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MEMBER’S AREA

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…

spring COLLECTION: EPISODE 2

the STRAWBERRY SPRITZ

Okay, so it snowed last week and it’s a torrential downpour as we type this, but…hopefully by the time you read this it will be blazing sunshine! Fingers crossed…British Springtime. Don’t you just love it?

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. Take a wine glass / water glass / highball and fill with ice

3. Pour 60ml into your glass

4. Top with 100ml (1/2 a can) of HUN Sparkling Rose and give it a quick stir

5. DRINK!

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THE RECIPE

If you wanted to recreate this month’s recipe at later date, simply follow the steps below…

• 25ml Victory Bitters

• 20ml SCHOFIELD’S Dry Vermouth

• 15ml Wild Strawberry Liqueur (we like Merlet Fraise de Bois)

• 2 dashes Orange Bitters

This is a great cocktail to pre-batch for BBQs / picnics, just take a bottle of chilled Prosecco Rose with you and you’re onto a winner!

Cheers,

Rob, Jim & Joe.

SPRITZ or SBAGLIATO?

This month’s cocktail is a bubbly, effervescent delight, and though we called it a Spritz (it’s easy to both identify and pronounce!) but it could be just as easily called a Strawberry Sbagliato (pronounced ‘sball-yaa-toe’

Sbagliato means ‘mistaken’ in Italian and legend has it that a bartender in Milan grabbed a bottle of sparkling wine instead of gin when making a Negroni one day and so this ‘happy accident’ was created!

Vermouth + Bitters + Sparkling Wine = Sbagliato, a lighter version of the negroni without the intensely botanical and juniper-driven nose. Ours using the intensely herbaceous Victory Bitters instead of Campari, along with a little of our Dry Vermouth and a hint of strawberry for good measure!

this month’s INDEPENDENT BRAND PARTNER

SPRING COLLECTION, EPISODE 2: VICTORY BITTERS

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 VICTORY BITTERS, a delicious and complex aperitivo bitters handmade in East London.

Made by VICTORY LONDON DISTILLERY, the team make an amazing range of gins, bitters, vodka and vermouth as well as unique & one off collaborations as part of their PILOT series.

the process

British wheat spirit is infused with botanicals and fruits including gentian root, orange peel, apricot, rosemary, sage and fig. The infusion is blended with an organic, biodynamic wine and minimal sugar. The distinctive red colour is achieved naturally through the infusion of hibiscus flowers.

Victory Bitter Botanicals:

Quassia, Oregano, Sage, Wormwood, Thyme, Angelica Root, Black Pepper Burdock, Cassia, Rosemary Rhubarb Root, Cardamon, Juniper, Coriander, Orris Root, Liquorice Root, Gentian, Dates, Orange, Apricot, Figs Lemon Balm, Hibiscus.

VICTORY BITTERS

TASTING NOTES

NOSE  

Fruit forwards, with a touch of tartness alongside the classic herbaceous bitterness

PALATE

Dry and warming with deep herbaceous notes and very lightly sweetened

FINISH

Lots of citrus and sage on the finish, interwoven with apricot flesh and a tannic dryness

perfect serve

BITTERS & TONIC

50ml VICTORY BITTERS

100ml INDIAN TONIC

Build over ice and 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 NONINO ‘QUINTESSENTIA’- 35% ABV

THE HISTORY:

A real favourite of ours, this classic Amaro comes from Nonino, the famed Grappa producers of Friuli in Northern Italy who have been distilling since 1897. They have won many international awards for their single varietal grappas and the grappa base in this Amaro creates a unique and distinctive profile which few can match.

This is a whole grape grappa, infused with alpine roots, flowers and herbs including thyme, gentian, cinchona & wormwood. It is then finished in ex-wine & sherry casks for at least 12 months. A real king amongst Amari!

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.

TASTING NOTES:

NOSE: Orange zest, bitter orange marmalade, thyme and menthol, with a lick of mango.

PALATE: Medium sweet with integrated bitterness on the palate, touches of pepper and liquorice and a cocoa aftertaste. Smooth and elegant.

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

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