Bar Faith
Home bartending enthusiast and educator
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I’m Faith, a cocktail and spirits enthusiast living in the beautiful city of San Francisco. My interest in cocktails began many years ago, in the company of cheap liquor, sugary syrups, plastic bottled citrus juices, and lots of soda.
As an amateur enthusiast, getting into the world of “craft cocktails” was quite an overwhelming experience. When I started building up my bar, it was super confusing figuring out what I should buy to make the widest variety of drinks, while limiting my budget. I ended up with bottles I didn’t know what to do with, yet was constantly missing ingredients to make seemingly every interesting cocktail I looked up, and every trip to the liquor store was a wildcard.
Since I’ve somewhat got it more figured out now, my goal is to share the information I’ve gathered along my home bar journey with others in hopes of making the liquor store and cocktail menus/ingredients a little less intimidating. Cheers!
You can find me on Instagram @barfaith (cocktails & spirit education) and @barfaithdrinks (bar and drink adventures), YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook.
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• 2 dashes Scrappy’s Aromatic bitters (I specifically chose this as it is way less dominating than Angostura but still adds nice warm spice notes, particularly nutmeg) Here’s another idea on how to utilize this Skrewball peanut butter liqueur in balanced craft cocktails… The peanut butter influence peeks through, but the dominant player is the smoky whisky accompanied by a halo of aromatic warm spices. Plus, the saltiness from the Skrewball liqueur adds just the perfect level of salinity to help bring out all the spice notes.
Express an orange peel over top for a boost of extra aroma and discard. This is one that dates back to 1937, originally published in a UK Bartenders’ Guild book. There isn’t much more information on this drink, but I’m glad the recipe has persisted and also that it uses Strega! It’s not ultra dry, nor ultra sweet and falls happily in that lovely middle ground.
This bottle is aaalmost empty (sorry!), but this bright-as-a-sun yellow herbal liqueur dates back to 1860, created by a wine merchant in the town of Benevento in Italy. Benevento is famously known as the “city of witches” where witches from all over the world would convene to gather around the town’s large walnut tree for a rite of passage ritual, and legend has it that the recipe for Strega was given to the merchant as a gift for helping out an injured witch, explaining its unique name “Strega” Folklore aside, the rich complex botanical and spice filled liqueur is made from over 70 secret ingredients, all natural with its bright yellow color attributed to saffron. It’s a bit less medicinal and intensely herbal than Yellow Chartreuse with a lighter mouthfeel, all factors that make it quite versatile for mixing and less dominant.