Danger Stranger: A Pisco Cocktail

Name: Danger Stranger: A Pisco Cocktail
Yield: 10
Cuisine: American

Recipe: James Keiser , The Wild , Denver, Colorado

Photo: Victor of Valencia

June 16, 2021

A glass of spirited nostalgia.

For a taste of nostalgia, The Wild bar manager James Keiser looked to one of his favorite desserts, orange sherbet, and created an orange cream soda syrup (it’s a cinch to make) to mix with pisco, mezcal, lemon, and aquafaba. “I don’t believe cocktails should be taken too seriously, even though I take the craft seriously,” he says. “So I like to use goofy ingredients from time to time such as orange soda.”

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz. pisco
1/2 oz. mezcal
1 oz. orange cream soda syrup
1 oz. fresh lemon juice
3/4 oz. aquafaba (or 1 egg white)

Tools:shaker, strainer
Glass:coupe

Preparation

Combine all of the ingredients in a shaker, then dry shake for 1 minute. Add ice and shake for 30 more seconds. Double strain into a coupe.

Orange Cream Syrup: Combine 45 oz. of Sunkist with 45 oz. of sugar and 2 oz. of vanilla extract in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to almost boil, stir regularly, let simmer on low heat for 10-15 minutes. Take off heat and let cool. Store in the refrigerator for up to a month.

Note: If you don’t have aquafaba, an egg white will work just fine.