The Bourbon Peach Smash is a fruity, lightly-spicy, and refreshing cocktail that’s correct for a hot summer time night. Non-alcoholic edition blanketed within the recipe notes.
bourbon peach wreck cocktail with mint
When I was in Maine this summer, I visited the Wiggly Bridge Distillery in York. It was a picturesque New England evening; there wasn’t a cloud within the sky, the temperature was simply hot sufficient to be ideal, and I was pleasantly filled with lobster and salty coastal air.
When I learn by means of Wiggly Bridge’s craft cocktail menu, I knew suddenly what I can be ordering that night: the Bourbon Peach Smash. Fruity, sweet, spicy, it was the correct sip earlier than heading to the seaside for an night round the fire.
Before I left, I picked up a bottle of Wiggly Bridge’s award-winning bourbon so that I may make a York-inspired Bourbon Peach Smash for my friends. A style of holiday at home!
WHAT IS A SMASH COCKTAIL?
As I’ve been studying up at the smash, I’ve discovered that whereas it’s a summer time staple on many craft cocktail menus, it’s a drink with out strict definition. The meals are really extensively open to improvisation, although there are simply several fixed elements.
A wreck cocktail usually incorporates a seasonal fruit and/or herb, muddled with sugar or primary syrup, shaken with a spirit like bourbon or whiskey (often, but no longer necessarily considered one of these two), strained, and served over lots of ice.
Oftentimes, the wreck is combined or carried out with water or a touch of anything fizzy, like seltzer or ginger beer.
The wreck cocktail is icy, refreshing, and huge for highlighting seasonal fruits, like peaches, berries (as in my Blackberry-Lemon Mint Julep), and cherries.
Want to learn extra about wreck cocktails? Check out History of the Smash from Imbibe Magazine.
ABOUT BOURBON: ONE OF MY FAVORITE SPIRITS.
You might’ve seen by now that there’s a reasonable quantity of bourbon on Striped Spatula. I love including the rich, warm taste of bourbon to my recipes, regardless of even if it’s a cocktail, candy potato pie, barbeque sauce, or a glaze for bacon-wrapped shrimp.
In phrases of flavor, bourbon whiskey is largely sweeter and milder than rye. This is a end end effect of the excessive corn content material (at least 51%, by definition) in bourbon’s feature grain.
Rye whiskey is spicier and drier, and (as an over-generalization) can stand as much as extra assertive taste pairings than bourbon. That said, depending at the proportions within the grain used to make bourbon, there are genuinely these at the market that lean towards the extra tough side.
When I cook, I most usually use Maker’s Mark. Lately, Buffalo Trace and Knob Creek had been my all-purpose bourbons of possibility for cocktail-making. I attain for the latter once I desire a sip that’s only somewhat spicier.
Of course, discovering an marvelous a small-barrel craft bourbon throughout your travels, reminiscent of Wiggly Bridge, is a actual treat. It’s so fun to be capable to meet the distillers and see the place they produce their spirits. They’re different bottles so as to feature for your bar cart or bourbon collection.
WHAT ELSE DO I NEED TO MAKE A BOURBON PEACH SMASH?
The Bourbon Peach Smash is such an primary cocktail to make, that's becoming for the relaxed really sense of summer. Tool-wise, all you would like is a shaker with a strainer, a muddler, and a rocks glass.
You also need primary syrup, that's a 1:1 ratio of sugar and hot water, stirred till dissolved and cooled. It’s as primary to make because it sounds, and it retains within the refrigerator for about a month.
White sugar is most common, but you'll have the ability to use simply about any form of sugar or sweetener to make a primary syrup. I usually make primary syrup from honey, and for this cocktail, I used faded brown sugar to counterpoint the peaches.
You can serve this cocktail over abundant overwhelmed ice or cubes. (If you desire to crush ice for cocktails at home, a Lewis bag can be a handy device to have.)
Whichever route you choose, the important thing phrase when it involves ice for this cocktail is plentiful. The Bourbon Peach Smash is greatest served icy. Fill up the glass with ice, pour, positioned your ft up, and sip!
Bourbon Peach Smash
This icy peach bourbon cocktail is the correct refreshing sip on a hot summer time night! Inspired by my experience to Wiggly Bridge Distillery in York, Maine.
Ingredients:
US Customary - Metric
1 ounce brown sugar primary syrup (see note)
1/2 big peach , diced (about 1/2 cup)
3-4 big mint leaves
2 ounces bourbon
splash ginger beer or seltzer water , chilled
ice
fresh mint and peach slices , for garnish
Instructions:
Add peaches, mint leaves, and primary syrup to the backside of a cocktail shaker. Gently muddle to launch the peach juices and mint oils. (Over-muddling the mint will trigger it to change into bitter.)
Add bourbon, fill the shaker with ice, and shake till well-chilled. Strain right into a rocks glass stuffed with contemporary ice.
Top with ginger beer or seltzer water. Garnish with contemporary mint sprigs and a peach slice.
Notes
To make brown sugar primary syrup:
Combine identical components brown sugar and hot water till sugar is dissolved. Cool to room temperature and store, covered, within the refrigerator for as much as 3 weeks.
Non-alcoholic:
Omit bourbon and blend the strained mocktail with ginger ale.