Welcome to Common Man Cocktails. I'm your host Derrick Schommer and today, I’ve got a colds so you’re going to bear with me but I was too excited, I couldn’t wait for the cold to heal itself. I just want to get on camera and show you guys the Sloe Gin Feast. This was a submission from Nick, he is a bar tender and a couple episodes ago, I had talked about Sloe Gin and how this is not a lot. I haven’t seen a lot of good recipes for and of course then Sloe Gin which is being one of the oldest figures. I’d tried really getting the Sloe Gin from this episode and the next episode this little Sloe Gin.
So, let’s talk about this. The Sloe Gin Feast, what I understand is the first reference was in 1887 to the feast. This was from Jerry Thomas, the bartenders guide book and then in 1949 the Sloe Gin Feast was reference. So, whether there was a feast and then there was a Sloe Gin, there’s different feast is, we’re going to stick with this one. This is the primary ingredient Sloe gin and now for our feast we’re going to use some Club Soda. You can seltzer if you want. I’ve probably won’t do a flavored seltzer that might be a little weird.
So, let’s really get in to this. Now, there is two other things actually. This is my slightly ghetto simple syrup. The other option is you can use a teaspoon of sugar which is about what you get, if you get these little things we use in for a coffee. Drop them in there in the morning, really fast and speedy. So, as the Common Man Cocktails option, you could dumb this in and be done with it but I highly, highly suggest you make some simple syrup. It’s really not hard. You take a cup of sugar and a cup of water. You boil them, the sugar dissipates as the water and you’ve got this. You could do two cups if you want and just keep the ratio equal. Do you have a cup, half the cup and this is a full cup, a lot of sugar but we’re going to use it at all. We’re going to use the half ounce for this recipe.
We’re going to use half in lemon. We’re just going to crash it right into the mix and see what we’ve got. That’s about it. So, let’s get started.
Put this off to the side dish. We’re going to put a new highball glass. We’re going to begin in Collins glasses. Thanks to Andrew who sent me a link to a store that actually sells four packs, eight packs, 16 packs of Collins glasses. I’ll link that up at everdaydrinkers.tv, you can go out and buy them if you want some Collins glasses as bad as I do. But right now, we’re just going to use the highball because I just stored them on the weekend. Apparently, don’t ship on the weekend or work.
So, just going to do two and a half ounces of the Sloe Gin, this is the biggest part of the recipe so there is a lot of it. Now this is a messy stuff. No more messy than any other liquid but you can see it when you spill it. That’s two. See, that’s a half. Then just throw in the—we’re just going to crush the lemon right in there. Now if you want to, you can use the lemon squeeze. I just got lazy. Its a little mess here but you know what its cold worth that it don’t work, trust me.
Now, we’re going to do, just a—let’s put a cover on this, that would be unfortunate. We’re going to do a half an ounce. Oh gets a little syrupy, simple. Once you put this in the refrigerator, it really starts to turn into syrup. After you make it, it looks like water. There you go, that’s our main ingredients. After you shake it that’s when you do the club soda. You put the club soda in now. You shake this up, big explosion and lot more carbonation that I think you really want. Shake it up. Lean back to try and take the loud shaking away from anybody who might be wearing a headset as it’s painful. Smells like berry. So ice that up. What do you want some warm glass. There we go; got a highball, pour it in. We’re going to splash this on top. The girls they kind of do it aggressively gets them this to just pop up the top. Unfortunately, this is been open for a little while so, some of the combination might be dissipating. Did you get the idea?
So, let’s see, it looks pretty nice. The downfall of using this of course stick the cold liquids are not going to really break this apart and make it just fall into the drinking become part of the Sloe Gin Feast, that’s really the reason I recommend using the simple sharpie because it’s all ready in the correct state so you’re going to get them a better mesh, a better blend of the drink. Berry-berry, it’s like fruit punch. It’s very tasty.
What I found amazing about the Sloe Gin this is not a sour as I thought it would be and it’s not sweet considering you’re putting this simple serve. The half-ounce of lemon and the half ounce of sugar really just mollify any over barring on either direction. What you really get is a sense of the fruits. The thing to be danger, that the danger part is that, you don’t taste any alcohol at all. I meant Sloe Gin is, it’s really berry-berry and it’s really dangerous. I’ve also heard that they don’t like you have this in picture at bars. I don’t question legality of that but it’s probably now recommended anyway because it’s not really easy. I want to thank Nick again for the recipe. He had used the sugar, the sugar in its solid form. We found a couple other recipes. I think the Mixology that has this recipe with the simple syrup. Definitely, I think that’s the one best way to go for this one.
I highly suggest you try this, it’s so good. This is Sloe Gin Feast. Oh, you know what, check us out in iTunes and you just search for Common Man Cocktails. Also go to everydaydrinkers.tv and remember we’re teaching you how to drink.
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