Welcome back to Booze On The Rocks where we make cocktails for everyone.
My name is David Edward, Dennis.
Great to have you here today.
Do you like strawberries?
Fantastic.
I knew you would today.
We're making a Strawberry Bee.
Now this was introduced to me by Ruairi he owns the Bonneville
Cocktail channel on YouTube here.
Absolutely fantastic.
You know, if you like somebody who knows how to make a call.
He's the man I tell you, anyways, this cocktail was originally created
and introduced to him by Dale deGroff also known as the Cocktail King or
King Cocktail, and he's also the author of the Craft of The Cocktail.
Truly a fantastic resource.
But, and this is most important.
This has become a favorite cocktail.
So could it be your new favorite as well?
Let's find out now the strawberry beet is a riff on the original Bee's Knees.
So it has a lot of the same similarities and you know what?
That's a great cocktail.
How well.
This one has fresh strawberries in it, and you know what, we're
going to really enjoy this.
So grab your shaking glass because it is a shaking cocktail.
And what we're going to do is grab two strawberries.
And then what we're going to do is we're just going to cut the stems
off and throw them into the glass.
Now, the next thing you want to do is grab your muddler and you're actually going
to muddle this really, really thoroughly.
You want to break it down fully?
Oh, yeah.
Look at that.
Just clean that off.
And then what we're going to do is add our sweetening agent.
In this case, we're using a honey syrup, simple, easy, and we're going to use this
to draw out more of the natural flavors of the harassed strawberry raspberry.
I just it's a red fruit.
Okay.
Get it right.
It's a red fruit.
Anyways.
We need one ounce or 30 milliliters.
Now that you've done, that you can move to your citrus agent in
this case, like the original bee's knees we're using lemon juice.
So what we're going to do is we're going to cut this in half and
squeeze out one ounce or 30 mil.
And that lemon juice will actually balance everything out.
However, what we're going to use next is Virgin of your choice.
Now I'm using a Beefeater London, dry gin.
You use whatever you liked, maybe something lately, floral that would work
really, really good with strawberries.
And we're going to use two ounces or 60 milliliters.
This is going to be fantastic.
You just know it.
So what we are going to do now is we're going to shake this with some ice.
So make sure you fill your glasses with your audience and a big
chunk of ice, just like that.
And then grab your.
And make sure it's on nice and solid and shake it with a smile.
Yeah.
Pop that off with the strength of a thousand strawberry, it smells so good.
God loves the smell of gin and strawberries together.
What we're going to do.
I serve this in an up style and a nice coop, but what we are
going to do is fine stream out the chunks of ice and strawberry.
But one of those things that you have to remember is the little bits of strawberry
are going to fill up this, uh, the sieve.
And it's just going to take a little bit longer to pour.
Oh, look at that.
Absolutely gorgeous.
So what you want to do, grab your garnish.
And what we'll do is you'll just put a cut right down the center, like,
so, and then we'll just slap it on the edge and this is a strawberry be
absolutely gorgeous to look at it.
Let's give it a taste.
So immediately we get slight citrus notes and a little bit
of gin and a bit of strawberry.
Fuck me.
That's good.
Hmm.
Um, RAR you're right.
That is really good.
Super balanced.
The honey syrup, the lemon go right together and it's so nicely put in there.
The gin just lifted slightly.
You get slight into Juniper, but that's it absolutely gorgeous.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to put the ingredients in a method, how to make
this down in the description down below.
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