On tonight's show Oisin Davis, of Great Irish Beverages, makes a cocktail using ingredients from the garden.

Oisin says...’I was very kindly asked if I could join my fellow boozehound Nick Strangeway in a cocktail demo at this year's Ballymaloe Lit Fest. It's on next weekend and should be great craic. When Nick said that he wanted to do something really simple but use lots of ingredients from their walled gardens down there, I was well up for it. Then I thought about the listeners who tune into the show and want to make cocktails but don't have any proper bar equipment. Over the years, I've advised listeners to use kilner jars, soup blenders and juice containers to mix up drinks. And that's exactly what we're going do at our demo at Ballymaloe: make five drinks using zero bar equipment. One of the drinks will be this punch that we'll also be selling at the festival bar. It'll be made with lots of fresh goodies from their walled garden’.

Cocktail - Walled Garden Punch

1/2 bottle of Jameson
100 ml of extra dry martini
1.5 litres of pressed apple juice
100g caster sugar
3 sticks of rhubarb, chopped into 1 inch slices
the zest and juice of 3 lemons
3 Barry's teabags

Method

Place the apple juice, lemon zest and juice, rhubarb, teabags and sugar into a pot. Bring the heat up high and up to a boil while stirring, then take it down to a really low simmer with the lid on, for ten minutes. Let it cool off and strain it through. Add the whiskey and the martini and stir. Garnish with more rhubarb and lemon!