Hello lovely people at Drinks tube. It's Mr. Oliver here.
It's a lovely day. I'm on a rooftop and we are about to make some cocktails, but not your everyday cocktails
cos we're going to batch making cocktails. To help
me do it, it's only one of the best bar men that I know.
The lovely Rich is here.
We want to know about batch making cocktails. Why shuold these guys care about it?
What's good about it?
A number of reasons really. It's very convenient to have all this stuff pre-made. You can focus more on you know
on hosting a party, it's portable, you can take stuff with you. You can take th bottle to the park, to erm
to the beach. Whatever you're doing this summer.
And it's great for consistency too. You always know what you're getting.
Okay, so we're doing two classic cocktails. What are we doing first?
First thing that we're going to do is the Negroni.
A classic Italian aperitif.
Erm, really simple.
It is sweet Vermouth, dry gin and a bitter Italian liqueur. Equal parts. Normally, stirred down on the rocks
but we're just going to use a very large measure and just scale it up.
Okay, so it could be like erm, a cuppa' tea mug, a coffee mug, it could be a glass, a pint. Quite honestly
if it's exactly the same, it's all proportionate, it doesn't matter.
Brilliant.
This is 250ml though. It's good for about 10 drinks this recipe.
So you've got some
water there. So you're basically compensating for stirring this Negroni over ice.
Exactly. That's not going to happen. Exactly.
So you're putting that in now
and presumably you can taste it and check it?
For sure, that's always recommend taste as you go.
About 20 percent water will generally do it. Remember obviously it's not cold enough yet.
You are going to loose a little bit of that alcohol when you chill it a bit. Yeah. Yeah.
Also, the Negroni also has that lovely orange flavour you get from an orange zest.
And zest from orange chunk as well.
And that's something we don't want to loose.
Yes. so the thing I do when doing this is literally just cut a couple orange zests
and then drop them in, stir them around and let them dip for a few minutes before straining them out again.
So we have batach of Negroni.
Then what next in the story. Well,
you need to put it into a functional vessel of some-sorts. A bottle like this is great.
Nice. So that's all that done. We're just going to put that in the fridge. Leave it about half an hour until it's nice
cold and give it a taste. Brilliant.
What's next?
Next we're going to do another classic drink which has got some citrus juice in it. We'r going to be making a
Cosmopolitan. Nice.
Alright, so this is good for today.
This is perfect for today. If you know you're going to be drinking this later on i the afternoon. Say
you get called in the morning from your mates and you're going down to the park or whatever
and you want to do something a little bit fancy
I mean a Cosmopolitan in a cocktail glass in the park, I mean that's pretty cool, everyone's going to be looking
at you right. It's going to be in a paper cup though isn't it. Lets be honest.
Unless it's a really posh one. It would be.
We're using 200ml of lime juice.
So lime juice, and we need to balance that with the sweetness in the Cosmopolitan. That is the
triple sec. The orange liqueur.
250ml of that.
There we are. Vodka for ten people. So we're using quite a bit. We're using 450ml. Nice.
And then it is cranberry juice.
Which is 300ml, so I'm going to do 250ml bottle.
Basically all that's in the bottle cos I measured it.
You need to add some water to it again.
For all that dilution that you get. Exactly.
15-20 percent. Go for it.
Nice. Simple as that. You literally just need to put it back in the bottle.
I think it's time to show these guys, come on then. Have a look.
Come down on the floor. I know it's not very glamorous. Come here.
Erm, this we love, and that's what it's all about.
Which one do you want to do first big boy?
Er, shall we do the Negroni? Yes!
Cheers!
Bingo, bango, bongo.
It's perfect right. Love it.
Okay, lets try the Cosmo shall we?
Yes, lets do the Cosmo.
A flamed orange zest.
Ready?
Erm, well that's absolutely beautiful Rich.
Cheers, and if you want to know how to make the orange zest click up here for the one minute tip
on flaming zests. Beautiful
cocktails batch made.
Lots of inspiration. Lots of ideas.
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So there you go guys. From me and Richie
ha ha! Lots of love. It's been emotional.
Take care.