New Best Friend
We decided to start with the Old Pal as a template and started by subbing a blend of Laphroaig and Glen Moray in for Rye whiskey. We found that the Campari dominated the concoction, so we went back to the drawing board.
Cocktails
Mike’s Hot Sherry Bomb
The drink features Yoichi Single Malt, a peated Japanese malt from the famous Yoichi distillery. It also includes Pacific Rum.
What to Make with Laphroaig
We've made many peaty cocktails by now and here are the ones that we think work the best with the iodine peat-bomb of Laphroaig.
Parasol (Banana Daquiri) on Fire
We originally bought Giffard’s banana liqueur solely for the purpose of making I Love Lamp, a cocktail featured in Imbibe. Since then, it has slowly been creeping into a lot of cocktails that we make.
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Drunk Uncle
Islay scotch and Cynar. Enough said.
Sedentary Banana
Tasty summery cocktail featuring peated whiskey, rum, banana liqueur, and Sherry.
Douglas Cocktail
Peaty cocktail featuring Lagavulin 16 from L’Abbattoir
Funk-groni Negroni
High octane negroni with split base between Rumfire and El Dorado
Ajax Cocktail
Genever based cocktail from Romanian bartender Calin Ioniciu.
Laphroaig-groni
It’s Negroni week 2019 in San Francisco! A veritable Christmas for lovers of the best cocktail out there in which each bar features its own special variant (or multiple variants) of the cocktail. The problem is figuring out where to …