I've been trying quite a few non-standard cocktails lately, here's a few of them.
Lat night I made an Aperol sour with Pisco:
1.5oz Pisco
1.5oz Aperol
0.75oz Lemon juice
0.5oz Simple syrup
1oz egg white
This is a really good drink, it has a lot of citrus flavors, and the sweet Aperol taste gets balanced by the Pisco. Highly recommended.
Then I played around with the Negroni recipe and made this:
1oz Pisco
1oz Aperol
1oz Sweet vermouth (I used Carpano Antica)
2 dashes of orange bitters
Flamed orange peel
This one came out a bit too sweet, next time I'll probably do 1.25oz Pisco and 0.75oz Aperol to offset the sweetness of the Aperol.
Then I found this recipe:
The Golden Sour
by Paul Sanguinetti, Rays and Stark Bar
Cocktail Ingredients:
1 oz Don Cesar Pisco Puro
1 oz Luxardo Grappa Euganea
.75 oz Luxardo Limoncello
1 barspoon Luxardo Maraschino
1 oz lemon juice
1 egg white
This was my least favorite drink of the night, but I think I added too much Maraschino liqueur and my Grappa is not of the greatest quality.
Also, a few weeks ago I infused Pisco with coffee for a week and made a Zambito cocktail:
http://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2010/02/zambito.html
Infusing Pisco:
Finished drink:
To finish, a Pisco sour made with big-ass ice cubes.
I got thirsty writing this post!