Black Rock is cool. It just is. Which is not surprising
given its big sister is the Worship Street Whistling Shop around the corner.
While the Whistling Shop specializes in gin, Black Rock
specializes in whiskey. In a big way. If you don’t like whiskey, you really
shouldn’t bother coming to this bar – every cocktail has whiskey in it, be it
highball or short and strong, and the only other option is four beers. Because
that’s not the point.
Running along the middle of this sleek but bijou bar is a
table made out of a 166 year old oak tree, in which whiskey sits aging. There
are two kinds – Table and Cherry and a dram of either will cost you £6. Then
there are six cabinets stuffed with whiskeys from all over and separated
according to flavour profile – sweet, fragranced, spiced etc. We only
had two drinks and stuck to the cocktails so I didn’t get a chance to dip into
these cabinets of wonder. Next time.
The cocktails were pretty perfect – my preference were for
the first two we had as I’m just not a Highball kinda gal – too much liquid,
not enough boozy flavour, but we tried them anyway for variety. I had the 40
Shades (no idea why it had that naughty reference) with apple and fennel
pollen. It was slightly carbonated and I have to say the apple was very light
and not too fruit-juicy. The fennel got a bit intense towards the end but was
otherwise a refreshing drink.
The Campfire was a take on an old-fashioned but with extra
oomf from the two whiskies and a deeply satisfying sweetness from the
marshmallow gomme. The White Dog Martinez was a much lighter drink paring
whiskey with cocchi instead of another whiskey but still pokey enough and with
vanilla rounding off the flavour this time. Quaffable.
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