it's a bird it's a plane it's drug free cocktail where I've already struggled so you don't have to today we are going to be talking about the aviation cocktail it's a pre hope briefing pretty folk dishes God fail its pre-prohibition this drink came around actually when light was first being like the thing and the Wright brothers are like we're flying and I was trying to think of like a strug story that related to this drink and it's a little bit of a reach but this is what I got for you once upon a time in the pre Prohibition era when I was a mere little server I was doing wine service for a table and I was a little bit nervous about doing wine service I presented the wine bottle to the guest who was this man who had a little bit of a belly happening I showed him the wine bottle it flew out of my hand bounced on his belly bounce back into my hand like a boomerang and it was the most awkward moment of my life my face turn it was just like the worst but the aviation get its name for a slightly different reason not wine bottles flying everywhere any aviation we're going to have skin creme de Violette maraschino liqueur or squeezed lemon juice it gives its name from one of its core ingredients which is creme to be a left creme de Violette is a French liqueur which is basically a violet liqueur it tastes sort of like back to but I mean flowers are in back so let's take flight two ounces of gin I'm using aviation gin it is very botanical it's not super dry like a London Dry Gin so it plays off of the cherry the Violette a lemon juice really well 3/4 of an ounce of Luxardo which is a maraschino liqueur from Italy and then equal parts of maraschino to lemon juice I think that's pretty important so 3/4 of an ounce of lemon juice and then you've got to be careful with the be left if there's too much you're not going to have that light pastel color you're going to have like straight-up purple you don't want it to be preserve I love saying pervert er but like no one thinks it's funny except for me so like a bar spoon of it okay and this is also served up and fYI get your livers ready ladies and gents because this is a boozy one this is what your a VA ssin should look like it's a pastel color a little purple eat a little blue I'm loving it and I'm going to garnish with a little lemon twist you can also use a cherry if you have one on hand but I'm on a fudge and remember what I said about garnishes you want to echo ingredients in the drink so we got lemon juice we've got a lemon twist let's taste this her so I don't I don't know why but the best way to describe what this tastes like is Easter it's awesome it's so good it's just like a little bit fruity botanical tart love it so what are you waiting for habits drug free day go make yourself a cocktail hey guys thank you for watching click on the link below to get to Easter of calm and it will take you to the full recipe and also please subscribe cuz that's my name