Spicy Salad Negroni

One of our favorite restaurants in Pittsburgh, Smoke, is selling 32oz containers of their spicy lemonade to go. It’s great with some tequila for an instant margarita, so I decided to use it as a vermouth sub. I said I would post even if it doesn’t work out perfectly and this is definitely one of those cases. The combination of Campari and spicy lemonade ended up tasting like a cucumber/celery combo, as if you were drinking a spicy salad. To be honest, I’m not mad about it! I actually sorta enjoyed it. But it didn’t give me the same feeling a Negroni normally does.

1 oz Dry Gin

1 oz Campari

1 oz Spicy Lemonade