Lola & Cola

Samuel Garcia, Boleo at the Kimpton Gray Hotel | Chicago

Fever-Tree Distillers Cola

Samuel Garcia created this cocktail as a way to make fernet more accessible to the uninitiated calling on a locally made liqueur from Rhine Hall, a small distillery located in Chicago’s Kinzie Industrial Corridor. The additions of lemon and simple syrup turn the drink into a sort of fernet Daiquiri, as he puts it, a profile many people are already comfortable with. By topping it off with Fever-Tree Distillers Cola, it’s given a final, Argentine twist, a nod to the country where the Fernet & Cola is ubiquitous.

Ingredients

Yield: 1

  • 2 ounces Rhine Hall Fernet Lola
  • 2 ounces Rhine Hall Fernet Lola
  • 3/4 ounce lemon juice
  • 3/4 ounce lemon juice
  • 3/4 ounce simple syrup
  • 3/4 ounce simple syrup
  • Fever-Tree Distillers Cola, to top
  • Fever-Tree Distillers Cola, to top

Garnish: lemon swath and cherry

Directions
  1. Add the fernet, lemon juice and simple syrup to a shaker tin with ice, and shake.
  2. Strain into a highball glass with ice.
  3. Top with Fever-Tree Distillers Cola, and garnish with lemon swath and cherry.