Stirred · Rocks
GarnishBlood orange half-wheel
Stirred · Rocks
Arianna Hone, Salt Lake City
Express Rider cocktail recipe
What goes in it
- 1 ozFig rye
House prep · Recipe below ↓
- 0.75 ozBlood orange sweet vermouth
House prep · Recipe below ↓
- 0.5 oz
- 0.5 ozFive-spice Pedro Ximénez sherry
- 0.25 oz
- 2 dashesChocolate bitters
Bottle · Chocolate Bitters
House prep · Recipe below ↓
Method · Stirred
- 1Build everything in a rocks glass over ice and give it a brief stir.
- 2Garnish with half a blood orange wheel.
- Glass
- Rocks
- Ice
- Cubed
- Garnish
- Blood orange half-wheel
Prep ahead
House prep
Fig Rye
- Yield
- About 700 ml
- Keeps
- 1 month
- Storage
- Refrigerated
Ingredients
- 250 gfigs
- 750 mlrye whiskey
- 6 gPectinex (optional)
Method
- 1Blend the figs into the rye. With pectinase, rest twenty-four hours and centrifuge; otherwise strain well through cheesecloth.
House prep
Blood Orange Sweet Vermouth
- Yield
- About 750 ml
- Keeps
- 1 month
- Storage
- Refrigerated
Ingredients
- 55 gblood orange zest (about 3 oranges)
- 750 mlsweet vermouth
Method
- 1Steep the zest in the vermouth at room temperature until fragrant, then strain out the peels and refrigerate.
House prep
Five-Spice PX Sherry
- Yield
- About 750 ml
- Keeps
- 1 month
- Storage
- Refrigerated
Ingredients
- 2 tbspChinese five-spice powder
- 750 mlPedro Ximénez sherry
Method
- 1Stir the spice into the sherry, rest thirty minutes, then fine-strain through cheesecloth.
About the Express Rider
Express Rider is a Negroni-style cocktail made with fig rye, blood orange sweet vermouth and single malt scotch, created by Arianna Hone.
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