No. 67

Name: No. 67
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 2 dash Angostura Bitters; 30 ml Aperol; 1 twst Orange Peel; 60 ml Ginger Beer; 23 ml Mezcal; 15 ml Fernet Branca

A shaken drink where smoky mezcal and bittersweet Aperol are lengthened with ginger beer, and Fernet Branca adds an herbal, menthol bitterness. Angostura bitters and an orange peel finish it.

Jason Westplate and Britt Buckley created No. 67 at Buckley's Restaurant & Bar in 2013. The aim was a cooler-style drink with more depth than the usual bitter-sweet mixes. The smoky mezcal turned out to work unexpectedly well alongside Aperol and Fernet, giving the drink pronounced top and bottom notes.

Method

Shaken

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Herbal

Refreshing

Smoky

Spicy