How to Make a Dubonnet Royal
Welcome to Common Man Cocktails. I’m your host Derrick Schommer.
Today, we’re going to be doing the Dubonnet Royal with a twist. We’re going to include a little gin, it’s really a gin based cocktail. We’re going to be putting it in a cocktail glass and we’re going to use the Martin Millers Gin, this is an imported gin. It’s got a cool little bottle here, distilled in England, blended in Iceland. Dubonnet, this is in a par tip of Dubonnet and is kind of like a it’s a before dinner wine. It’s sweet and it’s got some cool flavoring, you should go to everydaydrinkers.com and search for Dubonnet to fit find and review we did on that drinking, it’s straight.
We’re going to use some orange Curacao, just a small dash and the equivalence small dash of the Vieux Carré Absinthe and a little of bitters and a little of ice. We’re going to stir this in a glass which you won’t be able to seek because they have so many ingredients, straight into our cocktail glass and we’re going to garnish it with a twist and I think we’ll be done.
So let’s get started, we’ll put that in here and some ice. So, we’ll put all the ingredients into this little ice shaker. Let’s go and we’re going to do two ounces of gin right over the ice. One ounce of the Dubonnet Royal, it’s already been chilled, so it’s a little chill, I had it in the refrigerator about four hours and do a dash of Angostura bitters, and there you go. Sometimes, it’s hard to see if this actually works or not. We’ll do a dash, a very small dash. The way I’m going to measure it because I don’t want it to go rocks and it can ruin the drink if you go wrong and so going to do a quarter teaspoon of the orange Curacao and you can use blue Curacao, there’s no real difference except for it might tint the color in this coloring, for this drink is kind of part of it because its coming in a cocktail glass and that’s were it’s going to really shine. Just a little Vieux Carré Absinthe and there you go.
Now, you got them all in there. So, it’s like a red flavored coloring and looks kind of like a strawberry really, and then we’ll stir that up. Let’s stir that for really you want to go about 30 seconds. I don’t want to bore you here but, get the idea. There you go. And then, we’ll strain that into a chilled cocktail glass. Let’s pretend that’s chilled, it probably once was. There you go, garnish it with a twist. We’ll use our barspoon to make our twist. Got it pretty along in this time, squeeze it just to get the juices to pop the zest and kind of come out through that in here and we’d roll it up the side a little bit, and there you go.
So, Dubonnet Royal, kind of a dark seductive coloring. It’s got a little bit of absinthe in the back-end, but you could taste the bitterness, the sweetness of the Dubonnet and just a little sweetness, but really focused on the gin. It’s just like a gin-based drink. You’re getting some gins and you’re getting a little orange, you’re getting a little of the absinthe. So, you’re getting a lot of cool and unique dynamic flavors and you’re getting a pretty look. It almost looks like a Manhattan, but there you go, that’s the Dubonnet Royal.
I’m your host Derek Schommer. Check us out in everydaydrinkers.tv. We’re teaching you how to drink.
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