Hey guys welcome to Drinks Tube we're down here in East London. It is, London Cocktail
Week and we've been taking your cocktail requests, #cocktailrequests looking for inspirations
for creative, wonderful drinks and we've had quite a few requests in. So, we have brought
Alba in to come and help us make this next one. Alba tell us a bit about yourself. Hi
I'm from Houston, Texas and I'm the bar director for the Clumsy Butcher group and I own a bar
called Julep and manage the Anvil bar and Refuge and The Pastry War. Wow, experienced
bar tender we are in safe hands with this one. We have had two requests specifically
for halloween drinks. We've had Phoebe from youtube and Sarah on Twitter, asked us to
come up with a Halloween style of drink, so that's exactly what we're doing. We're going
to be using some seasonal spices, some rich, warm automnal spices. Some blood scarlet red
pomegranete seeds and some fresh cranberry juice and a little bit of rum and maybe a
squeeze of lime if we need it later. So, let's crack on, let's make our cinnamon spice syrup
first. We're working with some hot water, various spices, cracking them so that we can
get the actual flavour out of them since we're doing it so promptly. You get a little bit
more flavour out of them when you crack them like that don't you. Adding the sugar content,
about how much, what kind of ratio should we be doing for this? For this we're going
to do one to one. Only because, the extraction would take a rather long time otherwise. Yes,
so basically it's a simple syrup. We've done this a thousand times on Drinks Tube, really
easy. One part sugar, one part boiling or hot water and just chuck in some spices with
it. Shake it up. Look at that, the next big thing in this ingredient in here, is fresh
pomegranate. juice. So what you can do is get a pomegranate like this, chop it in half,
shake all the seeds out and then it kind of forms this lovely, gooey blood red mess. What
we're now going to do is move this stuff out of the way. Put this in the bottom of this
lovely Drinks Tube towel here. We're going to basically just push all the stuff through
into the drink here and we've got lovely fresh pomegranate juice. There we go. So I reckon
a few tablespoons of the spiced syrup in there. So this is going to provide the sweetness
and provide the kind of contrast to the length and the dryness of the pomegranate and the cranberry
juice. The hero of our drink, the main ingredient is a nice kind of, gold, light style rum.
Using a gold rum because we want those kind of butter-scotchy, those toffee sort of notes
that you get from ageing sugarcane spirit. And we're going to use a healthy 50ml measure,
lets wack in our pomegranate juice. Yep, lets do 50, the same, about that. So 50/50 lets
keep it simple. Look at that blood red. And then, I reckon about the same of cranberry juice.
So here we have it, we have our drink ready to stir down. It is the spiced syrup. How much was that?
Three, three tablespoons, and then we had pomegranate juice, freshly squeezed, we have
50ml, excellent. We had the cranberry juice, same, equal parts, and then it was the same
with the gold rum, is that right. Absolutely. so 50, 50, 50, 3, perfect. Let's ice this
down. Super simple, super simple drink. So nice, ice in there. We've got to make it look
a little pretty. So I think something green, so we went with a nice lime wedge on there.
Just to give it a little contrast of colour. Bish, bash, bosh. Look at that, wonderful.
Couple of straws, there we are. So, what we calling this one? This is the Spooky Spiced
Scarlet, oh I like it, it sounds good. Lets try. That is bloody gorgeous. I think the spiciness, the contrast
of that spice then the bone dryness of the two juices is really tasty. Beautiful, amazing.
So this is our drink, the Spooky Spiced Scarlet for you guys out there and for Halloween.
That is bloody gorgeous. You get it? Anyway if you would like to see what we've been doing
down here in East London for London Cocktail Week, check out the two live shows which are
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