Welcome back to Boozer rocks, where we make cocktails for everyone.
My name's David Edwards, and it's great to have you here today.
We're going to make a Roman Holiday.
Now that does sound like a pretty good trip.
Doesn't it?
Bad dad, joke aside.
This cocktail is a riff on the jungle bird and it was created by Nandini Khaund.
Now she's the spirit guide at Cindy's Restaurant, which is located on top of
the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel.
And, you know, It sounds like a fantastic place to go, but this
riff doesn't even have rum in it.
So is it going to be as good as a Jungle Bird.
Let's find out now this simple Tiki style cocktail has six
ingredients and you know what.
I'm really curious to see how this is gonna go together.
So we're gonna start it off really, really simply.
Now it's a shaken cocktail, but you're gonna grab your shaking cup, put it off
to the side and grab a lime and what we'll do is we will just cut this in
half and then squeeze out 22 and a half millilitres or three quarters of ounce.
Whoops, got a little excited there.
Actually having said that we now need.
Pineapple juice.
And we're gonna use a, uh, cold depressed, uh, no sugar added pineapple juice.
We'll add the same amount, three quarters of ounce or 22 and a half mils.
Now your third ingredient is going to be a sweetener.
So we're going to use Demerara syrup, but we're not going to use a lot of it.
And in fact, we're only going to use a quarter of ounce or seven and a half mils.
And what I will do is I will put the ingredients and the method of how to
make this down into the description for you so you can make your own.
However, the next thing we're going to use is Campari because
no jungle bird or jungle bird R should not have Campari in it.
And that was probably the most UN ganely sentence I've said in a very long time.
However, we're going to add the same amount, quarter ounce,
or seven and a half bills.
Now the fifth ingredient that you're going to use is an Amaro.
Now Nandini, created the, her version of this with Amaro Meletti.
Now I can't get that, but what I can get is a good, uh, substitute,
which is Amaro, Montenegro.
They have similar tastes, but I really like this and it's
really, really easy to get.
And for this we're going to.
One ounce or 30 milliliters.
Now, our next ingredient is one where we really, really
differ from the jungle bird.
What we're adding is a cold brew coffee.
Now I made this myself, you can do the same and you can use it for a whole bunch
of different cocktails, but this will give us some really interesting flavors because
the type of coffee that you use will give different flavors to the cocktail itself.
And we're going to use one ounce.
Or 30 milliliters.
Now that we've done all of this, the next thing you're
going to add is some crush dice.
And what we're going to do is just shake this for a little bit, but you want about
half a glass, maybe three quarters of a glass because the crush ice is going
to dilute and melt very, very fast.
So make sure that you've got a really good.
A good seal.
Give it a flip and shake of the smile.
Yeah.
Pop that off with the strength of a thousand citrus routes.
Throw this right.
And what we're going to do is put this into a rocks glass.
Now we're going to fill this halfway with a little bit of crushed ice,
because we want to make sure that when we free part this, we have enough
space for everything inside the shaker.
And we'll just pour it in on top.
Flexo.
Oh, yeah.
Look at that.
Now what we're going to do is fill this up with a little bit more crushed
ice, just enough to fill the glass.
And what we're going to do now is garnish this with a cinnamon stick.
And as this is a Roman Holiday, we're gonna stab Caesar right in
the back as if we're Brutus, just like so, so let's give it a smell.
You get cinnamon immediately on the nose, which you expect with the
cinnamon stick right there, but you get faint smells of the, um, Amaro
Montero, a little bit of the pineapple.
Let's give it a try.
Oh, that is good.
Really good.
There's a slight bitterness.
It's carried well by the lime juice in the pineapple.
The Diara syrup gives you just that gorgeous hint of sweetness that you need.
That also goes along beautifully with the I Amaro.
What I'm going to do is put the ingredients and a method
of how to make this down in the description down below for you.
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