We know Bangkok’s bars are staffed with some of the best cocktail-slinging maestros in the world, and we’d never give up a chance to pick their brains on what exactly goes into crafting a bespoke cocktail recipe. So you can imagine our intrigue when we heard that the Giffard Company, a French-based independent liqueur and syrup company that’s been producing premium products for over 130 years, had tasked nine of the city’s most experienced bartenders with the same unique assignment: create a cocktail based on your favorite culinary dish.
Part of the task was to incorporate Giffard’s newest product, the Giffard Piment D’Espelette, to help spice up their concoctions. To get the Piment D’Espelette’s smokey and peppery flavor, fresh stalked Espelette peppers are macerated for more than four weeks and blended with rhum agricole from Martinique to acquire some…
