It’s never been easier to flex your mixology skills at home than it is now. The ingredients are better, the equipment is more advanced, the techniques are easy to master.

This week on Barrel to Bottle we’re going to teach you how to impress your friends and family with five cocktails, along with recommendations for accessories and ingredients you can purchase or make yourself.

Smoked Bees Knees

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 oz. Bombay Sapphire Dry Gin
• ¾ oz. lemon juice
• ½ oz. rosemary honey simple syrup (1:1, steep rosemary after reducing and removing from heat)
• Garnish: rosemary sprig, lightly torched

SIMPLE STEPS:

1. Add ingredients to a shaker with ice. 
2. Strain into old fashioned glass over a large ice cube.
3. Smoke cocktail with Viski cocktail smoker

Smoked Old Fashioned

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 oz. Wild Turkey 101
• splash of simple syrup
• dashes of Angostura and Regan's Orange Bitters

SIMPLE STEPS:

1. Gently mix ingredients and large ice cube in Viski mixing glass
2. Smoke cocktail with Viski cocktail smoker

Browned Butter Fat Washed Old Fashioned

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 oz. Wild Turkey 101 (browned butter fat washed)
• splash of simple syrup
• dashes of Angostura and Regan's Orange Bitters

SIMPLE STEPS:

1. Brown butter in pan, do not let it smoke. Pour into heat safe container, along with bourbon of your choice. Cover, bring to room temperature and put in freezer overnight. Skim solidified fat off the top. Store in fridge. 
2. Mix cocktail ingredients in Viski mixing glass

Bacon Fat Washed Old Fashioned

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 oz. Clark & Sheffield Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon (bacon fat washed)
• Splash of simple syrup
• Dashes of Angostura and Regan's Orange Bitters

SIMPLE STEPS:

1. After cooking bacon, strain fat into heat safe container to remove any solids. Add bourbon. Cover, bring to room temperature and put in freezer overnight. Skim solidified fat off the top. Store in fridge. 
2. Mix cocktail ingredients in Viski mixing glass

Clover Club

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 oz. Bombay Sapphire Dry Gin
• ½ oz. Dolin Blanc Vermouth
• ¾ oz. rich raspberry simple syrup (2:1 sugar to water, steep fresh raspberries after reducing and removing from heat)
• ¾ oz. lemon juice
• ½ oz. egg white

SIMPLE STEPS:

1. Shake egg white vigorously with spring from Hawthron strainer. 
2. Add remaining ingredients plus ice and shake again until well mixed. 
3. Strain into glass. 

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