The booklet
A root, a fruit, a leaf. Three ingredients and the Asia behind them.
Six cocktails, three of them without alcohol, and the reason each ingredient costs what it costs by the time it reaches a glass in Europe.
Asia Pours
Six cocktails. Three with alcohol. Three zero proof.
- 01Ube
- 02Yuzu
- 03Matcha
Simon Engel
The complete Asia Pours introduction, not an extract. The site expands on it. Nothing in it is held back for a later version.
Why this exists
A drink is a small enough unit to finish
You can try to read your way into a culture. Often, it is easier to order well. A drink is small enough to finish and specific enough to mean something. It can name a place, a season, a farm and a trade route before the conversation has properly begun.
What is inside
Three ingredients, three readings
Ube
- Perspective
- Origin and value capture
- In the glass
- Rich, purple and generous
Yuzu
- Perspective
- Regulation and managed export
- In the glass
- Aromatic, bright and precise
Matcha
- Perspective
- Scarcity and demand
- In the glass
- Bitter, fresh and structural
The six drinks are written out in full on the recipes pages, and what each one costs to make at home is on sourcing and syrups.
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