The best time to drink a Bramble cocktail is anytime according to Sassenach Spirits founder, cocktail expert, and actor Sam Heughan. He brings a taste of Scotland directly to New York with this five-ingredient drink that takes only one minute - so if you start at 4:59, you'll be sipping on the perfect cocktail by 5pm.
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00:00 Everywhere around the world, happy hour starts at five o'clock, but here at Esquire, we start
00:05 at 4.59, which means I've only got one minute to make us a drink.
00:09 Hi there, I'm Sam Heughan.
00:10 I'm here with Esquire, and today I'm going to make you a Sassenach Bramble Cocktail.
00:21 Do I remember the first time I made this cocktail or drank this cocktail?
00:24 No, this might be the first time I've ever made it, so I'm excited to give it a go.
00:28 A bramble, very refreshing cocktail.
00:30 I'd say it's a kind of summery drink, but also the blackberry liqueur that we're going
00:34 to put in there gives it this rich fruitiness.
00:36 I think it really complements our gin really well, so what time's the best time to drink
00:40 a bramble?
00:41 Anytime.
00:42 Normally, we'd like to garnish a bramble with a big, fat blackberry.
00:46 A bramble's what we call in Scotland a blackberry, but to be honest, we're in New York.
00:49 They don't even have fresh fruit here, so I'm not going to put a blackberry on it.
00:52 We're going to use two ounces of this beautiful gin.
00:55 I need one of these guys as well.
00:57 I forgot about that.
00:58 I'm going to put two of those in there.
01:00 Lemon juice, freshly squeezed.
01:01 I think we're using an ounce of lemon juice.
01:04 And some simple syrup.
01:05 You can make simple syrup at home.
01:07 Pretty simple.
01:08 Two teaspoons of that.
01:09 I'm going to just give it a little dash like that.
01:12 Shake.
01:13 Some ice.
01:14 I'm going to use some big cubes.
01:18 Try not to cut this all over yourself.
01:22 Tom Cruise!
01:25 So it's nice and cold.
01:31 There we go.
01:32 Top that up, maybe with some more ice.
01:35 There we go.
01:39 And that is your bramble without a bramble.
01:42 Cheers to that.
01:45 Oh, that's delicious.
01:47 And refreshing.
01:49 Even without the blackberry.
01:50 [MUSIC PLAYING]