Editor's note: Hi, Friend of Cocktails ! I hope you had a great week and that you are ready to make some cocktails! For this week's episode I had to find myself behind the camera 📷, alongside our director Robi. Here's a BTS pic of me trying to coordinate filming and making bitters, as you can see from the apron! Still, making the shots look as good as possible for each episode is definitely a lot harder than it seems, so I can't give enough props to both Robi and Sašo for the work they do. |
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We hope for Sašo to return soon, but if you want to see more photos of me looking professional with this camera meanwhile, I recommend you check out our Patreon, where we upload weekly BTS pics for each new episode. This way, you can support what we do and get some great extra percs, like phone wallpapers and labels for your liqueurs and other creations from the channel that you want to replicate at home! With that out of the way, let's begin. Cheers! |
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Homemade Allspice Bitters | Make better Old Fashioneds! |
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If you are a long time viewer of the channel, you may know that I am a fan of making my own bitters. From lavender, cherry, coffee, orange and more, making bitters at home allows for more personalized drinks, and today I wanted to show you the recipe for one of my favorites: Allspice Bitters... |
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Kevin Kos answers your questions Different acids produce different mouthfeels! Citric acid, which is mostly found in lemons 🍋, hits fast and dissipates with the same speed, giving it a hit-and-run effect. Malic acid on the other hand, which is found in apples and limes 🍏, lasts a lot longer than citric, and acetic acid, the one found in vinegar, stays in the mouth the longest (this explains why the taste of a salad is the usually the longest lasting flavor in our mouths after lunch). So when making Super Juice or cordials, we have to take into account the desired effect of the cocktail on the palate. As a tip that can help you figure out which acids to use, keep in mind how we usually mix aged spirits with lemons and unaged spirits with lime. This is because the flavor of aged spirits is usually longer lasting, creating a beautiful balance when paired with the hit-and-run effect from lemons (think Whiskey Sours or Sidecars), contrasted with unaged spirits, that have a shorter length of flavor so they get paired with the longer lasting effect from limes ⚖️. Still, as it's the case with any tip, this is not set in stone (some exceptions include cocktails like the Lemon Drop or the Gin Basil Smash), so use this tip as a starting point and then get creative! Cheers! |
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Southside Make a Mint Cordial if you need to make a lot of Southsides or if you want to prebatch this cocktail. Add a splash of sparkling water for a subtle bubbly mouthfeel, or use sparkling wine for a special crown on top of this cocktail - Southside Royale 👑 Experiment with different mint varieties to bring out different flavors in this drink. Remember, drinking is great, but nothing beats the feeling of getting a better cocktail by experimenting and learning! I don’t need to mention saline solution, right?
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Recommended Saturday watch! Making cocktails for the channel involves a lot of fine-tuning, resulting in me sometimes using ingredients that are not widely available, but this video by my friend Cara Devine from Behind the Bar can solve that! In it, she announces the title of her book "Strong, Sweet & Bitter", based on the main components of (almost) any cocktail 📖. By thinking of drinks in terms of their strong, sweet and bitter elements, you can substitute any of their ingredient to create a similar version of any cocktail you want 🍸. This is also a great tool to make your own riff on any cocktail (even using it to highlight many of your own local ingredients), and Cara shows this by making 2 variations of the classic Daiquiri. Make sure to check the video out, as I'm sure you can learn a lot from it and get inspired to make some great creations. Cheers! |
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Writer Ellyam Rojas Editors Kevin Kos, Robi Fišer & Sašo Veber |
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