The Black Rose

Name: The Black Rose
Ingredients: 2.5 oz Apple Brandy; .75 oz Lemon Juice; .75 oz Red Wine Berry Coulis; 2 dash(es) Cinnamon Bitters

By Noah Heath

Submitted on: April 8, 2022

Seasonal

Themed

Lola Montez by Volbeat came on at the gym the other day and inspired this edit of the Jack Rose I posted earlier this year. A sinister twist on the Jack Rose titanic theme. Rose takes the form of a true noir film femme fatale captivating and dooming anyone who falls in love with her- kind of like Rose through the movie 🤔🧐. Red wine and cherry berry coulis and cinnamon bitters bring a darker twist to a traditionally bright cocktail and pull the apple brandy down to a darker depth of flavor! Enj...

Ingredients

2.5 oz
Apple Brandy

.75 oz
Lemon Juice

.75 oz
Red Wine Berry Coulis

2 dash(es)
Cinnamon Bitters

Instructions

Garnish

1 Raspberry in bottom of glass

Build

Shake & Double Strain

Glass

Coupe

Estimated strength

About 22% ABV (estimate)

By Noah Heath

Mixologist

I'm just a guy who, like most people two years go, found himself with a lot free time and a bar full of odds and ends and figured out he liked making cocktails while in quarantine! I love to cook and experiment in the kitchen, this seemed like the next great frontier to scratch that creative itch!...

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*Red Wine Berry Coulis - simmer 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup dry red wine, juice of 1 lemon 10 black cherries, 10 blackberries 10 raspberries and 1 cinnamon stick on med low heat for 20 min. Strain and bottle. Shake with ice and serve up. Cheers 🥂

Editor's Note

A homemade red wine and dark berry coulis replaces grenadine in this Jack Rose riff. The result is a deeper, more tannic sour that pulls the apple brandy into darker, spicier territory.