Welcome back to Booze On The Rocks, where we make cocktails for everyone.
My name is David Edwards, and it's great to have you here today.
We are going to make a Melon Ball Drop and you know what?
I'm laughing because I've messed up saying the name of this cocktail.
So many times a Lemon Ball Cocktail, a Melon Drop, no Lemon Ball Drop, but.
This cocktail also has a couple of variations.
One of them is called the Melon Drop Cocktail and the
other is a Melon Ball Shooter.
All of them have a similar build, but have different citrus elements and you
know what they all sound fantastic, but we're going to work with the namesake
today and have a Melon Ball Drop.
So let's get into it.
No, as I was saying, this is a four ingredient cocktail and you know what,
you're going to need to shake it.
So grab your shaking glass, put it off to the side because the first
thing we're going to do is grab a lemon and your glass of choice.
And what we're going to do is rim the glass with sugar.
So what we'll do is we'll just cut this in half and then rub the edge
and then dip it in sugar, making sure to knock off the excess beautiful.
Now that you've done that, put that off to the side.
So what we're going to do now is grab one of our habits of 11,
and we're going to squeeze out half an ounce or 15 milliliters.
Now, the next thing you're going to use is what I call Bartenders Ketchup.
I'm going to use a little bit of St-Germaine, Elderflower Liqueur.
Use whatever you really prefer in the form of an elderflower.
Look here.
This is just what I have available now.
What you're going to use as another half an ounce or 15 milliliters.
Now there is a fair amount of.
Inherent in all of these ingredients here being the St-Germaine, the Elderflower
Liqueur and the majority melon liqueur.
However, they should all blend together really, really nicely, but we might have
to adjust some, uh, lemon juice at the end just to see how it works, but this is
where we're actually going to bump it up.
Now we're going to use some Crazy Horse Vodka.
It's a Canadian vodka, relatively close to me, and we're going
to use one ounce or 30 million.
Now that we've done that.
We're going to add a little bit of a melon.
Look here for this.
I'm actually using Midori.
Now this is a Japanese Melon Liqueur.
It's got that great sharp neon green color smells really good, but it's
not overly powerful, but you still get a lot of that melon flavor.
However, we are going to use two ounces or 60 milliliters.
Awesome.
That's looking pretty green, right?
Like, I mean really green.
So what we're going to do is we are going to fill the glass with some ice and we'll
take it hard for a good 10 to 15 seconds.
Just to get it exactly where we want it to.
And as always, when you slap this on here, make sure you've got a good seal.
Give it a flip and shake it with a smile.
Yeah.
Pop that off with a strength of a thousand melons.
Which I technically don't have here.
And what we're going to do is put it into our previously rimmed glass,
but I am going to find strain it just to keep out any chumps device.
Oh, look at that.
Absolutely stunning.
I love how green that looks.
Give me a thumbs up if you'd like to call her at this cocktail.
Cause I know you do.
All right, so let's give it a bit of a try.
So immediately you do get those strong hints of lemon, a little
undercurrent of the elderly care, but let's see how it tastes.
That's good.
It is actually quite good.
It's not as sweet as you think it would be.
Even with the sugar room.
It's just, this side is sweet.
So it's a little bit sweet, but you can taste the lemon in there, binding
everything together with the elderflower here or bartenders catch-up as I call it,
the vodka just gives it a little bit more pump and you know what it's, this would
be perfect for an evening with friends.
What are you doing?
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