Juan Madera

Name: Juan Madera
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 dash Angostura Bitters; 8 ml Kummel; 38 ml Mezcal; 1 Maraschino Cherry; 15 ml Lime Juice; 30 ml Sweet Vermouth

Smoky mezcal and sweet vermouth with lime juice, a touch of kümmel and a dash of Angostura. Shaken and served in a coupe. Created by Frederic Yarm in Boston in 2020.

Frederic Yarm created the Juan Madera in Boston in 2020 as a riff on the John Wood, a drink from William Boothby's 1934 book World Drinks and How to Mix Them. Where the original uses whisk(e)y and lemon, this version uses mezcal and lime.

Method

Shaken

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Herbal

Smoky

Sour

Sweet