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If you like drinks that are different, this is one of those. Tart from the citrus and the sherry, sweet from the orgeat and smoky from the mezcal & hot sauce. If you have some spicy bitters you’ve been meaning to use again, now is the time

To those of you that had made bets on me having lost my mind and was last seen running naked and scared in the beautiful New England wilderness: close. Pretty damn close but no. Fun fact for like 2 of you: the woods scare the hell out of me. I mean, they’re so damn quiet and there’s no cocktail bars, nor hair salons for miles; Add to that the fact that everyone I know that does go camping, somehow ends up packing a bottle of Fireball on every trip… I’m good. Really. I’m good.

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I made my own orgeat for some tasty mai-tais a while back and thought: mezcal… for some reason. But hey, it works. Tequila will get the job done here (when all else fails in life, you know tequila wont #ladiesamiright?!) but the backbone that comes with quality mezcal (Montelobos here) really gives it more weight.

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2 oz Amontillado sherry [ Lustao ] 
1 oz mezcal [ Montelobos ]
1 oz fresh lime juice
1 oz orgeat
1/2 oz simple syrup
2 dashes of hot sauce [ Cholula ]

Add all the ingredients in your shaker tin, add a bunch of ice and wake it up.

Strain into a chilled collins glass with ice and garnish with a lime wedge.