Wild Sheep Chase
December 10th, 2006
A while ago I read A Wild Sheep Chase by Murakami. I kept talking about it until Mark asked me to let him borrow it. He liked it too. The other day we came up with a drink we were both quite happy with, and we decided to name it A Wild Sheep Chase. While it’s served cold, I do think think it’s a nice winter drink. Here’s how we made it.
A Wild Sheep Chase
2 1/4 oz dark or medium rum
3/4 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes lemon bitters (we had Fees)
1 dash aromatic bitters (again, Fees)
I’m thinking of making it two dashes of the aromatic, but that’s because I love aromatic bitters, and on some level I want to add them to every drink I make.
Enjoy.
December 10th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Are those the proportions we used? I had it in my mind that we’d had a 3:1 straight ratio of rum to sweet vermouth (and definitly medium rum – with dark rum I’d up the vermouth a bit, though probably just to what you set it at there, so maybe my memory is just going off), with equal parts aromatic and lemon bitters.
Also, have you tried it with angostura aromatic bitters? My suspicion is that it wouldn’t work, but who knows..
December 10th, 2006 at 11:27 pm
2 1/4 : 3/4 is a 3:1 ratio, and yeah, you’re right about the dark rum, I didn’t have a bottle of what we used hand, but I just went out and bought a new one.
The bitters, that’s gonna be taste really. I haven’t tried the angostura, but I find that the lemon needs to be slightly higher in proportion, though with dashes from a bottle it’s always going to be an inexact science.
December 14th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
Oh, right, sorry about the ratio mistake. For some reason I read it as 2 1 1/4 ounces. I’ve started to magically see all numbers in terms of jiggers, I think. It might be finals.
December 15th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
No problem. I mixed it again last night, and you were right about the bitters. Two solid dashes of each.