How To Make A New Year's Eve Cocktail
Anthony and Caitlin combine Maker's Mark and hard cider to create an original AOTD New Year's Eve Cocktail!
Step 1: Welcome to Art of the Drink:
Welcome to Art of the Drink. My name is Anthony Caporale and we are working again with Caitlin. Hey.
Step 2: The podcast:
And it’s coming up on New Year’s Eve so we are going to do a New Year’s Eve cocktail. Last year, we did a champagne cocktail. I showed everyone how to open a bottle of champagne. This year we’re going to do a variation on that that I came up with. Instead of champagne, we’re going to use cider. I want to Americanize it. Champagne’s usually French. Most people don’t know this, but actually cider was the most popular drink in America before beer got really, really popular. Back in colonial times, cider is what you drank. Very American. Tons of apple trees here, obviously. So I am going to combine that with another very American liquor which probably fans of the podcast can figure out what that’s going to be.
Step 3: The champagne flute:
Let’s go ahead and start with a champagne flute. And the first thing I’m going to do is add some sugar to the bottom. Use about between a teaspoon and a tablespoon depending on how dry the cider is. Now for those of you who are not sure what that means, dry in beverage speak means not sweet. Sweet-sugar. Dry-no sugar. Alright so I’m actually using dry cider. And so I’m going to use closer to a tablespoon of sugar. It’s going to go right in the bottom of my champagne flute.
Step 4: Two dashers of bitters:
And then on top of that, I’m going to add two dashes of bitters. So if you watched the podcast last year, you’ll know so far, very similar to a champagne cocktail. Now my secret ingredient, you got it baby, Maker’s Mark Bourbon. I’m going to put about an ounce of Maker’s Mark in there. Thank you. And just kind of swirl this around to dissolve the sugar a bit. Alright so this is all nice and dissolved and now I’m going to go ahead and add some cider to top this off. Okay you’re getting a nice head on there. And to this I’m going to add; one cherry and one slice of orange. Right in it. Alright and this is The Art of the Drink New Year’s Cider cocktail. Alright.
Step 5: Now you try:
Okay first thing, about a tablespoon of sugar into the champagne flute. Great. And a couple of dashes of bitters and one ounce of Maker’s Mark. Now just swirl that up to dissolve the sugar and get the bitters all mixed in. And we’re going to top it off with some dry draft cider. Alright and to finish this; one cherry and one slice of orange. Happy New Year. Salut.
