For those that have been following along, you may have noticed that Bottom Of The Barrel has hit a fork in the road of sorts. With two bartenders facing the challenge in a week, we now have double the amount of bartenders being called out. Joann and I had a choice- stifle the fun, or go with it. For obvious reasons, we decided on the later. So prepare yourselves for double the amount of BOTD fun.
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For those visiting for the first time, Bottom Of The Barrel is a collaborative effort between Two For The Bar, Joann Pai of Acorn Mag and local bartenders. We’ve been asking craft bartenders to create a new cocktail with not-so-craft ingredients. For our fifth instalment, we saw Clough Club’s Buck Friend beheading Peeps (yes, the Easter marshmallow) in the name of cocktail-based fun. Buck chose to call out Robyn Gray of Prohibition Bar and threw down our second non-spirit ingredient- Vegemite! Let’s see how he fared, shall we?
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The Bartender: Robyn Gray
The Ingredient: Vegemite
The Cocktail: Lagermite (the R is silent)
Recipe:
30ml Unsalted Fat Washed Butter Jim Beam 6yr
2 Bar Spoons Vegemite (diluted 1:2 with water)
500ml Ninkasi Lux Lager
Build cocktail in a beer glass and “lightly churn.”
Photo by Joann Pai
In Robyn’s own words-
“How to make a cocktail with Vegemite you ask? Well… As Men at Work would say, “He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite Sandwich”. I took the elements of a Vegemite sandwich and worked from the ground up. Lager is, of course, very yeasty- a kind of liquid bread as it were. I thought butter- may as well fat wash some bourbon with that? Put a little Vegemite in it and there you are… A Vegemite sandwich/Boiler Maker Cocktail from your’s truly at the Prohibition Bar in the depths of Rosewood Hotel Georgia basement. Come down and try one out… I’ll just smile and hand you a liquid Vegemite sandwich… cuz i’m at work.”
