Welcome back to Booze On The Rocks where we make cocktails for everyone.
My name is David Edwards, and it's great to have you here today.
We're going to make a variation of the jungle bird.
Now the jungle bird was my first foray into Tiki cocktail, and I've
been in love with it ever since.
So this variation though, I did find from Caledonia distilleries
and it's called a jungle cat.
No, not this, but this, now this is a simple five ingredient cocktail, and
it's going to have a very interesting case profile because instead of
rum, we're actually using gin.
So let's see how this tastes.
Now, as I said, this is a five ingredient cocktail.
It's simple, it's easy.
And it's a shaken cocktail.
So grab your shaking, 10, whatever you plan to use.
Now, we are going to start with an old Tom gin and you know what?
You just can't go wrong with one of these, but we're going to use
announcing the half or 45 milliliters.
Now having said that, you're going to notice, I'm sort of building this a
little bit out of order or the standard order of operations, which normally says.
Use your cheapest ingredients first.
However, I just don't feel like doing that today, but I'm going to use some
real Canadian maple syrup because you just can't go wrong with that.
And for this, we're going to use a half an ounce or 15 milliliters.
All right.
And one of the reasons I'm actually doing that is because I want to
use the lime juice to actually clean out the inside of the gym.
So what we're going to do.
It is.
We're just going to grab a line.
We're going to cut it in half.
Then we'll squeeze out half an ounce or it's 15 milliliters.
Awesome.
So what we are going to use, Nick is a little bit of pineapple juice and we
need some fresh pressed pineapple juice.
In this case, I'm using a pure pressed.
It's got no sugar added, no added pulp, or it has a pulp strained out, I should say.
And we're going to use announced a half or 45 milliliters.
Look at that color.
Fantastic.
Now the next ingredient we're going to use is compart.
No compiler use a red Italian aperitif.
It's bitter.
It's fantastic, but it does take some getting used to it.
So this is one of those perfect drinks.
That's excellent to try it out.
If you've never had something like this, and if you find it.
You could probably swap in something like Aperol, which is still a
bitter, but it's less bitter on the bitter scale is a bitter scale.
However, we are going to use three quarters of an ounce
or 22 and a half million.
Awesome.
Look at that color and you can just smell the pineapple.
You can smell a little bit of the sweetness and the lime juice, you know,
you're going in the right direction with this, but what we are going to do.
Is, we're going to add some items and you just want to fill it the glass,
you know, pretty much just like that.
And this will give us a good amount of dilution.
So slap that on there, make sure you got a good seal.
Give it a flip and shake it with a smile.
Yeah.
Pop that off with this drink to a thousand lines.
Like, so they have to remember that you are going to get a little bit of foam
from the pineapple juice, especially fresh pressed or pure press, if you're going to
get that beautiful consistency of foam.
So what we are going to do is we are going to put it into a rocks class and we're
going to use a big solid chunk of ice.
Like, so now what we are going to do is find strain is just to keep
out any pulp or ice chips, like, so.
You look at that.
Absolutely fantastic.
Look at that color and you can just get those hints of the compari
and the pineapple from here.
We'll just garnish this with a couple of pineapple fronds, like,
so, and let's give it a try.
Oh, that is good.
The pineapple juice is there.
It's just sweet enough with the maple syrup, which gives us
those gorgeous, gorgeous tone.
The compari is there and it just grabs hold bitterness,
but it's not overly bitter.
So if you don't want to go through the effort of making a jungle
bird, make one of these jungle cats, it just can't go wrong.
What I will do is I will put the ingredients and a method
of how to make this down in the description down below for you.
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