Hello all you lovely people at Drinks Tube.
I am really excited because I am here at the White Lyan in Hoxton,
with the lovely Ryan, hello Ryan.
Who just won the most incredible prestigious cocktail award of best international bartender.
Bro it doesn't get much better than that.
It doesn't no, thank you.
We're going to make 2 cocktails today.
We are indeed.
So I'm very excited, what are we doing?
We're going to do one that is reflective of what we do here at White Lyan,
we prepare everything beforehand.
And then we are going to do one especially for you.
So first up is a drink called Paper Paint.
We created a paint, this is a blackcurrent paint.
To change to translation of the drink we put a but of the paint around the inside of the rim
so as you go to take of a sip of it you get a little bit of sweetness.
So this is just blackcurrent with a little bit of pectin, you can make it home with some jam sugar.
Everything is done by weight so we try to measure everything as precise as we can,
so we know exactly how it's going to translate.
Final flourish just like you do in the kitchen, the final garnish.
Just a lemon distiller on the top for the aroma rather than the sourness itself.
So you were very fast.
Yes there is a lot that goes in to it behind the scenes though.
We used some hot spices that we toast,
a gin base to begin with so you've got all the distilled botanicals in there.
So we infuse that and we use vacuum infusion
and cook it to extract some oiliness.
So we get dry berries as a big prop, blitz them down
and we make a cordial out of that.
It's this lovely beautiful pink colour to it.
It gives the lovely colour but it also gives the sourness to the cocktail.
What is your philosophy of batching, why did you do it?
Well I suppose a lot of it was to do with control,
it was about making sure we could cover all of the elements.
Make sure it's perfect every time.
But it was also about speed.
Speed, consistency and reducing waste.
So what you should find is this nice sourness around the drink itself
and then the sweetness on the lips just from the paint itself.
It's delicious, part of me wants to be completely immature and put my whole lips around the whole thing
and just knock it back.
But it's delicious, it's very balanced,
it's very clean but it's got a little distant little shake of christmas in the background.
It's got that lovely spice.
Ok so that is the Purple Paint.
Beautiful drink, I like that it screams confidence to me.
That's cocktail number 1.
So the second drink we've done inspired by the way we put together cocktails
but something that everybody can do at home
And it's actually inspired by nostalgia on your childhood flavours.
We've got some of these army and navy sweets
ah I just need to get you up to speed on this, because when we organised this cocktail session
he asked me give me some stuff that speaks to you about your childhood and nostalgia.
We used to love these and the liquorice sweet and sour.
So that's exactly what we've pulled out, we've taken some of that liquorice flavour
but also we've used a nice scotch base for it.
I know you're a bit of a whisky fan
And then also some of your favourite flavours we've started to use in there
2 already, army and navy and scotch whisky.
So dead simple a little bit of soda water, 65 grams to be precise.
so the army and navy are in there?
well we've used some liquorice bitters instead.
Because its tropical, a sunny day style drink a little fizz.
Pineapple leaf as a garnish.
But it's an army and Jamie.
Refresh our knowledge on how you did it so people at home can do it.
So we roasted a pineapple to begin with in bbq or an oven.
skin off, core out.
That's simmered slowly with some ground almonds, water and a little bit of sugar
and that makes our cordial.
So you put that through a sieve.
Get all the particles of the almond.
And then batch together with the whisky some lemon juice, bottled, topped with some soda.
I am really excited.
Hopefully this should reminisce on summer days and childhood
Wowzers almond and whisky, wicked combo
Liquorice note in the background.
Delicious, revelation here almonds and whisky.
So there you go guys I hope you like it, Ryan pleasure to meet you.
Congratulations on all your success
Guy get down to the White Lyan in Hoxton
Come and check it out.
If you want to see me doing everyday batch cocktails click the link over there,
and if you want the recipe to this beautiful army and Jamie look in the description box below.
If you want to see me go from this beautiful place to something slightly more traditional
Eric at the Savoy in the American bar then click the link over there.
And you can see what I'm drinking tonight... well not tonight but that night when I was there on the night
anyway, cheers!