A wintertime summertime tipple

[muckefuck]

Once again, monshu asked me to make him a drink with the apricot brandy, this time specifying "something where the taste of the apricot comes through". My cocktail bible is pretty played out on this ingredient, so I turned to the Internet and found this:

Albarisco

2 oz. Pisco
½ oz. apricot brandy
½ oz. lime juice (juice of approx. ½ lime)
1 dash of Angostura bitters

Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with lime slice if desired.

I got a little lazy and used the bottled key lime juice, forgetting it was tarter than regular, an error I fixed by doubling the apricot brandy. I also accidentally doubled the recipe, which was a bit much for our martini glasses but not nearly enough for two, so if I made this again I'd probably use 1½ times these proportions. And I probably will make it again because the GWO found it very tasty. He didn't remark on the colour, but I thought it was rather pretty if a bit on the brown side. Using a different bitters (such as Angostura orange or Peychaud) would improve that, and it would be interesting to taste their effect on the flavour profile.

(The name--a blend of "Pisco" with a Spanish word for "apricot"--is my own invention, as I found those floating around on the net pretty lame.)