StirredMedium4 min

Ayuuk Negroni

Pasilla Mixe smoke + coffee-infused sweet vermouth — the Negroni, rebuilt.

Featuring Empirical Spirits

Ayuuk Negroni in a lowball glass

Ingredients

1 oz
Empirical Ayuuk
1 oz
Coffee-infused sweet vermouth
1 oz
Campari
1 dash
Black walnut bitters

Glass: Lowball

Garnish: Orange peel

Build

  1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass with ice.
  2. Stir until properly diluted and chilled.
  3. Strain into a lowball glass over a large ice cube.
  4. Express orange peel over the surface; drop in.

Equal parts Ayuuk, coffee-infused sweet vermouth, and Campari, bridged by a dash of black walnut bitters. The smoke and the coffee tannin pull the Negroni out of its standard juniper-citrus frame and into something darker, deeper, and built for autumn evenings.

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