Cocktail Recipe: Paper plane

The paper plane is an IBA official cocktail. Developed around 2007 by Sasha Petraske and Sam Ross of Milk & Honey for their former colleague Toby Maloney's Chicago bar The Violet Hour. The recipe is a riff on a last word, which is a riff on the classic corpse reviver #2. The cocktail consists of equal parts bourbon whiskey, Aperol, Amaro Nonino, and lemon juice. The cocktail's name is a reference to the M.I.A. track "Paper Planes", which was apparently a guilty pleasure of Petraske's.

I recently had a paper plane in Bar Palu, Edinburgh. Fantastic cocktail, get in there before the hype takes off!

Delicious!

Recipe:

25ml amaro (preferably Nonino)

25ml Aperol

25ml bourbon (of your choice)

25ml fresh lemon juice, strained

Combine amaro, Aperol, bourbon, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker. Fill with ice and shake vigorously until outside of shaker is frosty, about 20 seconds. Strain into 2 coupe glasses

Easy! Fold up a little plane and place carefully on top. Ready to fly