Classic Champagne Cocktail: A vintage Cognac and bitters cocktail based on a 1860s recipe
Classic Champagne Cocktail
As I’m an extremely cool person when I have a bit of free time over the holidays I like to look at a cheeky bit of cocktail history. Jerry Thomas’ “How to Mix Drinks” is the oldest known cocktail book written with bartenders in mind, sometimes known by other names such as “The Bar-tender’s Guide” or “A Bon Vivant’s Companion”. “Oxford Night Caps” predates this (1872) and was written by Richard Cook as a collection of drinks enjoyed at Oxford Universities halls and residences in the early 1800s.
Difford’s guide has some great articles on cocktail history and this cocktail which inspired this post.
The “Champagne Cocktail” was originally made without Cognac and with a lemon twist.
Since the drink is so old it has had plenty of time for people to improve upon it as well as argue about it. Although comments made by people arguing about this drink in the mid 19th century seem to be a lot more passive aggressive than the more blatant insults seen on social media today.
The cocktail remains popular today, with it even being on the menu of one of the first cocktail bars I worked in.
Difford’s guide puts together an updated spec with a few useful hints including to use VSOP cognac from the fridge or freezer and to not crush the cube.
This drink is rather tasty especially with the biscuity notes of the champagne. If price is an issue I won’t tell anyone if you use a good Cava, Crèmant or other traditional method wine.
I personally enjoy a bit of bitters and sugar at the bottoms of my glass and enjoy the fact I’m drinking history but if you’re “that guy” feel free to use syrup and bitters.
The sugar does fall apart into the drink over time, if you make yours without changing camera position, lenses, settings & lighting every time you pour something it won’t degrade as much by the time you drink it
If you wanna be a classy bartender soak the cube on a napkin atop the flute
25ml Chilled VSOP Cognac
Angostura bitters soaked sugar cube (4-5 dashes)
Champagne
Orange oils (discard after)
How to Make a Champagne Cocktail - Liquor.com
How to Cocktail: Champagne Cocktail
This simple classic is the best way to improve a glass of bubbly. In our video, top bartender Jacques Bezuidenhout shows you how to make a Champagne Cocktail, as well as his original variation, the Forbidden Apple.
For the full Champagne Cocktail recipe, click here:
Champagne Cocktail
INGREDIENTS:
1 Sugar cube
2 to 4 dashes Angostura Bitters
Champagne
Garnish: Lemon twist
Glass: Flute
For the full Forbidden Apple recipe, click here:
Forbidden Apple
INGREDIENTS:
3 dashes Angostura Bitters
.5 oz Grand Marnier
1 oz Calvados
4 oz Champagne
Garnish: Orange twist
Glass: Flute
Up your drinking game! For the best cocktail recipes, articles and more click here:
4 CHAMPAGNE Cocktails | Cocktail Recipes
Learn how to make four easy champagne cocktails that will blow your mind!
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND HELP US GROW :)
Previous video (WHITE LADY) :
Recipes:
The Champagne Cocktail:
- 1 Sugar Cube
- 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
- 15 ml / 0,5 oz. Brandy
- Champagne
Black Velvet
- 1 Part Guinness
- 1 Part Champagne
French 75:
- 30 ml / 1 oz. Gin
- 15 ml / 0,5 oz. Lemon Juice
- 15 ml / 0,5 oz. Sugar Syrup
- Champagne
Kir Royal
- 15 ml / 0,5 Creme de Cassis
- Champagne
Thanks for watching!
_________
DRINK RESPONSIBLY
This video is for information purposes only, not for stimulating excessive alcohol use.
#Champagne #Cocktail #EasyCocktails
How to Make Champagne Cocktails | Cocktail Recipes
How to Make Cocktails Playlist with tom Macy
How to Make Champagne Cocktails | Cocktail Recipes
Recipe: 12 oz gin; 6 oz simple syrup (or flavored simple syrup); 6 oz lemon juice. Pour into pitcher. Add ice. Top with bottle of Prosecco. Garnish with fresh fruit of choice.
So it's really great if you know how to make all these classic cocktails one at a time, but what if you want to have a group of people over and share all these great cocktails you're making with your friends? It's actually really easy to do that. All you have to do is pick a really simple cocktail recipe and extrapolate that for how many servings you want. So I decided to take a French 75, which is essentially a gin sour topped with champagne, gin, lemon, sugar, topped with champagne. And for the party sometimes you might want to have a signature drink or something that'll get your friends talking. So I decided to do the simplest way to create a signature cocktail and change out the sweetener. So I'm going to use ginger syrup instead of simple syrup. I keep the same recipe though.
So here we go. I also don't need to shake it or do anything. I just make it in a pitcher, add ice, let that dilute, save yourself the trouble. So we've got our lemon juice, and again, just take the same quantities and measure up depending on how many you want. So that was six ounces equal parts ginger syrup. All right, and so that was six ounces, so I'm going to do twice as much gin. Oh, I'm going to use all of this, yeah. Put in my gin. Now like I said, I'm not going to shake this individually or anything. That's way too much work. I'm just going to kind of put in a bunch of ice and let that do all the work. Now don't do this too early, because as the ice melts it will get too watery. You want to do this pretty soon before your guests come or make some smaller batches, just so it stays fresh.
And the most important ingredient is going to be our Seco. Always keep that thumb on there as you're going to take someone's eye out. Woo, and kind of eyeball it. It should be about three ounces per drink, but I think I'm just going to put the whole bottle in, because it is a party after all. And I'm going to give this a little bit of color, just throw in some raspberries to accent it. So I barely did anything. I used a classic recipe and yet, I have a completely original drink, and I just have to come up with a catchy name. And I usually ask my wife for that stuff, so I'm not going to do that here. And there you go, easy cocktails for groups.
???? Let's stay Connected ????
➡️ our website:
➡️ Facebook:
➡️
✨ If you liked this video, I'm sure you'll like these videos as well
▶️
▶️
About us:-
Emphasizing high-quality instructional video production, Howcast brings you leading experts and accurate, reliable information on makeup tutorials, cute hairstyles, and nail art designs to soccer tricks, parkour, and skateboarding, plus how to Dougie, how to kiss, and much, much more. Howcast empowers people with engaging, useful how-to information wherever, whenever they need to know-how
#Howcast #cocktail #cocktailrecipes
Related searches:
christmas champagne cocktail
champagne recipes
easy champagne cocktails
champagne cocktail ideas