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The Official Drink of Austin is the city’s premier craft cocktail event, raising funds for culinary grants while challenging the best local bar teams to a friendly competition to create the essential Austin cocktail.
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Meet your 2019 Official Drink of Austin
Peaches & Bees from Team Apis
The bar team from Apis won the spirited competition at the Official Drink of Austin event with the “Peaches & Bees,” featuring Treaty Oak Red Handed Bourbon, house-made Fredericksburg peach nectar, lemon, lime, & yuzu juice, Chateau d’Arton Creme de Peche, honey syrup, egg white, and a pickled peach garnish.
Ingredients
½ oz fresh lemon juice
½ oz blend of fresh lime juice and yuzu juice (5:1 ratio)
½ oz honey syrup (Chelsea uses honey from Apis’ onsite beehives)
¼ oz D’Arton creme de peche
1 oz house made peach nectar
2 oz Treaty Oak Red Handed bourbon
1 egg white
Directions
Dry shake all ingredients to emulsify
Add ice and shake again
Strain into a rocks glass over a large ice cube
Garnish with a pickled peach slice
THE Peaches and Bees
Beverage Director (and sole creator of the Peaches and Bees cocktail) Chelsea Carter, and General Manager of Apis, Jose Sapien.