Raise Your Home Bar Game With These Cocktail Videos
Half Full debuts a series of step-by-step cocktail videos featuring professional bartenders from across the country making drinks at their home bars.
Oleksandr Voloshyn / Alamy
With most bars and restaurants closed for the foreseeable future, and much of the country sticking close to home, there’s never been a better time to be your own bartender.
To help you turn the contents of your liquor cabinet into delicious craft cocktails, Half Full has recruited professional bartenders from across the country to record step-by-step videos of themselves mixing up drinks at their home bars.
To kick off the series, we asked our senior drinks columnist David Wondrich to fix his original Aqua Epidemica Vondricii, which he created for his recent story on Plague Waters.
Enjoy your homemade drinks and stay safe!
By David Wondrich
INGREDIENTS:
- 1.5 oz Whatever dark, unflavored and unsweetened spirit you’ve got: bourbon, rye, Jamaican rum, cognac, Armagnac, Crown Royal, añejo tequila, whatever. Or gin.
- 1 oz Red vermouth
- .5 oz Herbal liqueur: Chartreuse (yellow or green), Strega, Bénédictine, Jägermeister, Drambuie, etcetera.
- 6 dashes Angostura or Peychaud’s bitters (or three dashes of each)
- Glass: Cocktail
- Garnish: 1 finger band-aid sized Strip of lemon peel, if you’ve got it.
DIRECTIONS:
Add all the ingredients to a mixing glass and fill with cracked ice. Stir, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Twist a lemon peel over the top and discard. Unclench.
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