A Root Cocktail

These people in Philadelphia make liquors from early American recipes. We have a bottle of their Root, which they say is basically the proto Root Beer, before it was denuded of its alcohol.

I was looking for cocktails made from Root, which wasn’t easy. I don’t know if it’s the SEO of “root” or what. Maybe I didn’t spend enough time looking. The ones on their website weren’t interesting but this guy created one that kind of worked: rye, dry vermouth, Root, a little simple syrup (Demerara syrup), bitters (we used Angostura instead) and a lemon twist (which we didn’t use mostly because I’m lazy).