Ornithologist

Name: Ornithologist
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Tequila Blanco; 1 spg Mint; 45 ml Pineapple Juice; 15 ml Lime Juice; 1 tsp Mezcal; 15 ml Velvet Falernum; 23 ml Suze

Created by Phillip Gruneich in 2019. Tequila blanco with a touch of mezcal, pineapple and lime, rounded off with Velvet Falernum and the bitterness of Suze, and finished with mint.

Phillip Gruneich developed the Ornithologist as a tequila sour with Suze and pineapple, using the Jungle Bird as a starting point and swapping simple syrup for falernum to add depth. Because the drink is roughly a color-inverted Jungle Bird, the name shifts the viewpoint to an ornithologist, someone who studies birds, after "Radioactive Bird" was considered and dropped.

Method

Shaken

Glass

rocks

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Herbal

Smoky

Sour

Sweet

Tropical