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Day 5: Blood Orange Espresso Tonic Recipe 👇
This rec comes from @aub.lane. Apparently blood oranges are out of season, but we subbed Valencia with a little hibiscus for color and citric acid for more acidity. Might be the best spro tonic we’ve ever made!
Acid-Adjusted Blood Orange Juice
1.5 oz (45g) fresh-squeezed blood orange juice
Add 8g citric acid to 250g juice
Steep 5g hibiscus in 40g hot water and add for color
Rosemary Simple Syrup
1 cup (200g) white sugar
1 cup (240g) water (we used Liquid Death Mountain water)
5 sprigs rosemary
Bring to simmer until sugar dissolves, remove from heat, steep 20 min, strain, store in fridge.
The Drink
1.5 oz (45g) acid-adjusted blood OJ
Fever Tree tonic (about 4–5 oz or 120–150g)
15g rosemary syrup
2 dashes orange bitters
Double shot espresso (lighter roast hits better)
Garnish with rosemary + dehydrated blood orange
Transcript
Today is day five of trying new drinks tier we find one good enough for the summer menu. We're two weeks into June already, and I'm starting to worry that we won't get this menu together before basically half of our regulars go home for the summer. Congrats, Carl's, on another year of passing all your classes, which the same could be said for us, but unfortunately, last week, 100,000 of you got to watch our blackberry tonic video fail miserably. We even got a one star review saying our drinks suck and our shop smells bad. Anyways, it's whatever. Let's take this follower recommendation and turn it into the best orange rosemary espresso tonic the Internet's ever seen, or fail trying. Someone said if you take two sips, it means that it's not good, but I take two sips because it's best. Almost giving Christmas in July. Very summery. Slight herbaceousness. Refreshing. Pretty good. This is really good. If you don't like espresso tonic, it's probably because you haven't had this one before. Watch me shove this in one minute. Have you seen no Wonder?
