Episode 37: Nightcap with Kara Newman - a podcast by Prairie Rose: cocktail blogger and podcaster

This week's guest is New York-based spirits and cocktail writer, Kara Newman. Kara is the Spirits Editor for Wine Enthusiast and is the author of multiple cocktail books including the forthcoming little gem: Nightcap: More than 40 Cocktails to Close Out Any Evening - available October 16th. What defines a nightcap cocktail and what makes for an especially good one? Find out why these might be the sexiest drinks of all. 

This week's featured cocktail is the Open & Shut. This is a Scaffa cocktail, a room-temperature nightcap, shared by Chicago bartender Julia Momose in Kara Newman’s Nightcap: More than 40 Cocktails to Close Out Any Evening. 

Open & Shut
1 1/2 oz Amaro Lucano 
1/2 oz of Cognac

Combine Amaro and Cognac in a rocks glass with no ice, and stir. Garnish is optional, a lemon or orange peel is nice. In Julia Momose’s words: "Simply build in the glass, retire to bed, sip, and ease yourself into slumber."

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