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MIXOLOGY WITH IMPACT

In collaboration with Santa Teresa and Barcardi, Shaker & Spoon released a mixology kit to help with
pandemic aid. 100% of the proceeds from the cocktail kit for Child’s Play Charity Auction will benefit
BEAP (Bartenders Emergency Assistance Program), an amazing effort from the US Bartenders Guild to
help bartenders during this crisis. Thank you for your support!

The recipes included in the Mix & Mingle kit were too good not to share. Celebrate your commitment
to gaming and technology in children’s hospitals and toast to your generosity long after tonight with
the recipes below.
La Trova Old Fashioned Cocktail

The combination of rum, chocolate bitters, and an espresso-based cafecito syrup makes for a bold,
rich drink with strong aromatic notes from a spritz of orange oil and grated coffee bean. Whether a
game of dominoes is un- folding at your table or a less competitive night on the couch with the
remote control is on the schedule, Julio Cabrera’s La Trova Old Fashioned delivers a rush of Cuban
vibes and flavors to any setting.
Ingredients
serves 1 cocktail
2 oz aged rum
2 tsp (1/3 oz) cafecito syrup
3 dashes (not drops) chocolate bitters
1 spritz orange oil
coffee bean
Instructions
Add the rum, syrup, and bitters to a dry mixing glass. Fill the glass with ice and use a bar spoon to stir
until the mixing glass feels ice-cold (20–40 seconds, depending on ice size).
Strain into a rocks glass over a large ice cube.
For the aromatic finishing touches, spray the orange oil and thengrate the coffee bean over the top
of the drink.
Foraged Bees Knees Mocktail

In 1985, the state of Missouri—home to the National Monument honoring hometown scientist and
agricultural icon George Washington Carver—designated the honeybee its official insect due to the
beneficial bug’s important contributions to crops and plant life. Here the mighty bee receives yet
another accolade from Natasha Bahrami (of her very own Natasha’s Gin Room in St. Louis) by way of
an herbed and spiced hibiscus honey syrup, taking the Prohibition-era classic cocktail the Bee’s
Knees to the next (foraged) level. And completing the excursion through the Show-Me State’s many
environs is a cooling spray of fresh, woodsy white pine. You’ve heard of farm-to-table? Now try forest-
to-glass! Try mocktail style just omit the gin.

Ingredients
serves 1 cocktail

1 1/2 oz New American gin (omit for mocktail version)
3/4 oz hibiscus honey syrup
3/4 oz lemon juice
1–2 spritzes white pine hydrosol
Instructions
Add the gin, syrup, and lemon juice to a shaker. Fill the shaker with ice cubes and shake vigorously
until it is ice cold and shows frost on the outside (15–30 seconds).
Double strain the shaker’s contents into a chilled coupe (without ice).
For the aromatic finishing touch, spray the white pine hydrosol over the top of the drink.