Creative Drinking

The feeling of spring continues with The One Flight Up cocktail...

Spring is still in the air, though I don't believe much longer. So to cash in on the fleeting feeling,I found this springy drink from Pouring Ribbons in NYC. I found this because I was trying to find something else to do with my orange flower water other than a Ramos Gin Fizz. It turned out that this also gave me the opportunity to dust off the Pisco for the season. Hooray. This is actually sort of Ramos Gin Fizz-y in a respect. I love the addition of the Campari and the egg white and soda water makes it feel like an old school drug store soda fountain kinda thing....

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Pisco (I used Capel)
• 3/4 oz Bianco Vermouth (Dolin)
• 3/4 oz Lemon juice
• 1 oz Simple syrup
• 5 dr Orange flower water (Fee Bros.)
• 1 dash Angostura bitters
• 1 Egg white
• 1/2 oz Campari
• 1 oz Soda water

Add Campari and soda water to a highball glass and fill with ice. Add the other ingredients to a shaker, seal and shake without ice to emulsify the egg white. Add ice to the shaker and shake to chill, then strain into the highball glass to float over the Campari and soda mixture. Garnish with twists of lemon and orange peel. Serve with straw.

Lots of ingredients, and a good many steps but totally worth it. As long as you have everything out you may as well just have two.