Five Bistro's Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels: Gut Check's Hump Day Cocktail Suggestion

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Evan C. Jones
Shooting, er...we mean pouring out the 2 Smoking Barrels.
Another interesting ingredient in the cocktail is velvet falernum, a spiced syrup typically found in Caribbean drinks such as the Zombie.

"The way I use it typically is instead of simple syrup," Mangan says. "It has some (herbal) spices to it but it's just as sweet. It went along with the rest of the ingredients. I used that and a little bit of agave instead of a simple syrup because it goes with the other flavors and doesn't hide it with sugar."

The drink's smoky nature is front and center in the cocktail. Lime juice slices through the smoke, and the subtle spice from the velvet falernum carries the back end. Nothing is overpowering in the drink. We could've had at least one more without blinking.

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Five Bistro

5100 Daggett Ave., St. Louis, MO

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