The latest trend features various liquid components that give the drink a striped or ombre look. Read more at straitstimes.com.
As an eye-catching cocktail sails on a tray through a room, it inspires several more orders of the same drink. Fajita favourites in recent years have included the espresso martini, all manner of blue cocktails and any drink on fire.
There are two ways to layer a cocktail: floats and sinkers. A float is a stripe of liquid – wine, spirit, bitters or juice – carefully applied to the surface of a completed drink. A sinker is poured in last but, owing to the ingredient’s weight, falls to the bottom of the glass. The New York Sour, a drink from the mid-20th century whose popularity has rebounded in the last 20 years, is essentially a whisky sour with a float of dry red wine.
The Oaxacan Sunrise at Dante in New York City, with its grenadine sinker, is a Tequila Sunrise made with mezcal. The drink Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, at chef Sara Bradley’s restaurant Freight House in Paducah, Kentucky, is a New York Sour made with honey syrup. Bartenders say floats and sinkers provide more than eye candy. The dryness of a red wine float counters the sweetness of some cocktails. Mr Ian Julian, bar director at Red Fish Grill in New Orleans – where there are now three float drinks on the menu, two with rum toppers – likes the added punch they provide. “I think people look for that extra hit of something,” he said.
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