Tropical and smoky cocktail featuring pineapple and mezcal
Summer is starting to heat up here in Vancouver, and I have the perfect cocktail to complement these long days and warm nights. This pineapple mezcal sour cocktail is sweet, smoky, and a unique addition to your home cocktail repertoire. I made this one for a few of our friends and they loved it. I’m sure you will too!
For this recipe, we use a mezcal by Siete Misterios Doba-Yej. This mezcal is available at our local BC Liquor Store so it is pretty easy to locate in our area. It’s a great option especially if you are only using mezcal for cocktails due to the comparatively affordable price and accessibility.
Sour Cocktails
Like any ‘sour’ cocktail, this recipe includes 3 essential elements: spirit, lemon or lime juice, and sweetener. I always shake my sours with aquafaba to create a layer of fluffy foam on top to cut through the alcohol taste. My all-time favourite cocktail from the sour family is a cherry bourbon sour. I love trying new versions of sours with various base spirits. This pineapple mezcal sour is my current obsession for the summer months!
Pineapple juice works seamlessly with almost any base alcohol. Tequila and pineapple goes down surprisingly easily for me. You can go the extra mile and opt for fresh-pressed pineapple juice for this recipe, but I find the boxed or canned varieties from Dole work great. Pineapple has a strong and recognizable flavour that is hard to overpower, even with alcohol. You really can’t go wrong with using pineapple juice in cocktails, so I recommend to have a box (or can) on hand in the pantry in case the mood strikes for experimentation.
If you are on the fence about mezcal, I think this pineapple mezcal sour cocktail will win you over! Mezcal is great for those who enjoy the smokiness of scotch, but crave something lighter for day drinking on the patio during the summer months. Give this recipe a shake and let us know what you think! If you like it, try our Aperol mezcal sour next!
Pineapple Mezcal Sour
Equipment
- Cocktail shaker
- Hawthorne Strainer
Ingredients
- 1½ oz mezcal
- 1 oz lemon juice
- 2 oz pineapple juice
- 1 tbsp honey syrup* sub agave syrup or simple syrup
- 1 oz aquafaba
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker and dry shake until mixture is foamy.
- Add ice to the shaker and shake again to chill the mixture.
- Strain into a chilled coupe and garnish with a few dashes of bitters on top of the foamy later. Create swirls using a toothpick. Enjoy!
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