Welcome back to Drinks Tube boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, on Cocktail Request
Week #CocktailRequest, we've been having loads and loads of cocktail recipes and ideas and
inspirations sent to us, some of which have been football themed, it being only 18 days
left until the beginning of the new season! - Wheeeey!
- And on that note, we've got Sam from the FullTimeDEVILS, Manchester United support
group online. - Cheeky from a Spurs fan!
- Yes I know, I'm sorry, I had to get it in. So you put out a request to your followers
to see what kind of drink they would like to see and what did they say?
- Well Wes, Nikhil, Cole, Naseem and loads of other people wanted to stick with the red
theme so suggested red based names, most popular of that was red devil.
- Makes sense. Well OK, that's what we've done. We've come up with a drink which is
a little bit spicy, quite long and refreshing, called The Red Devil. And we're going to build
it straight into a highball and you're going to make it.
- Ooh nice, excellent. - So, we've got rum, pomegranate, some spice
syrup and a little bit of lime. - Delicious. Um, one ingredient that is missing
that was asked for, a lot of our viewers asked for the bitter tears of Liverpool fans, but
I don't want to drink those. - Well we've tried to do something which incorporates
both of those things. - Lovely.
- No offense, Liverpool fans, I'm sorry. - I mean some offense.
- Some offense, just a little bit. So, speaking of which let's start with this,
this is your devil's syrup, these are our Liverpool tears, you see? A little bit of
red tears, this is basically a spice syrup, if you have a good old look in there, we have
some cassia bark, some cinnamon, a whole load of nutmeg, sugar and then those chillies just
folded in right at the end there and a little bit of warm water. So we need 15ml of your
devil's syrup poured into here, it should come a third of the way up the glass. Perfect,
that looks perfect. So actually we'll just chuck it in, next you're going to grab one
of those limes over there. - A half one or a whole one?
- A half one should be fine. And we're going to use one of these, what they call Mexican
Elbows, so Chicharito, well there you are. Just give that a squeeze into the bottom of
there. - You've been linked to him a lot lately haven't
you? - We have, they say we're a United feeler
club. - You wish.
- Yeah yeah, we wish actually. So there we have it, that's our sweet and sour base to
this. We then need to put in ze rum, a nice Cuban style gold rum, 50ml so right to the
top. So the reason we're using a gold rum and not a light rum or dark rum is because
we want the drink to have those kind of caramelly, slightly toffee notes that go really well
with the kind of spicy sort of nature of this drink. But we want it to still be quite light
and vibrant, so there we go, that's why we do it. So we have our rum, we have our lime,
we have our red devil's syrup, now for the red of the drink, a pomegranate juice drink.
It's 250ml of that. - That smells lovely.
- It's good, eh? So that in a 250ml measure, so right to the top, pour it straight in the
glass, simple. - Wish I hadn't poured it quite so far away.
- Well done. Have you done this before? - Just a very successful drink, I don't think
you can get it wrong really. - No exactly.
- Unless you had David Moyes. - I say nothing. Then we just need to fill
that up with ice. - How much ice? I mean that's 2.
- Right to the top. Literally the more ice the better. We're all about ice on Drinks
Tube. As much ice as possible. Then we just need to give that a little bit of a stir.
- It's a big deal. - It is. I think that should be fine though.
OK, have a look at that, we've got a nice little wash line around the top, the ice isn't
floating too much, it looks great. Except we need a garnish.
- Oh, nice. Is that it? - I pre prepared this earlier, we've got a
lime wheel, a little bit of chilli and then just a cherry on the top. May I?
- Yeah go ahead. - Great. Now all we need is a straw! Choose
a colour. - Well it'll be the red one won't it?
- Well it would have to be won't it? - What a silly thing to say!
- And Bob's your uncle! Or Bobby Charlton's your uncle.
- If only. Imagine if Bobby Charlton was your uncle! It tastes like victory.
- Does it? - It's genuinely delicious.
- In that case give it to a Spurs fan, we need it. Oh awesome, that's really nice, I'm
really happy with that. - I'm going to keep it.
- Yes please do! Take it. It's a super simple drink, really easy to make. If you can make
a cup of tea then you can probably do this. A squeeze of lime, pomegranate juice and some
lovely gold rum, really easy, it's called The Red Devil. Even if you're not a United
fan I thoroughly recommend it, call it what you like! But still, keep your #cocktailrequests
coming in to Instagram, to Twitter, we'll pick them all up. So if you want to see what
we have been doing this week check out the playlist just down here, if you want to check
out the FullTimeDEVILS YouTube channel if you're a United fan, if you're not and you
feel like being swayed... - It's entertaining anyway.
- I'm sure it is. Excellent. It's down here. Check it out. And just keep those requests
coming in to Cocktail Request Week. Cheers dude.
- Lovely innit? - Mmm. I'm into that. Mmm.