How About A Little Fluff? - What Happens in Vegas ....

Happy New Year!!! Foams are a big trend in cocktails nowadays and thankfully are pretty easy to do. They can be as diverse as a nutmeg non-alcoholic foam for coffee to being as high as 20% ABV. Whatever type you use, it’s a great addition to any cocktail program.
First, you have to decide on what cocktail you want to enhance with a foam then pull a flavor component out of the drink and make a foam out of it. A great example is the Margarita using the standard 100% Blue Agave Tequila, fresh lime juice, agave nectar recipe and put the orange curacao in the foam. I like to use Grand Mariner. It has a natural sugar content and a powerful orange flavor that will stand up in the mixture. All you would do is make the cocktail as usual and leave the Grand Mariner out. Then apply the foam to the top and you’re in business.
There are quite a few methods for making foams the easiest way is to use egg white. Here is a basic formula for making a Grand Mariner foam.
4 oz pasteurized egg whites
1 oz simple syrup
1 table spoon of powered sugar
0.5 oz fresh lemon juice
1.5 oz Grand Mariner
Mix all together and put in an ISI whip cream dispenser and charge with No.2 gas. You can add a little more fluff by charging it twice. Remember this is just a starting formula you will most likely have to adjust amounts depending on temperature, altitude, PH levels and sugar content. Also you can add gelatin to the mix to help stabilized it if it won’t hold up. Just follow the directions for the gelatin.

Another way is by using Soy Lecithin. There are 2 types that I play around with and both can be found at GNC. It comes in liquid and granules and I use this for higher proof foams. The main thing is you need some kind of emulsifier (egg white, gelatin or lecithin) a stabilizer (sugar) PH or citrus (lime or lemon juice) and a flavor. Whatever you do, remember that it will end up loosing its fluff so make sure when you get your recipe down to test it and let the cocktail sit for a few minutes. Drink it down slowly to see how it looks after being handled and drank. You don’t want this great looking libation that will turn into something that resembles a swamp pond in 2 minutes. So go and see what foam can do for your cocktails! Cheers - Anthony Alba, Liquidity Global

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[michael j]

This looks good