L’Arack de Musar Cocktails

he Chateau Musar Arack is made from grape alcohol Adelaide with an average age of 5 T Cocktail years. Traditionally, arack is distilled twice, then anis seeds are added in the third distillation. L’arack de INGREDIENTS Musar is unique in that it is distilled 1 oz. Chateau Musar arak four times with the addition of anis 0.5 oz. Dolin Dry seeds during the 4th distillation. 0.25 oz. Elderflower Syrup After distillation, it is aged for one (you can use St. Germain) year in terracotta amphora’s which 0.75 oz. lime juice contribute to its liquorice aroma. 0.5 oz. strawberry syrup Shake with ice and strain over fresh ice into a rocks glass. Top with club soda. Garnish with lime Sazarak twist. Adapted From FR.OG —from from McCrady’s in Charleston, SC by Bethany Kocak INGREDIENTS 0.25 oz. Chateau Musar arak Arak & 1.5 oz. rye whiskey Grapefruit Juice 1 oz. Kümmel liqueur 4 dashes Peychaud’s bitters 2 dashes Regan’s orange bitters INGREDIENTS Lemon twist 4 ounces grapefruit juice Add the arak to an ice-filled rocks 2 ounces Chateau Musar arak glass. Allow it to sit, to chill the Seltzer, to taste glass. In the meantime, add the Grapefruit slice remaining liquid ingredients to a Basil sprigs cocktail shaker with ice. Stir well. Fill a highball glass with ice, and Stir or swirl the contents of the add the grapefruit juice and arak, chilled glass, to coat its interior and top with seltzer. Garnish with with the arak, then discard the ice. a thick grapefruit twist and a few Strain the contents of the cocktail sprigs of basil. shaker into the glass and garnish —from The New York Times with the lemon. Terracotta amphoras used for the last year of aging. by Rosie Schaap —from The New York Times

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