Today’s drink is my own reconstructed version of the Bare Knuckle Boxer drink from the Showstopper Mission in Hitman 2. In it, Agent 47 needs to find the recipe for the favorite drink of his target, make the drink and serve it to the unfortunate Viktor Novikov.
When conceiving this drink and video Marius and I had a little disagreement about the point of promoting drinks from video games or pop culture, maybe you guys can weigh in, I’d be interested to hear what you have to say about it. Here’s what it is: I think that because we are a channel which prides itself on making great drinks, when we recreate something from pop culture it needs to be reconstructed to be an actually good drink. It is rare that some writer or video game developer will put a drink recipe into a Game, film or TV Show and have it be any good. And really that’s just as well, their jobs are to make a game, tv show or film, not a drink. The drink serves a plot point, it doesn’t have to actually taste good. But here, where the point is the drink, it does have to taste good. And for me, it has to meet what I believe to be a high standard. It’s fun to be able to drink something you see in a film, but if it aint good what’s the point?
Marius has a totally different idea. He thinks that if you’re reconstructing a drink and switch ingredients out to make the drink better you have a totally different drink and not at all what was in the game, tv show or film and it defeats the whole point of the thing. For my part I always try to select ingredients keeping the main idea behind the drink intact so that it at least makes sense, because I do see what he’s saying. But I just don’t see the point in making crappy drinks on this channel.
As for this drink, It still didn’t quite meet my expectation because I did leave a lot to the original idea and honestly it could use some tinkering. I think I’ll be working on it until I’m satisfied and then I’ll make another video on it describing the process of tinkering.
Here’s links to the tools I Use In this episode:
Barfly Shaking Set (Copper)
Barfly Measuring Cup Jigger (Copper)
Barfly Hawthorne Strainer (Copper)
Barfly Fine Strainer (Copper)
Glassware: Vintage Find
If you guys want to check out our full amazon store you can do so here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/theeducatedbarfly
Please not that the Amazon Store and all the Amazon Links provided are affiliate links that pays us a small commission of each sale (at no cost to you). It goes a long way to help us fund this channel. Thank you.
Bare Knuckle Boxer
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz Light Rum
- .5 oz Vodka
- .5 oz Orange Liqueur
- 1 oz Blood Orange Juice
- .5 oz Simple Syrup
- .5 oz Lemon Juice
- 2-3 Drops Saline Solution
Garnish
Instructions
- Add ingredients to tin
- Add ice and shake for 8-10 Seconds
- Strain into chilled glass
- Garnish with dehydrated lemon wheel
