How to make a French 75 Cocktail - 75th Episode!
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- We've made it to 75! I thought for this occasion we'd make a Champagne classic - The French 75. This is another one of those classic cocktails that has a slightly muddled history.
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Thanks William. 🙂
@@BarTalkCocktails - You're welcome! I haven't made one yet, but I have a bottle of Prosecco chilling right now...I hope that's acceptable...
Bruce you are the BEST!! LOVE Hendrick's and those damn army hats. You make it look stylish!! You are so awesome. Love your videos sooo much!! You keep me going!! :-)
Any excuse to wear a silly hat. I’m in!
I had 2 of them for birthday today. OMG! It is delicious!!!
It’s a good little cocktail for sure. Is it your birthday today?
I like this drink. Hmmm. Would have to have a few people over if I was going to buy a bottle of champagne!!! Oh, and nice glassware. Absolutely beautiful!
+Denise Baker Thanks Denise! 😁
That intro had me dying! celebrating the new hat, that's so me! champagne any day woot woot!
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On the French 75 (Soixante Quinze) --
The gun had been somewhat derided as being not really powerful and of short range. However, it's breechblock and recoil design and fixed ammo gave it a high rate of fire -- about 15 rounds per minute; also its carriage design made it easy to transport and deploy near the front lines... and it was produced in large numbers.
And so the drink.
Just had a French 75 at a local restaurant. Awesome drink. BTC is spot on with his recipes. (We need a book). Sooooo good.
I’ve had a book in the works for quite some time now... I need more hours in a day! Thanks for watching, cheers!
Man I wish you could bartend at my wedding!
I’ve got a fabulous yellow plaid suit for such an occasion.
@@BarTalkCocktails I learned lots of good drink from you thank you for what you do!
this cocktail can vary wildly. 2 oz gin, 1.5 oz gin, 1 oz gin, and lemon juice (with any of those ratios) can vary from half an ounce to an ounce.
Simple syrup can be anything from a dash to your barspoon, all the way up to 0.75 oz.
Some people even dash in absinthe, too rich for my blood.
Anything you'd suggest as far as guidelines? Last time I made it (will put specs below) it was so sweet it was almost like a lemonade.
1 oz gin
1 oz lemon juice
0.75 oz simple syrup
3.5 oz dry sparkling wine
Too sweet you say? The first thing I see in your recipe is the quantity of simple syrup being used. That's too much. 0.75 oz. equates to 4.5 tsp. I typically use 1 tsp for a drier French 75. Also, sparkling wines can vary in sweetness. Just something else to be aware of. Bumping up the gin is always a good thing. That too may help reduce some of the sweetness. Just keep experimenting. You'll find the right balance of ingredients to suit your palate. Cheers!
@@BarTalkCocktailsthanks!
So far, I like a brut champagne or a dry prosecco. Used spumante sparkling once and it was just far too sweet.
I'm going to have to make these at New Year's
Don’t know which gin to use? Use all 5
My French 75 is 2 oz decent gin of choice, 1 oz fresh lemon juice, 1/2 oz simple syrup. Use absinthe in a spray bottle for 6 sprays or so in a Collins glass, fill with clear ice spear add sippy spoon as you stir in some cava.
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I believe I first saw this with both Gin and Cognac.
And if you don't do Brut you can use less simple.
I confess that, at home, when a cocktail calls for champagne (or prosecco, like an Aperol spritz), I have an virtually irresistible urge to use Wine Cube (Target store brand) "Bubbles" wine, because it comes in 250 ml cans, and I don't have to wonder what I'm going to do with the rest of the bottle after I make a couple or three drinks.
The problem is you’re only making a few drinks. Ha 😂
Good day, sir. I heard that it would elevate the drink by adding two dashes of absinthe? (based on the rumour that Ernest Hemingway was famous for adding absinthe to his champagne). I was wondering what's your opinion on this.
The drink that Ernest Hemingway claimed to have invented is "Death in the Afternoon." His advice, (circa 1935) "Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass. Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly." I'm not sure about drinking five of them in a row, but I do think absinthe would certainly make a nice variation to a French 75. Cheers!
@@BarTalkCocktails Thanks for the insight, sir.
can i use rhum agricole blanc instead of the gin in this drink?
You certainly could swap out the gin for rhum agricole blanc. Your cocktail will have a bolder, more peppery flavour profile. Perhaps even a little more tropical tasting. Rather than lemon, try using lime instead. Also, adding a couple of dashes of Angostura bitters wouldn't hurt either. Cheers!
What do you call it if its made with other kind of bubbly? Here in Germany all i can get cheaply is Sekt
I don't know. Maybe we call it as the French call it - soixante quinze or seventy-five. We could call it a Sparkling Tom Collins, as the soda is swapped out for boozy bubbles. However it's made, it's a refreshing drink with plenty of effervesce. Cheers!
Since this drink was named after a French artillery gun (that was heavily utilized in WWI), why don't we name it after the famous German WWI 80-cm (31.5 in) railway gun, Schwerer Gustav; developed in the late 1930s by Krupp in Rügenwalde as siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line, the strongest fortifications in existence at the time. Let's call it Gustav 800/ Gustav 315 (since Schwerer is harder to pronounce for people who don't speak German)?
Citadel Gin is French.
True. Citadelle Gin is French and would make a marvelous French 75. It's soft and smooth on the palate with a bright, sweet finish. Cheers, Jeff.
I fear using prosecco, which is lighter and cheaper than Champagne, would make this an Italian 75. But I doubt the French would be able to tell...
Ha you’re probably right. Thanks for watching, cheers!
It's your fault I tried this terrible concoction. I tried it because it sounded bizarre, and I was right. I didn't enjoy it, but it was so strange that I couldn't stop sipping on it while figuring that out.
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Who cares about tradition when the collins holds way more than the flute. I drink martinis out of the shaker for crying out loud.
Ha!
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