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On this episode of How to Drink, I’m making a cocktail that was inspired by Game of Thrones called the “Shade of the Evening.” I thoroughly enjoyed making this cocktail by using some of the techniques from Dave Arnold like Nitro-Muddling, which was so much fun. Though my version may not be the exact drink that Dany drinks, it is still delicious and has me feeling like I can conquer whoever. So if you’re as big of a Game of Thrones fan as I am then I highly recommend trying this drink out! Cheers!
Described in Daenerys IV of a Clash of Kings thus:
"Dany raised the glass to her lips. The first sip tasted like ink and spoiled meat, foul, but when she swallowed it seemed to come to life within her. She could feel tendrils spreading through her chest, like fingers of fire coiling around her heart, and on her tongue was a taste like honey and anise and cream... like red meat and hot blood and molten gold. It was all the tastes she had ever known, and none of them . . . " We're not going for that exactly, more something that tastes pretty good with a general nod in the direction of whatever all of that was. Now in making this drink I use liquid nitrogen in a technique that Dave Arnold developed called Nitro-Muddling. When you muddle herbs they turn brown and oxidize and this mutes their flavors, but if you muddle them in a bath of liquid nitrogen they can't oxidize, because there's no oxygen. This also has the effect of crygenically pulverizing them into dust, destroying their cells entirely, which causes herbs and such to give up all their pigments to the drink. Dave uses the technique to make a basil margarita that is neon green and the color comes solely form the basil, it's pretty cool. That said: Liquid Nitrogen is dangerous stuff. Do not handle this on your own unless you have some training in it's safe an proper handling.
Shade of the Evening Ingredients:
- 5 Sage Leaves
- Some Dried Butterfly Pea Blossoms
- A Little Liquid Nitrogen
- 2 oz or 60 ml Batavia Arrack
- .5 oz or 15 ml Maurin Quina
- .5 oz or 15 ml Demerara Syrup
- .5 oz or 15 ml Gum Syrup
- An Absinthe Rinse
- Garnish with a Single Sage Leaf
Music: The Savoy Special by Glenn Crytzer's Savoy Seven
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Described in Daenerys IV of a Clash of Kings thus:
"Dany raised the glass to her lips. The first sip tasted like ink and spoiled meat, foul, but when she swallowed it seemed to come to life within her. She could feel tendrils spreading through her chest, like fingers of fire coiling around her heart, and on her tongue was a taste like honey and anise and cream... like red meat and hot blood and molten gold. It was all the tastes she had ever known, and none of them . . . " We're not going for that exactly, more something that tastes pretty good with a general nod in the direction of whatever all of that was. Now in making this drink I use liquid nitrogen in a technique that Dave Arnold developed called Nitro-Muddling. When you muddle herbs they turn brown and oxidize and this mutes their flavors, but if you muddle them in a bath of liquid nitrogen they can't oxidize, because there's no oxygen. This also has the effect of crygenically pulverizing them into dust, destroying their cells entirely, which causes herbs and such to give up all their pigments to the drink. Dave uses the technique to make a basil margarita that is neon green and the color comes solely form the basil, it's pretty cool. That said: Liquid Nitrogen is dangerous stuff. Do not handle this on your own unless you have some training in it's safe an proper handling.
Shade of the Evening Ingredients:
- 5 Sage Leaves
- Some Dried Butterfly Pea Blossoms
- A Little Liquid Nitrogen
- 2 oz or 60 ml Batavia Arrack
- .5 oz or 15 ml Maurin Quina
- .5 oz or 15 ml Demerara Syrup
- .5 oz or 15 ml Gum Syrup
- An Absinthe Rinse
- Garnish with a Single Sage Leaf
Music: The Savoy Special by Glenn Crytzer's Savoy Seven
syncopators.bandcamp.com/album/uptown-jump
twitter: twitter.com/How2Drink
instagram: www.instagram.com/how2drink/
Blog: www.thisishowtodrink.com/
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Gear: www.thisishowtodrink.com/gear