Ingredients

1.5 oz

Coconut Cartel Añejo Rum

3 oz

Coconut water

Build

1. Fill a rocks glass with ice.
2. Pour the Añejo rum.
3. Top with fresh coconut water.
4. Stir once.

The producer's quietest spec — and arguably the most honest one. Añejo rum poured over ice in a rocks glass, topped with fresh coconut water. The Añejo's age sits inside the coconut's natural sweetness; no other ingredient needed. The way the producer drinks it at home.

Ingredients

1.67 oz

Empirical Ayuuk

0.67 oz

Fresh lemon juice

3.33 oz

Tomato juice

pinch

Black pepper

pinch

Salt (or sal de gusano)

3 dashes

Worcestershire sauce

2 dashes

Tabasco

Build

1. Fill a rocks glass with ice.
2. Add all ingredients.
3. Stir thoroughly to combine.
4. Garnish with a celery branch.

Empirical's spec replaces the vodka with Ayuuk. The Pasilla Mixe smoke and chili depth give the drink a savory backbone that no vodka can. Tomato, lemon, Worcestershire, Tabasco, salt — and a celery branch to stir it down.

Two spirits braided together: Ayuuk for smoke, rum for warmth. Honey rounds the corners, lemon keeps it honest.

Ingredients

1 oz

Faccia Brutto Aperitivo

1 oz

Faccia Brutto Fernet Pianta

—

Orange peel

Build

1. Pour Aperitivo and Fernet Pianta into a short rocks glass.
2. Add an orange peel.
3. Swirl together once. Drink.

Italy's modern bartender ritual — equal parts amaro and aperitivo, no ice, no fuss. Faccia Brutto's version pairs the bittersweet citrus of Aperitivo with the mint-eucalyptus depth of Fernet Pianta. Pour, twist, drink. Two ingredients, three seconds, one statement.

Ingredients

1.5 oz

Isolation Proof Orchard Gin

0.25 oz

Clove simple syrup

1 bar spoon

Apple butter

—

Hot water, to taste

Build

1. Add gin, clove syrup, and apple butter to a warmed mug.
2. Top with hot water to taste.
3. Stir until the apple butter is fully dissolved.
4. Float a clove-studded orange wheel on top.

Isolation Proof's Orchard Gin (previously released as Winter Gin) leans into baked-apple and clove territory by design. The producer's official Hot Toddy build keeps the spirit at center: clove simple syrup for warmth, a bar spoon of apple butter for body, hot water to loosen. Served with a clove-studded orange wheel.

Mancino Kopi is the only vermouth on Earth infused with Specialty-grade coffee. The right serve is the simplest: 3 oz over a large ice cube, orange peel, done. A digestif and an espresso in one glass.