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Step 1 – Add 0.5 OZ of brandy into a mixing glass

Step 2 – Add bar spoon of gomme syrup

Step 3 – Add two dashes of bitters

Step 4 – Add one dash of absinthe

Step 5 – Add some ice into glass

Step 6 – Top with champagne

Step 7 – Garish with a cherry

Easy champagne Cocktail Recipe Video

Video Transcript

This is How to Drink, the show about making cocktails and how to drink them. I’m Greg and I have never been a professional bartender. I’ve never even had a job in a bar. I don’t worry too much about precision and technique, because at the end of the day if the drink you like is in the glass, you did it right. Let’s get going.

So as much as I love classic cocktails and modern cocktails, and making cocktails and drinking cocktails, I like classic movies maybe even a little bit more. This week, we’re going to make a drink in honor of one of my favorite movies of all time, “Casablanca,” Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorre. Ingrid Bergman spent much of the movie drinking these, this is the champagne cocktail. So we’re going to make a champagne cocktail this week. Let’s get right into it.

Of course, you’re going to need champagne, we’re also going to need a little brandy. I’m going to throw some absinthe in it, just one dash. That’s definitely not necessary. I just really like champagne and absinthe together. Your mileage may vary, this is up to you. And I’m going to use Angostura bitters. This definitely is the bitters that Rick would have been pouring into a champagne cocktail. I’m going to put a little twist on it. A lot of times this would be traditionally be made with a sugar cube, which is great. It provides a wonderful effervescence as it’s nucleation point for the bubbles in the champagne, but I like the mouthfeel of a gomme syrup, instead. You could do it either way.

So we’re just going to add half an ounce of brandy into the bottom of our mixing glass. You can add a bar spoon to as much as a quarter ounce of gomme syrup if you’re going that way or simple syrup, or just a sugar cube. I’m going to do a healthy bar spoon of gomme syrup in there. Two dashes of Angostura bitters. Just one dash of absinthe. Obviously, we don’t have a whole lot in our mixing glass. But that’s okay. That’s it, quick stir. I’m just going to strain that very quickly into my coupe. I’m using a big coupe for this. Certainly, there’s nothing wrong with using something like a champagne flute, or even a Collins glass if you want to serve this on ice. Pop your champagne, top it up. Why do I love “Casablanca?” Well, who doesn’t want to be Rick Blaine, you know? George Raft actually turned down the part. George Raft is a great actor of the gangster era. Raft had recently turned down the lead roles in both “The Maltese Falcon” and “High Sierra.” If you know a little bit about Bogart’s career, you know that Raft’s poor judgment is a huge contributor to Bogart’s spotlight. I don’t know why, I just really like the way the bright red ball of cherry looks sitting at the bottom of a coupe like that. Have I gone too far now, now that I’m going full ridiculous?

There you have it, classic cocktail, the champagne cocktail. It’s a tasty way to drink champagne. Honestly, champagne as good as it is, this is may be better. If you have very, very good champagne, maybe don’t adulterate it, but I only buy cheap champagne. I don’t know. That’s a good drink. Actually, I love the absinthe. The absinthe in that transforms that, I’d say that about absinthe in everything. But it really does. That’s a good drink. If you like the show, subscribe. If you’re enjoying it, I’d love to hear about it in the comments. Thanks for watching the show. I’ll see you guys next week. “Here’s looking at you, kid.” That is the worst Bogart, oh my God.

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