Christie Schuessler

Inspired my favorite mint green tea, I used a bright but sour mint shrub to balance and give the cocktail life. To make the the shrub, mix 0.5 cup water to 0.5 cup sugar with several handfuls of mint leaves. Add 0.5 cup champagne vinegar. Pinch ​salt To make the mint shrub (at least 2 days prior, so by July 14th for our Zoom event): ● Bring water, sugar, vinegars, honey, salt, and 1/2 the mint to a boil, stirring occasionally, turn off heat ● Let cool completely, then using rubber spatula transfer everything to sealable container ● Stir in other 1/2 of fresh mint and steep for 2 days in refrigerator ● Strain contents into another container, keeps for 1-2 weeks refrigerated

(substitute another apple liqueur of choice or apple cider) 1.5 oz brown butter fat washed bourbon (use a bourbon with lots of natural caramel notes) Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. To fat wash bourbon: Brown 2 tablespoons of butter in a pan until it smells caramel and toasted. The caramel flavor really comes through from the brown butter taste and the addition of the cider liqueur rounds it out.

Susan’s Tuna Spread, Kentucky Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie, Granny Hunter’s Bourbon Tenderloin, Susan’s Chicken and Country Ham Crepes with Bourbon Cream Sauce. These women know EVERYONE in the industry and tell us that if they vouch for a product it’s because it’s good not because they have friends who make it or are getting a financial cut. But having a tasting flight with local distillery’s products or comparing Texas whiskey to Kentucky whiskey is interesting. Susan did an excellent tasting of women lead distillery products in this video for the Bourbon Women Sip Summer Series:

My local liquor store chain buys a number of casks and for Teeling they purchased an Acacia Cask and a Madeira Cask single barrels. I’ve seen the gift pack around in fall 2020 called Trinity Pack (if you didn’t guess, that’s 3 of their expressions in a gift box). They do have a higher tier line of products (the unique wood finishes) that comes in $100+ and I would steer people towards the Small Batch or Unconventional Collections This is class 100% malted barley aged in five different types of wine barrels (Sherry, Port, Madeira, White Burgundy, Cabernet Sauvignon).