Hi guys and welcome to Drinks Tube, my name is Rich and we are in Belgium.
We are in Liege for the Belgian Grand Prix.
We are at the Terrazzo Martini which is a fantastic pop-up bar serving amazing aperitivo cocktails.
With us we have an actual Belgian, Mr Frank Symons ladies and gentleman.
Hi Rich, Hi Drinks Tube and welcome to Belgium.
Our lovely country and it's sunny outside which is not normal.
But we are going to make a nice cocktail.
Frank is a fantastic Belgian bartender one of the top he is properly up there.
So what are we going to be making?
So we are going to be making the Eau Rouge
Interesting name.
Yeah because it is linked to the track.
And not only do we have a drink called after the track, we also have a lovely formula 1 car.
It's like a boys dream, making drinks at the terrazza, it's sunny outside, have a formula 1 car in the back.
How hard can life be?
I couldn't agree more.
Let's crack on.
So we are going to start with 50ml of Rosato Vermouth.
Why rosato?
The rosato is really more refreshing than the sweet vamouth and it's more in to blackberries, cinnamon,
cloves, so you have that spiciness to it.
It's a light alcohol.
Perfect for aperitivo.
That's what we are all here for.
Then we are going to top up, spice up with some London dry gin, only 20ml.
The herbs that are in this gin work perfectly with the herbs we have in the martini.
Now we need some freshness in it, some citrus.
Fresh lemon juice, again 20ml.
One of the other things we are going to add is a Creme De Mure, we are in the French speaking part of Belgium.
This is a blackberry liquor.
So it is 10ml, it is pretty sweet so don't exaggerate.
So what we are going to add now is some nice floral touches with rose water.
You've got to be careful with rose water because it can be overpowering.
But I really want to add that tropical atmosphere to the drink.
We're going to add some ice and we're going to shake it up.
Give it a nice shake.
Lovely, pinky rouge colour.
To give that final fruity zesty type I'm going to add some grapefruit zest.
Spray it, don't come to close to the glass, you will get the oily flavours out of it.
So the reason you are not doing it too close is because you will get that heavy oils
that will fall on the glass and it will make your drink a little bit more sticky, maybe overbitter.
Top tip!
And that's your drink.
It's a lovely colour, nice head to it as well.
Good shake I think.
Thank you.
That is absolutely delicious.
It's super fresh.
Sorry you can't taste this.
Try and make it at home.
It's got some lovely citrus freshness to it.
And the blackberries there, it is nicely sweetened, blackberries are just at the back of your throat a little.
Light alcohol aperitivo, perfect start to the weekend.
So there we have it, the Eau Rouge named after the infamous corner down here at the Spa Circuit.
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