Welcome to Common Man Cocktails. I’m your host Derrick Schommer. Today, we’re going to be doing the Hermitage. This is a new recipe that was put out recently in the--, I think I did the recipe in the press release on EverydayDrinkers.com for the St. Petersburg vodka, this is an imported Russian vodka. So you can could check out the review on EverydayDrinkers.com too if you like.
What I have notice is it’s got a little more flavor to it, not infused with anything, nothing crazy like that, but the Russian vodka tend to have a little more flavors stuffs in them because around the US, we tend to really distill it down so it has really no flavor. So that’s going to give you a little different nuances that you might not normally get.
We’re going to use a little simple syrup, just a little bit. We’re going to use a—so we got two ounces of the vodka. We’re getting to do one ounce of the simple syrup, we’ve got a half ounce of our squeezed of our lemon juice, and we’re going to top it off with some champagne. So it’s a party time drink cocktail and this is our AwesomeDrinks.com cocktail glass. You can go to EverydayDrinkers.tv/awesome, and that will send you over at Awesomerinks.com and give me credit for doing so, so use that URL.
We’re also going to garnish it with—It calls for three strawberries. What I did is I tried to get tricky and split one strawberry into three pieces because three is the magic number with cocktails for what ever reasons, sure there’s some superstition. We’re going to ice it, shake it, and put it in a chilled cocktail glass and scoop, so here we go.
Let’s throw some ice in here, make a mess, that will do, we’ll just dump in the half ounce of lemon juice. Now, we’ll do the ounce of simple syrup, there you go. Throw that in there, beautiful and then two ounces of vodka. Add in there and the champagne will go last, freshly popped, so that’s cool. Shake that up in there, check that out, hidden table, yeah, shake it up. There you go. We’ll pour that in, give a little room, pour in our champagne, there you go and we’ve got the awesome drinks glass so that we have a little room on the top. The other ones were really big and they left—they we’re just big in it. Some of the drinks got lost in there, so I think I could try something little different to garnish that up, drop these three little strawberries in there.
There you go, see if I can do this without making a mess. That is your Hermitage, pretty sweet looking, smells like champagne, it makes sense. The vodka, it has a little kind of like a sweet ethanol. You’re going to get the essences of the strong vodkas, but you’re getting a little bit of the sweet sense in the drink. However, it gets masked totally by the champagne, but everything else would still be there, the nuances would be there, it’s just from the sent, not as potent.
Now of course, if you have a specific champagne that you really like, you’d probably want to use that just to get a little more of what you really like. I personally with champagne, I can go either way. I usually just pick whatever people bring over. I can even say this is from France. If you’ve seen the label, you know, it’s like a vuvey ka pla pal pala plam plam sardin. How does that sound? So whatever that is. It’s got a slight dryness but there is also some sweet balance in there and you’re getting the sweeterness, if that’s a word, from the simple syrup and the vodka plays really well in here. So it tastes classy, which is kind of where you are going with this I think.
Good celebratory cocktail if you are having a partying and you want to bring out the champagne. This at least gives you something more than just champagne and a champagne flute to play with. Impress you friends.
So there you go. That’s the St. Petersburg, we just got that in. It’s pretty tasty stuff. You can shot that out, look for them. There you go. This your Hermitage cocktail. I’m your host Derrick Schommer, we’re teaching you how to drink.
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