Hi guys, hope you're well. Ok, we are gonna make Penicillin.
A fantastic, refreshing, summertime whiskey-based sour drink.
Penicillin, because it's, kinda, got those hot toddy-like ingredients.
Lemon, ginger, honey and the all round whiskey
Penicillin is a great, great drink invented by Aussie Sam Ross in the states.
For me this cocktail is like a little gift, I do it on a Friday, a Saturday.
Just to chill out, take a moment, after the kids all day
Just like, awhh
But it's refreshing, I'm in my office right now.
I've built a low area so you can come into it.
This is where I write my recipes and do a bit of research and development.
And it's at the top of the building and we've got no air conditioning, so I'm a little bit hot.
And this is gonna be perfect, you're gonna love it.
I'm gonna be using Dewars 12. It's a great whiskey, an all round whiskey.
It's the kind of whiskey that I like, it's really easy, it's smooth.
And it's also got some cinnamony, honey like flavours, and I like that.
So I'm chilling that glass.
So 50ml of the Dewars 12, I'm then gonna go 20ml of the lemon.
And then we're gonna go in with 20ml of this syrup.
Get yourself some fresh ginger, get a box grater on the fine side,
and just grate, grate, grate, grate, grate. Do it on a tray so juice comes out
And then when you get that big pile of grated ginger, put it in your hand
squeeze it- with the face- or put it in a little sieve and squeeze it.
And you will get a load of juice come out
Take that, consider that two parts, to one part honey
just simmer it for one minute, just to bring it together
and that is your nice, hot, feisty, fulfilling, hot toddy-like ginger syrup.
Now this is a finished syrup here and we're gonna put 20ml of that into there.
So let's hit up this with a load of ice
It's a shaken drink
Oh it smells good. It's fizzing
We've got our chilled glass. I have got a perfect little chopped, clear cube here
If you wanna see how to make these, or cheat's round ones, then click the 'i' button up there
It'll send you to a link of how to make these, they're really cool
and if you've got friends coming round, really really impressive
I'm just gonna put this over the drink like that
Then a teaspoon of Prolly whiskey, which has got a lot of more peaty notes
and that's for aroma
put that over the ice cube
Take a little slice of ginger, when you put this drink to your mouth
you're getting that little lick of peaty whiskey on the top
which is just sort of humming away, you've got the ginger giving you a punch aswell
Wow
It is so refreshing, and I think what's really really nice about that
is the freshness and the heat of the ginger is phenomenal
Interestingly, the way of using two whiskeys, that's actually a first for me
this single malt, which is peaty
just that little kiss on the top, it starts messing around with your nose
and then you've got the ginger there as well, and it doesn't overtake the whole cocktail
So guys, thanks ever so much for watching, give us some comments in the comments box
Whiskey's a really nice gift, but also it doesn't have to be just a bottle
You could be more thoughtful and clever like that
Someone's birthday, father's day, mother's day, so there's a way of putting it together
as a huddle of love, care and attention and we will show you have to do that
so hit the 'i' box up there and we will show you how to do that
Until next time, there's a cracking cocktail, cheers. Lots of love
Take care.