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      <image:title>Competition Cocktails - Blood &amp;amp; Water</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Blood &amp; Water” won in the Malfy Gin category of the Indy Devour Summerfest 2022 Cocktail Contest</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Competition Cocktails - Blood &amp;amp; Water - Initially I had set about to infuse my own base liquor. I was making this drink for a contest, and there had not been a gin category in the prior contests. I very much wanted the citrus and spice flavors of gin.</image:title>
      <image:caption>I started with a juniper and coriander base, typical to most gins. I added fresh ginger, lemongrass, lemon peel and blood orange peel. The resulting infusion was delicious and pretty accurately hit the flavor I was attempting. However, the infusion also imparted a lot of color in my base spirit. It wouldn’t fit with my clear cocktail ideal, which was also very important to me. I tried to physically filter the infusion with cheesecloth and coffee filter but to no avail. I bought a centrifuge, but They released the contest details and there was a gin category. The brand was Malfy, and while their Originale leaned too piney for my purposes, they also make a beautiful Limone, flavored with Amalfi Lemons. Splitting the base between the two was the perfect solution.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Competition Cocktails - Blood &amp;amp; Water - Step 1: Clarifying the Lemon Juice</image:title>
      <image:caption>I tried physical filtration on my lemon juice, but the results were not effective enough, so I learned how to clarify with Agar Agar. It took me about three tries to get the technique down right. I recommend being careful with timing and temperature, and to be very patient with the final step. This process requires measuring by weight instead of fluid ounces. I’ll be using round number to make the math easy. Juice lemons, let’s say you obtain 75g of lemon juice. Set aside and chill 1/3 of that amount water, so 25g of water into the refrigerator. You’ll take the total weight of your liquids to get 100g and then take 2% of that number to determine how much agar agar you need. So, weight out 2g of agar agar. Mix water and agar agar and bring to a boil to allow the agar agar to bloom. After you’ve reached a boil and seen the reaction in the agar agar, cut the heat and very very slowly add in your room temperature lemon juice. Pour this mixture into a small bowl in an ice bath, stir gently as the curds begin to form. Then let sit for a half hour or more before gently straining the curds from the liquid through a cheesecloth.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Competition Cocktails - Blood &amp;amp; Water - Step 2: Making the Syrup</image:title>
      <image:caption>I started with a fine strained cup of Natalie’s Blood Orange Juice. I added 90g of finely chopped fresh beetroot and brought the mixture to a boil. I boiled until the proper blood red color was reached. Turn off the heat, then mix in a cup of white sugar while the juice is still warm. Remove from heat, let cool and strain the beetroot out. This picture illustrates the difference between using bottled orange juice (on the left) and fresh blood orange juice (on the right). The beetroot brought my mixture to the dark red color that the blood oranges naturally have.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2022-06-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Competition Cocktails - Cranbrosia</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Cranbrosia” was the winner of the Indy Devour Winterfest 2022 Cocktail Contest</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Competition Cocktails - Cranbrosia - This was my very first draft for Cranbrosia. I was too excited to wait on an infusion, so I used Stoli Orange. I used canned cranberry, which turned out to be far too sweet and thin for what I wanted. I did get the Cointreau right on the first shot at least. The top layer was even trickier. I think this first draft used heavy cream, simple syrup and almond bitters. I didn’t have the tanginess I needed and the contest limited the amount of ingredients I could use.</image:title>
      <image:caption>I figured out how to make a thicker cranberry base, and used my infusion, which was far more spiced than sweet. Kefir was the breakthrough ingredient. Kefir is a fermented yogurt drink, delicious and full of probiotics. It was the tangy dairy I needed to mix with the whippable base of the heavy cream. Amaretto was the amazing ingredient that added sweetness, and a note of almond.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Competition Cocktails - Cranbrosia - Step 1: Infusing the Vodka</image:title>
      <image:caption>I started with a 500mL experimental batch, but I liked how the recipe turned out, and it’s easy to scale up. -500mL Absolut -2 cinnamon sticks  -Bar spoon ground clove -Peel of a whole orange -5-6 orange slices Combine vodka, orange peel and spices and infuse for four days. Store your infusion in a sealed container in a cool, dark space. Make sure anything organic in your infusion (like the orange peel) is fully covered in alcohol. This infusion is pretty easy to fit into the original bottle, or infuse in a separate container and keep your bottle to refill Add fresh orange slices to your for the last 24-48 hours. This step adds some brighter, juicier orange flavors to the mix. Strain. Strain out all your infusion ingredients and rebottle your new flavored vodka.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Competition Cocktails - Cranbrosia - Step 2: Making a Cranberry Sauce</image:title>
      <image:caption>This recipe also scales up. When I was making Cranbrosia at work I had a whole vat of cranberries cooking at a time. It takes a bit longer to cook a large batch, but it’s a pretty forgiving recipe as long as you make sure the berries pop. 1.5 cup fresh (or frozen) cranberries .5 cup water .5 cup sugar 2oz lemon juice Cook in a saucepan, beginning on a low heat. Bring all ingredients to a boil until the cranberries pop, and then simmer for 20 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool. Blend your cranberry mixture on high. Make sure your blender lid is firmly attached, this bright red mixture tends to stain. Strain your blended berries through a mesh bar strainer, or equivalent .</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Competition Cocktails - Adios, Ghost - The theme of the contest for Summer 2020 was the theme for 2020’s bar as a whole: the carry out cocktail. The bars and restaurants in Indiana had just reopened for dine in service. I wanted to make a drink that was cocktail bar quality but able to be assembled at home. I constructed a self contained little drink that used fresh fruit and fresh herbs and simplified some bar techniques for home use.</image:title>
      <image:caption>The carry out kit I put together contained all the spirits necessary, as well as the syrup, in a miniature mason jar. A little envelope contained both a fresh sage leaf and a dried sage leaf. I included a fresh peach and fresh lime, as well as a matchbook. I did assume that everyone has a cocktail tin, a knife and a muddler at home.</image:caption>
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