RECIPE

Passionate Pepper Cocktail

  • ACTIVE:
  • TOTAL TIME: 15 MIN
  • SERVINGS: 4 drinks

Trey Foshee loves good mezcal, a spirit distilled from roasted agave (the same succulent plant that's used to make tequila). At Foshee's restaurant, George's at the Cove, bartender Frank Thaheld uses mezcal in this potent jalapeño-spiked drink, which he partially sweetens with passion fruit puree.

  • ACTIVE:
  • TOTAL TIME: 15 MIN
  • SERVINGS: 4 drinks

Ingredients

  • Ingredients
    1. 1/4 cup sugar
    2. 1/4 cup hot water
    3. 1 small jalapeño, seeded and thinly sliced
    4. 5 tablespoons fresh lime juice, plus 4 lime wedges for garnish
    5. 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons passion fruit puree
    6. 3/4 cup mezcal
    7. Ice
    8. Chilled club soda

Directions

  1. In a small glass, stir the sugar with the hot water until it dissolves. Let cool. In a small pitcher, muddle the jalapeños. Add the lime juice, passion fruit puree, mezcal and sugar syrup. Fill 4 collins glasses with ice. Add the passion fruit mixture and top with club soda. Stir the drinks and garnish with the lime wedges.