20 Hacks To Improve Your Cocktail Skills

Awesome episode! Really liked the bottle cleaning hack. Thanks Kevin.

This is tomuch fancy
We don't have that kind of fancy pant For rush hour our hack 😔

They have bar strainers that pour two streams.

Genius ideas!!

What was the white tablet you added to the saline solution after you made it?

The best hack for sours is to use pre buyed pasteurized egg yolk

cool hacks! You should never crack open an egg on a concave surface though! Just saying.

My favorite hack is drying yolks. After using the egg whites for drinks I end up with a bunch of yolks I didn't know how to use (usually scrambled eggs for breakfast the next day). Now I put them into soy sauce for a week and then put them into sealed container with a lot of salt. It will take all the moisture out and dry the yolks. They are great grated on top of pasta or other meals, a bit similar to parmesan cheese.

I use Jeffrey Morganthaler's ginger syrup recipe (boiled water/ginger chunks/sugar/blended) while using a potato ricer. Can make the best ginger syrup in under an hour! Not sure where i saw the ricer used but i decided to use it over a milk bag.

Appreciate your hacks and technique, my friend! Im always using your super juice calculator for my juices. Though, the grapefruit super juice doesn't work as well with the skins and acids. Come out tasting a bit bitter andnnot very flavourful as the juices of grapefruit. Any tips?

The Sous vide vinegar! Yes!!

This video is gold. Thank you!

Yes, using the frother instead of a dry shake is brilliant! I have one, but never thought to use it for that. Going to definitely try that! Thanks!

Seemed cool, but tried separating the egg whites using the hawthorn upside down at work. Didn’t do the job well and took too long… most of the white stayed on top.

Damn. One of the most completely set of useful hacks video I've seen. 🔥

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Cleaning the bottles is going to come in handy

Such an amazing channel! wish you one day see you in Bangkok

My hack: stirring in the small tin of a Boston shaker. The thermal mass is so low that pre-chilling is not necessary with cold home ice.

Hack#2, stir in a vacuum insulated mug/glass to avoid dilution variability.

Hack#3: spring cask-strength neat products using a small piece of clear ice. It gives some dilution and cooling without over diluting.

Hack #4: for home bars, stir drinks directly in the serving glass. It consumes some of that big, clear rock, but minimizes dirtied barware.

Hack#5: adding water to the warm glass with ice and stirring speeds chilling b/c of the increased surface area due to the liquid

Hack #6: when batching some cocktails, leave the dilution to serving time with shaking or stirring. It gives your guests that craft cocktail feeling without the measurement overhead.

Hack #6: use Dawn power wash to remove stains from Angostura bitters drips on your countertop.

The frother is a brilliant idea. I remember when I was making a sour for myself (I tend to use aquafaba because I love making things with canned chickpeas) and after a moment wondering if I should dry shake or reverse dry shake, I realized that my hand mixer could fit in my normal mixing glass (which is actually an old chemical beaker I got from my father). I have been doing that ever since.

WD40 is great for instantly removing residual adhesive. A follow-up wash in hot, soapy water quickly removes the odour.

Finally a life hack video that every hack is good🔥🔥🔥🔥

What about the color black? Ive seen others suggest squid ink, charcoal and food coloring, what are people using?

You can also use citric acid instead of vinegar. Same result but better smell. Same goes for removing any kind of calcium carbonats or lime

About hack 4 you can easily found in hardware stores the stickers remover, for really cheap and it works like a charm. You simply need to apply it to the sticker and all the glue will melt away

me cutting my fruit peels with a boning knife: huh neat idea

The bottle cleaning and clear ice torching are definitely going to be valuable to me 🪄

I’m notorious for always cutting myself, so last year I switched over to the exact cheese slicer used in this video for peels. I ended up cutting the tip of my pinky off with it and breaking whatever finger was still attached lol

The cheese slicer is a game changer! I love mine

Rice is also a good option for cleaning bottles and more gentle than small stones

What punch was that? Is there an epidsoda

Fantastic list that i can tell is just a taste of your knowledge. Was impressed immediately by how clever and useful they were keep up the good work

You are using a lot of coffee related stuff in your tips, speciality the first three ones. In any case are you a coffee entusiast too?

Usually in these top lists I normally learn something new in one or two of the things listed. Learned 20 here. Amazing

A cheese slicer! Yes! Thanks Kevin!

chill the glass

This channel never fails to amaze me, Another great video my friend!

Some great tips in there, that I wasn't aware of.

Can't wait for part 2! Friends of cocktails! I'm sure you have any tips or tricks! 🤩

Hi from Australia! 🐨 Eucalyptus oil is amazing for removing glue from glass.
Thanks for your wonderful videos!

Making tinctures and using normal simple syrup works better than having a lot of different bottles of flavoured syrup, especially for those not used regularly. For example, make baking spiced and masala spice tinctures that you can then use in syrups/coffee/tea/milkshakes/creme brulee/baked fruit etc.

Cheese slicer idea is genious.

Kevin, what label maker do you use?

As a new homebrewer the two bottle hacks fix two problems I've been dealing with so thank you so much

Dry shaking is completely unnecessary.

There are various bottle cleaners and sanitizers at home brew shops…. If they have them where you live or most will mail order them for you. 😊

Hack #23: Be friends with somebody that makes amazing cocktails. Trust me on this one. 😎

Another part of Hack #14 that you demonstrated, but didn’t mention was cracking the egg on a flat surface to minimize pieces of eggshell getting in your cocktail. Batching cocktails is the bomb. Cheers! 🥂🍸

Those are some good hacks

Hack #7 - being an (ir)regular at Dukes Bar in London, my Martini glasses live in the freezer!