Low Key by Colin Carroll and Alex Gesler

Here’s a delicious low key highball to celebrate the Lock Box with that’s perfect for summer sipping. Highballs are popular anytime of year but particularly during the heat – gin and tonic, anyone? Highballs are typically a simple affair of base spirit plus fizzy water, such as the classic G&T or the even more classic whiskey and soda. And of course bartenders have debated fiercely about the perfect ratio and brands of those two ingredients for ages. If you tinker even more and add additional ingredients or a sweetener, a highball can become incredibly nuanced and complex, yet all the while maintain that laid back, low key vibe.

Highfalutin Highball

At Portland, Oregon’s 5 & Dime, Colin Carroll and Alex Gesler came up with a delicious lemon herb syrup that turns an ordinary highball into an elevated drink that still appeals to all. The drink is typical of their ethos to serve perfectly executed, well thought out cocktail in a casual neighborhood style bar that’s inviting to everyone. Here’s to meticulously crafted creations of all kinds. Cheers!

This pair is key to a good time

Low Key by Colin Carroll and Alex Gesler

2 oz bonded bourbon

1 ¼ oz lemon syrup

Soda water

Add bourbon and syrup to an ice filled glass, stir, and top with soda water.

For the lemon syrup:

2 cups lemon juice

2 cups honey

3 sprigs tarragon

3 sprigs thyme

3 sprigs sage

3 sprigs rosemary

2 cups pea flowers

Heat lemon juice and honey to incorporate, then steep with the herbs in a sachet until cool (about 1 hour). Strain and bottle.

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