Some folks greet spring with a gin and tonic on the patio—fair enough. Josh Cross of Backbar celebrates the season more subtly with Spring for Giuseppe. It’s a riff on the Little Giuseppe, a low-proof Boston original that balances the Italian amaro Cynar with vermouth, salt and lemon. Cross lightens the formula with clear and herbaceous ingredients: dry vermouth, absinthe, Galliano and gentian liqueurs. He keeps the salt but swaps lemon for lime, casting sunlight on the drink’s earthiness. Like a good G&T, it’s botanical and bracing, only you won’t have to brace yourself before the next round. “Low-proof drinks let you try more than a couple things,” Cross says. “It’s a nice way to start off a night at the bar.”
$12 at Backbar, 7 Sanborn Court, Somerville (617-718-0249) backbarunion.com
Pace Yourself
In Boston on the third Monday of April, there are marathon runners, and there are marathon drinkers.
By Jesse Schwartz | Photo Credit: Dave Bradley; Styled: Sheila Jarnes / Ennis Inc. | April 7, 2017
Spring for Giuseppe at Backbar
Some folks greet spring with a gin and tonic on the patio—fair enough. Josh Cross of Backbar celebrates the season more subtly with Spring for Giuseppe. It’s a riff on the Little Giuseppe, a low-proof Boston original that balances the Italian amaro Cynar with vermouth, salt and lemon. Cross lightens the formula with clear and herbaceous ingredients: dry vermouth, absinthe, Galliano and gentian liqueurs. He keeps the salt but swaps lemon for lime, casting sunlight on the drink’s earthiness. Like a good G&T, it’s botanical and bracing, only you won’t have to brace yourself before the next round. “Low-proof drinks let you try more than a couple things,” Cross says. “It’s a nice way to start off a night at the bar.”
$12 at Backbar, 7 Sanborn Court, Somerville (617-718-0249) backbarunion.com
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