Global Cocktail Challenge
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Port of Spain Trinidad, Thursday 23rd February, 2012. David Delaney Jnr from the USA is the winner of the 2012 Angostura® aromatic bitters Global Cocktail Challenge. He was also the winner of the freestyle category in the competition. The final which was held in Port of Spain in Trinidad on Carnival Sunday, welcomed some of the most talented mixologists from around the globe including; USA, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Russia, China, South Africa, Malaysia, India, South America, the Caribbean and Trinidad and Tobago. Second place,and winner of the rum category, went to Rikki Carter from New Zealand with Jamaal Bowen from the Caribbean (Barbados) placing third.
Freestyle Cocktail: On Second Thought
Ingredients:
1½ oz Laird's Applejack
½ oz Benedictine
½ oz Cherry Heering Liqueur
½ oz Maple Syrup (medium grade "A")
¾ oz Fresh squeezed Lemon Juice
5 dashes Angostura® aromatic bitters
Glass: 5 oz Coupe
Garnish: Cinnamon dusted dehydrated lemon wheel
Method: Add all ingredients into mixing tin, add ice, shake and strain into pre-chilled coupe. Garnish and serve.
Rum Cocktail: Five Island Fizz
Ingredients:
1½ oz Angostura® 5 Year Gold Rum
¾ oz Velvet Falemum
½ oz Fresh squeezed lime juice
¼ oz Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
1½ oz Barrits Ginger Beer
5 dashes Angostura® aromatic bitters
Glass: 12 ox Collins Glass.
Garnish: Lime Wheel wrapped around a Luxardo Cherry
Method: Add rum, falernum, lime, and maraschino into mixing tin. Add ice, shake briefly and strain into Collins glass. Add ginger beer, fill with crushed ice and dash bitters to float on top. Garnish and serve.
Freestyle Cocktail: Gregor's Legacy
Ingredients:
40 ml Bunnahabhain 18 Year Old
20 ml Mandarin Napoleon
30 ml Mandarin Juice
5 dashes Angostura® aromatic bitters
10 ml Lemon Juice
1 bar spoon caster sugar
Glass: Coupe
Garnish: N/A
Method: Add all ingredients to mixing glass with ice. Shake vigorously and present in a coupe cocktail glass.
Rum Cocktail: Johann's Bittered Sling
Ingredients:
30 ml Angostura® 1919 rum
20 ml Suze
5 dashes Angostura® aromatic bitters
10 ml Licor 43
10 ml Fresh squeezed lime juice
50 ml Limonatta
Glass: Collins
Garnish: Lemon Zest
Method: Build in a cocktail glass adding all ingredients, ice and bitters. Stir well and garnish with lemon zest.
Freestyle Cocktail: Farmer's Affair
Ingredients:
4 oz Orange Vodka
3 oz Kola Tonic
3 oz Bell Pepper Syrup
6 oz Fresh Pineapple Juice
Juice of a lime
12 dashes Angostura® aromatic bitters
Glass: Pilsner Glass
Garnish: Bell pepper & pineapple skewers
Method: Place all ingredients (except bitters) into a large mixing glass and mix gently; place ice into pilsner glass and dash bitters on. Pour cocktail over ice, stir garnish and serve.
Rum Cocktail: Siegert's Quest
Ingredients:
3 oz Angostura® 1919 rum
1½ oz Falernum
10 dashes Angostura® aromatic bitters
8 dashes Angostura® orange bitters
8 sage leaves
4 oz Mango juice
Glass: Lowball glass.
Garnish: Mango slices & sage leaves
Method: Muddle sage in a mixing glass with aromatic bitters and orange bitters. Add all other ingredients and ice then shake vigorously. Double strain into lowball glass the garnish & serve.
