Mike Brown might be found mixing cocktails at the new bar or working in the barrel room at Camarillo Barrel Works which he co-owns with wife Chris.

By / Photography By | June 01, 2024

Ingredients

SERVINGS: 1 Cocktail
  • ½ teaspoon absinthe
  • 1½ ounces Cantara Cellars brandy
  • 1½ ounces rye whiskey
  • ½ ounce simple syrup
  • 4 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters

Preparation

Rinse a 10-ounce rocks glass with ½ teaspoon of absinthe. Discard excess absinthe. Add a large chunk of ice into the prepared glass. Combine other ingredients in a mixing glass or cocktail shaker; add ice then stir for 30 seconds.

Strain into prepared glass. Express a large lemon peel over the glass and drop it into the drink. Serve!

Ingredients

SERVINGS: 1 Cocktail
  • ½ teaspoon absinthe
  • 1½ ounces Cantara Cellars brandy
  • 1½ ounces rye whiskey
  • ½ ounce simple syrup
  • 4 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters