Delicious cocktails: Salty drinks are trendy drinks

Last year was a big year Trend Liquid Kitchen Cocktail. Drinks here are served with ingredients commonly found in the kitchen: butter, broth or vegetable peelings. Now we continue in this direction. For the so-called delicious cocktails, brine, umamiculinary flavors of mushroom and cheese, seaweed and sharpness to use.

What are the most delicious cocktails?

The English word “salty” means salty or spicy. The delicious cocktail is a creamy drink that sometimes uses exotic-sounding ingredients like fried bacon. One of the oldest flavorful cocktails is the Old Fashioned Benton, which achieves a sweet-spicy tension between maple syrup and bacon-topped bourbon.

that cocktail trend It’s been noticed in the bar scene for some time: more and more bartenders are being given prizes for their own creations, like those with tahini, sweet potato and smoked milk. The described constellation is in Paradiso bar in Barcelona Available under the name On Fire. Their menu also includes drinks with corn or mushroom flavor.

Then there’s the cold pizza cocktail from New York bar Double Chicken Please. As the name suggests, this drink (see title photo) tastes like cold pizza. The bar also serves Red Eye Gravy – a cocktail with in the microwave Baked Crispy Prosciutto Beef:

How do you make delicious cocktails?

How does the taste of cold pizza enter the glass? Bartenders flavor their drinks with juices and smoke extracts. When it comes to pizza cocktails, a cold shot is more likely to be a hot one Flavored tomato juice and rosemary flavour.

Salt: It generates its inflationary effect by stimulating our taste receptors on the tongue. Along with sour, bitter, sweet, and umami, it is one of the Five flavors – We perceive all other smells through the nose. Salt makes us feel flavors stronger.

handy snack

If you look at photos of drinks garnished with mini sandwiches and bacon and mozzarella balls, you’ll wonder why the idea of ​​a snack and drink in one didn’t come up much earlier. After all, small appetizers are a good idea for a cocktail—why not make an appetizer cocktail right away?

In this country, many are afraid of one’s own idea Salmon martini Or a piece of coconut milk called tom kha with fish sauce and lemongrass. On the other hand, in cities like Barcelona and New York, people are confident that this trend will spread to other cities:

While classic cocktails never go out of style, many are looking for new flavours. The world of delicious cocktails is the place to explore,” says Moe Aljaff, founder of the Spanish pub Two Schmucks, which invented the Tom Kha.

Other bartenders in European cities are also happily experimenting, with some now making it a must to have a savory or spicy drink on the menu. Customer curiosity can be seen from the queues of people in front of the demo bars.

Try the delicious drinks in Switzerland

Delicious cocktails are still a rarity in this country, but there are few bars where you can taste such drinks. One of them is Zurich bar on the waterwhich has already won many awards. When we asked about the tart and salty drinks, the bar assistant Vanessa Brizicha replied: “We serve an excellent whiskey with salted caramel butter and coffee.”

Drinks with a pepper, salt, and sugar edge are also popular, as are variants of lime, pomelo juice, cilantro, and chili salt. It probably won’t be long before delicious cocktails invade Swiss cities.

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