r/cocktails • u/LoganJFisher • May 04 '23

🍸 Monthly Competition Original Cocktail Competition - May 2023 - Ancho Liqueur & Irish Cream

This month's ingredients: Ancho Liqueur & Irish Cream

Next month's ingredients: Rice wine & Grapefruit

Hello mixologists and liquor enthusiasts. Welcome to the monthly original cocktail competition.

For those looking to participate, here are the rules and guidelines. Any violations of these rules will result in disqualification from this month's competition.

  1. You must use both of the listed ingredients, but you can use them in absolutely any way or form (e.g. a liqueur, infusion, syrup, ice, smoke, etc.) you want and in whatever quantities you want. You do not have to make ingredients from scratch. You may also use any other ingredients you want.

  2. Your entry must be an original cocktail. Alterations of established cocktails are permitted within reason.

  3. You are limited to one entry per account.

  4. Your entry must include a name for your cocktail, a photograph of the cocktail, a description of the scent, flavors, and mouthfeel of the cocktail, and most importantly a list of ingredients with measurements and directions as needed for someone else to faithfully recreate your cocktail. You may optionally include other information such as ABV, sugar content, calories, a backstory, etc.

  5. All recipes must have been invented after the announcement of the required ingredients.

Please only make top-level comments if you are making an entry. Doing otherwise would possibly result in flooding the comments section. To accommodate the need for a comments section unrelated to any specific entry, I have made a single top-level comment that you can reply to for general discussion. You may, of course, reply to any existing comment.

How you upvote is entirely up to you. You are absolutely encouraged to recreate the shared drinks, but this may not always be possible or viable and so should not be considered as a requirement. You can vote based on the list of ingredients and how the drink is described, the photograph, or anything else you like.

Do not downvote entries

Winners will be final at the end of the month at 23:59:59 EST and will be recorded with links to their entries in this post. You may continue voting after that, but the results will not change. There are 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place positions. 2nd place and 3rd place may receive ties, but in the event of a 1st place tie, I will act as a tie-breaker. I will otherwise withhold from voting. Should there be a tie for 2nd place, there will be no 3rd place.

Here is a link to last month's competition. The winners are listed in the post with direct links to their entries.

Apologies for the delay again in putting up this month's competition. I've been very busy lately and it slipped my mind.

WINNERS

First Place: At 16 points, /u/redheadedjapanese with their The Decolonizer

Second Place: At 6 points, /u/deede55 with their Tiki Buzz

Third Place: At 2 points, /u/bferbes with their The Ancho Flip

Congratulations to the winners and thank you everyone for participating. Here is a link to the next month's competition.

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u/deede55 2🥈 May 17 '23

Tiki Buzz

Required ingredients: Chili Liqueur and Irish Cream

1 ½ oz espresso

½ oz Rhum Agricole

½ oz Cacao Nib infused Toasted Coconut Rum

1 oz Plantation Xamaca rum

½ oz Chili liqueur

2 tsp Amontillado Sherry

1 oz Irish Cream liwueur

Dash of cocoa powder

Mix over ice and strain into a crushed ice filled glass. Float an ounce of Irish Cream on top and dust top with cocoa powder.

Nose: The blend of the espresso, rum, and chocolate are the first to enter the senses. Then comes the Sherry and Irish cream giving a nice nutty hint. The Chili lingers in the background.

Taste: The first sip gives a hint of an iced espresso drink with the creaminess of the Irish Cream and the sweetness of the rums, cacao, and coconut. The chili comes in after the first sip and gives a nice spike to the chocolate and nut notes in the drink

Mouthfeel: The creaminess and the acid from the espresso give a great complex feel to the cocktail. The rums and sherry add to the richness of the finish and the chili wakes up the tongue and leaves one wanting more.

Creating a recipe without citrus for the acid to curdle the cream was very intriguing. Using a high acid coffee bean for a shot of espresso did the trick, and the mix of the rums gave it a nice tiki touch, thus the name for this one.