Reid Nelson

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Recipe:
2oz Plymouth Gin
1/4oz Elderflower Liquer
1/4oz Grenadine
2 dashes orange bitters

Add ingredients to a mixing glass, stir with ice, and strain over a large cube of ice.

Tutorials for the garnishes are on Instagram/TikTok

Haven’t posted here in a while, but hoping to get back into the habit starting with these humming birds from a couple of weeks ago. I think these are my favorite garnishes I have ever made.

The cocktail was an Elder Fashioned riff with a little bit of grenadine.

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If you’re ever in DC, I highly recommend Silver Lyan! Really creative menu, fantastic drinks, and super friendly staff. This was my first drink: spirit forward, but a little tart, a little savory, and the candied pinecone was a nice touch! #cheers 🍸

Yea that sounds delicious! Blueberry, lemon, and mint are wonderful together

Love this! 👏🏻 Also love the idea of mint simple syrup in a White Lady. This sounds good!

A White Lady cocktail garnished with a fancy lemon peel.

White Lady
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ingredients
2 oz Gin (Wild Roots Orange & Bergamot)
1/2 oz Cointreau (Bauchant)
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1/4 oz Simple Syrup (Mint Simple)
1 egg white

Directions
Dry shake, then shake with ice
Garnish with a lemon peel following @reidnelson.bsky.social
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Hey thanks for the feedback! Yea, let me see what I can do to make this easier to follow. I’ve thought about a longer form version where I can actually explain, give tips, etc., but the 60sec limit makes that tough and I don’t really want to send people off app to YouTube or something like that..

26 because so don’t know which way is up on down on that scale! But I wouldn’t recommend it after your first drink…honesty probably not before either 😅

New garnish video!

This one is one that I use most on a day to day basis, and honestly most of the garnishes I post are just some variation on this template.

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I got a bunch of AoT references from my (unintentional) wings of freedom garnish, so I thought I’d try a Naruto themed one this time.

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No plans of stopping any time soon!

Thank you!

They might be getting a little over the top, but I’m having fun with these haha 💁‍♂️

Thank you!

New garnish video:

This time, a garnish idea for cocktails served over a large cube.

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Looking forward to seeing it!

Part 2 of the garnish video:

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Here’s the latest garnish video. I had to break it into 2 parts again.

@bsky.app, can we get 90 second videos pls? 🙏

#garnish #cocktailgarnish #cocktail #tutorial #cheers 🍸

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Tailspin is a great shout! I love a Bijou, and Death & Co puts out some great drinks. Looking forward to trying this one

Thank you! So glad you’re finding them useful!

Thanks! I’m planning to put together a video this week

It’s tasty, but doesn’t compare to a classic Paper Plane in my opinion. It lacks a bit of the roundness and orange notes from the Nonino that complement the Aperol so well, and the anise notes from the Chartreuse are pretty pronounced in the finish and just feel a little out of place.

I felt like this garnish belonged on a Paper Plane riff. This one was created in 2018 by Callum Rixson at Hideout in Bath, England:

Last Flight

3/4oz Bourbon
3/4oz Aperol
3/4oz Green Chartreuse
3/4oz Lemon Juice

Shake with ice, strain into chilled coupe, and garnish with lemon peel.

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No problem!

Good to know! Thanks

No problem!

As for idea to make soon:

East Side (either the classic gin base or tequila is fantastic)
Debbie, Don’t
Paris is Burning
Enzoni

These have all been top of mind for me to make again soon

This feed is the best I know of so far using #cheers or 🍸 but I’d love to find more tags or feeds too

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For this one I’d recommend making the garnish before you build your drink. If you let the peel dry out a little bit, it will naturally twist up a little more and hold its shape better.