This Sam Ross Milk&Honey original is crisp, light, refreshing, and amazing.
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The Paper Plane was invented by Sam Ross at the legendary speakeasy Milk & Honey. Milk & Honey is sadly no longer around, but Sam’s new bar (opened in the exact same spot as Milk & Honey) Attaboy just won Best American Bar of the Year at Tales of the Cocktail, so that’s a big deal and awesome. Milk & Honey will always hold a special place in my heart because my wife I and managed to get in there for the first time on the night we got engaged. We were in the area, we’d never been, I’d heard of the place but figured there was basically no chance we’d be able to get in… knocked on the door and a few minutes later we were have the best drinks of our lives and I was set off on a path of well… this. Sam made me a Left Hand Cocktail that night and trying to get my hands on the ingredients to recreate it in New Jersey was a months long saga. This isn’t about that though, this is about the Paper Plane.
This drink is of course named for the M.I.A. song that was absolutely inescapable that summer when the drink was crafted. It’s a variation on a Last Word but it’s a big step away from the originator as it replaces everything but the lemon juice. Most of the Last Word variations only swap one or two ingredients, seldom do you find the Chartreuse taken out. Anyway, this is the Paper Plane:
Paper Plane
1 oz. or 30 ml. Lemon Juice
1 oz. or 30 ml. Aperol
1 oz. or 30 ml. Amaro Nonino
1 oz. or 30 ml. Bourbon
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