Amaro Bizarro
Our Amaro Bizaro recipe combines bitter roots, vanilla & clove, botanical herbs, berries and fruit peels. Made with 151 rum for proper infusion, and then combined with a honey simple syrup for a beautiful balance of flavors
Equipment
- 1 mortar and pestle
- 1 Large Glass container for infusion
Materials
Bitters
- 1 Tbsp Wormwood
- 1 Tbsp Angelic Root Tincture
Herbs & Spices
- 10 Leaves Tarragon
- 10 Leaves Mint
- ½ spear Rosemary-leaves stripped
- 3 Leaves Sage
- ½ tsp Cloves
- ½ tsp Nutmeg
- 1 tsp Cardamom
- 2 Tbsp Vanilla
Fruits and Berries
- 10 Berries Juniper
- 4 long thin peels Grapefruit skin
- 10 berries Dried Cranberries
Alcohol for infusion
- 750 ml 151 Proof Rum
Rich Simple Syrup (After the 3 weeks of Infusion)/ May need 3-4 batches of Rich Syrup
- 3 cup Sugar
- 1½ cup Water
- ¼ cup Honey
Instructions
Combine your bitters, Herbs & Spices, and peels
- Use your Mortar and pestle to grind your dry ingredients- Wormwood, Tarragon, Mint, Rosemary, Sage. Cloves Cardamom, Juniper berries and grapefruit skins
- Add these ground botanicals to your glass jar
- Add the wet ingredients- Angelica Tincture & Vanilla to the Glass Jar
- Add your berries into the glass jar
Add 151 proof Rum to the glass jar
Allow your Botanicals to Infuse for 3 weeks
Make your Rich Simple Syrup
- Combine your sugar and water in a medium pan, at medium heat
- Stir until the sugar is completely dissolved
- Add honey, stir and remove from heat- Let cool
Make Amaro
- Use a fine strainer, or coffee filter to strain your botanical alcohol
- Combine ½ cup Botanical Alcohol, with 1½ cups Rich simple syrup in a medium bowl- stir.
- Taste your Amaro and adjust the amount of Rich Simple syrup (more or less to your taste)
- Use a funnel to pour your final Amaro into a bottle, and seal
- Repeat this final combination of ½ cup Botanical Alcohol, and 1½ cups Rich Simple syrup until you have used all of your botanical alcohol. (You will need 3-4 batches of Rich simple syrup)