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Cocktail Corner

A weekly exploration into the world of boutique wines + the occasional cheeky cocktail. Cocktail Corner thanks to Boutique Connection.

Cocktail Corner: October 5th 2017

Cocktail Corner: October 5th 2017 Cocktail Corner: October 5th 2017, 21.91 MB
Thu 5 Oct 2017

 

Dan from Tululah joins Jonny & Sam to show them how to make a poweful and mouthwatering Plantation Rum cocktail.

Old Fashioned Colada
In a glass, pour:
30ml Coconut-infused Plantation Original Dark
30ml Plantation Pineapple Rum
10ml 2:1 sugar syrup


Bitters to taste (we use 2 dashes of angostura and 2 dashes of tiki bitters)
Stir with ice until chilled and diluted, garnish with dehydrated pineapple slice and star anise (both optional)


Coconut infused Plantation Original Dark 

**How to make your own Coconut Infusion
(hard mode)
250ml coconut oil
700ml Plantation Original Dark
Sous vide at 57.5 for 2 hours, freeze, strain off fat, bottle.
(easy mode)
1 cup desiccated coconut
700ml Plantation Original Dark
Infuse for about 24 hours, strain off solids, bottle
2:1 Sugar Syrup


Heat 2 parts dark sugar (for this drink we used coconut palm sugar) and 1 part water and stir to combine. Will keep refrigerated for up to a week.
 

Thanks to Talulah and Plantation Rum!
 

Cocktail Corner: September 28, 2017

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Thu 28 Sep 2017

Ronnie from Revelry Bar brings the goodness this week, using Abelforth's Bathtub Gin in a new and surprising way and scoring a straight 10 from the boys in the process.

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30ml Abelforth's Bathtub Gin

10ml Grand Marnier (orange liqueur)

10ml Absinthe

10ml egg white

60ml special chocolate sauce (Ronnie made a litre of this using Puhoi Caramel Vanilla sauce, Whittaker's L+P chocolate and 200ml of Baileys. You could sub with Puhoi Valley chocolate milk for simplicity)

Shake over ice, pour into an icy cold glass, garnish with orange zest and sip through a cinnamon stick. 

 

Cocktail Corner: September 22, 2017

Cocktail Corner: September 22, 2017 Cocktail Corner: September 22, 2017, 20.05 MB
Fri 22 Sep 2017

Revelry Bar deliver the goods once again. This time getting inventive with a dessert cocktail (for those of you with a sweet tooth). A very easy do-it-yourself "built drink".

"Butter Beer"

30 ml Ableforth's Bathtub Gin

30 ml Butterscotch

Topped with creaming soda 

Wipped cream infused with Cassis liquor.

Garnish - berries on the very top 

 

Cocktail Corner: September 14th, 2017

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Thu 14 Sep 2017

With Julian from Revelry Bar, making an after-surf tiki cocktail "Born to be Wild" using Rumbullion spiced rum...

45ml Rumbullion

30ml Amaro Montenegro (almond)

30ml vanilla syrup

45ml pineapple juice

45ml apple juice

2x dash of orange bitters (or orange peel in shaker)

Fresh passionfruit and ice in the shaker

other half passionfruit on top of glass + 70% alc plantation rum BLAZED on top for 10 seconds

garnish with mint

Cocktail Corner: September 7, 2017

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Thu 7 Sep 2017

Jonny & Big Hungry welcome Revelry Bar and Ableforth's Rumbullion Rum onboard. Revelry deliver a delicious "World Wonder Number 10". Here's all the ingredients you need to achieve your own wonderous results...

60 ml rumbullion

1 full muddled lime

1 bar spoon caster sugar

hand full acai berries (or blueberries)

muddled into a rocks glass and crushed ice 

garnish= grated lime zest 

Cocktail Corner: August 31st 2017

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Thu 31 Aug 2017

Today the Jamison Double Sour goes under the spotlight... That's "double the sourness", according to the experts.

Cocktail Corner: August 24th 2017

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Thu 24 Aug 2017

Jonny & Big Hungry talk to Vic from Legitties in the wonderful St Kevins Arcade and make an Apple Crumble (in a DD)...whaaaaat? It's a cocktail we swear.

Cocktail Corner: August 17th 2017

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Thu 17 Aug 2017

Jonny & Big Hungry meet Victor and Sam, all the way from St Kev's Arcade with a special recipie for the famous Japanese Slipper... and a bonus cocktail after the break!

Cocktail Corner: 10th August 2017

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Thu 10 Aug 2017

Mixologist Owen from Peach Pit makes a drink using Gin + plum shrug...

Cocktail Corner 3rd August 2017

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Thu 3 Aug 2017

Matt Thompson of Thompson Whiskey NZ mixes up a drink with Victor Gin involving orange and mango...