Welcome to Drinks Tube I'm Sam Carter and I'm a gin professor. I'm an expert in gin
and I love making cocktails with it. I'm gonna' show you how to make a sublime moment. It
uses gin, pink grapefruit and vanilla. And when you shake all these ingredients together
you don't actually taste the grapefruit or vanilla it produces a flavour transmogrification
which means you can taste chocolate, which is amazing. It's perfect for you to make at
home for your friends this easter. So the ingredients to make this cocktail are, gin,
some freshly squeezed pink grapefruit juice and some vanilla sugar syrup. Now, you can
make it with bought in vanilla sugar syrup, but i'm gonna' show you how to make homemade
vanilla sugar syrup. Get some lovely vanilla pods and slit them right down the middle and
we're gonna' use two of these, and then we're gonna' scrape out the wonderful seeds inside.
Into the pan these go, so we've got five hundred grams of sugar, five hundred mil of water
and two vanilla pods in there, that's infusing nicely and we're just gonna' have to wait
about ten minutes and wait for that to go clear and then we're gonna' add the second
five hundred grams of sugar. So now that's gone clear we're ready to add the other five
hundred grams of sugar and again this should take another five or ten minutes or so for
this to then go clear. You don't wanna' over stir this otherwise you'll make the sugar
syrup crystalise. Let the pan do it's thing. Once it's all gone clear again just turn the
temperature off, we'll leave it for about three hours to cool down and really infuse
all the flavours and then we'll take out those vanilla pods then that'll be ready to make
the perfect sublime moment cocktail. So we've made our vanilla suagr syrup, it's cooled
down for the last three hours and it's ready to be used. We're now gonna' take our boston
glass and start by squeezing the grapefruit juice into the boston shaker. We're gonna'
squeeze in twenty five mill of that pink grapefruit juice and I've got this neat little gadget
here that I just screw into the grapefruit. You could just squeeze this in by hand of
course or you can buy carton grapefruit juice that's absolutely fine, it works really well.
Next up we need fifteen mill of vanilla sugar syrup that we made earlier, and on top of
the grapefruit, and finally the gin. We want fifty mill of gin. So we've got our three
ingredients in there, next up we want some ice. Fill it, completely fill it with good
quality ice, then we add the tin part to the cocktail shaker give it a tap and it holds
it. And then give it a shake.
To get these apart, give it a karate chop and off it comes,
simple as that. We use our hawthorn strainer. I'm gonna' use a fine strainer and I've just
got a chilled coupette glass here, pour the cocktail through the fine strainer, in it
goes. And we finish with the garnish. So I'm gonna' draw the potato peeler across the top
of the grapefruit and we get a wonderful curl. And you're gonna cut it into a nice long leaf
shape. Turn it over and, gonna' make a couple of incisions here with the knife. Gonna take
from the top corner all the way down to the bottom. And then just gonna' put
another little cut just here. Take this longer end and poke it through that hole there. Bring
that over the top. It's like a grapefruit peel origami, and then just place it on the rim of the glass.
And that is our perfect sublime moment. Wow that's amazing you don't really get the vanilla
or the grapefruit it's totally about the chocolate. That's incredible. Absolutely amazing. If
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