1 oz Grapefruit Juice
.75 oz Plymouth Sloe Gin
Shake with ice and strain into a chilled coupe rinsed with St. George Absinthe.
Taking another recipe out of the PDT Cocktail book (feels like I'm trying to cook through every recipe in that book) I chose the Green Deacon. I went for this recipe for two reasons, the first is earlier in the day I made a different recipe using sloe gin (the Sloe 75) and wanted to show Skyler what other things sloe gin could do. The second reason I made this drink is that the drawing on the page caught my eye.
Ok this drink is odd and I'm still trying to figure out my opinion of it. At the start the drink has a lot of anise notes from the absinthe. They fade as the drink goes on but it makes a pretty large impression on the overall drink. The smell on this drink is sweet with anise and citrus notes. The taste begins with anise and moves to dark plum and grapefruit flavor. Somehow these flavors made me think of a bunch of different things like watermelon and lipstick (don't ask me how). After a while the drink settled down and the grapefruit began to come through stronger. At this point the drink reminded me a lot of the Peralta because they're both heavily grapefruit driven and start w/ a spicy / herbal liquor note (rye in Peralta, absinthe in the Green Deacon).
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