Pickle juice is a trending cocktail ingredient. Yes you read that right
If you have a cocktail scene in your neck of the woods, you might have noticed the words “pickle juice” appearing more often on drink menus.Pickles and pickle brine have been ingredients that mixologists – and chefs – have played with for a long time, but they are finally getting a star turn in drinks menus around the world.Pickle juice is salty, tangy, acidic and sometimes a little spicy. It adds zing to all kinds of cocktails.“Pickles are a great gateway into savoury cocktails,” says Camille Goldstein, managing partner of Muddling Memories, a hospitality company based in Brooklyn, in New York, that promotes drinks as an experience.“The sweet-salty brine of a pickle really creates an interesting depth of flavour for your margarita, martini or even a highball,” she says.A pickleback is basically a shot of whiskey with a pickle brine chaser. Photo: ShutterstockA drink called the pickleback has been popular for years. Said to have originated at a Brooklyn bar called Bushwick Country Club, it consists of a shot of whiskey followed by a shot of pickle brine. Word spread.
