Burns Night: Haggis and whisky cocktail created to celebrate Scottish poet
WITH Burns Night fast approaching, a brand new cocktail with a difference has been created to celebrate the birthday of Scotland's most-famous wordsmith.
The meaty cocktail has been created to celebrate Burns Night
For Burns Night, multi award-winning Scotch Whisky, Glen Grant, has partnered with The Bon Vivant bar in Edinburgh to create the
Enititled "The Chieftain', it brings together two of the country's most-famous creations, haggis traditionally made from sheep's heart, liver and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, salt and spices - and whisky!
The cocktail comprises of an oat-washed Glen Grant 10 Year Old - a Speyside classic - combined with an offal stock syrup to replicate the unique meaty haggis flavour.
It is served with a pickled red onion, representing the 'heart', a salt and pepper air, representing the 'lungs', a turnip cordial, a nod to the famous 'neeps' accompaniment and a haggis rim.
Created by Will Cox of The Bon Vivant bar in Edinburgh, it has been inspired by a traditional Burns Supper menu and includes the ingredients found in the occasion's centerpiece.
The cocktail is named after Burns' famous description of haggis as the "great chieftain o' the pudding race".
The cocktail was inspired by the traditional Burns supper menu
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Speaking yesterday, Mr Cox said: "The opportunity to team up with one of Scotland's most-iconic whiskies, Glen Grant, to make a Burns Night cocktail was too good to miss.
It was very challenging, but we had a lot of fun coming up with 'The Chieftain'
"It was very challenging, but we had a lot of fun coming up with 'The Chieftain' and are looking forward to serving it to customers with a haggis bon bon or two on Burns nicht."
Glen Grant's new range of aged single malt Scotch whiskies has continued secured some of the whisky industry's most prestigious awards in 2016, including the Glen Grant 10 Year Old winning Best Single Malt Scotch (10 Years and Younger) for the fifth year in a row in Jim Murray's Whisky Bible.
THE CHIEFTAIN RECIPE:
The cocktail has been dubbed 'The Chieftain'
Glen Grant 10 year old, oat washed
Offal stock glaze
Salt and pepper air
Pickled red onion
Turnip cordial
Haggis butter crumb * The Chieftain will be available to buy in The Bon Vivant Bar, 55 Thistle St, Edinburgh EH2 1DY for one night only on 25th January 2016 priced at £9.