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Hey, I'm Jocelyn and today's Friday video is a Maharaja's Burra Peg and my dear friend Sandra here is going to make this beautiful concoction for us and give us a little bit of history of it too
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Well, it just has some connections with India. Abura means big in Hindustani, and peg is simply a measurement
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So it's a big measure? It's a big measure. So apparently this was a healthy cocktail as it started out its existence
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And so it's a little bit of a fun one. If you want to maybe show off to friends sometimes, practice first
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But it's easy. It's easy. So we're going to start. You see here I have just a plain sugar cube
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And I'm just, I have to, I guess you're a bitters. And we're just going to put a couple drops
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One, two, three. So what we're going to do is let it get soaked
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They're really pretty. I love, and all bitters kind of have different colors
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But usually they're like a reddish brown. But they're really pretty. Especially when you put them over sugar cubes
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And there are actually quite a few recipes that call for that. And they're lovely
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They are lovely. Yeah. So we're going to let you see that it's sort of soaking down
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I hope you can see it's sort of soaking down through the cube. You don't want to soak the whole thing because it'll end up just falling apart
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Then you'll just have a pile of sugar. Yeah. And then it's hard to drop into your glass, which is what you do next
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And then we're going to take, thank you. Mm-hmm. I'll put that out of here
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So because it a burro peg and it a big measure It a big measure We going to put a full ounce of bourbon And this is one of the reasons I love this drink because if there are two things I love in life it bourbon and champagne
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And you rarely find that put into a cocktail together. So interesting, isn't it
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Indeed. So you can see that's a nice, healthy measure. I'm going to top that all the way up
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With champagne. So you really like this a lot. but it sort of surprises me because I know you don't love sugar
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I don't love sugar. You don't stir. You don't do anything to the sugar
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You're just going to let it kind of work through the drink. So just leave it and it's lovely
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Now, this is really important. I have here a couple of lime twists. If you don't know how to make a lime twist and don't have a zester
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watch Jocelyn's excellent video on how to make a twist. So these are small, so I'm using two
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You can put a larger one in if you like. Use them
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The lime fragrance is really excellent. It really adds a lot to this drink
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And you're going to rub the oils from this onto the rim
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And it helps make it even prettier than it already was. So let's try it and see what you think
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Thank you. Oh, my God. That's good. It's good. I love bourbon
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Like, I really love bourbon. And it's like, you don't get a lot of champagne-y flavor
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It's just, it made my bourbon bubble. It's really cool. Thank you
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It's a bourbon soda. I like it. I like it too. All right
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So that's it for a Maharaja's Burra Peg. And actually that was a really great, simple, but very sophisticated drink
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So join us next Friday for another great cocktail. Bye. Bye. That is good
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Is it good? It's dang good
