that and you can have a cocktail to
celebrate yes we're shaking things up
with the Phoenix saloon and bartender
David Newman is here to share three
retro recipes you can make at home
classic cocktails this isn't anything
with tonic and with all these mixers on
this is just a good old-fashioned
speaking which an old fashioned which
we're gonna be making like fashion what
am I making first of all which involves
fire which is the Aztec chocolate old
fashioned all right so what you're gonna
want to do is take your loved one glass
there pour the ice in okay take this guy
right here this is a stick chocolate
bitters okay just a little splash eight
times one two no harder there you go
okay five six seven eight there you go
perfect okay now what take that bourbon
right or that rye which is that just a
classic looking Bobby I mean that's like
something that be lit across this bar
and a saloon Guinea arrived all the way
the top okay one more time one more time
alright so two times at that Phoenix
alone where is it
Phoenix the blue that saloon is downtown
New Braunfels okay right off the
roundabout what next next up grab the
orange peel alright this is where it's
getting fun yeah so where's that one
never light a match okay now as I
squeeze this in here
squeeze the rhein a little harder for a
little spark in there yeah boom there we
go before you burn your fingers let's do
it again
any working okay okay whichever the guys
this match me go like that mmm count to
five guitar doesn't here we go you got
the orange in oh and it's smoky like
that look at that okay know about the
history the old-fashioned the
old-fashioned is the seminal classic
cocktail that's where the name comes
from cocktail old fashioned hand in hand
uh-huh so this came out in the early
eighteen hundreds can really catch fire
until the coefficient high but a bump
yes pun intended seven there's a history
with the Phoenix saloon in prohibition I
believe we were just looking at some
video
correct we were shut down on June 26
1918
and the celebrates our hundred
anniversary coming back
phoenix rising uh-huh and serving
cocktails again and we're gonna keep
that exactly prohibition-era
now the basement which we're looking at
right now what was that used for around
the time of prohibition during
Prohibition
alcohol was served in the basement and
it was transported through those tunnels
through the rest of the city hall was
outlawed
that's great looking at all the old
newspapers that you found down there as
well first bar in Texas to serve women
right all right another drink
yeah next one ladies ladies Mary
Pickford
okay the Mary Pickford yeah I want to do
is fill it with some ice ma pardon all
right there we go
get the guy Justin Kearney fact about
the places they used to have what
alligator uh alligator and badger fights
tell me what you do at the bar had a
badger biting and right here spicy
cherry liqueur spicy cherry liqueur
good perfect
all right a little squeeze of that
cherry okay pineapple juice the whole
thing okay right there okay a splash of
orange juice and a saw lash oh right
here so if somebody is not used to
drinking a classic cocktail what would
be the one that you'd recommend and say
here's everything
this one this one okay the American
picture perfect just shake it keep
shaking this was named after Mary
Pickford yeah he was a famous actress in
the Prohibition era mm-hmm to get away
from prohibition they would go to Cuba
and at the International Hotel of Cuba
they made this drink in her honor right
here okay there we go oh look at that
very that looks really refreshing and
last but not least you got to have a
cocktail in a classic martini glass so
what is this one this is going to be the
hanky panky
ooh all right okay that all right go on
what's in it 30 seconds let's do it
Jen Jen Jen all right Jen [ __ ] straight
straight one two three boom all right
mmm I'm out okay one two three and a
splash yes
pour it in there uh-huh yep we're all s
in there mm-hmm give it a quick store
give it a quick stir strain it out and
you've got a hanky panky Jen and dark
vermouth sweet vermouth that's
interesting okay and the event going on
at Phoenix saloon the tomorrow night
will be in the basement serving these
and a few other cocktails oh how cool so
it'll be in the basement oh that's so
neat there's the information on your
screen tomorrow at 7 o'clock at the
Phoenix saloon they're in New Braunfels
just head to our website
si live.com for these recipes and more
information on that event
nothing like a cocktail in a martini
glass thank you you can just stand there
and look cool with that