A global celebration of bartenders and their craft, World Bartender Day is a perfect occasion to pick up your favourite drink and churn out a great cocktail for a quiet evening at home. And to your aid is Local Ferment Co - a micro-brewery & kitchen making all things probiotic Their beverages are brewed with thoughtfully selected & locally sourced fruits, spices and herbs.
Looking for ingredients A match made in heaven put together for you in a box - Zero Percent's rumISH/ginISH/IPA or Chardonnay are thoughtfully paired with Local Ferment Co&rsquos exclusive range of shrub (cocktail mixers) flavors and other ferments to top your cocktails with.
Here are a few cocktail recipes for your midweek blues
The Sipper
If you are the classic kind of person, you would love this.
Style Stirred Straight Up
Flavour Profile Strong
Ingredients
rumISH - 2 oz
LFC Kaffir Lime Ginger Beer - 2 oz
Steps
Take a rocks glass, add a block of ice (clear ice preferably)
Take 60 ml of chilled rumISH
Take 60 ml of LFC Kaffir Lime Ginger Beer. (Stir it)
Sip and enjoy
Cherry Buck/ Mule
A buck is a cocktail made with either ginger beer or ginger ale (yeah, there is difference between these two), citrus juice, and any number of base liquors. In this cherry buck, bring together LFC's Cherry, Vanilla, and Cacao shrub and Ginger Beer - Kaffir Lime with rumISH for that perfect oomph.
Ingredients
Style Shaken Straight Up
Flavour Profile Citrusy, Spicy and Sweet
Ingredients
(1 oz = 30 ml)
rumISH - 2 oz
LFC Cherry Shrub - 1 1/2 oz
Lemon Juice - 15 ml
LFC Ginger Beer - Kaffir Lime - 8 1/2 oz
Steps
Add the lemon juice, LFC shrub and rumISH in a shaker with ice. Shake it until chilled.
Strain it into a rocks glass with ice.
Top it with Kaffir Lime infused Ginger Beer.
Garnish it with a dried lemon wheel or a patted kaffir lime leaf.
The Shandy
In this rendition to a Shandy, mix in the fruity and tarty Raspberry, Ginger, and Orange Shrub with the hoppy, bitter coast co IPA.
Style Straight Up
Flavour Profile Hoppy, Tangy, and Bitter Sweet
Ingredients
(1 oz = 30 ml)
Coast Co IPA (0% abv) - 11 oz
LFC Raspberry, Ginger, and Orange Shrub - 2 oz
Lemon Juice - 1 1/2 oz
Steps
Add lemon juice and Raspberry, Ginger, and Orange Shrub to a beer glass. Stir it well.
Add ice, if preferred. Top it with Coast Co IPA.
Garnish it with a dried orange wheel or apple slice.
The Gimlet
It cannot get any easier than a classic Gimlet, a chilled gin (right out of the freezer), lemon juice, and sugar. A simple combination of liquor, lime juice, and sugar classifies it as a sour. A gimlet at a bar is supposed to be like your morning coffee, it should wake you up before you break the ice.
This rendition of this zero-proof Gimlet is crisp, herbaceous, dry, and ridiculously citrusy.
Style Sour Shaken
Flavour Profile Citrusy, Herbaceous, and Tangy
Ingredients
(1 oz = 30 ml)
ginISH - 2 oz
LFC Asian Shrub - 1 1/2 oz
Lemon Juice - 15 ml
Steps
Add the ginISH, lemon juice, and LFC's Asian Shrub in a shaker with ice. Shake it until chilled. Remember, any cocktail that has citrus always needs to be shaken.
Keep a coupe or a rocks glass chilled. Strain it into the glass.
Garnish it with a fresh or dried lime wheel.
