Ingredients

2 oz

Empirical Ayuuk

0.25 oz

Demerara syrup (1:1)

1 dash

Orange bitters

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Long orange peel

Build

1. 1Add Ayuuk, syrup, and bitters to a rocks glass.
2. 2Add one large ice cube.
3. 3Stir 20 seconds with a bar spoon.
4. 4Express a long orange peel over the surface, drop it in.

Empirical Ayuuk — wood-smoked pasilla mixe chile, koji-quinoa base — built as an Old Fashioned. The Ayuuk's dried fruit and cacao notes do the work that whisky barrel time normally does. Demerara for sweetness, a single dash of orange bitters, a long peel.