Welcome to Common Man Cocktails, I’m your host Derrick Schommer. And today, we’re going to do the Stars and Stripes Cocktail. This continues our saga into pretty cocktails using muddled blueberry. We’ve got our muddle in over here. We’ve got some ginger beer. We’re going to talk with ginger beer. We’re going to use a little raspberry liqueur to flavor it up, we’ve got some first time used, our blueberry vodka just purchased it. Smells like blueberries and probably going to taste like blueberries. First time I’ll just show you using absinthe. This is a Lucid absinthe 95 years ago. I think this might have been around or it’s the first absinthe to be introduced in the United States in 95 years.
It’s 124 proof, 62% alcohol by volume. We’re going to use just a splash of lemon juice and a little bit of the simple syrup. We’re going to put all of that in a highball glass. This drink, fill it after muddling it, we’re going to shake it. We’ll shake it with ice, throw it in here. We’ll all do toppings and I’ve got my glass straw to match just to get the elegance down.
So we’ll start by moving some of the stuff out of the way so you could see what’s going on. We’ll throw in a handful of blueberries. Recipe doesn’t call for any specific amount but blueberries and there you go, pretty cool, we’ll muddle that in there. Squeeze it all up. You’re going to find that the core of this ingredient is not really—there’s not that much to it in terms of liquid capacities.
We’ll put in a quarter ounce of simple syrup just to tad, nothing to much. There you go. We’re going to do a quarter ounce of absinthe. You won’t need too much absinthe because absinthe typically when it’s in water, typically meaning all the time, it’s going to start to expand and all of the herbal properties come out which is one reason that you lose absinthe typically you drip it over sugar to kind of expand it out and it’s going to expand out when you add in the ice and the blueberry and vodkas. We’re going to do an ounce of blueberry vodka so that will help bring out the flavors of the absinthe as it sits on there and starts to just explode with flavors. We’re going to do a splash or a dash, or we’re just going to sprinkle a little lemon juice in there just to get it really going. It’s kind of ugly looking but it’ll do the trick.
And with that—couple of ingredients in, we’ll throw some ice. Throw some ice on our highball while we’re here. Just more ice in there, pack a little in here, and more in there. It’s a gain. Put the top on, hook the lid and shake it up. Just strain that right here into our nice little glass with our ices. Get the fruits in there and shake that out, kind of pink right now.
Now what we’re going to do is with our measuring just because I like to be slightly more accurate in the drizzle. Drizzle doesn’t really have a unit of measure so I’m just going to pour some raspberry liquor in there all right and drizzle it right on top. And you should see it starts to stream down at the bottom because it weighs so much. And you get stars and stripes action going on there that kind of breaks off through the ice so that’s kind of neat and then we’ll top that with a little ginger beer. It could get dark and stormy night, dark and stormy night. We’ll put on our little GlassDharma straw there and what you’ve got, it’s almost like layers. It’s just got a little blue, little pink, a little white, red, white, and blue maybe, kind of. I can see it.
Your very cool flavorings, very unique. The after taste is that of the absinthe through getting some fetal and it’s blackly subtle—subtle black liquors without the sweets. Some blueberries—blueberries are really red in front end like the fruit attack. Yeah, the blueberries kind of coat the tongue right away and then there’s a little faky fake blueberries from the sweetness out of the vodka. But for vodka, I don’t taste it. I don’t taste any alcohol in here at all which is slightly dangerous because there’s an ounce of absinthe, very unique, very black. Blackberry, black fruits, raspberry, different. We only do citrus so we’ve got our pineapples and orange juice. I’m pretty much always using those and you know, they always get of tequila sunrise action going on. So people called me out on that last week.
Definitely cool, I’m enjoying it because of its uniqueness, it’s refreshing. It’s kind of I don’t know. It’s just there’s something unique about them maybe because it is so different that it tastes so good. So there you go. Definitely go and make a couple more of this after the show. This is the Stars and Stripes Cocktail for our Fourth of July celebration. We’ve got the serge, we’ve the drinks, we’ve got the complexity. Hopefully you’ve enjoy it. Go home, make one of this on your weekend. I’m your host Derrick Schommer. Check us on everydaydrinkers.tv, subscribe to us on iTunes, leave us comments on iTunes, that would be awesome. There you go, we’re teaching you how to drink.
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