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Friday Happy Hour: Dairy Cocktails with Simon ONLINE

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What’s it all about?

Learn how to make easy, achievable but delicious classic cocktails at home. This class features a selection of curated drinks using a variety of dairy products (milk, yoghurt and cream) combined with quality spirits such as rum, gin and whisky. You’ll have the opportunity to ask advice from a cocktail aficionado on tips for equipping your home with the necessary tools and knowledge to make some great cocktails.

What will we cover?

  • Recipes for 3 drinks
  • Stories of each drink’s origins and history
  • Demonstration of the method to make and serve each drink
  • Suggested serving vessels and garnishes
  • Recommended ingredients when making the drink
  • Some shops that sell specialty ingredients or tools
  • Links for further reading and exploration

Below are details of the ingredients you need:
Drink 1: Full cream milk + black tea* + vodka + orange juice + lemon juice + sugar
Drink 2: Gin + lemons + honey + raspberries (super ripe fresh berries or frozen) + a large spoon of full fat greek yoghurt
Drink 3: Scotch whisky (blended or single malt) + honey + fresh cream + (optional: vanilla, nutmeg)

Ingredient notes:
Please brew a large jug of black tea (extra strength/extra teabags) in advance of the class and let it cool to room temperature. For the full recipe you’ll need equal amounts of brewed tea, vodka, full cream cow’s milk, orange juice and lemon juice. This recipe depends on full cream milk so if you attempt to substitute low fat, skim or non-cow dairy milk it is unlikely to turn out as expected and you may waste ingredients (but it will be drinkable just not as intended).

What will you need?

Don’t worry if you only have some of the ingredients. You can either purchase some 50ml miniatures to try them out once without spending a lot of money or ask your neighbours if they’d be willing to share a bit of a bottle with you.  You can even take a note for later to buy the ingredients if you liked the way the drink turns out during the live class.

Ingredients:

  • Spirits, liqueurs, bitters, mixers, fruits and juices as required for the cocktails listed above.
  • Lots of fresh, clean ice.
  • Regular sugar to make sugar syrup
Equipment:
  • Special equipment for drink 1: coffee filter and funnel
  • Something to shake with: eg. 3 piece shaker, Boston style glass + shaker tin, tightly sealed jar or wide-mouthed drink bottle.
  • Appropriate strainers for your shaker: hawthorne strainer, fine strainer.
  • Something to measure with: eg. A cocktail jigger, shot glass measure, cough medicine measure.
  • A variety of glasses: eg. a collins glass, a cocktail coupe or similar, a rocks glass.
  • Knife and chopping board.
  • Something to juice citrus with or your hands.
  • Something to stir with: bar spoon or chopstick.
  • A tray or tea towel to catch spills.

Who will be teaching?

Simon began adult life disliking alcohol in all forms after repeated unsuccessful attempts to be friends with beer, rum/coke and tequila sunrises.  But a chance encounter with a vodka, lime and soda was his gateway drink into a classic daiquiri at the famed cocktail bar Der Raum.  Since then Simon become an avid barfly visiting cocktail bars around the world in Europe, America, Asia, NZ and Australia as well as being good friends with gin, rum, whiskey and wheat beers.  More recently Simon has been creating at-home cocktail experiences and teaching friends to make tasty drinks all around the world whether it’s a Melbourne balcony, a villa in Tuscany, an apartment in Paris or on a sailing boat in San Francisco Bay.