Sage on the Stage

A Blackberry Mezcal Margarita

Sage on the Stage

Description

Smokey, herbal, Dark... The Sage on the Stage harks back to an older pedagogy in teaching, but sometimes its nice just to sit back and listen, or at least sit back and drink. As always play with the ratios to match your personal taste when it comes to heat, sour and sweet.

DifficultyGraduation

Ingredients

  • 2 parts Mezcal
  • 1.5 parts Lime Juice
  • 1 part
  • 2 dashes Orange Bitters
  • As needed Sage Leaf · garnish

Blackberry Sage Simple Syrup

Blackberry Sage Simple Syrup

Easy to make, and adds great complexity.

Makes: Roughly 2 cups of simple syrup

Ingredients

  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup cane sugar
  • 1 cup blackberries
  • 1/4 cup fresh sage leaves

Directions

1. Place water and sage in a pot and heat on medium high heat.

2. Once water is boiling, turn off the heat, add sugar and stir until sugar disolves.

3. Then, immedietly add blackberrys and muddle berries in your pot.

4. Let mixture steep for 30-60 minutes stiring occationally, then strain through fine mesh strainer into a jar to cool and use.

Store in refrigerator. Lasts up to 2 weeks.

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Note: You may need to clear out the strainer of seeds periodically. To limit this you can double strain, first through a wide mesh strainer, then fine mesh strainer.

Variations & alternatives

This syrup is meant to impart sweep, berry, and herbal notes. So, other berry and/or herbal based syrups or sweet liquores will add similar notes, while creating something new. See below for ideas:

  • Raspberry rosemarry syrup
  • Basil simple syrup
  • Champboard liquore

Directions

Shaken

Shake the mixing ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker.

Additional steps & variations

Strain into a rocks glass with fresh ice (ideally withone large, clear block of ice). Garnish with partially burnt & smoldering sage leaf.

Contributors

Ian

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