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Big Chief
A stirred bourbon cocktail with Averna and Punt e Mes, finished with an orange peel.
Go to the recipe ↓The Big Chief is Abigail Deirdre Gullo's New Orleans bourbon drink. It is a variation on the Longshoreman, which follows the Red Hook and, further back, the Manhattan. Bourbon leads, with smaller equal pours of Averna and Punt e Mes. You stir it with ice and strain it into a stemmed glass. Both published versions below use the same measures. The decisions left to you are which bourbon to pour and whether to flame the orange peel.
Punch: flamed orange peel
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
Method as published
- Pour the bourbon, Averna and Punt e Mes into a mixing glass.
- Fill with ice and stir until the drink is cold.
- Strain into a Nick and Nora glass or a coupe.
- Hold a piece of orange peel between your fingers over the drink and warm its peel side with a lit match.
- Squeeze the peel so its oils spray through the flame, then drop the peel into the glass.
Garnish Flamed orange peel
- Punch prefers Buffalo Trace for the bourbon.
Recipe source: PUNCH ↗
Cocktail Virgin: Old Grand-Dad Bonded
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
Method as published
- Stir the bourbon, Averna and Punt e Mes with ice.
- Strain into a Nick & Nora glass. The post adds "cocktail coupe" in parentheses.
- Finish with the orange twist.
Garnish Flamed orange twist, with "unflamed twist" given in parentheses
- This version is made with Old Grand-Dad Bonded bourbon.
Recipe source: cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com ↗
Flamed or plain twist
The flame is the only step that needs anything beyond bar tools: a lit match held to the orange peel above the finished drink. Cocktail Virgin's version prints "unflamed twist" in parentheses next to the flamed twist, so a plain orange twist is also a published finish. Whichever finish you choose, the measures and the stir stay the same.