I lately acquired a bottle of Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin.  I’ve been loopy about that attractive bottle since I noticed it on a visit to Eire a pair years in the past. It’s easy mesmerizing. Gunpowder gin is copper pot distilled in Eire with botanicals sourced regionally and all all through Europe and Asia. Together with the nations of Germany, Romania, Macedonia, India and China to call just a few. Their web site has a map of the place the botanicals come from with an outline of every. Additionally they embrace which botanicals are distilled immediately and that are vapor infused as a part of the method. Most likely probably the most attention-grabbing botanical is the namesake, gunpowder tea. Gunpowder tea is a type of Chinese language tea during which every leaf has been rolled right into a small spherical pellet. Its English title comes from its resemblance to grains of gunpowder.

The gin is a London dry model gin with vibrant citrus and inexperienced tea notes balanced with juniper.

To make the cocktail, I complimented the gin with extra botanicals. One in all my favourite US primarily based Amaro distilleries is Don Ciccio & Figli. Additionally they make fantastic liqueurs. The Fico D’India is a prickly pear liqueur with delicate cactus fruit flavors. Made by hand, it by no means tastes pretend like so many syrups you discover in older Arizona bars & resorts.

There are a few the prickly pear fruits within the image in case you are interested by what they appear to be. They’re considerable right here in Arizona, however a bit tough to reap since they’re lined in tiny needles that have to be burned off earlier than processing. They simply pierce leather-based gloves so I often decide them with tongs and use a lighter to burn off the needles.

I additionally added Royal Rose Saffron Syrup. Rose Rose syrups are licensed natural and made in small batches in Newcastle, Maine. They’ve only some elements and reliably style as you’d anticipate of a recent made syrup. The Maine Blueberry taste will make you consider you picked them your self! I completed off the cocktail with a pair dashes grapefruit bitters to actually punctuate the intense citrus notes discovered within the gin.

The cocktail title is a nod to the whimsy inherent within the the story of the gin. The mysterious jackalope on the bundle. “Conceived in a lightning storm, says the legend, the jackalope seems in Drumshanbo at will, as in a dream. After which: gone in a flurry of toes and antlers.”

I Dreamed a Dream

Stir over ice till chilled. Double pressure right into a coupe Garnish with a peeled slice of recent prickly pear coated in sugar.