Welcome to Drinks Tube, my name is Simone. Jamie asked me to come here to show you a
few tips and tricks for his competition, 'Search for a Cocktail Star'. If you don't know what
the competition is all about just go on the website below. So as a professional bar tender
you must have all these sets of tools, if you don't have it, it doesn't really matter
- you can still enter the competition because I'm going to show you now a few tricks and
tips to make cocktails without this.
Every bartender normally has a measuring jigger, it normally contains the size of one shot and two shots - double the size. Don't have
it? Doesn't matter because I have a solution for you. You can use an egg cup, you can use a
small shot glass. Half of this is the same size as this small one. A full shot is the
same about as a big one. You see now, I given you a solution. Here at Drinks Tube we always
use transparent clear glass because you see first of all how much liquid you put and also
the colour of it. Boom! Now we are talking about my favourite tools, the shaker.
"Shake it"
This is called a Three Piece Shaker because it is simply made out of three pieces. Don't
worry too much because you can use a Boston Shaker which is normally a two piece shaker.
In Drink Tube you're using this kind of shaker because you can actually see what is happening
inside when I build the cocktails for you. If you don't have shakers it doesn't matter
because I have two solutions. Number one, a kilner jar. Put all the ingredients inside,
make sure it's sealed and it has the rubber otherwise you will need to send your short
to the laundry after two seconds. Next option, you can use a jam jar. Two things: first you
must eat all the jam, and you always don't throw away the lid so you can screw it in
and you can use it as a shaker.
"Doing this I'm gonna dissolve"
'Shake everything like this"
Guys, the next step is about ice. Using a big block of ice inside of your glass will
give you much slower dilution, your cocktail always tastes perfect, balanced, never gets
watered. This is what we normally do at the Artesian Bar, where I work but if you're not
a professional don't do it, there are other things you can do. You see? And from this
piece, rub inside our warm hands to trim the corner. So this is a professional way to play
with a big block of ice but if you are at home I'm going to show you some other tricks
to really have fun with ice. I do some party, celebration, balloons. I fill them with water,
I put them in the freezer. As I open it I can have a beautiful spherical shape. Nice,
elegant and playful. Muffin tins, the moulds for baking. We fill them with water and we
have nice, beautiful shapes to put in a glass. What we can do, we can take a second one and
put it upside down. Here we have three options to make a beautiful shape of ice for a classic
cocktail that comes on the rocks. So imagine you have to make a more tropical cocktail
with lime, like a Caipiroska for example, which I have right here. I'm gonna need some
crushed ice. I can show you how to make beautiful, fantastic, the best crushed ice you can ever
have. Very simple, step number one:
"Towel and then we're gonna throw ice in here"
"15 ice cubes is good"
"And then wrap it up"
So perhaps a rolling pin is the best. But not
like this when you make the cake, use like this!
"Smash it up"
"You slept with my wife!"
Fantastic crushed ice. If you think this is not enough... Now we have an amazing crushed
ice. And this is how you want it to look after. So let's wrap it up, there are so many tools
you can use to enter the 'Search for a Cocktail Star', more information is written below.
And if you want to see more tips and tricks, click here. One last thing, I want to see
you entering the competition, I want to see you winning, performing!
Good luck, I love you.