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Las Vegas cocktail is made with fire and smoke — VIDEO

Updated January 16, 2019 - 11:53 pm

The aptly named Burning History cocktail at Zuma is a complex combination of smoky and citrus. Yuzu and egg whites lend sweet, frothy notes while smoke from wood fire seasons the glass, making for a layered sip.

Ingredients

½ ounce Nikka Coffey Grain Whisky

½ ounce Lagavulin Single Malt Scotch

½ ounce ginger syrup

½ ounce honey water

½ ounce yuzu juice

½ ounce egg white

Plum bitters

Garnish

American white oak wood

Dried orange

Directions

Combine ingredients in a tumbler and shake well. Burn a small fire in a wooden plank. Invert snifter and trap smoke inside. Cover snifter with napkin. Pour cocktail into snifter and garnish with orange.

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