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Drink Mon Dec 26 2011
Holiday Cocktails with Stephen Cole
During the month of December, Gapers Block will be featuring a weekly holiday drink column with a different guest bartender/mixologist. Today's recipes come from Stephen Cole of the Barrelhouse Flat.
In the last of Drive-Thru's series of holiday drinks by some of Chicagoland's finest mixologists, we have Stephen Cole, yet another bartender with a culinary background (California Culinary Academy, and Michelin Star restaurant Drolma in Barcelona). Invited to join the opening staff of the Violet Hour, Chicago's über craft cocktail emporium, Stephen helped lead them and Chicago into the budding world of craft cocktails. His kitchen talent transferred seamlessly to the bar ,and Stephen quickly became revered by patrons and peers alike.
Four years later finds Stephen presiding over the newly opened Barrelhouse Flat, honoring his strong Sicilian cooking roots and his Dad's annual wine- and beer-making events. Barrelhouse Flat is meant to be a place for everyone; a place to unite the community, toast new opportunities, commiserate a loss or share a mutual affinity of all things libatious.
With this drink in hand, you'll have a jump start to a most happy New Year for you and yours.
Hot Holiday Punch
This punch was created for all of those people that buy a bottle of Carpano Antica for use in a Manhattan and don't want it to go bad.
1 bottle Rittenhouse Rye
1 bottle Carpano Antica
1 gallon apple cider (local is best)
3 cinnamon sticks
5 cloves
10 dashes of Angostura
Step 1. Pour 2 oz Rittenhouse, 1 oz Carpano Antica, and 2 dashes Angostura over ice.
Step 2. Drink.
Step 3. While drinking step 1, heat to near boil: 1 gallon local apple cider, cinnamon sticks and cloves.
Step 4. Remove from heat and add the rest of the bottle of Rittenhouse, Carpano Antica, and 8 dashes of Angostura.
Step 5. By now step 1 is finished, just in time to start step 4.
