ACP 071: Drinking Aquavit in Norway

A magician walks into a bar in Trondheim, Norway, orders an Aquavit cocktail, twirls his mustache, then meets me, Levi. "Let’s talk Aquavit…… the Nordic spirit"

1:40 Bargician!
2:20 0:50 Aquavit ‘water of life’
2:40 potato based spirit, barrels of aquavit
5:35 Joe Patrick, @Bargician

Recipe time

Iced Aquavit Cocktail
4 oz cold coffee
0.5 oz Cointreau
1 oz Aquavit
Ice

Hot Aquavit Cocktail
0.75 oz Cointreau
1 oz Aquavit
6 oz drip coffee
Orange zest

7:40 taste it as it’s cooling
9:05 tea? Coffee? Roast?

Special thanks to Joe Patrick, @Bargician on Instagram and Danny Blaha @DLBlaha. Music by Todd Janes for writing and perfroming “Free Drip Friday”

 

Fun Aquavit recipes and history:

http://imbibemagazine.com/north-shore-negroni/

http://www.shopredandbrown.com/red-brown-recipes/2015/06/02/viking-aka-aquavit-negroni

https://www.lifeinnorway.net/aquavit/