A Kentucky Promise - Single - Cocktail Contessa

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A Kentucky Promise - Single

Sweet blackberry, bourbon and amaro marry in this old fashioned riff. It's an easy cocktail to assemble, and even better if you batch it.

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Course Drinks

Cuisine Bourbon Cocktail

Servings

Ingredients

1 ½ oz Angel’s Envy Bourbon
1 oz Starlight Blackberry-Whiskey
½ oz Averna Amaro
½ oz blackberry simple syrup
Garnish: fresh blackberry mint or basil leaf

Instructions

Combine ingredients in a mixing glass and fill with ice. Stir until well-chilled and strain into an ice-filled old fashioned glass. Garnish with a blackberry, mint or basil leaf.

Notes

Blackberry simple syrup recipe:

1 cup sugar
3 cups frozen blackberries
1/4 cup water

Combine ingredients in a saucepan and cook until the blackberries until thawed, soft and very juicy. Simmer for 10 min. Strain the blackberries out, pressing on them to get as much juicy syrup out of them as possible. Let cool and store in a bottle for one to two weeks.

Keyword amaro, batch, batch cocktail, batched, blackberry, bourbon ball

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