Welcome back, friends - it's Anders.
Today we are doing something a little different.
I'm making another bartender YouTuber's original cocktail. The name of that bartender is Leandro.
He is The Educated Barfly, and if you haven't seen his channel, I don't know where you've been.
He puts out incredible content and amazing cocktails.
So I saw this one which is called the Sagehen. I saw this one and thought, I want to give that one a shot.
And I learned a fascinating story about it, so let's make the Sagehen!
For those of you mixing along, you are going to want Plymouth Gin, Yellow Chartreuse,
fresh lemon juice, and a sage-infused honey syrup. I made a smaller batch of the original recipe.
To make this syrup, start with 150 milliliters of wildflower honey, to that add 50 milliliters of boiling water.
Stir well and put that over a low heat. Bring it to a simmer with four sage leaves for about five minutes.
Remove from heat, and steep and infuse for 24 hours - at which point you can remove the sage leaves.
This will last sealed in the fridge for one month.
Oh - and a red delicious apple.
So the story goes -
about 10 years ago, Mr. Barfly - Leandro, had this vision that he needed to learn more -
to become a further educated barfly!
So he learned that there was this magical bird in the Outback of Australia.
It was a chicken that was said to be very, very smart.
They called it the "Sage Hen."
So he hops on a plane, and he makes his way over to Australia -
I'm sorry. I'm sorry - there's no way this is true.
No that's - that's the truth. [laughter]
I just don't think this happened.
Yeah it was - it happened, like, 10 years ago.
This is a crazy story!
He just doesn't seem like the type that would just wander off, and, you know, go on a spiritual journey.
I don't know, I never - I never met him.
I don't know the source, but I trust it.
[cell phone ding]
I just got a text from an unknown number.
"Be right there."
[knocking at door]
Come in?
Hey, man! I heard you were talking about my cocktail, so I thought I'd come by.
Yeah, but - well yeah, I mean, I was telling them about the story about Australia and the flight over -
Yeah, it's not that story.
That's wrong.
You know what? I'll tell you guys the story.
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Ohhhhhh
THAT'S the story!
Right.
That makes so much more sense.
Yeah, I think you just got me confused with Steve the Bartender.
It happens.
Yeah. I mean, we get tagged in all the same videos and photos, and I have a winning smile, so -
That you do. Well, tell you what, how about you walk me through this cocktail?
I would love to. This cocktail will work with London dry or other styles of gin.
I would just stay away from anything that's savory. You know, something that has some nice citrus is gonna be good.
So we're gonna do 1.5 ounces of Plymouth Gin, and a quarter ounce of Yellow Chartreuse -
for which there really isn't a sub. You could try Green Chartreuse, but it's gonna be a different cocktail,
or you can try and make some on your own.
Three quarters of an ounce of lemon juice - fresh squeeze, a half an ounce of sage-infused wildflower honey syrup -
but I will say that if you don't want to infuse the sage into the honey, you can infuse it into the gin.
You'll just have a more sage-forward cocktail. We're going to take a red delicious apple.
We're going to cut the cheek off - and I like to dice it up so it's a little easier to muddle,
and then we're just going to muddle that into the cocktail. Then we're going to shake the cocktail,
strain it into a coupe, give it the old slappy-poo on the sage, and delicately place it on the cocktail, and then daintily enjoy it.
There we have the Sagehen.
Couple of Sagehens.
Cheers!
Mmm
Oh yeah - the sage is great in there!
That is a work of genius.
All right, guys, so if you want to REALLY learn how to make this cocktail,
go over to The Educated Barfly on YouTube.
If you like this channel, please hit like, hit subscribe.
Hit the bell icon if you guys want to be notified every time this man makes a video.
This is great! Thanks, man!
Yeah! You're so very welcome.
The next time, though, I want you to bring Marius on.
[Marius] I've been here the whole time.
It's true!
Ahhh - okay, okay, okay. No, no we're starting fr- from the beginning.
and he falls out of the plane!
Whenever you're telling your story about the cocktail just -
I thought that I would -
[laughter]
Leandro out.
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