Yeah yeah. The most used name of all time for a peach cocktail. Whatever. We’ve been doing this annually and each year bring the smoke with a different variation. I did try to think of something else, a different name but…Why? Cocktail names are annoying enough to come up with and people order this one blindly. I would like to come up with something clever but those days are behind me…Well, unless it’s a name that we can’t use…As in, something lurid, disgusting, or offensive….

Yes, the typical go to for peach is bourbon or brandy. This is exactly why you should go another route and try to use a different spirit. If you decide to use vodka, please do us all a favor and kill yourself. Ok, ok, that’s harsh. Tattoo “vodka lover” on your forehead. Yeah, the scarlet letter of bartending. If you want to be sort of cool, do what I do and use pisco instead.

Peachy Keen

1.5 oz. White Cacao Tequila

1 oz. Manzanilla

1 oz. Peach Calpico

.5 oz. Peachy/Miso Syrup

.25 oz. Lemon Juice

.25 oz. Lemon Sherbet

1 Dash Fee’s Peach Bitters

BFR. Pinch o’ sumac.

This is the way. You have to hit people over the head with any drink featuring a supreme fruit like a peach. It’s because peaches are, ultimately, so much better fresh. Certain staples, like passionfruit, are actually better and more fragrant as a syrup, but not a peach. I mean, what beats a fresh, perfectly ripe, in season peach? Not much. At the moment, while in the throes of three months worth of sleep deprivation, I can’t conjure a damn thing.

A couple of notes. The white cacao tequila is simply one liter of tequila and 200 grams of white chocolate. The white chocolate adds flavor but the solids don’t really seep off into the spirit itself, which is quite nice. It gets a little milky looking. Nothing wrong with that. This means when you strain it into your empty tequila bottle you saved (you did save it right?) you can immediately just dump another liter of tequila in without weighing out more chocolate. After five or so repeats of this you can add 10 grams or so. We let it go two to three days. After that, with any typical 80 proof well tequila, nothing spectacular will really happen.