Cheers to Mumbai’s pink guava
The Hindu
Stranger & Sons x The Bombay Canteen’s small-batch gin cocktail in a bottle is getting a second run, and more of us are invited to the party
The first edition of Perry Road Peru was supposed to take Mumbai by storm last year, but by the time the country’s first-ever distilled cocktail in a bottle — a collaboration between Stranger & Sons and The Bombay Canteen (TBC) — was released in November, a lot had changed. With restaurants shut, the Pink Guava Chilli drink, a lockdown baby, was sold via home delivery and retail orders.
A year later, a second (and apparently final) batch of Perry Road Peru has been distilled. Named after the perus (guava in Marathi) chosen from carts on Bandra’s Perry Road, the new batch will be sold in six cities: Mumbai, Goa, NCR, Bengaluru, Rajasthan and Hyderabad. Deliveries roll out this month.

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