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Rock’n J&B or Profondo Christmas

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While making my yearly Rock ‘n Rye infusion, I got the idea that a similar process would work to make J&B more enjoyable in my house (we find it very difficult). I cut out the horehound, but kept most everything else the same as I would for Rock ‘n Rye. The effect is much more cinnamon forward, and definitely improves the J&B flavor. I gave rough measurements, but you can put in as many or as few infusing agents as you like.

Ingredients:

  • J&B (one 750 ml bottle)
  • 1 string Rock candy or about a 1/4 cup loose rock candy
  • 1/2 to 1 full orange peel (dried)
  • 2-3 dried apricots, sliced
  • 3-4 dried cherries
  • 3-4 dried mandarin slices
  • 1 whole clove
  • 1 cinnamon stick

Instructions:

  1. In an empty wide mouth glass container (could be anything, jar, pitcher, etc with a lid) add J&B, dried fruit, dried peel, and cinnamon stick
  2. Allow mixture to infuse in a cool dry place for 3 or 4 days
  3. Add rock candy and clove
  4. Allow mixture to infuse one or two more days based on taste
  5. Strain mixture and pour into a clean bottle
  6. Enjoy!

Christmas making: Rock n Rye

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Bottle label I made for the Rock ‘n Rye I have been infusing as presents to family.

Recipes

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Here we will answer the age old question:  what can you possibly mix with J&B?  There are plenty of suggestions in bar books, but none have really flown in my household.  When taking on a Giallo marathon we were stuck, once again, with finding a drink to make out of the famously Giallo J&B.  We came up with:

GINGER FINGER

  • Finger of J&B (thus its name)
  • splashes of Canton (ginger liquor) – maybe even a shot of it
  • squirt lemon juice
  • ginger beer – for the rest of the glass.  The more, the weaker the drink.

A finger, by the way is when you have your hand wrapped about the bottom of a rocks glass so that your fingers make measurement lines up the side of the glass.  This drink also works with Becherovka – a crazy bitter slavic drink that also doesn’t taste good mixed with anything.

 

 

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