Welcome Friends welcome back to the
kitchen welcome back to cocktails after
dark we're going to do another cocktail
out of the cafe Royal cocktail book
published in 1937 um choca block with
some really good
recipes and we're going to do something
called the
gler um apparently invented by Jack
Powell and it calls for 3 fifths King
George ivth
whiskey and my first thought was I can't
afford King George ivth whiskey and then
I realized that I had confused King
George ivth whiskey with King Geor the
5th whiskey which is a Johnny Walker
product um and relatively expensive King
George I 4th whiskey when I looked it up
apparently was an un was a was a blended
Scotch whiskey with no age statement um
whiskies Blended from Scotch
distilleries all over Scotland uh
discontinued in the 1970s apparently a
relatively uh inexpensive whiskey option
so I've decided to use shivas Regal um
as as that blend blended Scotch whiskey
and then we're going to try a blended
Japanese whiskey cuz I've never used it
in a cocktail before so we start out
with some orange
juice both shakers get the same amount
of orange
juice and then drambo uh drambo is a
scotch
lure um flavored with all kinds of
really great things this stuff is
fantastic you often hear bartenders say
that sang is like the ketchup of of the
bar um damboi I think takes a similar
place in whiskey cocktails really good
stuff so shivas um 3 oz and we'll do
that in this
Shaker
spilling and then I'm going to use this
this is a a it's naika whiskey from the
barrel um it's all I know about it
it's in a really cool Square
bottle and another one and look I've
already messed up the label so
now I will ice and shake these
individually hey
gr what do we have today ooh the gler
you picked out some new so what does
that fit in I'm spying those cherries
each one gets a cherry
so Cherry just one Cherry no extra no
just Cherry just a cherry and a
cherry
fine okay so it's called the Gloucester
this one's made with shivas and this
one's made with the NAA Japanese whiskey
that we've never used before so here we
go
yeah
interesting cuz when I first tasted that
it's like oh there's a really deep
flavor in there it's got to be that that
particular uh that particular whiskey
whiskey sorry yeah
mhm you get the layers with that's got a
really for lack of a better word a deep
flavor it's not Smoky per se no but it's
but it's very um lots of layers in there
and I really get the drambo I get the
the honey and and the spices from that
and a little bit of the orange at the
same time this one is a lovely drink as
well smooth yeah yeah yeah very
different I like them both I don't think
I don't think I would say I prefer one
over the other they're just so different
completely different yet both of them
are absolutely delicious I really do
like these yeah um let's just try that
one straight up since we've never had it
let's just see Now's the Time it's
open it's got just a narrow little tiny
little yeah oh pouring and it
glugs it's hot it's hot hot hot
hot so it's
51.4 alcohol so that's 102 the proof is
102 or 103 something like that but I can
see where it gets where it brings yeah
those uh flavors to this yeah it's kind
of
it's Japanese whiskey is a bit of a
mystery to me um I'm still navigating it
the laws governing Japanese whiskey are
a little bit gray in places of what can
be called Japanese whiskey my
understanding is that you can be a
Japanese whiskey Distillery and bring in
Canadian whiskey and put it in the
bottle in Japan and it's Japanese
whiskey and I think there's and so
there's yeah we've got similar rules
yeah there's I mean there's there's some
and and it and it's St not delineated on
the
bottle but that's great in this mix
whatever whatever yeah whatever's in
that bottle works in this drink yeah um
so the
Gloucester uh give it a try thanks for
stopping by see you again soon Julie
Julie's taking the Cherry Julie's gonna
highgrade the
cherries