Smoke Sting
Bottle Logic Brewing in Anaheim, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.69
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Mezcal Barrel-Age Fruit Sour | second Lightning in a Bottle project
This potent purple potable was inspired by the "Killer Bee" cocktail, which swaps a traditional "Bee's Knees" gin base for mezcal -- a smokier, more aggressive spirit. After mezcal barrel aging, this liquid met blackberry honey and fresh lemon juice for a perfect balance of sweet and sour on the smoke-stung base. We added drums of blackberries for a complex, juicy richness and balanced the finish with a delicate combination of sage and rosemary.
This potent purple potable was inspired by the "Killer Bee" cocktail, which swaps a traditional "Bee's Knees" gin base for mezcal -- a smokier, more aggressive spirit. After mezcal barrel aging, this liquid met blackberry honey and fresh lemon juice for a perfect balance of sweet and sour on the smoke-stung base. We added drums of blackberries for a complex, juicy richness and balanced the finish with a delicate combination of sage and rosemary.
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8.6/10
LCI. Great play in the fun cocktail like space. All the flavours are there, loving the herbal sage notes, almost mead-like with the honey and blackberry
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2025
at 17:17
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle pour at Bottle Logic, pours a dark burgundy, served with a giant square ice cube like a standard cocktail. Aroma is very medicinal, with an earthy cherry character, and an army of odd spices. Flavour is super medicinal and cloyingly sweet. There's a ton of rosemary and sage that go along with cloyingly sweet sugars, a bit of mezcal and gentle tartness. Way too sweet, spicy and medicinal. This doesn't work at all IMO. Way worse than the other two cocktail sours I've had from them.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2023
at 20:51