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Electric Picnic cocktails with Oisin Davis

On tonight's Tom Dunne Show Oisin Davis, of the Damson Diner, creates a new cocktail based on his...
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21.46 28 Aug 2014


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Electric Picnic cocktails with Oisin Davis

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On tonight's Tom Dunne Show Oisin Davis, of the Damson Diner, creates a new cocktail based on his interest in using wild Irish ingredients. 

Oisin says, "Boozehounds like myself always have one particular area within cocktails that we like to get obsessive about. One person might be an absolute nut job about cognac, or a complete daiquiri fanatic. He or she will make that one passion in cocktails to be their continual focus and by default, their specialty. For me, I'm mad about using wild Irish ingredients in cocktails. Things like elderflower, sloes and blackberries really excite me as they can totally pimp out what can be a standard mixed drink. These are items of produce that are high in abundance, full of flavour and most importantly, free. At the Electric Picnic this weekend, I'll be sharing my love for cocktails made with wild ingredients down at the rather amazing Theatre of Food tent. At 5.15 pm on Saturday, I'll be inviting festival goers to get stuck in to it with me as I lash out some free drinks like this one.

To make blackberry cordial, you need to pick 500g of wild blackberries and give them a wash. Then you get 1 litre of boiling water and mix it with 1 kg of caster sugar. You can do this in a pot. While it's still hot, throw in the blackberries, the juice of 1 lemon and cover it up for a couple of hours. Strain out the berries (but keep them as a garnish) and you've got blackberry cordial. 
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INGREDIENTS
50 ml of Beefeater Gin 
25 ml of wild blackberry syrup 
25 ml lemon juice 
Sparkling water.
 
METHOD
Shake all ingredients except the sparking water for 20 seconds. Strain into an iced long glass. Top up with sparkling water and garnish with a blackberry. Slainte! 

 


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