A Muddled Thought

So as one of many fans of the Conference, a Death and Company cocktail, invented by Brian Miller and inspired by the Old Fashioned. In recent weeks I’ve been experimenting with my take on the drink.

Here’s the original recipe from Death and Company.

The Conference:

1/4 oz Demerara Sugar Syrup
1/2 oz Rittenhouse Bonded Rye (100 Proof)
1/2 oz Buffalo Trace Bourbon
1/2 oz Cognac
1/2 oz Calvados
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
1 Dash Xocolatl Mole Bitters

My Take:

2 oz Gosling Black Seal

.5 Oz Tequila

.5 oz Velvet Falernum

2 Dashes Chocolate Extract

Or Dash Bittermans Xocolatl Mole Bitters

Shake with ice

Serve in old fashioned with one large cube

While talking to Phil Ward of Mayahuel and Death and Co., I decided to get his take on the recipe.

After trying it my way there were several other routes he took.

In the first go around, he decided to add some whiskey barrel bitters to my recipe, which brought some additional balance to the drink. At this point I still favored my version better.

Phil insisted on giving it another try, though this time changing up the ingredients a bit. As Phil is a big fan of Mescal, he decided to replace the tequila with Mescal.

This is something that i had previously tried this recipe at home using Mescal as well it didn’t seem to work as I had hoped it had. Though I was utilizing a bottle of Scorpion Mescal, which should probably be reserved for blender drinks and shots.

As a lover of Mescal, Phil decided to tweak the concept of the drink and mix up a few different ingredients for his final take on it.

Phil Ward’s Final Take-

All ingredients are equal parts. In other words ¾ of an Ounce

Antica

Los Danzante Mescal

Goslings Black Seal Rum

Marie Brizard White Cacao

Lime

While this drink probably won’t make it to the Cocktail Menu at Mayahuel anytime soon, I figured I’d still give it an appropriate name. I’m still hopefully that Phil will at least let me pick the name if it does somehow become a featured choice. If that does happen, keeping with it’s Spanish influences, I’d suggest petición pasada which translates to “last request”.

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