Smoking a cocktail isn't easy and it certainly isn't always great, but
I seem to be in the minority here. Everyone oohs and ahhs over smoked cocktails—the show, the great arc of the cloche removal, the cloud vanishing like magic to reveal a perfectly posed glass—but it’s not for me. I don’t mean to say that I don’t like smoke, because I do. I love mezcal andand barbeque, and at a campfire I’m the guy who’s essentially cremating his marshmallow before eating it. It’s that I tend not to like smoked cocktails, because they tend to be smoked, shall we say, poorly.
The Palo Santo was never supposed to be a smoked cocktail. I just wanted to find a way to use palo santo wood and cinnamon together, because palo santo has insanely evocative aroma, earthy and soft, and combines with cinnamon in this ambrosial way that reminds me of nothing so much as the “spice” they’re always prattling on about in . I tried infusing palo santo wood into whiskey and rum, tried making a tincture to spray over the drink or use in drops, but nothing really took .
One important point that’s nearly always forgotten: You need to measure the amount you have left. You lost an unknown amount of water to evaporation, and it will change the concentration of the sweetness , so you have to add the lost water back. If you used one cup of water and one cup of sugar, you’ll want 1.5 cups of syrup , so add back the water you lost to evaporation until you hit 1.5 cups.If you’re going to make a bunch of these, smoke the cinnamon syrup.
If you’re just making one or two, you can always smoke the glass. First, make the drink in a mixing glass. Then, put a piece of palo santo wood on a non-reactive surface and burn it with a blowtorch until it starts to smoke. Invert your glass over the smoke and let it infuse there for eight to 10 seconds, then flip the glass right-side-up, allowing the smoke to escape. Then add ice and cocktail.
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