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The paper plane was created in 2008 by Sam Ross and Sasha Petraske. They created the drink as a favor for a former colleague, Toby Maloney, who wanted a summer drink to serve at his bar The Violet Hour. Ross describes the drink as “a riff on a Last Word cocktail” and says the name was inspired by the M.I.A. track “Paper Planes,” a song he and Petraske listened to often while creating the drink.

Here’s how we did it:

Paper Plane

In equal parts of 30ml add,

Bourbon, Maker’s Mark

Aperol Aperitivo

Amaro Nonino

Add all to a shaker, double strain into a chilled coup glass.

Serve with a Post-it note paper plane.

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