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6th November 2018
10:40am GMT

Great Irish Beverages, the organisers of the Irish Cocktail Month, tell us that this cocktail is made as follows:
"Seeing as [the bar is] located right by the Blackwater river, it would have been rude not to work with the lovely gin from Blackwater Distillery! This is then mixed with house made honey bitters made from the hives of S Bees in Fermoy - bitters is a special liquid that bartenders use to season cocktails - and crystallised calendula flower petals from Botanica & Co Fermoy before being set alight.
"It is then mixed with more of the Fermoy honey , lime juice, lemon juice, a pinch of cinnamon, a splash of premium tonic water and egg white. After being shaken vigorously with ice, it's then strained into an ice cold martini glass and garnished with a honey tuile and some more calendula petals."
The Grand Hotel's cocktail barman John Coleman, who created the concoction, had this to say:
"I see cocktail creations not just bringing together ingredients, but businesses as well, both big and small. My ethos is to always use Irish spirits and mixers as your base, and look to your locality for other ingredients, be it the farmer's market, orchard or fruit farm, bee keeper, herbalist or any other businesses."Explore more on these topics:

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