Welcome to Common Man Cocktails. I'm your host Derrick Schommer. Today we’re going create the Sour Witch. This is another recipe created by Jonathan Pogash who is a master mixologist, somebody who does this kind of crazy stuff. This drink he did I think the last one he did was Vive for Halloween and this one we’re using some lucid absinthe. So if you’ve got absinthe here’s a drink for you for Halloween. There's a trick and the trick is that it calls to muddle sour cherries. So I went to the store look for some sour cherries, guess what it's out of season. So Halloween drink with an ingredient out of season it, I'm guessing maybe it wasn’t made for Halloween either case I bought this. Now, if you can't get whatever I just got here. This is red tart cherries in water. All right, more in now they don’t look very appetizing but I bit one anyway and it's not that bad.
You could also probably try like a cherry juice or something that doesn’t have what are they, like not the cocktail stuff because that’s usually sweetened just a regular cherry juice, like an organic cherry juice. Just cherry juice without all the juicy sweetness to it, see if you can find that if you want to substitute that, so what we’re going to do is an ounce and a half of the lucid. We’re going to have a little almond syrup or this is Orgeat what else do we call it. I've heard it Orgae. Orgeat is almond syrup, a little lime, little peach schnapps. I don’t know where they come from. Maybe there’s another recipe that’s going to have peach schnapps in this week and champagne. We’re going to top with champagne and I just picked this up today. It's probably only good for one day of the year but they're cool skull caps.
And it might be too big. I don’t know we’ll see what it can do. Normally put this in a champagne flute. So if you’ve got a champagne flute use that and I think that’s it and we’re going to muddle this cherries so it gets interesting. All right so you're going to muddle them in the lime juice, so we’ll pour in a half ounce of lime juice, done. Now, were going to do three quarters of an ounce of the Orgeat, three quarters. I don’t have three quarters on here. Why did they do this to me? What's three quarters? It's almost a lot. That’s almost a lot and you could also use this if you buy this and you're like “What am I going to do with that?” besides the fact that it takes forever to use, if you're into Mai Tais, that’s what you want for Mai Tais.
And then were going to do three or four pitted sour cherries. So this kind of look like dead eyeballs, so they kind of work good for this one, two, when I say three to four, so we’ll do four. Just to get that, I mean I got a whole thing here. I really don’t know what am I going to do with this, guessing is going to be bound for the trash eventually. What you do for the love of cocktail I believe it say. Well muddle that up in there, so it's going to be a little bit sour because you get the sour cherry, you’ve got the sour lime, we’re not going to need a lot of muddling because they’ve been sitting in water.
It smells really good, so it doesn’t look like very appetizing. It smells awesome, it smells like cherry. Pretty good right, so it does not look awesome, that looks really gross. It might be something that could have double strained but whatever and then we’re going to throw our absinthe in here now and that will give a time to lose. One and a half ounces of absinthe, so this is your main ingredient, your only real alcohol besides the champagne which is not too be trifle with either. This is going to be kind of pod, you're looking at 62% alcohol light volume so that’s 62, six and a hundred and something, 124, yeah, 124 ounces. A 124 ounces, what the heck am I trying to say 124 proof cocktail before the sparkling champagne, the sparkling wine. So you got that back on for you. Let's see I think we’re good. That’s about it right there and we’re going to shake it.
We’re going to add a lot of ice because this to really help get that absinthe broken up because absinthe loves water otherwise it's just this really potent alcohol. Take this off, I've already opened but I just cap my champagne with some wrap, what do you call this stuff the sticky wrap there. Sticky wrap because I don’t have any press and seal because it won't fit in the refrigerator otherwise and I have a strainer around here. We can't put wink up the cork back in and then you get on the top on that and put one of the fancy corks and there’s no place to put that.
All right, I just probably want to add some ice, do you need ice in there you probably don’t really need ice in there. You only put in the champagne flute. So here we go, don’t let any of juicy bits out there, that does not look appetizing. Perfect drink for the holiday, champagne flute is small and there you go. It looks like mud. That looks pink to you, peachy. It kind of looks pink all right.
Now what you could do for the top I don’t have any on me but you dust a little nutmeg on there, really bringing up the holidays. That was part of the recipe but nutmeg floating in there. It's kind of look weird which is kind of like bloody. It smells like a festive cherry lucid. They should make a cherry absinthe. That would be pretty, like a red absinthe for Halloween special.
Wow! Very sour, this is type of drink that gets you right here. It's sour, it's got that. On top of it, so imagine when you get the sour and then you get that bite from the champagne so you're getting this crazy texture. It's really the texture. It seems kind of like just kind of light but it gets coated with the sour and then fall by black, black liquorish, like a black bean what do you call this, it is a jelly bean. I haven’t tried it yet.
It's weird, if you like sour drinks and you like the absinthe this is a must try because of the weight is placed weird in your mouth. But I think this makes a great cocktail for the Halloween time season if that’s a holiday especially if you're in the US since we actually celebrated, you pass this off to one of your guests especially this crazy glass. They're going to look at you weird and I think that is the impression for a good Halloween cocktails to go. That looks like a like a concoction that maybe a witch with burlap and it has such awkward taste. What is a witch? A witch would brew that in bat.
If you put bat wings in here come on. Yeah, you're right, I'm livening it up a little bit to really sell the cocktail. It is definitely sour but you know what that’s okay especially if you like sour because it's got such crazy black like just if you like absinthe that is. If you don’t like black liquor, stay away. Anyway there you go, that is the Sour Witch. I am your host Derrick Schommer. Check us out at EverydayDrinkers.TV and check out witch crazy thing here. We’re teaching you how to drink, have a Happy Halloween.
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