Bearwallow Highlander

Bearwallow Highlander

Carl Amoth's Bar

Makes 2 cocktails

The walnut Highlander on wild huckleberry—tart mountain fruit under amaro and nocino.

Ingredients

• 3 oz rye whiskey (Bulleit 95)
• 1 ½ oz Amaro Montenegro
• 1 oz nocino (Nux Alpina)
• 2 oz fresh lemon juice
• ½ oz ginger syrup
• 1 ½ oz huckleberry purée

Method

1. Dry shake about 10 seconds.
2. Add ice and shake 20–25 seconds; double strain into chilled coupes.
3. Garnish with an expressed orange peel.

Note. The walnut version of the house Highlander, with mountain huckleberry doing the fruit work under the amaro.