welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to cocktails after
dark
today we're going to do a recipe out of
the abc of
mixing cocktails written by a guy named
harry and there were a lot of different
versions of this the first one he wrote
was early on in the 1910s when he worked
at cyros
and we've done cocktails from other
bartenders who worked at cirros
he went on to buy a bar in paris
called harry's new york bar um in 1921
or 1922
at which point he republished this book
with some new recipes
and this is the new edition although it
is much
later i looked at one of the ads for
canadian club
and it says by appointment to his late
majesty king george vi
now king george vi died in 1952 so this
book was published sometime between 1952
and when harry died in 1958 and it's got
some really
crazy recipes in it and today we're
going to do something called the
futurity cocktail
and it uses slow gin and i've never had
slogin
in a cocktail before so we're going to
give it a go so this starts out with
some angostura bitters and i'm making
two cocktails so
there we go next in it calls for a very
specific
italian vermouth that i just don't have
access to so i'm going to use
this vermouth
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and then slow gin
do you like slogen let us know down in
the comments below
what your thoughts are
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and of course ice the mixing glass there
are no instructions
whether this is a stir or shake so i'm
going to stir it
okay our glasses are chilled
and
hi glenn hey jules hi friends the
futurity cocktail because you know in
1953
they thought we'd be driving around in
rocket cars or something well at least
we had drinks
we did have drinks so this is um this is
with slogen and we've never had slogen
so
let's give it a go
nope nope
nope nope nope i'm going to say that's a
nope
for me it's very sweet it's incredibly
sweet
yeah and very berry like yeah very very
very sweet okay so let's try the
slogin on its own
i'm not sure like it feels more like an
icing sugar in its sweetness
yeah but there's um there's something
else in there that just
also beyond the sweet that is just
well that's very pleasant it's still
very sweet pretty sweet
kind of tingly that just on its own with
ice
so slow gin just with a piece of ice and
glass i could drink
but you add the other two elements and
it's just
not
no almost almost at the beginning
when i first put it in my mouth i almost
think i like this
and then that second
comes in
yeah it's okay but it's not yeah i
i'm not as i'm not as put off by it as
you are
um but it is a little overly sweet for
me
what do you think that would taste like
carbonated
it would be super sweet still let's try
it carbonated
okay let's give this a go jules
let's see so you're just going to add
straight up
carbonation i've assumed you were going
to put a little water in it like a soda
water or something to
uh i'm actually gonna make it less
sweet i'm actually gonna try it with
nitro nitrous oxide
okay you're trying nitrous oxide because
that's
what i had handy okay i was gonna ask
why
um i think co2 would work really well as
well
but i think it's just having that bubble
might cut some of the sweetness
maybe who knows
i i fear this may be messy yeah oh
so carefully let the pressure off i've
got a cloth i'm gonna step back
yeah there we go
and
well it's definitely bubbly
there we go
so just like a guinness
okay so as i suspected the nitrous
doesn't stay in suspension for very long
what
that i think it changes it that much yes
i
do the bubbles dancing on your tongue
well the bubbles are fun but uh
well it is it isn't as it's not as
cloying it takes away that cloying
of the sweet
so as much as i thought the nitrous
wasn't in there because you don't see it
bubbling
as soon as it hits your tongue it just
dances so now it's a drink you do like
no no
i like it better i like it better and it
opens up
a lot of possibilities for other
cocktails
but i still after two sips and the
bubbles dancing on my tongue and me
having a smile
on my face it is too sweet too sweet
yeah there you go
so that's a no from both of us even
after a little bit of
playfulness thanks for stopping by see
you again soon
you