This Festive Drink – The Method
We present a home-style version of a cocktail featured on the seasonal menu. Designed as a large-volume premix which is bursting with the essence of a holiday season, making it excellent for hosting a celebration. Save the extra syrup to use in breakfast cocktails, puddings, or to make more rounds of this cocktail.
Bikini Recipe
Yields 10 servings
Ingredients for the Citrus Syrup (makes 750ml)
300ml fresh clementine juice
200ml recently pressed lemon juice
500g caster sugar
Ingredients for the Premix (makes 850ml, serving 10)
400ml decent vodka
100ml dry gin
150ml peach-flavored liqueur
200ml citrus syrup (from the recipe above)
A few cranberries, as a garnish
Mandarin essential oil, as a final touch
Instructions
Making the Syrup: Place every ingredients inside a pan, heat until it reaches a gentle boil, mixing so the sugar melts. Then, remove from the heat and leave to reach room temperature fully. Decant into a sealable bottle, close it and refrigerate it chilled, it can be stored for about a month.
To make Cocktail Base: Mix the specified spirits and syrup into a large bottle, leave to sit for 60 minutes, then pass it through best through cheesecloth, so it's perfectly clear.
To serve: Measure 85ml of the batch mix to a stirring glass containing ice, gently stirring gently for a minute until cold. Filter into an frosted cocktail glass or a similar vessel, decorate with a few cranberries adding the final touch by giving it a quick spritz of the essential oil above the glass.
