Welcome to cocktail request week here in Old Street tube station with myself DJ BBQ and
Richard, the raddest cocktail creator known to this planet called Earth, (echoes) Earth, Earth.
What shall we make, man, for this week, Richard? Well, we've had a whole load of requests
on #cocktailrequest week and the first one of which came from the main man himself, Mr
Jamie Oliver. He has asked us to make something with peach. Not just any peach though, a flat
peach. So that's the peach you guys know and love. This is the hot new peach, man, the
flat peach. It's a bit more crunchy, it's got a kind of lychee-apple vibe and Rich is
gonna play with this one and not this one. But you know what, keep those requests coming
in it's #cocktailrequest. So we're gonna name this one after the guy who sent the request
in - "Jamie's Flat Peach Smash". We're gonna make it in a kilner jar, just like that, and
we're gonna take the Smash down this crazy eastern vibe by using a little bit of lemon
grass, mint and that lemon just over there. Use half a lemon and then chop it again into
quarters to make it nice and easy. Do I squeeze it? No, drop it in, we're gonna use one of
these, we're gonna muddle the hell out of it. I love the word muddle.
So the lemons are in, now what? So we've got our sour, we need to balance it out with some sweetness.
This is a jasmine honey. What we did is took some very light acacia honey, put some boiling
hot water in it and a couple of bags of jasmine flowers and literally just stirred it around
for a few minutes. We'll start with just a table spoon, so that's 15ml. We said we were
going to do an eastern vibe so shall we do some lemongrass? It's really easy to use,
you just chop the end off up there and there's this cool little thing that I like to do - take
that outer layer of skin of because that's going to be really neat later on - we're going
to put our straw into it. No way! Cool huh? Rad lemongrass straw!
Then chop it up nice and fine, make our life a little bit easier. So we're going to use just the top end there
about a quarter, chuck it in the bottom and muddle the hell out of it! Can I do the muddling? Yeah, do it! Yeah, I'm gonna muddle it!
We should probably put the peach in there at some point. Put the whole lot in because
it's a little bit lighter, more delicate. Yeah, you wanna balance out the citrus that's coming through.
The citrus is really high in there in the mix like 'heeee!', you don't
want your mouth to impode so you add the sweetness of the peach to balance that out. Do I muddle
that as well? Yeah, let's do it. Smash it all up, it's called a smash after all, so
really get in there and smash the hell out of it. Let's have a look, man that smells
awesome, that's gonna be great. I can't wait to have that with ice and alcohol.
So let's put some gin in there shall we? How much? We're gonna put two of these 25ml, two of
these in there so that's 50ml of gin. So we just need to ice it up and add a little bit of mint in there.
Bad ice!
So we said this drink was going to have mint in it but we don't want
to muddle the mint up with the rest of the fruit because it's quite delicate and we don't
want to make it too bitter so we just want to add that little sprig , just drop that
in there just at the very top there and when you come to shaking this up we'll shake it
with the ice and that should be enough to bring out the flavour.
You guys always packing in you bar tender dudes. The more ice the better, the more ice the colder it gets and
less it dilutes. So here we go that's all of our ingredients, we've got in there the
peach, the lemon, got honey, got lemongrass, got gin, got mint this is going to be a wonderful
little combo of flavours. And DJ BBQ's ice. *beat boxes*
I think that should probably be enough, look at that it looks awesome doesn't it? Have you got anymore of that crushed ice
left? Yeah I do. Well let's pack it on the top in there.
Lord have mercy, this is looking good! Sorry, my grandma just took over my body!
We're just gonna chop the bottom off so there's no loose stuff at the end and then boom! How beautiful is that man?
That hit's the spot man, that works! It's citrusy, it's tart but then it's also sweet and the botanicals
from the gin just balance it all out, that is a perfect combination of flavours. That
is so good, "Jamie's Flat Peach Smash", I wanna see you do it Jamie, I wanna see all
you guys do this rad cocktail that Richard created. Keep sending your requests, information
is down below, remember #cocktailrequest here at Drinks Tube. And hit the button to subscribe,
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It's somewhere over there...do you want some more of this, it's really good dude.