Welcome back to booze and rocks, where we make cocktails for everyone.
My name is David Edwards, and it's great to have you here today.
We're going to make a Cherry Pop.
Now you might be confused with say a sweet syrupy Cola.
However, this is based on a classic Martini and I found the
recipe on curious concoctions on Instagram and you know, what?
It looks really subtle and really tasty.
So let's get into it.
Now I did say this was built off of a classic martini and
that contains gin and vermouth.
Those are the only two ingredients you need.
Right?
However, this has a four ingredients and.
It's going to create a bunch of subtle nuances that are
going to be very, very tasty.
So you're going to get a little bit of bitterness in there, but you're going to
get a little bit of sweetness in there.
However, because this is a martini.
We are going to build this in our fancy stirring glass, and we're
going to start with a dry style gin.
Now I'm using Dylan's Dry Gin, seven.
They're a local distiller to me.
I love their stuff.
And we're going to start this with announcement of half or 45 million.
Um,
now, you know what?
You pour announce to half a Ginetti string glass.
You don't expect it to literally jump out and land on the cutting
board because, you know, apparently it doesn't want to be stirred today.
It would rather, I shake it with a smile, however, what we are going to do next.
Some vermouth and that follows this standard plan of any martini.
Now we're using a white vermouth and got Dolans here.
And for those of you who are unaware Vermouth is a fortified wine.
Absolutely awesome.
But you have to make sure that you actually refrigerate it first.
So what we'll do is we will add oops way too much.
Okay.
Let's try this again.
A half an ounce or 15 milliliter.
All right now, having done that, you're going to sweeten this up
just a little bit, and this is where we actually get our cherry flavor.
So I'm going to use some Luxardo Maraschino Cherry Liqueur.
Now.
We don't need a lot for this, and it is a dry sweetness, but we
do need a teaspoon or five mils, or in this case, one bar spoon.
All right.
Fantastic.
The Luxardo maraschino is you just can't go wrong with it.
Now, if you put a little bit too much in there, that's okay.
Because a good cocktail shouldn't have a little bit of wiggle
room for error right now.
The next thing we need is some pesos bitters.
Now these are gonna, what's going to give us a fantastic cue
to this cocktail and we need.
What do we need two dashes?
Awesome.
Look at that color.
You just can't go wrong with it.
Absolutely fantastic.
This will give us a little bit of extra depth and boldness to the cocktail.
Now I'm going to put a bunch of lights and what we will do is stir this.
Not with that piece of ice.
And it was, uh, we're going to steer this for a good 20 to 30 seconds.
You can always stir with a smile, give it a bit of a test.
Oh, it's going to be fantastic.
All right, so you need Hawthorne strainer, but we're going to put this
into a rocks class and we're going to put this over some fresh, nice hard cold.
If you have a couple of nice big cubes,
anyways, apparently this is just turning into.
One of those days, which is perfect for a cocktail.
So, and what we'll do is we'll just straight it on top.
Like, so, um,
oh, look at that color.
Absolutely fantastic.
No, what we are going to do is garnish this with a nice Brandy
cherry and you know, what, leave the stem on and drop it on.
Oh, yeah.
Look at that.
And here we have a cherry pop, absolutely gorgeous to look at.
So let's give it a smell and taste it so immediately we get
very subtle hints of cherry.
It's not strong.
The gin is nicely in there.
The vermouth, none of the ingredients are overpowering.
All you can taste the gin.
You can taste that vermouth.
There's a hint of sweetness and light cherry flavor.
And the bitters from the patient load.
Just ramp it up a little bit of a knock.
You know what?
I'd have this over a martini.
Absolutely fantastic.
So what I will do is I'll put the ingredients in the method
of how to make this down in the description down below free.
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