April 9 is National Gin & Tonic Day!
Why not celebrate this day with a color-changing cocktail
Courtesy of Scapegrace BLACK Gin!
A truly seductive, intriguing, sophisticated, and captivating new gin: Scapegrace Black Gin is the world’s first naturally black, color-changing gin from The New Zealand-based Scapegrace Distillery.
The lustrous noir gin turns to a beautiful, romantic shade of lavender when mixed with tonic. Below are a couple of cocktail recipes. One is a recipe for the Scapegrace Black Signature Serve cocktail. The tonic elevates the botanical flavors of the gin; the green apple cleanses the profile, making this cocktail highly refreshing and crisp.
About SCAPEGRACE Black Gin:
SCAPEGRACE BLACK GIN (SRP $38.99) begins, like all quality gins: with intense juniper and the addition of premium, exotic botanicals. The master distiller used a combination of local sweet potato, Aronia berries, pineapple, and saffron, as well as Butterfly pea flower, (they sourced this ingredient from Southeast Asia) to give Scapegrace Black a flavor profile that has wowed bartenders and gin fans worldwide.
To craft a black gin, the temperatures must be absolutely precise, and the sequences have to be very specifically defined. The result is a gin with an exciting nose of pineapple and lemon, followed by spicy juniper. The flavor profile of Scapegrace Black is unique; marrying a gin drinker’s love of juniper with something dark, delightfully devious, and beautifully unexpected. The sip is full-bodied on the palate, with unctuous pepper and oil, a hint of mint, and dreamy undertones of starch mingling with tropical fruits. The finish will give you visions of freshly mowed grass, sweet earth, and herbs.
Scapegrace Black Signature Serve cocktail.
RECIPE:
Ingredients:
1 2/3 oz Scapegrace Black Gin
5 oz Tonic Water
Slice of Green Apple
METHOD:
Fill a glass with ice.
Add SCAPEGRACE BLACK GIN,
Top with tonic water,
Garnish with green apple.
*Note: the drink will turn from Black to Red.
Scapegrace Black Chokeberry Fizz
This cocktail doesn’t have any tonic, but it sounded so lush that I had to share it!
A berried & floral-based riff on the classic gin fizz: it takes its name from the berry family the Aronia berry comes from. This fizz enlivens the idea of showcasing Aronia, its depth of texture & its floral notes. It’s clean, bright & floral!
RECIPE
1 2/3 oz Scapegrace Black
3 dash Hibiscus Bitters
1/3 oz Egg white/Aquafaba#
1 oz Fresh Lime,
1/2 oz Sugar Syrup (Sugar Syrup/Simple Syrup: Equal Parts Sugar & Water. *See below on how to create a simple syrup)
*Topped with Soda
# Visit this page to learn what Aquafaba is and how to use it.
METHOD
Add all ingredients –except the soda– to a shaker tin,
Dry shake,
Pack the tin with ice and hard shake for 10-15 seconds
Take a chilled highball or fizz glass, and add 50 ml of Soda water to the glass
Fine strain the cocktail (in the tin) into the glass until the cocktail lifts out of the glass,
Garnish with dried plums or hibiscus tea.
Tools & Glassware: Highball or Fizz Glass
*Add both ingredients to a mixing jug or glass and stir until the sugar has dissolved.
About the brand: SCAPEGRACE Distillery!
The New Zealand-based Scapegrace Distillery was founded by brothers-in-law Mark Neal and Daniel McLaughlin in
2014.
Scapegrace Gin was created with the mission to not just break the rules, but to create their own, enabling them
to create a product so special that won them “World’s Best London Dry Gin” at the International Wine & Spirits Competition in London in 2018 for its Gold Gin.
The award-winning, boundary-pushing brand was created with the mission to break all the rules but one: every great gin
starts with great botanicals. After years of trial and error with different botanicals and distillation techniques, Scapegrace has created Scapegrace Black, a black gin that changes color. Scapegrace Black begins, like all quality gins, with intense juniper and the addition of premium, exotic botanicals. Master distiller Anthony Lawry, one of New Zealand’s first single malt whisky distillers, uses a combination of
local sweet potato, aronia berries, pineapple and saffron, as well as butterfly pea flower sourced from Southeast Asia, to create a flavor
profile that has wowed bartenders and gin fans worldwide.
“It has never been part of the brand ethos to follow what other distillers were doing,” says co-founder Mark Neal.
“We decided that if we were going to make a flavored gin, we were going to do it our own way. By experimenting with different botanicals, we discovered we could make a naturally black liquid with very particular botanicals and distinct flavors. It took us about a year to bring this liquid to life.”
To make a great gin is a difficult task. To craft one that is naturally black – which technically is the absence of color –
but with the emotion of big, botanical-forward flavor, takes skill and technique only a few can achieve. The temperatures must be absolutely precise, and the sequences have to be very specifically defined.
Scapegrace Gin is imported from New Zealand and distributed nationally in the U.S. by 375 Park Avenue Spirits, a division of the
Sazerac Company. Scapegrace Black presents at a 41.6% ABV and is available at retailers nationwide and online at a suggested
retail price of $39.99 (750ml). It joins the Scapegrace U.S. portfolio alongside Scapegrace Classic Dry Gin (42.2% ABV; SRP: $29.99/750ml), and Scapegrace Gold Dry Gin (57% ABV; SRP: $59.99/750ml).
For more information, visit www.scapegracedistillery.com.
The Scapegrace Gin family sounds absolutely amazing. I am figuring that the brand will continue growing along with more cocktail recipes
that will show up throughout the summer!
Cannot wait to try this very special GIN!.
Stevie Wilson
LA-Story.com
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