SFist Drinks: The Root of All Evil at Blackbird
Ever since opening last summer, Blackbird (2124 Market Street) has been a welcome and busy addition to the Castro / Church Street environs, and one of the only truly mixed scenes in the neighborhood — though it remains mostly gay, especially at happy hour. Owner Shawn Vergara and bar collaborators Brent and Regina Butler are on the third iteration of Blackbird's house cocktail menu, and he's got one on the list now made with a relatively new spirit: Root liqueur, which is sort of a classier version of DeKuyper's Root Beer Schnapps, with rich spicy flavors that are still reminiscent of root beer.
Served over crushed ice and garnished with a stick of sugar cane, this makes for a tasty and original warm weather beverage.
The Root of All Evil
2 oz. Old Smuggler's Scotch
1/4 oz. Root liqueur
1/2 oz. cinnamon syrup
Two orange wedges
Muddle the orange with the cinnamon syrup in a shaker. Add ice cubes, scotch, and Root. Shake vigorously, and pour over crushed ice in an Old Fashioned glass. Garnish with a stick of sugar cane.
PREVIOUSLY: The Hop Toad Cocktail at Comstock Saloon
The Central City at Prospect
The Black Rose at the Burritt Room
The Bayou Belle Punch from Cent'Anni Cocktails
The Sicilian at Credo
The Caribeño and The Fogcutter at Smuggler's Cove
The Plaza Cocktail at Wexler's
The White Manhattan at Nopa
Three Mint Juleps and The Improved Sunrise at Rickhouse
The Escapology at Burger Bar
The Smoke Screen at Lafitte
The Western Edition at Jardinière
The Vesper at Heaven's Dog (and elsewhere)
Rock & Rye and The Juan E. Appleseed at Rye
The San Francisco Cocktail
Mad Men Cocktails
The Fleur de Pepin at Era
The Pisco Sol at Pisco Lounge
The Five-Spice Margarita and Laughing Buddha
from Cantina
The Spencer Manhattan from Trademark Grill
La Lambretta from Quince
The Recoil at Bloodhound
The B Line and The Vicious Circle at Range
La Perla at Fifth Floor
The DiVine Cocktail at The Parlor
A New School Cocktail Glossary
The Piccadilly at Absinthe
The Ginger Ante from DOSA Fillmore
A Sour Mezcal Cocktail from Camino
The Spruce Goose from Spruce
Seven Decades of Cocktails from Gourmet
The Grape Drink from Blackbird
Smokin' Stoned Fruit from Conduit
The Promissory Note from The Alembic
Blackberry Shrub
Strawberry Gin Shrub from NOPA
The Naughty Sun Dress from Bourbon & Branch
Gitane's Castillan Cup
Tales of the Cocktail
The Sexy Saint at The Four Seasons
A Roundup of Cocktail Blogs
The Rio Grande Cocktail at 15 Romolo
Old Sydney Town Punch at Elixir
Thirsty Bear's Strawberry Rhubarb Manhazarac
The Black Lavender from Alicia Walton at Elixir
Boulevard's Biscaccianti
DOSA's Batsman