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The Villager
• NigeriaBartender Victor Obanya of Nigeria has a vision to resolve his community’s storage and safety issues around the popular palm wine. By partnering with small business ‘Palm Afrika’, he’s creating a palm wine shrub that increases shelf- time, allows mixing opportunities and reduces waste - all promoted with his Ketel One ‘The Villager’ cocktail.
- My Ketel One cocktail is called ‘The Villager’. This is inspired from palm wine, a local alcoholic beverage created from the sap of palm trees in Nigeria. Despite its popularity across the nation, palm wine is rarely seen on bar menus due to its short shelf life. Partnering with Palm Afrika, a small business that taps and processes palm wine, I created the palm wine shrub. This is the first of its kind, and it gives palm wine a shelf life of up to a year. Now bartenders in and outside of Nigeria can infuse our local drink, palm wine,
- into their creations without the fear of wasting it. I am also bringing the Villager to life in the way the cocktail is served. The local way of serving palm wine is in a calabash. I’m serving this cocktail in a glassware sitting inside a calabash. This serve is an outreach to the rural palm wine tapper community through masterclasses on making the shrub for longer shelf life and scalable recipe creation. This master class series will contain a lot of education bordering best practices as the community faces issues concerning safety, storage, mixing knowledge etc.
Taste it for yourself.
The Villager
Ingredients
Ketel One Vodka 45 ml
Aquafaba 15 ml
Palmwine shrub 25 ml
Garnish:
Coconut shave & green scotch bonnet
Prep Ingredient Recipe & Method
500ML Palmwine
500 grams sugar
Vinegar
Add all recipes into a shaker, shake vigorously with ice, then fine strain into another shaker and shake without ice. Serve in a cut coupe glass on crushed ice in a calabash. Garnish with a slice of coconut and green scotch bonnet.
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