Welcome back to Cocktail Request Week. It's International Beer Day and there's no one
better than the face of The Craft Beer Channel, Jonny, Super Jonny! Yes, we've had requests
in from Chesney Hawkes, 'The One and Only' fame and Andi Peters who I grew up watching
in a broom cupboard. And they've asked for two contrasting flavours, mint and blackcurrant.
Fantastic, great combination and definitely these two ingredients with beer will be fantastic.
We have created, for such a unique day, "The One and Only", yes that's the name of the
cocktail. Jonny, let's do it, let's do it together. All we need is a simple whiskey
glass, we are making portions for two people so everything is doubled up and I'm goning
to show you. It's very easy, we'll do it together. We need first a few mint leaves the one that
Andi and Chesney loves better. So a couple of mint leaves, you're going to break them
in half so there's more minty energy ok? Perfect! Then, 25ml each of rum. So this is 25ml, I'll
do 50ml so we've covered two portions. You get a nice, beautiful, proper cordial of blackcurrant
to match, everything! 25ml per person, we have Andi and Chesney so we do 50ml, 25ml
each so equal parts. Simply muddle gently so the leaves release more mint. Don't go
too crazy otherwise they're going to get bruised and they might release bitterness. Put just
a couple of times, let's see. Pass me a couple of ice cubes please Jonny, just to chill it.
All we need to do now is to combine the blend of rum, mint and blackcurrant cordial which
will be at the same core temperature of the beer. This is ready. Two pre-chilled glasses.
I'm simply gonna strain and split in between these two glasses. A proper stout in terms
of beer would be the perfect combination, Jonny what do you have today? I've brought
along 'Brew by Numbers Export Strength Stout'. It's an absolute corker, one of the best stouts
in London and what it's got is a slight charcoally burnt kind of flavour but then it ends with
a load of sweetness because it's 6.1%. Any good craft stout with a little bit of sweetness
will work really well with this cocktail. If it hasn't got that little bit of sweetness
just add a bit more blackcurrant I'd say. So how shall we open it, like a proper bar
tender style? Like this? That was awesome. measure like three quarters and the way you
pour it makes nice, beautiful edge. You can see the colour is quite dark like a nice toffee
burn. Nice combination. A lot of people put blackcurrant with stout to give it a little
bit of sweetness and now they've started brewing mint with stout so that's why we've gone for
this, look at that head! All we need is to top it up with a little splash of prosecco.
We can combine everything that mother nature gives us. We've got cereal, we've got grape
- little splash of it. What will happen is it will rise up the heads, the aroma. This
is all we need to place the final garnish. Thank you Jonny, this is fantastic. We're
going to garnish it with beautiful mint sprigs in the very middle like this. Andi, Chesney
this is your "One and Only" cocktail and the first thing you do is you start to get a little
aroma of the mint, wow! What's really nice is that the sweetness is rounded out by the
prosecco at the end and you still get the charcoal and the dark sweetness from the stout.
The mint itself is so wonderful, little leaves but a big difference they can make. Sometimes
you worry a garnish is just for show but that really gets up in your nose, it's lovely.
There's more things to come, keep sending your requests. If you want to see all the
troublemakers we invited in this week click this box. But you should check this box for
the Craft Beer Channel all about beers. And cooking and more beer cocktails are also on
our channel. This is how we're doing! This is how we're doing! Ciao! We love them right?
I missed my chance...