Welcome to Common Man Cocktails. I’m your host, Derrick Schommer. Today we’re going to cover the thanksgiving special because thanksgiving is coming up, it’s a special time of year, at least in the United States. Interesting fact, apparently the first thanksgiving happened in Florida not in Plymouth, Massachusetts. So I’m close to the Massachusetts, I’m going to stick to the old research. I don’t know who’s right and who’s wrong. We’re going to say the Massachusetts holiday started here.
We’re going to make the thanksgiving special with some gin, some brave spirits gin, donates 2 dollars to the men and women of the armed forces, police department, fire department, anybody in that cool uniform. We’re going to use dry vermouth, extra dry, some apricot brandy not the real standard brandy you’d see. I don’t know if you put this in your eggnog per se for a holiday drink but it fits in this. Went out and bought a specific for this because it’s a special. We’re going to stick with a martini glass or cocktail glass as you saw from a couple episodes ago interchangeable name. We’re going to need a little lemon. We’re going to stick with lemon and it’s just going to be such a small amount. We’re not going to use a real lemon because that just seems ridiculous considering it’s just 1 quarter of a teaspoon. And let’s get started.
We’re going to do ¾ of all of our alcohols which is ¾--already got ice ready to go, ¾ ounce of gin, not actually a big fan of gin, it’s going to make this a little tricky for a drink. But there are a lot of fans of gin so you can’t make the drink; ¾ apricot brandy, ¾ dry vermouth. This is pretty intense, you might use just a little less just coz it’s so dry. A little lemon realistically you can probably drip just a few drops there but I’m going to stick with the standard measurement. And there will be a garnish. We’ll go to the garnish. Just to give you a hint, looks like that, a little cherry king of gives the drink a little flair. Mix it up. We shake the ingredients with ice but we’re going to put them in a chilled cocktail glass, pretend this was frosty. You could put it in your freezer for a couple of hours, a couple days.
Now you’re probably saying, wow it’s only half full. My cocktail glasses are a little bigger coz you know the way I usually make a drink, if you’re going to do something you want to do it right, you don’t want to have to get up and make over and over so you could double the recipe if you want to. I’m going to stick with the half the glass coz I’m not a huge fan of gin. Let’s put our garnish. Now see now that looks so classy. It’s got the pale gold color with a bright cherry right at the bottom like that. It probably looks better than it’s going to taste if you’re not a fan of gin. Let’s find out. You can definitely smell apricot with a mix of what smells like a pine saw. That’s your gin working for you.
If you’re not big gin drinker, this might be okay. It is kind of strong. The brandy really smoothens out a little. It gives it the nice apricot flavor, a little smooth, kind of caramelize the look and feel to it. And the gin is where it’s at. If you’re a big martini drinker, this would probably a great holiday treat for you because you’re already used to making martinis with gin. And at the end you get a surprise, you could dig it out, so if you drink it all up, pop it right down, it’s like a cherry shooter. So I would say probably not a drink I’d order or request coz I’m not a huge fan of the gin flavors but if you’re a gin drinker, definitely a must try.
I’m Derrick Schommer, you can reach us at everydaydrinkers.com. You could check us out at itunes, do a search for Common Man Cocktails. We also have an audio show, you just do a search for everydaydrinkers, you should find both of them.
Well, I’m going to get one more. Tolerable, I like it. All right, this is Derrick Schommer. We’re teaching you how to drink.
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