Lost in Paradise Ranch Water

 Lost in Paradise Ranch Water

Ingredients:

2 ounces 1800 Cristalino Tequila

.5 ounce homemade blood orange oleo saccharum

.5 ounce blood orange juice

 2 drops homemade 80/20 saline solution

carbonated pressed coconut water

unsweetened coconut flakes (optional)

Directions:

Combine all ingredients in a shaker except the coconut water. 

Strain over two rocks of ice. 

Top with a splash of carbonated pressed coconut water. 

Garnish with blood orange oleo saccharum and coconut flakes for an offset rim and top with a blood orange slice.  

Official Drink of the 2013 Kentucky Bourbon Festival

Each year, during the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, a Mixed Drink Challenge determines the Official Drink of the next year's Bourbon Festival.  A number of area bars and restaurants compete for the drink that will hold the title.

Without further ado.

Kentucky Bourbon Festival 2013 Official Drink

"Oak" Fashioned

Ingredients:

2 ounces bourbon
1/2 ounce Apple Brandy
1/4 ounce Dry Curacao
1/2 teaspoon turbinado sugar
1/8 ounce blood orange bitters
Splash club soda

Directions:

Muddle sugar and bitters in rocks glass. Other ingredients are aged in charred white oak barrel and previously married. Fill glass with barrel aged spirits and stir to combine. Garnish with macerated apple balls.

Special instructions:
Bourbon, Apple Brandy and Dry Curacao are married and aged together in new charred white oak barrel for at least two weeks.