How to make the Bramble - an easy gin drink!

welcome back friends it's Anders today I am making the Bramble this is a gin cocktail extremely popular because it is extremely delicious it's sour it's got berries and it's perfect on a hot day which today is here in Chicago now this one comes from the 80s so if you're a fan of the 80s it's actually not like any of the other cocktails from the 80s the 80s cocktails aren't so great in my humble opinion uh but this one is actually great so without further Ado let's get to it if you're new to the channel hit that subscribe button for more sips tips and recipes and let's go make the Bramble to the bar [Music] so the Bramble this one dates back to the 1980s mid 80s dick brazel who was Dick Bradshaw dick Bradshaw came up with the espresso Martini as well as the Bramble you could say that dick bradsell was the ultimate bartender of the 80s because everybody else was making flashy uh neon drinks that didn't taste so great and he was making really well crafted cocktails in the 80s when it was a time when crafting cocktails was not actually all that common I mean no offense so how did he come up with this drink it came down to an ingredient called creme de mirror creme de mirror is something we haven't talked about on this channel and I will talk about it a little bit more when we pull out the ingredients in short it's a Blackberry liqueur apparently he tasted some creme de mirror this Blackberry liqueur and it reminded him of when he was a child picking blackberries on the Isle of Wight so he decided I'm gonna make a cocktail that is an all-british drink and this is my favorite part of the story because he thought that this was actually a failure of a concept of a cocktail even though the cocktail itself was no failure at all because he found the only good creme de mirror came from France and the lemons he had to get from somewhere outside of England but I guess this lemons came Spain but the drink itself was certainly not a failure this is an outstanding drink in fact usually what I like to do on the channel here is to have my take on a classic and I've tried different things with this cocktail but I came to the conclusion that my personal favorite version of this drink is the one that dick bradsell did so I'm gonna make that one today and I'm gonna enjoy it in front of all of you now the booze bringing back the bottle slide that's that's what's special about today for this cocktail you will need gin creme de mirror fresh lemon juice simple syrup and fresh blackberries this is my semi-rich syrup so it's one and a half part sugar to one part water so gin gin makes you sin for the Gin I am using the botanist Isla dry it has strong Botanicals it has some punch and we're gonna be mixing this on crushed ice with Blackberry liqueur syrup Citrus all this stuff so I want a gin that's going to hold up creme de mirror actually was a little difficult for me to Source here in Chicago I got one this is combier a little perfumey if you have it on its own but very good I do like it it's Rich of course if you're trying to make the original Bramble You're Gonna Want creme de mirror but if you have a raspberry liqueur that will work very well uh Chambord or framboise if you have creme de cassis give it a shot it's going to give you a similar Berry sweetness but it's obviously not going to take taste like blackberries but uh that would work though it would be good and if you don't have any of these fine French liqueurs uh well you could use like a Blackberry syrup those are those are my substitute options for you a lemon juice freshly squeezed syrup we already talked about this blackberries that'll be for garnish yeah let's build okay I think we're looking pretty good let's start with the gin and do an ounce and a half of your dry gin let's add the lemon three quarters of an ounce of lemon juice and then half an ounce of your simple syrup now we can add ice and Shake we don't have to shake it very long add a little bit of air get some dilution but we're gonna end up pouring this over crushed ice five to ten seconds get your low ball glass and we can fill it up with crushed ice not all the way to the top you'll see strain the cocktail right over the crushed ice with a spoon I'm just going to give it a real quick stir top it off with a bit more crushed ice and now we float primed a mirror right on top you could just pour this over the top but I'm going to measure out half an ounce of the creme de mirror right over the top nice and gentle top it with a little bit more crushed ice for garnish this is where the blackberries come in I think originally it was just one Blackberry but I'm gonna do three because I got them and I'm gonna do a little lemon wheel there we are dick Brad cells Bramble cheers Oz would you like to join me okay I'm here as the taste tester yes a cheers [Music] it's really good it is isn't it that tastes like a popsicle tastes like a melted like Berry popsicle it's so refreshing man it's so good it's so good what I like is there's definitely a sweetness from the berry but a tartness from the lemon of course it's ice cold but you still get the Botanicals from the Gin this one holds up really well I encourage you to make this one at home if you don't know this drink yet then I'm glad you do now as would you like to do a sign off here oh wow it's been so long okay thanks for watching if you like this video like And subscribe if you don't like this video like And subscribe and we'll see you next time Cheers Cheers [Music]

Channel: Anders Erickson

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Length: 5min 49sec (349 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 19 2022