hey guys welcome back to my kitchen today i'm going to show you how to make a cocktail in the long form meaning we're going to make a big batch of something that we can easily serve when we have guests coming over and we don't have to shake up individual drinks i'm calling it the elms because it reminds me a little bit of a boozy spa water my friend jeremy helped me come up with this drink and i'm super excited to share it with you so let's get started i went ahead before we started and juiced some ginger also i juiced a few cucumbers to get some cucumber juice and made a simple syrup ginger juice you can get at the grocery store simple syrup i've taught you how to make before lemon juice super easy if you don't have a juicer i would recommend throwing your cucumber taking the seed out into a blender with a little bit of water whirling it together and then pressing it through a fine mesh strainer and you'll get just it'll be just the same i've got a jar here and you can use anything ideally you might have something a little nicer that has a fun spout or something i just have an old olive jar but it all works and it's going to be beautiful colors so that's all that matters in the long run first i'm going to measure out a quarter cup of our cucumber juice and add that to our jar next i'm going to do a quarter cup of the freshly squeezed lemon juice and then we need a half cup of simple syrup you could use more or you could use less i tried it with a quarter cup and it was not quite sweet enough and maybe a little bit too bitey so i'm adding a little bit more this time a half cup if you want you can up the ante a little bit or even go lower totally up to you for our last juice i'm gonna do one ounce of the ginger juice and next we're going to add the adultness to it and i have chosen to use a rose wine we experimented with a few different things we tried tequila we tried vodka both of those were great but for some reason the rose just had a super light refreshing flavor that i thought was perfect for a hot summer day and it's not too crazy boozy so you can enjoy it for a while okay we have our rose in there and i'm gonna give it a stir the color is really beautiful it's a little blush pink and what i'm gonna do next is add a few slices of cucumber and a few slices of lemon to really give it that spa like quality this is perfect you can chill it but what i'm going to do is serve it over ice and top it with a little bit of sparkling water that way it's super refreshing cuts it down a little bit more so it's less boozy less like flavor crazy and here is what we discovered when making these they are spectacular on their own but but friends adding a little bit of basil electrifies it it just brought it to a whole other stratosphere and who doesn't want to go to another stratosphere just smush those in we're not going to like muddle them or anything else it's just going to be more the essence of the basil it's just going to zing it so here you go the elms of boozy spa water made in the long form take it to your friend's house make it at home enjoy it and if you enjoy this video please remember to like share and subscribe and tell me what kind of summer cocktails you like to make i'd love to hear thanks so much and we'll see you next time i'm going to get some slices going already i like to offer a little variety a couple of meats maybe two to three i have two today and then also i do the same thing with cheeses i get just a couple of varieties