Lab-Rats March 2011

Each month, my bar team – Graham Racich, Marlo Panucci, Ben de Champlain – and I develop a set of ingredients and unique on-the-spot impromtu cocktails for guests that reflect our interesting style of cocktailing.
Here’s what is available for March:

Ingredient List:
Plum-Rootbeer Bitters

Corn-Vanilla Bitters

Lemongrass Syrup

Kaffir Lime Syrup

Pear-Star Anise Bitters

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Corn Old Fashioned:
- stir, ice, old fashioned -
1.50 oz bourbon
1.50 oz corn-vanilla bitters
angostura bitters
sugar
burnt orange peel

White Punch:
- build, ice, collins -
1.50 oz white rum
0.50 oz maraschino liqueur
0.75 oz grapefruit juice
0.75 oz lime juice
1.00 oz pear oolong tea
dash grapefruit bitters
gingerbeer

Red Punch:
- build, ice, collins -
1.00 oz gin
0.50 oz lillet
0.50 oz strawberry cassis
0.25 oz coronation grape bitters
0.75 oz lemon juice
1.00 oz simple
soda

Mayflower: (official Plymouth Gin Tales of the Cocktail on Tour in Vancouver – BC Bar Crawl Cocktail, available on March 14)
- stir, neat, coupe -
1.00 oz gin
0.50 oz plum & rootbeer bitters
0.50 oz cointreau
0.50 oz punt e mes
0.50 oz lemon juice
2 dashes angostura bitters
lemon peel