The Fuck Putin and His Stupid Fucking War Cocktail
White vermouth, white curacao, Suze, grapefruit and a floral plum spirit inspired by marzipan and frangipane. These are the ingredients for a new cocktail called Fuck Putin and His Stupid Fucking War, and some of Australia’s best bars are shaking it for just two weeks.
Copenhagen’s Empirical Spirits doesn’t produce whisky, vodka, gin, rum, tequila or any other recognisable type of spirit.
The founders – two Noma alumni – are inventing entirely new things. In 2019, they made a habanero spirit called Fuck Trump and His Stupid Wall to raise funds for a charity helping immigrants in Texas. Next, the distillery turned its attention to Russia.
In March it bottled up the Fuck Putin cocktail as a fundraiser for World Central Kitchen, which is on the ground providing food to Ukrainian refugees. The drink sold out within hours, and subsequent runs haven’t been released outside Europe. So now bars around Australia are recreating it with their own twist to raise money for the charity.
In Melbourne, you can get the cocktail – a light, floral take on a White Negroni using Empirical’s one-of-a-kind The Plum, I Suppose spirit – at Bar Liberty (which is adding a yuzu twist), Caretaker’s Cottage, Black Pearl, Pearl Diver and Mr West, while in Sydney it’s being mixed at Re– and Earls Juke Joint. In Adelaide, you can drink it at Maybe Mae and the new Press Food & Wine, where it’s being served in a coupette with no ice, unlike a traditional Negroni.
Re– is also bottling its version of the cocktail and selling it via its own online store and through Drnks. The cocktails cost between $22 and $25 depending on the bar, with all profits going to World Central Kitchen.
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