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Welcome to Common Man Cocktails. Happy New Year’s Eve! I am your host, Derrick Schommer. Today, we’re going to create a cocktail using champagne which seems to make sense. It is New Year’s Eve and that tends to be the staple product for New Year’s Eve.
I had three bottles and I ended up having to dump one, and then I realized I had to do this show, so I could have used the half bottle because I had it. So if you have leftover champagne, also a good idea if you’re watching this after New Year’s Eve, but who would do that?
This is called the Lady Joy and it’s going to have 2/3 of an ounce of lemon rum. We are using the Don Q Limón. It is going to have some Blue Curacao, 2/3 of an ounce, about six ounces of champagne or whatever it takes to fill. We are going to throw in a lemon twist and we are going to call it done. Let’s do that.
What you are going to do now is you’re going to pour in the lemon rum, so we are going to do 2/3. There’s no shaking, so you’ve got some simplicity there. We’ll do 2/3 and you’re going to put that, if you have one, in a champagne flute.
And really, this is all about the effect at this point because the blue is just simply awesome, right? You should get a little orange, a little lemon, a little champagne dryness and top it off with champagne. It should lighten up that blue. There you go! Check that out right there. And then, we’ll do a little lemon slice if I can, a lemon twist. My lemon twisting is not working because my lemon is awful. I get little lemon pieces. Let’s try this again. Buy fresh lemons. Apparently, this one is a couple days old. The rind gets old. So you could twist this. So we’ll just drop it in there like this, kind of hanging over the edge a little bit, or you can even get some of the zest to just kind of fizz off there. There you go.
There you’ve got your Lady Joy. Pretty! And what I think really kind of would set the mood is that if you hand these out, it just looks different. People are used to getting champagne. But when you give something that’s got blue in it, they’re like, “Wow! Fancy!” Right?
And you keep your champagne. There’s still a lot of champagne in there. So you’re getting that little dryness, little lemon, not tasting too much of the orange bitterness from the Curacao, definitely dry. I don’t know what that says, but we’ve got champagne here of some type. Take the champagne you like. If you like sweet champagne, throw that in there and have fun. Any way you look at it, it’s a little something, a little different for New Year’s Eve. Happy New Year’s Eve!
I am your host Derrick Schommer and we are teaching you how to drink.
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