Si-Güey
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Ingredients
How to make
Serve in a old-fashioned glass
Prepare
- 1 Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
- 2 Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
Method
- 3 STIR first 3 ingredients with ice.
- 4 FINE STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).
- 5 FLOAT peated whisky.
Garnish
- 6 EXPRESS orange zest twist over cocktail and discard.
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Flavour profile
31.6% alc./vol. · 1.7 standard drinks · 173 calories
History
The nose gets zesty orange, then the palate gets smoky whisky. Throughout this late-night sipper, the orangey tequila flavour grows.
This recipe is adapted from one created by the late bartending figure Sasha Petraske at his Milk & Honey bar in Manhattan, New York City, USA. The Si-Güey appears in the 2016 book Regarding Cocktails, authored by Sasha's wife, Georgette Moger-Petraske, as a tribute to him. The name, pronounced "see-gwehee", is Mexican slang for 'yes dude', 'yeah, dude', 'yeah, man', or 'yeah, mate'. Sasha and the bartenders at Milk & Honey used it as a greeting during their shifts. In the book, Michael Madrusan elaborates on its significance, stating that "Segue – as in 'to move, without interruption, from one scene to another' – is imperative for working in the tight quarters of any Petraske bar. Güey is the colloquial Mexican Spanish way of referring to any person without using his name, and Sí, Güey, was something Sasha and all the bartenders would say to one another at various points of the evening."
Created by Sasha Petraske