Welcome back to Booze On The Rocks, where we make cocktails for everyone.
My name's David Edwards, and it's great to have you here with me today.
We're going to make a London Lemonade, and there's not really
a lot of history about this.
However, London, dry gin is synonymous with London, England,
and lemonade is just awesome.
So you can't go wrong.
Now, if you wanted to substitute anything in like vodka, you'd then have
a Russian Lemonade or bourbon, and then you could have a Southern Lemonade.
But to get there first, we have to make the best darn lemonade possible.
And I'm going to show you how to do that.
But before we do, let's talk about the ingredients.
The first thing we need is a bunch of lemons because, you know,
lemons just, anyways, we're making a London Lemonade and we need a
whole bunch of lemons as our base.
The next thing you need is a sweetener and we're going to use.
A one-to-one simple syrup and that's one part water, one part sugar.
Next, you need to bring it all together with water.
Of course.
And that will give us the correct dilution.
And I'll explain that as I go along.
Next thing we need is a London dry gin.
In this case, I'm using Beefeater Gin and this will give us the
best London lemonade possible.
So let's get into it.
Now.
This is not a shaken drink.
You don't have to do any fancy stuff.
However, the first thing you need is a pitcher of water.
In this case, you need four cups, which is 32 ounces or 960 milliliters.
The next thing that you need for this is your one-to-one sweetener.
So grab a measuring cup and we're going to fill this up to
eight ounces or 240 miliilitres.
Now that you've done that.
Just add it directly into the picture.
Like, so, all right, now that we've done that, you're going to put this off to the
side, so we don't spill it, move this.
And now what you need is your lemons.
And we need eight ounces of lemon juice as well for you're going
to want to cut five or six good sized lemons to make this happen.
Okay.
After you've done that, grab your squeezer and your cup again.
Now you could use a juicer.
If you want to make your life a little bit easier, or you could just
squeeze him like I'm going to yeah.
Yeah.
Darn it won't fit.
We'll go with the bigger one.
All right.
Look at that.
Now you don't have to be exact.
You can be off just a little bit, and that will be okay because you'll eventually get
it to exactly the way your taste and you can adjust it slightly, totally up to you.
Now, do not throw these out because what you can do is you can actually cook them.
Into a syrup or you can skin them, make an olio sacrum.
You can do a lot with these, or you could even drive them out.
So that way you're not actually wasting your ingredients clean off
your table, grab your pitcher again.
And again, we'll just pour this eight ounces or 240 milliliters of lemon juice
directly into the water and sugar mixture.
Now, if you take a look at this, it looks fantastic, but you're going to say, David,
I need to stir this and you'd be correct.
Now you can either start with a wooden spoon or in this case, I
have a caraf lid that allowed me to just to give it a bit of a shake.
Right?
So now you just pop it until you're ready to go and move that over there.
And then you just sort of clean up your area a little bit because you know, Well,
I'll clean these up right afterwards.
So the first thing you want to grab is not that, but you do want to happen to grab.
Your glass of choice.
In this case, I'm using a 10 ounce stemless goblet, and we're going
to fill this with ice and just use as much as ice, as you want.
Oh, look at that.
But now we're going to start with, for London, dry gin.
Now I did say we were using Beefeater.
You could use whatever it is you want or whatever you prefer.
Now I'm going to use two ounces or 60 milliiliers.
Now again, you could adjust the size of this as you want, and
this glass is perfect for this.
However, you would also like to really see this in a Mason jar
because that's fantastic and you need four ounces or 120 milliliters.
Look at that.
Beautiful.
Now, next thing you're going to need is a garnish.
You don't have to do this, but if you really want a garnish, just grab
a lemon, slice it, like, so give yourself half a slice, put it on here.
Like, so, and there you go.
I'll true.
London lemonade, and this is going to be fantastic.
Let's give it a try.
Smells.
Great.
You immediately smell the lemon.
We're good.
Sweet yet.
Tart.
The gin is there.
The Juniper is slightly in there.
Same with the pine needles.
Fantastic combination.
If you think I should use a different gin, leave a comment down below.
Or if you think you should use a store made lemonade, let me know.
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