Shake It Up: The Sweet and Earnest

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Straight From The Mulberry Project: A Cool, Low-Cal Cocktail For Summer By Gabriel Bell  You feel that? It's finally summer out there. And you know what that means — chilled, citrus-flavored summer cocktails! Of course, for the new season, you've got to have a couple of new drinks in your rotation, and, today, we've got a doozy for you. Straight from bartender Scott Fitzgerald of our beloved Little Italy haunt, The Mulberry Project, comes this instant classic: a whirl of tequila, grapefruit juice, basil, and Sweet'N Low. Now, we want you to get this right the first time, so we took our video camera to the bar to catch the Aussie mixologist's skills on tape. He demonstrates how to make this delicious drink, step by step. So, click play, gather your ingredients, and get ready to enjoy a taste of summer's sweetness.  Produced by Katie Lincoln; Shot by Jack Pearce, and Nora De Broder; Edited by Christopher Michael Beer.  For more check out http://www.refinery29.com/summer-cocktails?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral

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00:07Hi guys, I'm Scott Fitzgerald from The Mulberry Project, here with Refinery29, here to create

00:12the Sweet & Earnest. It's one of my favorite summer drinks. It's a very refreshing drink

00:16with a really lovely sweetness to it. Now, I'm going to use my favorite zero-calorie

00:20sweetness, Sweet & Low, because as we all know, the sweeter the better. And I'm going

00:24to use a nice healthy pour of 100% blue agave tequila. We're going to use an ounce of my

00:31fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice, and half an ounce of lime juice. Two dashes of orange

00:37bitters to give it a savory bit of flavor. And I'm going to use three pieces of ripped

00:42basil leaf. Now, I'm going to ice up my shaker. And I want to strain it through a tea strainer,

00:50because as we know, there's nothing more embarrassing than little bits of basil in your teeth when

00:54you're either on a date or out with friends during the day. Now, I'm going to give it

00:57a basil leaf to make it look really lovely, but the aromatics are also going to pull up

01:01off the drink, and you're going to really get that basil when you first hit it. And a little

01:05bit of grapefruit twist, just to give some oils in there, make it a little bit more refreshing.

01:09But the drink still is a beautiful sweet drink, and it's really going to be a great one during

01:14summertime. There you have it, the Sweet & Earnest. Enjoy!

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