Hi everybody. Welcome to Drinks Tube.
I'm Tim Anderson.
I'm a chef and I'm a beer geek.
And today I'm going to show you a Strawberry Beer Mojito.
And awesome beer cocktail for your 4th of July celebrations.
This cocktails takes the classic fresh lime and mint flavours of a mojito and makes it even more summery
by adding some cold american craft beer
and some delicious fresh strawberries.
Perfect for a hot sunny summers day.
Lets get started.
It's a long drink. So to begin - a highball glass.
We're going to start it off same way a normal mojito starts off
with a teaspoon of caster sugar.
To that gonna add the juice of half a lime.
Now with limes and lemons always give them a little roll on the cutting board.
Before you juice them.
It breaks down more cells and you get a bit more juice out.
And please do use fresh lime juice because it makes all the difference.
So that's the juice of half a lime.
About a tablespoon. 15ml.
Next, strawberries.
Use four of them here.
Cut the tops off of course.
We'll just cut them into quarters.
Those go into our glass and now we muddle.
Now I'm using an actual muddler here, but if you don't have one just use any hard blunt object.
Like a rolling pin or the end of a wooden spoon.
So we want all that sugar to dissolve. We want the strawberries to almost become a puree.
So keep muddling until it's fairly smooth.
That's about right.
Now we're going to take 6 mint leaves.
Give them a little smack.
Get those lovely aromatic oils out.
And we'll gently muddle those as well.
Man, this already smells super summery.
Next, some rum.
I'm going with 30ml of white rum.
We're using white rum of course because it's a classic to the mojito.
It's got lighter flavours to the dark rum which work really well in a refreshing drink like this.
Give it a stir.
Then we add some crushed ice.
To make crushed ice all you need is a clean tea towel
some regular cubed ice, draw up the corners like this
to make a sort of ice bag.
Take a heavy blunt object like this rolling pin.
And smashy smashy.
That should do it. And there we go. Nice finely crushed ice.
Alright.
Add that to our strawberry lime and rum and mint base.
Not all the way up, but quite a lot of ice.
And then we add the beer.
Any good lager you like will do, but of course I'm choosing American to celebrate the 4th of July.
Now we just top it up. Wow that looks great!
Look at the colours!
It's like a summer sunset.
Give it a little stir.
Finally, strawberry garnish.
Gonna cut slits into this.
Down towards the stem.
And then we can fan it out like so.
Add a straw and enjoy!
Mmm
That's really good.
Really summery. It's sweet from the strawberries but the the beer gives it a sort of honey flavour
and a dry finish.
Plus that little bit of tartness from that lime.
It's fantastic. It's everything you want in a summer drink.
Lovely, but if you want something a little sweeter
a little fruitier, you could of course try
with a fruit beer, like this raspberry beer from Michigan.
All you do, make the drink the exact same way until you get to the beer
add the fruit beer instead of the lager
and finish the exact same way.
And there it is. As if by magic.
Our strawberry beer mojito made with a raspberry beer.
Lets give it a try.
Mmm
That's really good.
It's actually very different from the other one.
Instead of the dry bitterness you get from the larger, there's a tartness to balance out the sweetness
from those raspberries.
It's really good. Really summery.
And there you have it.
Strawberry beer mojito. Two different beers. Two different ways.
I hope you make it and let me know how you get on with it in the comments box below.
Happy 4th of July.
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