It's great to have every single one of you back here.
My friends, we are taking a classic cocktail and making a
slightly more modern drink with it.
We are going to make a Raspberry Gin and Tonic.
Now is the original Gin and Tonic has been around since the days of colonialism and
the advent of quinine to fight malaria.
Now, quinine does come from the Cinchona tree and it is incredibly bitter.
And how do you make that taste?
Good.
Will you add sugar or lemon and a crap ton of gin because that's the
only way the colonials would be.
So that give us the drink and the template that we have today, but we're
going to use some local raspberries because I've got a Berry farm nearby.
I went and I picked some just specifically for this to have lots of fun with before
we get started making the cocktail.
Let's talk a little bit about the ingredients.
Now, the first thing I have here is Dylan's Dry Gin.
Now this is a London dry gin style.
However, it does have more slightly citrus notes to it.
The next thing we're going to use.
A, one-to-one a simple syrup, meaning it's one part water, one part sugar.
The next thing you're going to use is tonic water of your choice.
In this case, I'm using Fever Tree premium Indian tonic water that
has the slight taste of quinine and bitter Mexican oranges.
And the last thing we're going to use is fresh, local as barriers.
I'm going to build this, but I need to use two specific glasses for,
cause I'm going to build it in two parts for you, simple and easy.
So we're going to grab three.
For raspberries in this case, I'm going to use four and you're going to
change that up depending on the size of your . Next we're going to grab your
jigger and we need one ounce of simple syrup that worked at to 30 mililitres.
After that, you're going to grab your gin of choice.
In this case, I'm using my Dylan's gin.
Now you can choose whatever gen you want something that's a bit more floral,
not so floral, totally up to you.
And we're going to use two ounces or 60 milliliters.
Now you're wondering, David, why are you doing that?
Well, the reason is I'm going to now muddle this gently, and I'm
going to allow the simple syrup and the gin to draw the color and
the flavor of the raspberries out.
Now, this is a lot more delicate maybe than some ways.
And you could infuse your own gin or you could even make a raspberry simple, sir.
Whatever's most appropriate and most fun for you to do, um, totally up to you,
but we're going to grab our second glass.
Now we're going to add some ice.
We're going to fill this about halfway leaving a little bit of room for a
couple of raspberries as garnish, and I'll throw maybe three of these in here.
Just to make them look good.
Okay.
I've got four.
We're going to add just a little bit more ice just to sort of fill the glass up.
And now we are going to grab your tonic water of choice in this
case, my Fever Tree tonic water.
And this actually has.
Bitter orange notes to it.
So the orange is going to compliment the raspberry very, very nicely.
So what we'll do is we will tilt our glass slightly and we're going to
pour in four ounces or 120 milliliter.
And if you pour it in gently, you'll keep all of the effervescents in bubbles.
Look at that.
Very nice.
Now, the next thing we're going to do is take our already saturated
raspberry gin, and we're going to slowly pour it over top.
Find frustrating just to keep out the little bits of
strawberry and raspberry chunks.
Look at that.
Very, very nice.
Now, give this a little bit of a stir just to mix everything.
And it's just a gentle stir.
We're just incorporate reading every sing to, uh, get all of those
flavors throughout the entire drink.
Throw a raspberry on top.
Like so after you chase it across your bar, then give it a taste.
Oh, that's really good.
You taste the tonic water.
You get those hints of raspberry.
It's just sweet enough, but it's not overly sweet.
It actually balances well with this specific type of tonic water,
if you don't like the bitterness from tonic water, you could use
something like a club, soda seltzer.
Totally whatever you want, but it wouldn't be a tonic at that point.
Oh yeah.
Hmm.
What I will do is I will put the ingredients and a method of how to make
this down in the description down below.
If you think that I should change any of the ingredients, please leave a comment as
well, because I really want your feedback.
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How was that even like me chasing the barrier cross
gave everybody in malaria, you know, that mosquito anyways.
You go and find a medicine which comes from the, uh, chin Cola, chin
chin, the sin, the sin Cho a Bart.
Yeah.