Today, a Negroni is never only a Negroni. On paper, the three-ingredient, equal-parts components couldn’t be less complicated. However out within the wild, the drink has shape-shifted extra occasions than one can depend—its simplicity an invite for reinvention by a bartending neighborhood ceaselessly 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 consuming the blanched model that has itself turn out to be a contemporary basic. (I favor it with mezcal and an extra-bitter gentian liqueur.) However now, one thing extra alarming is going down. Cocktail bars from coast to coast—from Joyful Medium in San Diego to Temple Bar in New York—are taking the gin-bitter-vermouth components 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 components for Temple Bar’s Blue Kampari™ is top-secret, anyway), right here’s what I will be making this week.
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