Happy Friday! This week I’m happy to finally make a drink I’ve had on my list to make for a long time: a Paper Plane! I was in New Hampshire earlier this week and I stopped into the liquor store to re-fill some bar essentials since New Hampshire is the land of cheap booze and came across a bottle of amaro nonino. Even though it wasn’t on my list I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to get my hands on a bottle and the Paper Plane was the first thing I thought of to utilize this new ingredient.
.75 oz. bourbon
.75 oz. Aperol
.75 oz. Amaro Nonino Quintessentia
.75 oz lemon juice, freshly squeezed
Add the bourbon, Aperol, Amaro Nonino and lemon juice into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled. Strain into a coupe glass.
Man, I feel like I’m a proper (albeit amateur) mixologist now that I have a bottle of amaro nonino.
There is a very low key aroma, if any such smell exists at all here.
My initial impression is that this is excellent. It’s very well balanced,which makes sense that it’s an equal parts cocktail.
Going back in for more tastings is where I can really start to pick out the individual layers at work here.
It starts out a touch on the sweet side. By touch I mean barely. I would assume that’s the amaro at work (this being my first attempt at using it and all)
Then the sour and bitter flavors come in. That’s the fresh lemon juice and the aperol for you.
Those sour/slightly bitter flavors don’t really dominate, but they do elbow their way to the front of the palate.
The restraining factor for those ingredients is the whiskey. In this case I used rye because as mentioned before, that’s usually what I have on hand.
You can definitely get the extra zip the rye brings right at the end. It’s like the drink holds it in check as long as it can, but it’s not quite enough. Which isn’t a bad thing mind you. Bourbon may be a touch more balanced in this application, but I like that rye spice and I think it works well here.
Again, I’m finally glad I was able to try this. I should try it with bourbon and I probably will the next time I get a bottle on hand, but for now, I’ll definitely be making this with the eye and I’ll be exploring more awesome drinks that call for amaro nonino
Banner image courtesy Matthew Tetrault Photography)
[…] it a little weird. For a while I’ve been sitting on a bottle of Amaro Nonino since I made a Paper Plane a while ago. I found a reddit thread (yes, reddit can still be good for some things still). […]
Finished Friday’s post with 5 minutes to spare! NAILED IT!
#5: Auchentoshan 2007 Artist Collective 13yr for LMDW
Hooray! You’re almost there.
Now that’s a funeral!
https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1733176579579056369
Scotch #4 – Black Bull 18 yr Tale of Two Legends
Dok’s advent calendar turned into a Black Sploitation/Fantasy Epic so slowly I forgot to buy the rights!
Pretty sure I saw that one on Cinemax late one night.
That sounds lovely! I’m about to open day 4 of my Scotch advent calendar, gonna try to drink 4,5, and 6 today so I’ll be able to fully catch up over the weekend.
Next week is gonna be crazy from a job search perspective, I have a 1.5 hour interview Monday morning, then a preliminary recruiter screen in the afternoon, A 1 hr tech screen on Thursday, followed by 2 hours on the first half of a final round interview, with another 2 hours on Friday, and then another 1 hr tech screen that hasn’t been scheduled yet.
It was super slow and now everyone has decided they want to hire data scientists all at the same time, which, okay, fine, works for me!
Act nonchalantly like you hate the company. They’ll pay you more.
Act?
If you get at least two offers, you should accept both and juggle them like those guys who manage to have secret other families.
I’ll have to make sure they have compatible hybrid work schedules and I don’t get confused and go to the wrong office
I have a recurring dream where I’m juggling two jobs, and I hate it.
Dreams about two jugs are my favorite kind of…wait, never mind, we’re not on the same page here.
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/ewRjZoRtu0Y?si=2I7DE5RF1HyYZi-g
Sources reporting Ohtani to sign with Toronto.
Well, if we can’t keep him, I guess no one in our country should get him.
KSK alum Trevor Risk, a native Canuckistani, tweeted that Ohtani will hightail it back to southern CA the second he tastes Toronto sushi.
Heyman and Nightengale just reported that Ohtani is not in or en route to Toronto and is in fact chillin in SoCal.
TODAY IS SO FUCKED UP AND WONDERFUL
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39068836/minkah-fitzpatrick-steelers-need-more-guys-want-work-it
Balls was correct. The STANDARD isn’t STANDARDIZING.
Freshly squeezed lemon juice? That’s fine and all, but I’d rather ruin your recipe by using flat Fanta Lemon instead XD By the way, Sharkie, can you recommend a decent (as in fancy enough for a supplementary X-mas present) equivalent to the Good Book, but for cocktails (and/or booze in general)?
Ah, for context in the highly likely event “the good book” doesn’t ring any bells with the
finedenizens of DFO – I’m talking about this one , not the one that has more plotholes than a Dan Brown novel, or historical RRP for fertile women XDhttps://twitter.com/Criminalsimpson/status/1733140409302348032
My cousin worked in the NFL Legal Department for several years. Her last day was this past week. They had a going away party for her, and a certain Herr Goodell showed up. My mother sent me a picture of my cousin with ol’ Rog.
Mom: “Do you know who this man is?”
Me: /huge intake of breath
Roger Goodell is an Interdepartmental Disgrace.
How long have you been sitting on this information, counselor?
However long she was working for them. It was a few years.
I see.
If you didn’t mutter “that motherfucker” under your breath, well, then I don’t know you at all.
My response was “One of the worst people on the planet. Absolute garbage human being.”
I’d love to hear the kinds of things your cousin will not talk about at that job.
There were so many times I wanted to call her up and see how willing she was to violate attorney-client privilege, but familial obligations required that I not.