Jason Eisner is one of the most creative bartenders I've ever met.
Recently I heard that he's playing around with cannabis cocktails. Now full
disclosure, this isn't exactly like pot and cocktails.
There's an ingredient called CBD which is supposedly supposed to mellow you out,
but not actually get you like, f#%ked up. Let's go check it out.
"Today we're going to make three different cocktails, with the one of my
favorite ingredients in the world: CBD."
"I mean, is this gonna get me high?" "CBD is a non-psychoactive component
in the cannabis plant, so more or less what it's actually used for is to kind
of help with bodily aches and pains. It's an anti-anxiety, anti-stress,
antidepressant.
So really what it does is it just kind of makes you feel fantastic,
but it's not going to mess with your sort of mental state of being."
"This is my twist on the classic cocktail Negroni. So this is a Carpano Antica
which is an Italian sweet vermouth.
I'm also going to use Contrato apertif.
I'm going to do a bar spoon of Ruby port
just to give it some body, because that apertif is a bit lighter.
So I'm just going to give this a little orange oil, drop that in there.
I very purposefully decided to use oil-based tincture for these cocktails,
because if you go to an Italian restaurant prior to your meal they give,
you know, some olive oil and balsamic vinegar, right? I want people to see what
they're putting in their bodies, so that they can have that kind of residual
fun effect.
So this is the ingredient that's super important: five drops in your cocktail.
So this is the Stoney Negroni." "I love the presentation."
"It's super buttery and smooth and you have a very subtle hint
of that like herbalness from the..."
"CBD?" "Do you see what just happened??"
"Now is probably a good time to just move on to the next cocktail.
It's an interesting twist on an Old Fashioned and what we're using here is
this organic bourbon from Chicago Koval,
Mescal from Oaxaca called Benesin, some homemade bitters, and a
homemade sasparilla syrup.
So this is the Rolled Fashion."
"What's going on right over here?" "So the garnish on this is a mini
homemade vegan organic churro...haha which you can turn into a blunt."
"Just a great balance of flavors.
The smokiness in the mescal works really nicely with the sort of like warm
whiskey.
The CBD is a little more subtle but you get that like very like mellow
herbal quality
from it." "Let's move on to the third and final cocktail, and this is a vegan sour.
So what's going to be in this, it's actually quite simple, it's a little bit
of organic mint, some agave, some lime, some tequila Blanco, a pinch of sea salt,
and then we're going to put some aquafaba in there. The beauty of aquafaba
is there's no risk of bacterial infection, it's vegan, it's organic,
there's no distinct smell or flavor whereas with egg whites it can get a
little hairy."
"So all of this frothiness is from the aquafaba."
"So right now I'm adding some ceremonial grade matcha, so this is the Sour T-iesel."
"This drink as compared to the two prior, I taste the CBD more, I think just
because the ingredients here are more delicate and not as pronounced, and I
like the mint, it adds a freshness and vibrancy to the cocktail, and I think the
CBD pairs really well with tequila."
I think that's a great sort of like flavor across the board.
You're so creative, I definitely don't know anyone else doing
this."
"Cheers!"
"If you want to learn more about matcha, click here."