Early Start Cocktail Recipe

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About The Early Start Cocktail

This cocktail by Alex Negranza, the bar manager at Houston’s Better Luck Tomorrow, pulls from the already-savory green caraway and dill notes of aquavit, accenting them with sorrel, lime, orgeat syrup and egg white for a frothy finish.

This recipe originally appeared as part of 11 Hottest Cocktails to Drink in Bars Now: July 2017.

Ingredients in The Early Start Cocktail

1 ¹⁄₂ oz

Krogstad Festlig aquavit

¹⁄₂ oz

Fresh lime juice

¹⁄₂ oz

Orgeat Syrup

Egg white

French sorrel leaf

Garnish:

Red-veined sorrel leaf

Glass:

Coupe

How to make The Early Start Cocktail

Muddle the French sorrel leaf in a mixing tin.

Add the rest of the ingredients, dry-shake, then shake with ice.

Fine-strain into a coupe.

Garnish with a red-veined sorrel leaf.

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