The Bevvy Alexander
The Bevvy Alexander. A cocktail for cold nights.
I’ve been needing to get this up for a while, and now I’ve just about missed the season, but there are some chilly spring nights to come.
The excellent request made by a lovely guest: a great cocktail that’s warm, for when the weather is cold
I looked around and found lots of cider recipes and coffee-based drinks. I hate apple juice. I like my coffee to be coffee. Ultimately, I just made a good cocktail and added hot water. This may sound cheap, random, not very well-considered, I don’t know, just sort of wrong. My guest liked it, though. And, if I wanted a hot drink, I’d like it too.
At the end of the day, the Bevvy Alexander is hot and it tastes good. It looks good too, in a lovely sort of way. What’s wrong with that?
Ingredients
1/2 darker rum
1/2 Stone‘s ginger currant wine
1/4 Maraschino liqueur
few drops lavender & bergamot infused vodka
a squeeze of agave nectar
Combine all ingredients in a teacup (they should fill about 1/3 to 1/2 of it) and top with very hot water. Stir and garnish with a twist.
Cute photo! I love that spoon you’re using. Might give this one a try as the weather gets a bit colder. Do you know if Stone’s ginger wine goes bad/degrades with age? I have a bottle sitting around somewhere in my cupboard from maybe two years ago…
Sorry for not getting back to your question on my blog; unfortunately I don’t make my own rose water and have no idea how to, but it’s pretty easy to find in shops where I live, either in Middle Eastern groceries or well I got mine from some health food place near uni. Different brands will have different pungency, I think there was a lot of discussion on the eGullet forums about how the mid-eastern brands were a bit weaker than the French brands etc.
Also, you mentioned digging the use of whole eggs and scotch in cocktails; check this one out! It’s quite strange, and really pretty good.
Very pretty.