the spirit at all. It’s a juicy, mouthwatering, bitter fruit bomb. It’s complex and balanced yet super tropical and simple. The name of my cocktail is the Scarlett Macaw which is one of the many native birds of Brazil. So, when choosing the glassware for this drink, I decided on a bird mug! Inspired by the many tropical birds of Brazil and the carnival celebrations in which they are super colorful and fun. In our area, Cachaca is not a well-known spirit so it’s super rewarding to educate people on the beauty of it. Educating guests and bringing them a little bit of Brazilian culture.

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 ounces Novo Fogo Silver Cachaca
  • 1/2 oz Aperol
  • 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
  • 1 1/2 oz pineapple juice
  • 1/4 oz heavy vanilla simple syrup*

*Heavy vanilla simple syrup

2 parts white sugar to 1-part hot water.

Preparation: Add one Madagascar vanilla bean per one quart and let infuse. The syrup is good to use after one hour of infusion but over time as the vanilla bean sits, the more vanilla flavor you will get. (Which is totally fine!) Fresh lemon and pineapple juice is preferred. If you don’t have fresh pineapple juice, Dole pineapple juice works too! To make cocktail: Build ingredients in Boston shaker tin, add one cold draft ice cube and whip shake until you don’t hear the cube anymore. Pour over pebble ice in glass. Add garnishes and top with pebble ice to fill glass if needed. Dehydrated lemon wheel, dehydrated pineapple slice, mint sprigs for garnsh.

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Source: Mixology News