Cocktail Creator

06 Mar 2014
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Atalay Aktas was named as the ‘Best Bartender in Germany’ earlier this year, having made it to the finals of the Diageo Reserve World Class Global Final 2013. Here, Atalay mixes four whiskey cocktails at his ultra cool Berlin bar, Schwarze Traube for FOUR’s International Edition
Dark Old Fashioned

Ingredients

50ml Elijah Craig, 12 years

15ml Giffard Crème de Mure

A dash of Black Walnut Bitters

½ tbsp Orgeat syrup

Orange zest, to garnish

Method

Mix all ingredients together. Serve in a tumbler

on a large ice cube. Garnish with the orange zest.

Royal Husky

Ingredients

40ml Johnnie Walker Blue Label

15ml St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur

1 mint leaf

3 fresh physalis

20ml freshly squeezed lime juice

15ml Agave syrup

Method

Mix all ingredients together. Serve in a coupette.

Garnish with the mint leaf.

Smoking Bulleit in the Rye

Ingredients

60ml Bulleit Rye Whiskey

20ml Antica Formula Rosso

A dash of Scrappy’s Chocolate Bitters

Method

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker.
Shake well. Strain into a cocktail coupe.
Smoke with Hickory wood after straining.

Holy Johnnie

Ingredients

50ml Johnnie Walker Gold Label

10ml King George’s Ginger liqueur

50ml freshly squeezed blood orange juice

20ml homemade honey syrup

Method

Mix all ingredients together and serve in goblet.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY RENÉ RIIS