{"id":2441973,"date":"2019-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=302184"},"modified":"2019-03-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T06:00:00","slug":"libations-mixing-up-the-winning-drinks-from-aspen-cocktail-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/libations-mixing-up-the-winning-drinks-from-aspen-cocktail-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Libations: Mixing up the winning drinks from Aspen Cocktail Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bad Harriet manager Jessie Kneitel, left, and Cait Whitten create their drinks for the Apres Ski Cocktail Classic pub crawl on Sunday afternoon.<\/strong>
Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were 13 stops on this year\u2019s Apr\u00e9s Ski Cocktail Classic Pub Crawl, which happily was held March 17 \u2026 aka St. Patrick\u2019s Day. So, 13 bartenders and bar managers partnered with 13 different liquors (or in HOPS\u2019 case, Red Bull) to create 13 unique cocktails for the occasion.<\/p>\n

Pub Crawl participants and a selected jury of \u201cexperts\u201d enjoyed the warm, sunny St. Patty\u2019s Day weather while visiting all the apr\u00e9s locations, or as many as they could make it to in the four hours, to taste the handcrafted cocktails and vote on their favorites.<\/p>\n

Winning this year\u2019s Jury Award for Best Cocktail was Bad Harriet \u2014 which has been featured in an ATW libations \u2014 located in the basement of the historic Aspen Times building beside the Hotel Jerome.<\/p>\n

Bad Harriet manager Jessie Kneitel and bartender Justin McDuffie were partnered with Monkey Shoulder, a blended malt Scotch whisky, to create their award-winning cocktail called Spring Fever.<\/p>\n

Spring Fever cocktail at Bad Harriet. (Photo courtesy of Jessie Kneitel)
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\u201cWe were paired with Monkey Shoulder scotch and were really excited because that\u2019s one of our favorite spirits as a bar team to mix into cocktails. There are a lot of people out there that feel they don\u2019t enjoy scotch in cocktails, and one of the most satisfying things we can do as bartenders is bring a lesser known or less widely preferred spirit to new light for guests,\u201d Kneitel said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter weeks of all the incredible and nonstop snow we were inspired by recent sunshine and blue skies to create \u2018Spring Fever\u2019 \u2014 made with Monkey Shoulder Scotch, chamomile grappa, spiced pear brandy, apple bitters and lemon. It\u2019s served up, topped with a light honey-chamomile foam and sprinkled with bee pollen and chamomile flowers. The right cocktail can bring you places and change your outlook for the day; this one brings us to sunny patios looking out on the green grass of the mountain and we hope it does that for our guests, as well!\u201d<\/p>\n

The winner of the coveted People\u2019s Choice Award for Best Cocktail was another newcomer to the Aspen bar scene, 7908.<\/p>\n

7908 bartender Mitch Kortus pours drinks for Apres Ski Cocktail Classic bar crawl on Sunday afternoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Matt Corbin, 7908\u2019s director of spirits, created Laughter in Paradise, which featured Hennessy as the bar\u2019s partner liquor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so excited to participate in the Apres Ski Cocktail Classic for the third year now,\u201d Corbin said. \u201cIn regards to 7908 (which opened in summer 2018), I am so excited to showcase our cocktail program. It is something our team has been working on for the past year in anticipation for the Cocktail Classic.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you weren\u2019t able to make it to the Cocktail Classic this year, no worry. We were able to procure the winning recipes for these two cocktails to share them with you so you can enjoy them at your next apr\u00e9s celebration.<\/p>\n

Libations was created by beloved Aspen Times publisher Gunilla Asher, who died June 2, 2014 , after a brave battle with cancer. Cheers \u2013 to Gunner!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bad Harriet manager Jessie Kneitel, left, and Cait Whitten create their drinks for the Apres Ski Cocktail Classic pub crawl on Sunday afternoon.Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times There were 13 stops on this year\u2019s Apr\u00e9s Ski Cocktail Classic Pub Crawl, which happily was held March 17 \u2026 aka St. Patrick\u2019s Day. So, 13 bartenders and bar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 15:13:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}