Sloe Gin Cocktail: Add an Amarena Cherry, and Then Drop in a Cocktail 2 Ounces Sloe Gin Per Cocktail Bomb
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Shaking Up an Industry That’s Stirred Raising the bar on your beverage program RETRO RAD CHEF Shaking Up an Industry That’s Stirred Raising the bar on your beverage program… The tonic that catering needs to thrive in 2021 The Tonic: • Trends • 2021 Drinking Culture • Must-Serve Cocktails 4 Must-Serve Cocktails that will define how we drink this year: • Low to no alcohol • To go Sipper • Classics • Social Drinking = Social Media Worthy! Trends to watch: Home “Sip-fisticated” / “Drink-Telligent Demanding Classics Make-at-home Classics with a Twist Pre-made Low-Alcohol Mixologist Classes & Kits Conscious Consumption Health & Wellness To Go Whole System Thinking Hyperlocal Bottled Founder Stories and Missions Resilience Drinking Batched Low, No, Free-From Kegged Functional Elixirs Bombs!? Social [media] Drinking Drinks with Flare -> Roaring 2020s Flavors to Watch: Alcohol: Flavvvvorrrrr Flav!! • Gin • Tequila and Mescal • INTENSE! • Whiskey • Heat –> Chili • *Rum • Sweet -> Maple Syrup and Honey • VeGetal and Herbal Non-Alcohol: • Earthy -> Mushroom • WATER à Seltzer • Sour –> Vinegar • Coffee • Smokey • Tea • Mushroom Sourced: • Kombucha • Local • Sipping Broths • Sustainable • Cannabis Time to start shaking things up! Categories of Exploration Today: Conscious Consumption Classics • Health & Wellness • Demanding “Sip-fistication” • Low, No, Free-From • “Reverse” or “Inside Out” Classics • • Functional Elixirs Tiki goodbye? To-go Sipper The Social Cocktail = • Bottled Social [Media] Worthy • Delivery • • Off-Premise Experiences Signature Cocktail • Cocktail Experience • Take-home kits • Mixologist Experiences 4 Must-Serve Cocktails in 2021 • Low to no alcohol • To-go Sipper • Classics • Social Drinking = Social Media Worthy! • Signature Cocktail Home is Where the Drinks are Served • Cocktail Classes • Kits • Experiences/Activations • Up-selling Classes Boxes Customize Conscious Consumption • Drinking Clean • Healthy Imbibing • Sustainable Sipping Sustainable Sipping • Whole System Thinking • Hyperlocal • Resilience Drinking • Low, No, Free-from • Functional Elixirs Low to No Alcohol • Beer Crafted “Hopstails” • Wine-based Alcohols • Non-Alcoholic Spirits • Seltzers Melon Kombucha Mimosa Recipe at EmilyEllyn.com Melon Kombucha Mimosa Recipe courtesy of Retro Rad Chef Emily Ellyn, more at EmilyEllyn.com Prep Time: 10 minutes DIRECTIONS: Yield: 6; 9-ounce cocktails Serves: 6 Place Fresh Origins’ Herb Crystals® Ginger in a Glassware: Champagne Glass, Collins Glass shallow bowl. INGREDIENTS: Slightly dampen the rim of each glass and dip into a 1 bottle LaMarca Prosecco shallow bowl to coat the rims. 6 fresh oranges, juiced 24 ounces Kombucha Add 4 ounces of Kombucha. Garnish: Top each glass with LaMarca prosecco. 6 – 12 watermelon balls 6 lemon twists or pieces of torched ginger Garnish with watermelon balls, lemon twist or torched 6 sprigs of mint ginger, and sprigs of mint. ½ cup Fresh Origins’ Herb Crystals® Ginger To-go Sippers Sloe Gin Fizz Bomb Recipe at EmilyEllyn.com Sloe Gin Fizz Bomb Recipe courtesy of Retro Rad Chef Emily Ellyn, more at EmilyEllyn.com DIRECTIONS Prep Time: 20 minutes Yield: 15-20 each; 2.2-inch round bombs Cocktail Bomb: Serves: 15-20 Mix together all of the cocktail bomb ingredients in a bowl by Glassware: Rocks Glass, Stemless Wine Glass hand until a wet sand consistency that sticks together when pinched. If too dry, add a few more drops of lemon bitters. INGREDIENTS Cocktail Bomb: 14 ounces white granulated sugar Press into bath bomb molds and then carefully remove the 10 ½ ounces baking soda top of the mold. Replace lid and press to pack until tightly 7 ounces citric acid set. Carefully turn out and set on a plate for service or store .2 ounces gum acacia covered in an airtight container in the refrigerator. 4-6 dashes cherry bitters 2 dashes lemon bitters or substitute Aperol Craft cocktails by building in a mixing glass. Add sloe gin, fill the glass halfway with ice, and stir to chill. Strain into a glass, Sloe Gin Cocktail: add an Amarena cherry, and then drop in a cocktail 2 ounces sloe gin per cocktail bomb. Top with soda water. Serve cocktails with a long straw or swizzle stick. Garnish with a lemon twist. Garnish: Lemon twist Amarena cherries Sloe Gin Fizz Bomb Recipe at EmilyEllyn.com Classic/“Sip-fisticated” • Thirst for Knowledge • Quality over Quantity • Nostalgia • Escapism • Celebration Hive Queen Recipe at EmilyEllyn.com Hive Queen Recipe courtesy of Retro Rad Chef Emily Ellyn, more at EmilyEllyn.com Prep Time: 8 minutes DIRECTIONS Yield: 1; 5-ounce Serves: 1 Add gin, Hana Tonic, and honey syrup into a shaker Glassware: Martini glass, Coupe Glass, or Wine Glass with ice and shake until well-chilled. INGREDIENTS Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. 2 ounces gin, prefer Empress 1908 Garnish with a lemon twist or dehydrated pineapple 1 ounce Hana Tonic, or substitute splash of pineapple, skewered with leaves. ginger and cayenne ½ ounce honey syrup (equal parts honey and water Raise a glass and toast yourself for being the Bee’s warmed together and then cooled) Knees and Queen of your Hive! Garnish: Lemon Twist or Dehydrated Pineapple Skewered with Pineapple Leaves ADD FIZZ VIDEO Social Drinking = Social Media Worthy EXTREME Experiences • Roaring 2020s -> Out & About • Intense flavors that enliven senses • Burn • Tingle • Cool • Comfort • Rare • Flare Rocket Man Margarita Recipe at EmilyEllyn.com Rocket Man Margarita Recipe courtesy of Retro Rad Chef Emily Ellyn, more at EmilyEllyn.com DIRECTIONS Rim the cocktail glass by running a weDge of lime along the rim Prep Time: 7 minutes of the glass. Yield: 8-ounce cocktail Serves: 1 Pour a ¼ cup Fresh Origins’ Herb Crystals® Habanero onto a Glassware: Rocks Glass, Margarita Glass plate. INGREDIENTS Roll the eDges of the glass on the plate so the mixture aDheres, then set the glass asiDe. Margarita: 2 ounces Mezcal Añejo Create the cocktail by filling a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour in 1 ounce Rocket Fuel Syrup, see recipe below the mezcal, Rocket Fuel, fresh lime, anD fresh orange ½ - 1 ounce fresh lime juice juice. Shake until chilleD anD thoroughly mixeD anD then strain ½ ounce fresh orange juice into rimmeD glass. Garnish: Garnish with a BanDerilla Tama-Roca TamarinDo Mexican BanDerilla Tama-Roca TamarinDo Mexican CanDy Sticks CanDy Stick DusteD in Tang! DusteD in Tang Fresh Lime Tangy Tamarind Syrup Fresh Origins’ Herb Crystals® Habanero Heat 1 cup brown sugar anD 1 cup water together in a saucepot anD whisk in 2 tablespoons Tang, 1 tablespoon TamarinDo Aqua Fresca PowDer, anD ½ teaspoon DrieD chili powder. Heat until DissolveD. Cool anD use as DesireD. Signature Cocktail Raise Spirits Raise Awareness The Swallow Recipe at EmilyEllyn.com The Swallow Recipe courtesy of Retro Rad Chef Emily Ellyn, more at EmilyEllyn.com Prep Time: 4 minutes DIRECTIONS Yield: 2; 3-ounce cocktails Add all ingredients except the Stolen Smoked Rum into a Serves: 2 cocktail shaker without ice. Dry shake vigorously for 20 Glassware: Bird Glass, Coupe Glass, Champagne Glass seconds to incorporate and create froth. INGREDIENTS 1 ½ ounces Stolen Smoked Rum Add ice to the shaker and the rum and shake again to chill the drink. 1 ½ ounces Bird’s Nest Drink ½ ounce pineapple juice Strain into a pre-chilled glass and serve garnished with a ½ ounce fenugreek cardamom syrup, recipe to follow ¼ ounce lemon juice lemon twist and skeleton leaves. 2 drops Addiction Mixology Instafoam Fenugreek Cardamom Syrup: Heat ¼ cup honey and ¼ cup water together in a Garnish: saucepot and whisk in ½ teaspoon ground fenugreek and 1-2 skeleton leaves ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom. Heat until dissolved. Cool and use as desired. THANK YOU Presenting Sponsors Cheers! More recipes and inspirations www.EmilyEllyn.com Shaking Up an Industry That’s Stirred Raising the bar on your beverage program RETRO RAD CHEF.