The Green One
Contributed by on Mar 28, 2019
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Old Fashioneds on white spirits was always a fun thing for me. The cask adds sweetness and richness to the spirit and makes it stand up for itself, but a white spirit needs a slightly different treatment.
The Green One (I am not very good with names, so it was called "Dill, glass wort, lemon" in the menu, and people just started asking for "the green one" instead) is one of those. Usitilzing the maritime connotations Scandinavians have with dill aquavit, we added salt and a grassy/beachy feel to it. Celery bitters book-end the herbaceous experience - as you'd write in a menu.
6 cl Dill Aquavit (I of course recommend Copenhagen Distillery, but most will work)
1cl Glass Wort Syrup*
1 dash Celery bitters
*make a simple syrup, add a good handful of fresh glass wort (it's a beach plant that grows in saltine environments) and blitz it in a blender. Run it through a cloth. You now have a very green syrup that tastes of grass and salt. Yum.
Build on good ice and garnish with a lemon zest.
Dill aquavit, glass wort and celery bitters, photo courtesy of Mikkel Vigholt from the book "Cocktails" by Sune Urth