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Step 1 – Add 2 oz or 60 ml of Gin into cocktail shaker

Step 2 – Add 0.5 oz or 15 ml of Gomme Syrup

Step 3 – Add 1 oz or 30 ml of Lemon Juice

Step 4 – Add some ice in it

Step 5 – Shake it

Step 6 – Strain into a glass

Step 7 – Top with Champagne

Step 8 – Add 2 Dashes of Absinthe

Step 9- Stir It

Easy french 75 Cocktail Recipe Video

Video Transcript

Hi. I’m Greg and this is “How to Drink.” I’ve never worked in a bar, held a position as a bar-back, been a bar apprentice, been… I’ve been in the bars. I’ve been in a lot of bars. This is “How to Drink,” a show about making cocktails and drinking them. Let’s get going.

We’re gonna make a French 75, a favorite drink of the Lost Generation in the 1920s. They drank them in France. It is named for a piece of French artillery, the 75-millimeter gun. It’s a very potent gun with a high rate of fire. I think that the name comes from the propensity for people to drink a lot of them in a night, and not realize how strong they were. It is a potent drink and they definitely sneak up on you.

We’re gonna use the St. George Terroir Gin. We’re gonna use gomme syrup. We’re gonna need a lemon for some lemon juice and, of course, we need champagne. And I would suggest champagne and, you know, keep it French. It’s two ounces of gin into your tin. Two ounces of gin in your tin. Yeah. We’re gonna do a half an ounce of gomme syrup, one ounce of lemon juice, put a little ice in my shaker right now, strain this into our glass, and now we have to open this champagne bottle. I had this idea a little while back that Ernest Hemingway…I don’t think he ever poured champagne into a glass without throwing a dash of absinthe in it. So I tried out putting two dashes of absinthe into the top of this, giving it a little stir up and down. Oh my god. It changes the drink from being very good to something that is, in my opinion, transcendent. Maybe it’s not your taste. If you don’t like absinthe, certainly, it won’t be your taste. I love absinthe. I like this drink too much. I like this drink too much.

This is a French 75 with a little absinthe in it, two dashes of absinthe. Hey, if you like the show, I’d love to hear your comments. If you make this drink, I’d love to hear what you think of it. If you have a preferred recipe for a French 75, I would love to hear about that too. Guys, if you like the show, subscribe. Thank you so much for watching. This is “How to Drink.” I’m Greg. See you next week with another drink.

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