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High Five Recipe
This drink is a little miracle in liquid prestidigitation: five ingredients (three of them alcoholic) getting together to assume the guise of an innocent cherry cola That flavor profile was exactly the intention of the bartender Jeff Lyon, who set out to make an alcoholic cola that tasted like “more than the sum of its parts.”
averna amaro, lime juice, syrup, liqueur, dogfish, orange wheel
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Paper Plane Recipe
The drink, invented by the New York bartender Sam Ross, who created the classic modern cocktail the penicillin, has slowly been gaining steam since it was introduced in 2007, showing up on cocktail menus in numerous time zones It is a rich, immediately likable whiskey sour lent plenty of culinary complexity by the amaro and the Aperol.
bourbon, aperol, amaro, lemon juice
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Fade to Black Recipe
A spin on the old drink category of the flip — which involves the use of a whole egg — the Fade to Black illustrates the potential versatility of cocktails using beer Rich, dessertlike and potent, this is that rare beast: an after-dinner beer cocktail Using raw egg has become a common practice in cocktail bars over the past decade
mezcal, amaro, jamaican rum, agave syrup, egg, beer
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Smithstreeter Recipe
Brad Thomas Parsons, the author of "Amaro: The Spirited World of Bittersweet, Herbal Liqueurs," created this invigorating highball that brings together an unexpected trio of ingredients: rye whiskey, Amaro Lucano and strong coffee It’s a bold (and delicious) blend — and, thanks to the coffee, as good an afternoon pick-me-up as any drink that includes whiskey and amaro can reasonably be expected to be.
rye whiskey, amaro, coffee, demerara syrup, orange