Ripper and Co Southsea Cocktails

The News, Portsmouth

Our reporter, Joe, took a trip down to Southsea to visit the Ripper and Co bar in Southsea to explore all things cocktail based.

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00:00 Okay, so basically this wonderful page here is like vintage cocktails. So it's

00:05 the classic cocktails around the world which I'm sure everyone has tried. We

00:08 have espresso martinis, mojitos, a classic Mai Tai, little things like that

00:13 that I'm sure people have tried in wherever like bar they go to. Now the

00:18 next page here is director's cut. So this is the page where we've taken those

00:23 classic cocktails and we've twisted them into our own ripper way. So like I said

00:27 the Mai Tai, we do that but we don't do it with rum which is like huh? Everyone

00:33 does Mai Tai's with rum but we do it with Disaronno and Apricot Brownie so it's a

00:37 completely different shift but it's wonderful. We have stuff like a

00:42 traditional espresso martini that we do as a banana version with alcoholic banana

00:46 foam on top. We have Turkish Delight martinis, we have Reese's Pieces,

00:51 old-fashioned. So we've like had a lot of fun by taking those existing cocktails

00:56 and kind of twisting it to be different. This is definitely the page where you can't

01:00 find these cocktails anywhere else. So if you have a classic in mind that you

01:05 love I'd say give this like give the twister go, you might surprise yourself.

01:11 So with the drinks menu myself and two other wonderful guys came up with all

01:19 the ideas. Every single one of us has like something different that we designed

01:24 for so with me when it comes to designing cocktails I design off of

01:28 stuff I hate. Now the reason why it's because if I feel as though if I can

01:32 change someone's mind about something like if someone really doesn't like

01:37 Turkish Delight so if someone really doesn't like whiskey and they come in

01:41 and they give this cocktail a go and they end up liking it I feel like I've

01:45 done my job right. So that's how I design. One of the other guys he designs

01:50 is he designs cocktails that are classics so like Negroni is a bit more bitter, a bit more sour.

01:58 The other guy designs based on sweetness so we're all very very different from

02:02 each other and I think that's perfect because we all got all of ideas and put

02:06 it into this menu so it's like a little bit of everything really.

02:09 So what comes first, I'm going to talk about, because it's kind of obviously they're based on a theme so it's alive, what comes first

02:15 kind of the the inspiration from like the movie or the reference or the

02:19 or the actual cocktail which is shaped to what? Do you know what, I think it was with a lot of

02:24 our cocktails we took the main quotes that they say for movies so obviously

02:28 with Frankenstein it's that it's alive, that's such a big statement so why not

02:35 make something that actually does become alive. It's all fun and games when you

02:38 give them a drink and they're drinking it and they're like loving it but how

02:42 about we make it so it's a bit more like immersive so I don't know how we came up

02:46 with this idea it's insane to us I think we genuinely just took science lessons

02:50 and you took everything that we learned from science GCSEs and just applied it

02:55 here so it worked really well. So for our tea we're adding some lovely coffee in there.

03:02 That's your coffee base so what we do to get it to have that wonderful banana

03:07 flavour is we've got some banana rum, best banana rum by the way, don't

03:12 argue with me on this it's amazing. So we add a little bit of that and then we

03:17 add some banana liqueur to add a little bit more sweetness in there and lastly

03:23 don't kill me we are adding more banana we're gonna add some banana syrup in

03:26 there as well and then we add some chocolate bitters in there just a couple

03:35 of dashes and then that's literally the drink itself.

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04:20 So it looks all white but you've just got to let it settle and slowly you'll see the gradient form where it becomes like darker.

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04:36 So you can like already start to see that it's just turning a little bit more darker, it's literally settling.

04:44 And then we add our piste de resistance which is this amazing banana foam.

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05:00 And to finish it off, for all those people that have sweet tooths, we add a little bit of banana sweeties that they can enjoy with it as well.

05:11 And that's it, that's one of our best sellers, the Banoffee Martini.

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