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PEAR OLD PAL

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- PEAR LIQUEUR

- PEAR & VANILLA BITTERS

ASTERLEY BROS COCKTAIL CLUB

Firstly, thank you so much for being a part of the Club! Each month we post exclusive content and discount codes in the Member’s Area, so please ensure you check back each time you receive the monthly box.

We wanted to create a unique Cocktail Club, different from the standard offerings out there, and so we decided to take a new approach:

  • We release a new cocktail every month. It must be seasonally focussed and delicious

  • We only use premium spirits in our cocktails, no cheap products to bulk up margins

  • We want to champion and showcase Independent British brands in our drinks and will be highlighting products we truly believe in each month

Joe Schofield, our Creative Director, will be designing the cocktail recipes each month and Joe has won many awards over his career working in bars. Having worked at The Savoy in London, and The Tippling Club in Singapore, in July 2018, Joe was awarded one of the most prestigious honours an individual can receive in the industry; 'International Bartender of The Year' in the Tales of The Cocktail Spirited Awards. This was shortly followed by the equally as prestigious title, 'Bartender’s Bartender' at The World’s 50 Best Bars 2018. He is the first person in history to have won both awards. He is also an author, having written the definitive classic cocktail recipe book, ‘Fine & Classic Cocktails’, available on Amazon.

Naturally all these cocktails will contain our Asterley Bros products, so each drink will veer towards being either an Aperitivo (Pre-dinner / Primer) or a Digestivo (After-dinner / Finisher) drink.

Each month we release a unique cocktail with an intensely seasonal focus, to be part of our Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter collections. We want to take you on a journey through the world of seasons, flavours, spirits and serves that we love, and we want to share them with you all!

Next up…

AUTUMN COLLECTION

the PEAR OLD PAL

A CLASSIC OLD PAL SITS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A NEGRONI AND A BOULEVARDIER.
Sweet, rich and heady with Rye, this is a great drink for these Autumnal months. We enrich ours with sweet vermouth, pear liqueur and pear and vanilla bitters to enhance the aromatics which sit so well with the young whisky / Stolen Youth.

TO SERVE:

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Keep your cocktail pouch in the fridge and then transfer to the freezer 30 mins before you are ready to drink it.

  2. Keep your Martini glass in the freezer, ideally overnight

  3. When ready, pour 100ml into your glass

  4. Peel a strip of lemon with a peeler and gently squeeze it over the top of your glass…

  5. DRINK!

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Cheers,

Rob, Jim & Joe.

 
 

the old pal

In the depths of Autumn, sometimes the best thing to do is drink something equally chilly and bold.

Enter the Old Pal. Classically powered by a base of bourbon or rye whiskey, the drink has a firm foundation of flavour to support the other main ingredient, Campari, which gives the drink a brisk bitterness that's still rich and complex.

With dry vermouth playing the moderator's role to make the two alpha-dog ingredients play well together, the combination is strong and bracing—pretty much exactly what you need as the snow starts to fall.

And if you're thinking this drink sounds familiar, you're probably right. Swap the dry vermouth for sweet and you've got a Boulevardier

Ingredients

  • 60ml Rye or Bourbon

  • 30ml Campari

  • 30ml Dry Vermouth

Method

  1. Add the ingredients to a cocktail shaker and fill with ice

  2. Stir rapidly for 90 seconds to chill and dilute the liquid

  3. Pour into a frozen cocktail glass. Twist a piece of lemon peel over the drink and use as garnish.

  4. Slug it down!

this month’s INDEPENDENT BRAND PARTNER

autumn COLLECTION, EPISODE 2: wardington’s stolen youth

Each month we aim to showcase one of the independent brands that we love and have used to create the cocktail of the month.

This month its the the turn of WARDINGTON’S, and their delicious young whisky, made by hand in Ludlow!

Taken from the whisky cask before they can officially call it single malt whisky, their single malted spirit ‘Stolen Youth’ is lovingly handcrafted in the heart of the Welsh Marches.

Using only two ingredients, the finest Scottish malted barley and purified water, they carefully triple-distil this fine spirit and then age it in American bourbon casks. We simply can’t wait for three years before enjoying it; perfect as a wee dram, or for a smoky cocktail.

Delicate and light with fragrant notes of heather-honey, and just a touch of peat.

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Try it paired in this month’s Perfect Serve:

  • 50ml Stolen Youth

  • 100ml London Essence Ginger Ale

  • Garnish with a slice of orange

IT’S…*FAINT DRUMROLL*………MYSTERY AMARO TIME!

We at Asterley Bros absolutely love the mysterious world of Amaro. It’s a subject very close to our hearts and we have been making both Italian and English Amari* now for the next part of a decade. So we thought we would take the time to introduce some of our favourites to our Club Members!

BACKGROUND

Amaro is the Italian word for ‘bitter’ and Amaro is a hugely popular category of Italian Digestivo liqueurs, usually consumed after a meal to aid digestion. Bittersweet, with a heady mix of herbaceous, medicinal, bitter, aromatic & floral notes, Amari are very much an expression of terroir. The botanicals and flavours found in Amari are hyper-reflective of the regions in which they are made, using locally grown fruits, herbs and botanicals to create complex and layered bitter liqueurs. Campari, Aperol, Cynar and Fernet Branca are all examples of types of Amaro.

*Amari is the plural of the singular Amaro…

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Our Mystery Amaro this month is:

AMARO BORSCI - 39% ABV

Our Mystery Amaro this month is:

BORSCI SAN MARZANO- 38% ABV

THE HISTORY:

Hailing from Taranto in Southern Italy, this distinctive and full-bodied amaro utilises a rum base to add additional depths. Giuseppe Borsci created the recipe for this digestivo in 1840 using ancient recipes of an oriental medicinal concoction as his guide. Using 100% natural ingredients with a secret blend of Oriental spices at its core.

Fourth generation Edigio Borsci still oversees production at the distillery in San Marzano. Super rich with notes of bubble gum, cinnamon, cola, dried cherries, and chocolate. This is a stunningly rich and opulent digestivo.

TO SERVE:

Very simply: pour 25ml over a couple of cubes of ice, swirl around the glass a couple of times, and sip slowly.

Alternatively it works really well with a light tonic or soda over ice as a lovely aperitivo, as well going well in cocktails or a cheeky affogato!

TASTING NOTES:

NOSE: A touch of smoke and caramel on the nose with little hints of cola and anise

PALATE: Bittersweet, coffee & cacao, moderately sweet with a touch of tobacco prunes, figs and black raisins


We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

MEMBERS ONLY DISCOUNT CODE

As a member of the Asterley Bros Cocktail Club you also get 15% discount from any online purchase in our store - Use Code ABCC15 at checkout