- 40ml Tanqueray No.Ten & Waqar hybrid soniced with Timur & Perilla
- 30ml Lillet Blanc
- 10ml Lime juice
- 5ml Yuzu
- 15ml Cypress syrup
- 1dash Chilli Droplet
- 1dash Soy sauce

Alex Kratena
7th October 2015
CHAMELEON CRYSTALS (2015)
Tanqueray Ten - Pisco – Lime - Perilla – Chilli - Soy
Ingredients
Method
GLASS | Light box
METHOD |Shake / Fine strain
GARNISH | Cherry shisha smoke
ICE | Ice chunk
Cypress Syrup
500g Sugar
250ml Water
5drop Cypress oil
In nonreactive container combine sugar with oil. Place the mixture in pan, add water and simmer over medium heat. Allow cooling down the mixture and storing in airtight container.
GIN & PISCO HYBRID
400ml Tanqueray No. Ten
200ml Pisco
6pcs Perilla leaf
20pcs Coriander leaf
18pcs Timur pepper
Duration | 1min
Cycle | 90
Output | 9
Place all ingredients in nonreactive container, supersonic for 1 minute at cycle 90, output 9
TO ASSEMBLE AND SERVE
Place all ingredients into shaker, add ice and shake vigorously, fine strain and pour into chilled glass over ice.
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