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Top futuristic cocktails for BTTF day
Great Scott! With it being Back to the Future Day yesterday, as 21 October 2015 was the date that Marty McFly travels to in the 1989 movie Back to the Future II, we invite you to celebrate with these futuristic cocktails.
In the 1989 film Back to the Future II, Marty McFly traveled to Oct. 21, 2015 (Photo: Wiki)
Wednesday 21 October 2015 is the date that Back to the Future‘s Marty McFly, played by Michael J Fox, travels to in the second instalment of the popular 80’s film franchise.
With a distinct lack of hoverboards, flying cars, and self-tying shoes, the world in 2015 may not be entirely in keeping with the one envisaged by the film-makers behind the Steven Spielberg blockbuster 26 years ago.
But the following cocktails, complete with (some very complicated) recipes, could convince you that we really aren’t too far from the advanced civilisation portrayed in the movie.
So fetch your shaker, your muddler, and your flux capacitor, and click through for more…
Mojito Spheres
Ingredients
– 12 mint leaves
– 170g white rum
– 170g lime juice
– 128g water [ingredients list continues below image]
– 6 tbsp white sugar
– lime zest
– small mint leaves to decorate
– 4.7 g Calcium Lactate Gluconate
– 0.8 g Xanthan
Alginate Bath
– 1 litre of filtered or low calcium water
– 5g sodium alginate
Method
Alginate Bath
– Mix the sodium alginate in the water using an immersion blender until the sodium alginate is dissolved.
– Let it rest for 24 hours in the fridge.
Mojito Mix
– Place mint leaves and lime juice in cocktail shaker. Crush the mint and lime juice.
– Add the sugar, rum and water and shake vigorously until all sugar has dissolved.
– Pass the mojito mix through a sieve.
– Mix 180 g (6.4 oz) of mojito with the Calcium Lactate Gluconate until it dissolves. Leave the remaining mojito to carbonate the spheres.
– Add the Xanthan and let it hydrate for one minute. Then mix it using an immersion blender and leave it in the fridge for 24 hours to eliminate the air bubbles.
Making Mojito Spheres
– Remove the alginate bath and mojito mix with Calcium Lactate from the fridge.
– Scoop the mojito mixture with a half sphere 5 ml measure spoon and carefully pour it into the alginate bath. It is important that the mojito spheres don’t touch since they would stick together.
– Leave the spheres “cooking” for about 2 minutes in the alginate bath.
– Carefully remove the mojito spheres using a slotted spoon.
– Rinse them gently with water and strain them carefully. Place them in a bowl with water or mojito while you make more spheres.
– To carbonate the spheres, pour the reserved mojito (without Calcium Lactate) in an ISI Whip container and carefully place the mojito spheres inside it.
– Charge the ISI Whip with a CO2 cartridge.
– Store them in the fridge for about 2 hours.
– Discharge the canister by holding it upright and squeezing the trigger to release the pressure. DO NOT open the canister before discharging it completely.
– Unscrew the top and remove the spheres.
– Serve immediately.
White Sangria in Suspension
Ingredients
– 1 bottle dry white wine
– 3 tbsp sugar
– 3 shots pear liqueur (or apple liquor)
– lemon peel from small lemon
– orange peel from half orange
– 1/2 green apple
– 10 strawberries
– 15 white grapes
– slice of red watermelon
– slice of pineapple
– 600g White sangria
– 1.7g Xanthan gum (0.28%)
– Various fruit cut in small 3mm pieces (green apple, strawberries, watermelon, pineapple, red grapes)
– small mint leaves
Method
– Cut fruit in small pieces as if you are making a fruit salad.
– Mix the wine, liquor, sugar, cut fruit and citrus peel in a pitcher.
– Let it infuse in the fridge for 8 hours.
– Pass the sangria through a fine sieve covered with cheese cloth to remove all the fruit and impurities.
Thickening the White Sangria
– Mix the white sangria with the xanthan gum with an immersion blender and then let it rest in the refrigerator to remove the air bubbles.
– Leave in the fridge until serving time.
Colour-changing Gin & Tonic
Ingredients
Blue Ice
– 2 cups of filtered water
– 8 dashes of butterfly pea flower extract
Gin & Tonic
– 2 oz Gin
– 4 oz Tonic water
– 1 Tbsp. lime juice
– Lime wedge for garnish
Method
– Mix the water and the butterfly pea flower extract.
– Fill the ice cube tray and freeze.
– Fill serving glass with blue ice and garnish with lime wedge.
– In another vessel stir all ingredients of Gin & Tonic.
– Fill the glass in front of the guest.
Inside-out Bloody Mary
Ingredients
– Tomato juice
– Worcester Sauce
– Celery salt
– Black pepper
– 3 oz good quality vodka (Grey Goose, Stoli, etc)
– Splash of lemon
– Splash of lime
– Dash of hot sauce
Method
– Mix tomato juice, worcester sauce, some celery salt and black pepper and pour into ice cube tray and freeze for several hours.
– Add vodka, lime, lemon and hot sauce into a shaker filled with ice cubes and shake.
– Put tomato juice cubes into a tall glass rimmed with seasoning and strain the vodka into the glass.
Cranberry Bubbles Cosmopolitan
Ingredients
– 380ml cranberry juice
– 1.5g egg white powder
– 1g Xanthan Gum
– 1/2 oz Fresh lime juice
– 1 oz Cranberry juice
– 1/2 oz triple-sec
– 1.5 oz Vodka Citron
Method
– Add lime juice, cranberry juice, triple-sec, and vodka into cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and double strain into large cocktail glass.
– Using immersion blender mix cranberry juice and egg white powder.
– Add the Xanthan gum and mix again with immersion blender until completely dissolved.
– Connect a PVC hose to an air pump and insert the other end in the mix.
– Turn the pump on and let bubbles collect for a few minutes.
– Spoon cranberry bubbles on top of the Cosmopolitan and serve.
Sonic Screwdriver 11th Doctor edition
While slightly mixing franchises with this cocktail, which refers to the famous tool deployed by sci-fi staple Doctor Who, it is still worth mentioning this simple drink which twists (or screws, if you prefer) on the classic Screwdriver cocktail. It is the 11th variation of this drink: one for every incarnation of the famous Doctor.
Ingredients
– 1 oz Blue Curacao
– 1 oz Vodka
– 6 oz Orange juice
Method
– Measure blue curacao, vodka and orange juice into a shaker with ice.
– Shake and strain into a glass.