- Today we're making a favorite drink of mine.
A Manhattan cocktail,
it comes together in a flash,
is a complete classic,
and is dangerously delicious.
It's also the kissing cousin of
my very most favorite thing to drink,
an old fashioned.
This is the difference.
An old fashioned will have a sugar cube,
soaked in bitters,
gives it a nice sweetness and depth of flavor.
While a Manhattan has a dash of sweet Vermouth.
Let's get started.
First off is an optional step.
I'm gonna take a little slice of orange peel.
Just a little one.
Get those oils out, so roll it around a bit.
And wipe it on the rim of my glass.
There we go.
Doesn't it add a little bit of depth
to this drink?
(deeply inhales)
Loving it already.
(breaking glass)
Okay, now we're gonna have a cocktail shaker.
Filled with ice.
Two parts bourbon, whiskey, rye,
I'm using rye today,
although I love a good bourbon.
And here's the deal,
the sweetness from this drink,
and it's not very sweet,
comes from a little bit of Vermouth.
So, two parts bourbon, one part sweet Vermouth.
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Give it a stir, after you add in your bitters.
We're gonna add in several dashes
of aromatic bitters, I love these.
These are Angostura aromatic bitters,
and these are the orange bitters.
One dash of those.
If we were making an old fashioned of course,
we would've soaked this sugar cube
with those bitters and then mottled it up.
And not added the Vermouth.
So give it a stir until it's nice and chilled.
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Okay, now strain your drink
into your cocktail glass that you've prepared.
You deserve it.
And I wanna talk to you about
the garnish for half a moment.
This is garnished with a maraschino cherry,
but this is like what you'll find
at the market and most everywhere,
these are not maraschino cherries,
these are like red cherries in corn syrup.
So, okay, they're sweet, they're fine.
A maraschino cherry is actually
gonna be soaked in Maraschino Liqueur.
It's a whole seperate deal,
I personally prefer these Luxardo cherries,
they are like.
So just insanely flavorful.
I'll take two and.
You can have them sitting in your drink,
oozing out that syrupy cherry juice,
or you can set them up
and have them on the rim of your glass,
like that.
Your drink is now complete.
Let's take a sip.
Oh my gosh.
That's really good and
it's dangerously smooth too.
It's like pure alcohol.
That was good.
Now it's your turn.
It's gonna be two parts rye.
And one part sweet Vermouth.
Add some ice to your shaker.
Add a couple bitters in there.
Now we're going to stir
until it's nice and chilled.
A little slice of orange peel.
We can strain this into a coupe glass
or any cocktail glass you'd like.
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Do you have that friend that drinks a Martini
but they load it up with olives
like it's their "dinner"?
Sad.
I'm the person that loads mine up with cherries.
I love these Luxardo cherries,
there's a bunch of different brands,
if you have your favorite brand of cherry,
you can let me know in the comments
but for me I will take three and.
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Oh my gosh this drink.
Have a bite.
It's a good time.
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