Poitín Cocktails by @TheSpiritCellar

By David Coveney @TheSpiritCellar

This experience was much like trying to contend with the school bully. With poitín you do not play. It shows you it's true colours instantly, and with that you try to work with it. But each time it

tries to steal your lunch money. It's bigger, bolder and thinks it's better than you and every time you fear it, it gets stronger.

I treat poitín like a predator. You need to work out what it wants, how it plays the cocktail game. So it took a little longer than usual. With what I had I came up with these three cocktails.

Dark Times In Cork

This cocktail evolves as you drink it, bringing out the spice of the poitin and the freshness of all the other ingredients, without spoiling the character.

Ingredients

35ml Teeling Whiskey Poitín

12ml PX Sherry

3 Drops Angostura

1 Spoon of Raspberries

Method: Stir well with an orange slice, much like a Negroni and add the crushed raspberries at the end, letting the juice pour down through the drink slowly.

Another Bloody Morning

This will wake you up much better than the lovely Bloody Mary. Really, it will. There is no other choice.

Ingredients

25ml Knockeen Hills

Dash Worcestshire Sauce

2 Dash Tobasco

4 Dash Green Tobasco

10ml Full Bodied Red Wine

4 Dash Celery Bitters

Method: Shake all ingredients well and double strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a slither of cucumber on a stick.

Well that's a little dirty!

Just amazing. Dirty yet delightful.

Ingredients

50ml Ban Poitin

Filthy olive brine to taste

Method: Make this like a dirty Martini, i.e. Stir well.

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