hi guys and welcome back to the cocktail
vlog I'm Steve the bartender and today
I'm showing you how to make five Midori
cocktails so I made one recently and it
seemed to have a good response so I
thought of make compilation with five of
my hand picked or hand picks five
popular Midori cocktails
you got a Midori supply some Dory
illusion Midori sour and I've got a
couple of other ones towards the end of
the video that you may not have heard of
so you have to stick around to the end
to watch it so first of all a little bit
about Midori
it's a melon liqueur sits around 20% it
was first made exclusively in Japan
around 1978 and then in 1987 it became
more available in other countries around
the world it's pretty much been a bar
staple since like the 90s you can pretty
pretty much fun in any single buyer in
Australia I did notice on the last video
that it did quite a few people said that
they couldn't get it where they are
which was quite surprising to me it's
made of two or three different Japanese
melons and as of 2012 they altered the
recipe so they made it less artificial
and load the sugar content so it was
less sweet so I don't drink a lot of
Midori cocktails I know it's pretty
popular lovekiller so hopefully you guys
enjoy this video
so cocktail number one the Midori sour
simple three ingredient cocktail
starting with 60 ml two ounces of your
Midori and then follow that with fresh
lime juice
thirty mill one ounce and your egg white
go half an egg white I've gone about
three quarters so now give it a dry
shake before adding some more ice and
wet shaking and strain that into your
children or a glass or stem cocktail
glass
they have a Midori sour on to cocktail
number two the Midori illusion this one
brings me back to my first bar job where
this was a staple on the menu and people
used to order it all the time
so 60 ml 2 ounces that's all a lot of
Midori followed by 15 a half an ounce of
vodka massive vodka and likewise for
your triple sec you can use Cointreau 15
mil half an ounce if you're making this
at home and you're feeling lazy you can
build it straight into the glass if you
like otherwise I prefer to shake to
combine and then fresh lemon juice 30 ml
single ounce fresh pineapple juice 30
mil single else
add ice to your cocktail shaker and give
it a shake for about 12 seconds
a lot of people ask me why 12 seconds
I'll leave a link in the description
below that goes into quite a bit of
detail as to why 12 seconds is the ideal
amount and then strain over fresh ice
into a highball or this one's a cooler
light so it's got a really really big
capacity now if you do do it in a
highball glass you probably won't need a
top-up with ice but I'm using this
massive one so I'm just topping it with
crushed ice and then garnish with a
pineapple wedge pineapple spear anything
properly
aaden's deadly knife
and they have the Midori illusion next
onto the Midori splice extremely simple
cocktail for ingredients if you like you
can shake it but so now I'm going to
build it straight in the glass so I'm
going to measure out equal parts so 30
mil one ounce of both Midori and Malibu
so this really does taste exactly like
the Midori splice ice cream if anyone
has ever tried one of those and then add
pineapple juice 90 ml 3 ounces
now top it with ice and try not to make
a mess the bar which I'm just about to
now before you float the cream on top
make sure you put your straw in first
otherwise you'll mix up all the drink
when you put that straw in today I'm
using earth shoots thank you guys for
sending me these their bamboo straws I'm
a massive eco-freak so the fact that
they're reusable and there's no plastic
this is awesome I'll leave a link to
them in the description below make sure
you go check them out and float the
cream on top this is just like a full
cream heavy cream and because I'm using
crushed ice it's relatively simple just
to lay that straight on top
and then garnish with a pineapple wedge
and they have a Midori splash now into
the Japanese slipper a simple three
ingredient cost Oh including Midori of
course
so 30ml one ounce and triple sec your
orange liqueur 30 mil one ounce three
ingredients equal parts cannot get any
easier 30 bit one ounce of your fresh
lemon juice
fill the cocktail shaker with ice and
give it a good shake and strain into
chilled martini glass and this garnish
calls for a maraschino cherry it
actually every single photo I've ever
seen of this drink it's always been with
those glass a cherries those like crazy
red cherries it actually sort stands out
in the bottom of the drink little bit
more that's where I've got at least one
left in here
lucky last and drop that strain the
bottom here you have the Japanese
slipper last but not least that la pomme
so this one is a little bit more focused
on the brandy and the Midori is just
like an accent to the cocktail so it's
going to be a little bit less sweet than
the last four that we've done so far I
hope you enjoy let's get on to the
cocktail so this one's built in a glass
if you prefer you can shake to combine
the ingredients as well but it does have
cider it so obviously don't shake the
cider I'm going to add 30 mil one ounce
of brandy two thirds of an ounce or 20
mil of Midori and the recipe just calls
for a splash of lemon juice so I'm just
gonna estimate 5 to 10 mil quarter ounce
very rough I know let's give it a little
bit of a stir before topping it up with
cider so this recipe did call for it
apple cider I'm just using pear it's
what I've got lying around the fridge so
you can always substitute ingredients
it's still going to work
then garnished with an Apple fan so
there you have five Midori cocktails
hope you've enjoyed the video so far now
I'll get to run through and taste them
so stick around so you can find out
which one is my favorite
and which one you should make first up
the Midori sour 3-ingredient Midori sour
and probably the the best Midori sour
I've actually tried it's really
well-balanced it's super smooth nice
texture it's not too sour not too sweet
just right then you go to the Midori
illusion the bucket of a drink its
massive
easy drinking quite light very
pineappley spice good Midori splice
that one's pretty sweet but once you mix
it's very tasty oat ice exactly like the
Midori splash screen
tropical melon flavors flat you can't
not like a Midori's place they are tasty
despite what a lot of bartenders may
think or say Japanese slipper Cheers
I always loved these this is a little
bit different to the rest because it's
got that little bit of a tang it's
actually more sour than the Midori sour
go figure
and then last of all the la pomme I'd
have to say that's probably my least
favorite it just tastes too much like
cider like you've just that's pretty
much what most of the drink is so you've
just thrown Midori and brandy into a
glass of cider and I'm not too much of a
fan of cider cider cocktails or beer
cocktails but if I pick any I'd I picked
Midori sour or the Midori ex place
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