Welcome 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're going to make a Singapore Sling.
Now, this cocktail has a lot of variations, a lot of slight
different tastes as well as well, a couple of variations on its history.
But we're going to make the version
that is still served at the Raffles Hotel today in Singapore.
Now, the reason I choose that is because also the generally accepted story
at the time is that a young bartender who started working
recently at the long bar at the Raffles Hotel, his name being Ngiam
Tong Boon, realized that by British custom,
the ladies were not supposed to be seen drinking in public.
And he thought, Well, you know what?
Here's a great way for me to make more sales at the bar.
I'll make a cocktail that looks like it's fruit juice.
Smart man.
That having said that, this trick has been incredibly
popular and can be found worldwide.
Now it's got a lot of ingredients.
So let's just kind of describe them to you.
We're going to start with the easy stuff. First.
You need a little bit of lime juice.
And, of course, produce fresh Limes for that.
But we also need some Grenadine.
I'm using Rose's grenadine.
It just happens to be what I have on the shelf.
If you have some homemade grenadine. Awesome.
The next thing you need is Pineapple Juice.
And we're going to use a pure pressed pineapple juice.
So there's no sugar added,
and it'll give it a better flavor, in my opinion.
But use what you got.
We also need some bitters.
In this case, we need some Angostura Bitters, which is originally
from Trinidad, and it's 44.7% ABV.
For those of you who did not realize bitters actually have alcohol in them.
Your next ingredient is a dry gin.
I'm using Beefeater London Dry Gin.
It's 40% ABV with good, strong notes of juniper.
We're also going to use a cherry liqueur.
Now we're using Cherry Heering for this.
It's 24% ABV and dark and color, and it's got this great cherry flavor.
Your next ingredient is an orange liqueur and we're using another French liqueur
that's Cointreau.
Now that's 40% ABV as well.
And your final ingredient
is when you don't see and use very often called DOM Benedictine.
It's a French herbal liqueur that's got those earthy notes
and those herbal notes, and it's a sweet and vicious liqueur that's 40% ABV.
So let's get into this.
This is a shaken cocktail.
So the first thing you're going to do is grab your line.
And what we'll do is
we will squeeze a half an ounce or 15 milliliters into the glass.
The second ingredients that you're going to use is a dry gin.
I didn't tell you to be fair, use whatever dry gin you want.
And this is part of where you'll see differences in the way that this cocktail
is developed, because they use different gins, which have different floral notes.
And we're going to use one ounce or 30 milliliters.
The third ingredients that you're going to use is a cherry liqueur.
Now, I am using cherry hearing.
It is one of the liqueurs that you would actually have had available at that time.
And we don't need a lot of this, but we're going to use half an ounce
or 15 million.
The fourth ingredient that we're going to use is a French orange liqueur.
Now we're using Cointreau.
You could choose triple sec if you want.
Or Grand Marnier.
Again, depending on what you have access.
But you don't need a lot of this.
You're just going to need a little bit to give you some orange notes
and you need a quarter four now or seven and a half not
looking good so far.
We also need now a little bit of dumb and addictive.
Now, this is, as I said, a French herbal liqueur.
It's really, really good. It's sweet.
Some people will say the herbs give you all some health benefits.
But you know what?
I just really like it. It's one that doesn't get a lot of play.
And we'll use seven and a half miles.
We're going to now add a little bit of aromatic bitters.
In this case, we're using Angostura Bitters.
It's what it was called for in the recipe as well.
But you don't need a lot.
You only need one dash.
Next, we're going to add a little bit of color to this.
So what we'll do is we will grab your grenadine.
You don't need a lot.
You'd get more pomegranate flavor if you used a homemade
grenadine.
But in this case, we're not going to use much.
We're just going to use a third of an ounce or ten mils.
Now we're going to add some pineapple juice.
I don't know, some fancy to say, but pineapple juice.
It's pineapple juice. It's fantastic, right.
But we're going to use a fair amount of it, which will level everything out.
We need a total of four ounces, which is 120 milliliters.
Oh, yes.
Finish that off.
Like so
now what we will do is we will shake this with a little bit of like,
so you want to fill your glass up all the way, you know,
be careful doing it because you do want to splash all over the place.
And the other thing is because this is this fresh pineapple juice,
it will give you a little bit of foam when you shake.
So make sure you have a good SEAL clip and give a shake.
Yeah.
Pop that off with the strength of Singapore's national drink.
Put that off to the side.
So grab yourself a hurricane glass.
And I love these glasses.
And we're going to fill this up with ice.
It's just a little bit like that.
Like so.
And what you want to do now
is just grab your hot sauce trainer, drop it on top and pardon.
Look at that. Absolutely perfect to look at.
Grab yourself a traditional garnish of a little bit of pineapple and a red cherry.
Slide that onto the right side because you're supposed to sling it
that way, grab a straw and let's try it out.
Oh, yeah.
I can see why this was so good.
It's got some cherry.
It's got those orange, cactus, herbal notes and it's got those citrus notes.
If you like this style of cocktail, take a look up in this corner and
I'll add a few for you.