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Santa Claus

romy — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:39:09 +0000

Village, The North Pole

Favorite ORO Puro: Negra Criolla & Quebranta, the labels go with my outfit.

What got you into bar tending: Lots of time off. I’ve got to entertain all the elves somehow during the off season.

Movies or Books:Depends on if they are naughty or nice!

Favorite Mushroom: The meringue ones on Bouche de Noel.

If you could open a bar anywhere, where would it be: Somewhere warm.

ORO Cocktail:

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies

2 oz ORO Quebranta

1/4oz Amaro Nonino

1 bar spoon pickled, spiced plums

3 oz not too spicy ginger ale or beer (Bunderberg, Reeds, Q, or Verners)

Orange zest

Put plum in shaker and mash with a bar spoon or muddler. Add pisco and amaro, then stir until plum starts to dissolve. Pour over a collins glass filled with ice and top with ginger beer and orange zest.

If you cannot find pickled plums, then use plum jam and a spicier ginger beer like Fever Tree and up the Nonino to a 1/3 of an ounce.

You can also make a this drink a sour by eliminating the ginger beer/ale and adding 1/2oz egg whites. Add the egg white after stirring, then dry shake the cocktail. After dry shaking, add ice and shake again. Double strain into a coup and garnish with orange bitters and Miracle Mile’s Forbidden bitters.

Trevor Easter

romy — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:53:29 +0000

Heaven’s Dog, San Francisco, CA

Favorite ORO Puro-Oro Pisco Italia

What Got Me Into Bartending: About the time I found out that I wasn’t going to make it my whole life without having to work I started a search for something that would never feel like work and would allow me to act like a kid for ever. Then once I found out that the job that Tom Hanks had in the movie Big didn’t really exist and other cool toy jobs required a degree of some sorts. So my next favorite movie Back to the Future was unrealistic and being a cowboy like blazing saddles just wasn’t me. So I settled on being like Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder but that was to expensive so the movie Cocktail it was.. Cocktails and Dreams

Favorite mushroom:Toad from mario Kart

If you could open a bar anywhere, where would it be: I would open a bar at 1148 mission st. I would probablly serve awesome chinese food, cocktails based on Charles H. Bakers book Jigger, Beaker, and Glass and I would call it Deaven’s Hog

ORO Cocktail:

Crouching Cider Hidden Dragon

7oz Spiced Apple Cider*

1.5oz ORO Italia

*Spiced Cider

2 liters of unsweetened organic apple juice

1 tablespoon black cardamom

6 cinnamon sticks

the peels from two oranges studded with cloves

combine all ingredients an hour before serving and serve warm

Alexander Fazio

romy — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:54:49 +0000

The Border Grill, Downtown LA

Which is your favorite ORO Puro: My favorite Oro puro is the unbroken, hazelnut kissed Quebranta.

How did you get into bartending: My love of spirits and great conversation brought me to bartending.

What is your favorite type of mushroom: My favorite mushrooms; Morels, black & white truffles.

If you could open a bar anywhere, where would it be: I would like to open a seasonal market driven, hand-crafted cocktail bar near a warm beach where I can cater to my relaxed guests desire for spirited adventure.

My favorite Oro Cocktail is my Marco Pisco. Marco Pisco is exclusively offered in the Cantina at Border Grill DTLA; Oro Pisco Quebranta, Cinnamon cream, Granny Smith foam, Mole bitters. A playfully soulful take on the classic Pisco Sour and Pisco punches popular in late 19th century California with a nod to Molecular Mixology for functional fun.

Marjan Simovics

romy — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:09:10 +0000

B, San Francisco/Oakland & Era Art Bar, Oakland

Favorite ORO Puro:

Negra Criolla

What got you into bar tending:

At one point I wanted to do something creative, yet stay in the Industry. I had a choice between the shaker and the pan — I went for the shaker … More fun.

Favorite Mushroom:

Brown Beech

If you could open a bar anywhere in the world where would it be:

Home turf. Somewhere ’round the Bay.

ORO Cocktail:

Kingpin

1 1/2 oz ORO Pisco Negra Criolla

1/2 oz Leopold Brother’s Cherry Liqueur

1/2 oz Averna

4 dash Angostura Bitters

Combine ingredients over ice, in a mixing glass. Stir for 20 seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Garnish with dehydrated blood-orange wheel.

Pretty in Pink

1 1/2 oz ORO Pisco Quebranta

3/4 oz Lime juice

1/2 oz Grapefruit juice

1/4 oz Agave Nectar

3 dash Angostura Bitters

Combine ingredients over ice, in a shaker. Shake 3 times and pour into a collins or large rocks-glass over fresh ice.

Garnish with grapefruit peel.

Dion Jardine

romy — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:10:19 +0000

Reform Club, San Francisco, CA

Where are you shaking at: Bar Dogwood & my pop-up Reform Club in the Mission.

What got you into bar tending: Used to work in the kitchen at restaurants but when I moved to San Francisco I got a chance to work with Thad Vogler and that changed everything.

Movies or Books:Books

Favorite Mushroom:Liberty Caps

If you could open a bar anywhere in the world where would it be: What’s that Libertarian island that they are building?

Favorite ORO Puro: Torontel

ORO Cocktail:

Better Than Your Pisco Cocktail

2oz ORO Torontel

barspoon gomme syrup

barspoon maraschino liquour

2-3 dashes angostura bitters

2-3 dashes peychaud bitters

mix all ingredients together with ice, strain into a rocks glass and garnish with an orange peel.

Brian McMillan

romy — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:44:02 +0000

Sidebar, Oakland, CA

Acholado for a deelish pisco sour

The endless search for restaurant knowledge

White button: I know everything is fancy and single village and sustainable and all but have you ever had white button mushrooms sauteed in garlic and butter?

Oakland…or Bora Bora, one of the two

Antistar

1 3/4 oz ORO Quebranta Pisco

1/2 oz Cynar Apertif

1/4 oz Fernet Branca

Brian McMillan

two grapefruit twists.

Assemble liquid ingredients and one grapefruit twist in mixing glass. Pack with ice and stir for 25 seconds. Strain into chilled cocktail glass and garnish with second grapefruit twist.

Vita Simone

romy — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:53:53 +0000

Luka’s Taproom, Oakland, CA

How Did You Get Into Mixology: When I was 17 with my extremely convincing fake ID, I would purchase bottles of “Golden Gate” vodka, and….out of necesity to make the legal moonshine pallitable, I would mix it with juice, soda, or fruit so we could enjoy the liquid libations. As mild maturity set in I went to Create Greece to visit with my family. I became instantly inspired by the bursting variety of citrus, and the local sage honey. And this is how Mixology found me.
Favorite Mushroom: Shitaki today, trumpet yesterday
If You Could Open a Bar Anywhere, Where Would It Be: I would open a bar on the pacific side of Nicaragua, where the air is sweet, the fruit abundent, and the smiles genuine.

Favorite ORO Puro: All the Aromatics.

ORO Cocktail: Daylight Savings

http://www.thepiscobook.com/recipes

Jordan Lee Berger

romy — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:27:25 +0000

ORO Pisco Brand Ambassador, Los Angeles, CA

Where are you shakin’ at: Private Events and The Haven
How did you first get into bartending: Took a bartending course in high school (you can serve at 18 inphilly!) Then just kept working through college and found mixology once I moved to LA 2 years ago.

Favorite ORO Puro: Italia or Albilla
Books or Movies: Big Lebowski, Craft of the Cocktail, Shantaram, Top Gun, Ghostbusters
Favorite Mushroom: those really funky blue ones… shitakes, right? )
If you could open a bar anywhere in the world where would it be: Martha’s Vineyard, MA

Cocktail:

Bulldog Chilcano

(named after the Georgia Bulldogs…get it…Peaches…Georgia….ha!)

Macerated Yellow Peaches (20hrs) in bottle of ORO Italia

2 oz Infused ORO Italia

3/4 oz Fresh Lime

1/2 Turbano Simple

Ginger Beer

Angostura Bitters

Muddle 5 Peach cubes w/Simple

add ORO Pisco and Lime.

Long/Hard shake

Add Ginger beer TO TIN and strain onto rocks in Chilled Collins if avail.

3 drops Ango

Can add a little Grendaine float to make Bloody Bulldog Chilcano

www.audiblecocktails.com is Jordan’s music and cocktail site, check it out!

Brandon Reynolds-Ristaino

romy — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:05:25 +0000

The Del Monte Speakeasy

Venice, CA

Where are you shakin’ at? The Del Monte

Books or movies? Every Hemingway novel that took place in Europe

Favorite mushroom? Candy cap – for infusions!

Favorite ORO Puro? Quebranta

Check out Brandon’s Californian spin on the classic, The Venetian, using ORO Pisco’s Quebranta!

Ricky Paiva

romy — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:15:36 +0000

Rickhouse

San Francisco, CA

Where you shakin’ at? Rickhouse

How did you first get into bartending?

I’ve been in the service industry since I was 17, and I basically told my company that I was going to be a bartender with or without them. Luckily, one of the restaurants I was working for got their liquor licesnce right before I turned 21—so on my birthday, I started bartending.

Books or movies:

Both—Boozehound for books, and any awesomely funny movie like Hot Rod or 80′s films like RAD.

Favorite mushroom:

I do a lot of cooking on my time off and I’m totally in love with mushrooms. I usually keep porcini, shitake, and baby bellas on hand—but generally, if it’s fungus, I love it!

If you could open a bar anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Why are you offering me a bar?? But seriously, I feel like the right bar to open will come when it’s time. I’ve always had a dream to open a hot dog style cart on the beach in Mexico with a large block of ice to make fresh shaved ice margaritas.

Favorite ORO puro: Italia and Albilla

Visit Ricky behind the stick at Rickhouse or try one of his signature creations at home like the Hard Heart, featuring ORO Pisco’s Albilla or Acholado.