BRONCOS SUNSET

By Peggie

For football season, we had a bartender from each NFL team’s hometown provide the perfect cocktail to represent their team.

“Denver is known for these amazing orange-hued sunsets, so I wanted to incorporate that into this cocktail, says Bryan Dayton, the beverage director and co-owner of Denver’s Acorn and Brider and Boulder’s Oak at Fourteenth. “Obviously, the orange and blue is also a nod to the Broncos jersey. In terms of the ingredients, I wanted to stick to local Colorado, so I used Suerte tequila, which is based here in Boulder. We also love spicy food here, so I added the Ancho Reyes for some heat.”

Ingredients

• Garnish:
• .5 oz Blue curaçao
• 1 oz Suerte silver tequila
• .5 oz Ancho Reyes chile liqueur
• .25 oz Campari
• .25 oz Aperol
• .75 oz Orange juice
• .25 oz Freshly squeezed lemon juice
• .13 oz Simple syrup
• Blood orange slice
• Glass: Rocks

Preparation

Step 1

Add the blue cura?ao to the bottom of a rocks glass, and top with crushed ice.

Add all of the other ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake.

Slowly pour into the glass over crushed ice, and garnish with a blood orange slice.