2070, now with fabulous prizes!

Fabulous prizes at the bottom of the post. First, let’s get to drinking!

So, if you’ve haven’t heard it said around here before, Martin Cate, my ultimate H-bomb when it comes to name dropping, has been known to drop down a damn golden nugget of a drink when he cares to.  I’m not saying all that comes from his brain his golden, he just has the wherewithal to really figure out what makes a drink tick, and keeps on trying ’til he gets it right.

The following drink, the 2070, was introduced to me by Paul Clarke through his article in last year’s Sept/Oct. Issue of Imbibe (yes, it took me a year to post on this… I’ve perhaps enjoyed them a few too many times).

2070

• 1 oz Angostura 1919
• 1 oz Lemon Hart 151
• 1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice
• 1/2 oz Rich Simple Syrup
• 1/2 oz Honey Mix
• 1/4 oz St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram
• 4 drops Pernod
• 2 dash Angostura bitters
• 1 pinch freshly ground nutmeg

Build ingredients with Crushed Ice in a Chimney glass.  Insert barspoon or lele stick and gently twirl spoon between the palms of your hands until a frost forms on the outside of the glass.  Serve with Straw.

Honey Mix is a mix of even parts honey and warm water, stirring until the honey is completely dissolved.

Rich Simple Syrup is a 2:1 Demerara Sugar to Water Simple Syrup.

Says Martin of the origins of the drink,

The recipe was inspired by a regular at FI who always had me make him swizzles. I usually freestyled based on several recipes, and some were better than others. So I wanted to really get down a firm version of what I liked that was true to its Trini roots, but also mindful of the drinks eventual tikification.

I sat down one night at the bar and whipped up every swizzle recipe I could find- three different QPSs [Queen's Park Swizzles], some stuff from Barbados, etc.. I wanted to see what flavors and rum combos I really liked, to sit down and make what would be, for me, the ultimate swizzle. So it’s really just a showcase for some of my favorite flavors.

This is something of a superswizzle- usually they have far fewer ingredients. But you get honey/pernod (more tiki) and Angostura/allspice/nutmeg (more Caribbean) and I like to think they can be friends¦much like the farmer and the cowman.

And its the “2070″ not “20-70″ Swizzle. Or “Twenty Seventy” or “Two Thousand Seventy”, but that doesn’t sound as good.

note: some editing, partially sourced from the Cocktailnerd.com 2070 post.

This is a lovely and flavorful sipper. Definitely heavy on the ingredients for your standard swizzle, but oh the flavor combinations. Have you figured out the origins of the name? Give it a guess. First to comment with the correct origins of the name (that I haven’t drunkenly explained it to already) will be shipped a bottle of Trader Tiki’s Orgeat and Cinnamon Syrup, to make up your own tropical concoctions!

Tagged as: Angostura 1919, Angostura Bitters, Fresh Lime Juice, Honey Mix, Lemon Hart 151, martin cate, nutmeg, pernod, Rich Simple Syrup, St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram