am-am sour (amaretto-amaro)

Name: am-am sour (amaretto-amaro)
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 Egg White; 8 ml Simple Syrup; 30 ml Amaretto; 1 twst Orange Peel; 23 ml Lemon Juice; 30 ml Averna; 15 ml Overproof Rum

Amaretto and Averna share the base with a splash of overproof rum, lifted by lemon juice and softened by egg white into a silky sour. Sweet almond meets bitter, herbal amaro, finished with orange peel. Created by Frederic Yarm in 2022.

Frederic Yarm created the am-am sour in 2022 at Drink in Boston, after a guest asked for something new on the Amaretto Sour. Starting from Jeffrey Morgenthaler's version, which the creator found too heavy on amaretto, the drink is balanced with Averna for caramel and herbal depth, borrows from Brad Parsons' Amaro Sour, and gets extra strength from Plantation OFTD rum.

Method

Shaken

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Creamy

Herbal

Sour

Sweet