- This is How to Drink, the show about making cocktails
and how to drink them.
I'm Greg and I have never been a professional bartender.
I've never even had a job in a bar.
I don't worry too much about precision and technique
'cause at the end of the day, if the drink you like
is in the glass, you did it right.
Let's get goin'.
Uh, so we're gonna make a Jungle Bird
and I'm callin' it a Jungle Bird Bianco.
Jungle Bird is a Tiki drink from the late Tiki period,
I think in the late 60s or early 70s.
Today we are partnered up with
our good friends at Luxardo and Anchor Distilling
and we're gonna make our Jungle Bird
with Bitter Bianco, which is a potable bitter,
much in the same family as Campari,
but without any artificial dyes or coloring
and I think that it does a fine job
of making a Jungle Bird
so let's call it a Jungle Bird Bianco.
So we're gonna make this drink in our shaker tin.
We're gonna start with a half an ounce of Demerara syrup.
Demerara syrup is nothing more than an inverse simple syrup
made with Demerara sugar.
Demarara sugar is a less refined form of sugar.
Our next ingredient will be two ounces of pineapple juice.
I have this fresh squeezed pineapple juice
in a bottle right here.
You could also buy pineapple juice.
I would think it's best to use fresh pineapple juice.
But if you really want to, go ahead and get
the stuff in the can.
It won't hurt you, it's fine.
Anyway, two ounces of fresh pineapple juice.
Ooo, look at that, it is delicious.
Have you ever drank fresh pineapple juice?
Because...
That is awesome.
That is like a Caribbean breakfast, it is so good.
I need a half an ounce of lemon juice.
To get that, I'm gonna cut this lemon in half.
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And in it goes.
So now we need a half an ounce of lime juice.
I've got my lime here.
I'm gonna throw that in.
And boom.
And that is a half an ounce.
Now I need three quarters of an ounce
of my Bitter Bianco.
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In it goes.
And now I need an ounce and a half of black rum.
And we're gonna use Hamilton Jamaican Pot Still Black Rum.
So an ounce and a half in she goes.
Delicious black rum.
Uh, we're gonna shake this drink over cracked ice.
And then we're gonna serve it over a big 'ol cube.
(shaking)
Let's pour this drink gated so that we keep
all of our ice in our tin.
And I'm going to gently
pour it right over the top of that cube.
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I take three pineapple fronds
and an orchid will do wonders here.
Alright, so there it is, a Jungle Bird Bianco
made with Luxardo's Bitter Bianco.
Let's see how it is.
Oh man.
The evolution in that drink is very complicated.
It is bitter but sweet and there's some banana
I always get in them and a lot of grapefruit
which is funny because there's neither
bananas nor grapefruits in the drink, right?
That is a figment of our olfactory imagination.
But it's there, we experience it.
It's real for us and that's all that matters.
That is a phenomenal drink.
It looks great, it tastes great.
If you like bitter drinks, I know for certain
that this drink will be right up in your alley.
It is sort of a tiki answer to a Boulevardier
or a Negroni.
I wanna say thank you to Luxardo and Anchor Distilling
for supporting the show.
We are so privileged to have them as partners.
I want to say thank you to the fans for watching the show
and subscribing to the show,
which I know you're gonna do.
And I will see you again next week with another drink
here at How to Drink.