Golden Beet + Shiso + Saison Beer

You can enjoy this drink recipe either way, shared from Clean + Dirty Drinking by Gaby Mlynarczyk.

November 14, 2018

Ingredients

Makes 1 clean or dirty cocktail
SERVINGS: 1 Cocktail
Clean
  • ¼ cup fresh-pressed apple juice
  • 2 tablespoons Beet + Shiso Shrub (made with golden beets)
  • 2 tablespoons Ginger Simple Syrup
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • 2 or 3 drops alcohol-free gentian root tincture (see notes)
  • Ice cubes for shaking and serving
  • 2 tablespoons to ¼ cup Ginger + Manuka Kombucha
  • 1 or 2 thin carrot slices for garnish
  • Edible disco dust for garnish (optional; available from cake decorating supply stores and online)
Dirty
  • ¼ cup fresh-pressed apple juice
  • 2 tablespoons Beet + Shiso Shrub (made with golden beets)
  • 2 tablespoons Ginger Simple Syrup
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • 2 or 3 drops gentian root tincture (see note)
  • Ice cubes for shaking
  • ¼ cup [60 ml] saison or pilsner beer
  • 1 or 2 thin carrot slices for garnish
  • Edible disco dust for garnish (optional; available from cake decorating supply stores and online)

Preparation

CLEAN

In a cocktail shaker, combine the apple juice, shrub, syrup, lemon juice and gentian root tincture. Add 5 ice cubes, cover the shaker and shake hard for 3 seconds.

Fill a highball glass with ice.

Using a Hawthorne-style cocktail strainer, strain the drink into the glass. Top with the kombucha and garnish with the carrot slices. Sprinkle the carrots with disco dust, if you like.

Note: Recipes for the Beet + Shiso Shrub, Ginger Simple Syrup and Ginger + Manuka Kombucha are available on Edible Silicon Valley’s website, where Gaby explains why they all so good for you!)

 

DIRTY

In a cocktail shaker, combine the apple juice, shrub, syrup, lemon juice and gentian root tincture. Add 5 ice cubes, cover the shaker and shake hard for 3 seconds.

Fill a highball glass with ice.

Using a Hawthorne-style cocktail strainer, strain the drink into the glass. Top with the beer and garnish with the carrot slices.

Sprinkle the carrots with disco dust, if you like.

NOTE: Gentian is a bitter herb used for hundreds of years by herbalists, mainly for liver and kidney health and to treat gastrointestinal imbalances. It adds a distinct extra bitter note to the herbal profile of this drink. Start with two drops when first making this drink to see how bitter you want it. You’ll find both regular and alcohol-free tinctures at well-stocked natural foods stores.


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Recipe reprinted by Edible Silicon Valley - issue 24, shared from Clean + Dirty Drinking by Gaby Mlynarczyk with permission by Chronicle Books.

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Ingredients

Makes 1 clean or dirty cocktail
SERVINGS: 1 Cocktail
Clean
  • ¼ cup fresh-pressed apple juice
  • 2 tablespoons Beet + Shiso Shrub (made with golden beets)
  • 2 tablespoons Ginger Simple Syrup
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • 2 or 3 drops alcohol-free gentian root tincture (see notes)
  • Ice cubes for shaking and serving
  • 2 tablespoons to ¼ cup Ginger + Manuka Kombucha
  • 1 or 2 thin carrot slices for garnish
  • Edible disco dust for garnish (optional; available from cake decorating supply stores and online)
Dirty
  • ¼ cup fresh-pressed apple juice
  • 2 tablespoons Beet + Shiso Shrub (made with golden beets)
  • 2 tablespoons Ginger Simple Syrup
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • 2 or 3 drops gentian root tincture (see note)
  • Ice cubes for shaking
  • ¼ cup [60 ml] saison or pilsner beer
  • 1 or 2 thin carrot slices for garnish
  • Edible disco dust for garnish (optional; available from cake decorating supply stores and online)

Shrub + Syrup recipes from Clean + Dirty Drinking