Nowadays, a Negroni is never only a Negroni. On paper, the three-ingredient, equal-parts formulation couldn’t be less complicated. However out within the wild, the drink has shape-shifted extra occasions than one can rely—its simplicity an invite for reinvention by a bartending group eternally tinkering with the classics. However, apparently, it’s not sufficient to easily swap the bottom spirit or skew extra spirit-forward.
I’ve been alongside for the journey because the drink has tried on rum, mezcal and sherry in lieu of gin; I welcome fluffy takes on the basic and I personally can’t cease ingesting the blanched model that has itself turn into a contemporary basic. (I favor it with mezcal and an extra-bitter gentian liqueur.) However now, one thing extra alarming is happening. Cocktail bars from coast to coast—from Completely satisfied Medium in San Diego to Temple Bar in New York—are taking the gin-bitter-vermouth formulation we’ve come to know and love and are inexplicably turning the ruby-hued basic… blue. However why? After I requested Sam Ross, co-owner of Temple Bar, his reply was easy: “Why not?”
Whereas I can’t say I’ll be speeding so as to add a blue Negroni to my common rotation (the formulation for Temple Bar’s Blue Kampari™ is top-secret, anyway), right here’s what I will be making this week.
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