Being playful with cocktail recipes yields sometimes fabulous and sometimes disastrous results. Fortunately, Kevin Liu's slight variation on the Negroni falls into the former category. Substituting an amaro for sweet vermouth makes sense if you like your drinks intensely flavorful and complex Add a few dashes of bitters and you've got yourself something special. I happened to have a bottle of Averna and a bottle of Ramazotti amaros on hand so I made one with each. Both excellent in their own way. The Ramazotti had something like a hint of peppermint.
Recipe is easy.
1 oz gin
1 oz Campari
1 oz Averna amaro (or amaro of your choice).
1 dashes Angustora bitters
2 dashes orange bitters (Kevin used Regan's; I liked Angustora's orange bitters a titch more)
Stir on ice and strain into cocktail glass.
Garnish with orange peel after expressing the oil from the peel into the drink.
That is a horrible example of cutting out a letter in the orange peel for garnish. I've done much better, but wanted to share my failure. There's a business idea... Small cookie cutters to punch out a letter from citrus peel for cocktail. In the world of bespoke-ness you can't get much more bespoken. Sell each for a small fortune on Cocktail Kingdom.
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