welcome friends welcome back to
cocktails after dark today we're going
to do another cocktail out of trader
vic's book of food and drink the total
party manual and uh guide to rums
and this drink that we're going to do
today comes from the section called odd
stuff and trader vic admits that he is a
rum person and that most of the
cocktails he makes or drinks are made
with rum
but he's got some things that are a
little bit odd that he thinks should be
mentioned so we're going to make mexican
el diablo now this cocktail book is from
1946
not a huge number of tequila cocktails
in this time period it's just starting
to gain traction as a cocktail mixer so
let's start out with a little bit of
lime juice in the bottom of each glass
i'm supposed to squeeze the lime in and
then drop in the shell
i pre-closed the limes
because i needed it for something else
so i'm going to approximate
half a lime
we drop in the lime shell
next in is tequila and keeping with
theme i'm going to use two different
kinds of tequila this first one
is the one that everyone loves to hate
casamigos
and the next one is casadores and i
really like uh the different expressions
of kazzadores so i'm hoping for good
things from this
creme de cassis
that's a strange one
i think it's kind of a little bit odd
but we're going to put that in see how
it works out now we fill these up with
ice and we're getting to the end of the
day and my ice is not fantastic so go
easy
in the comment section about my ice
and to top it off
ginger ale
okay now the recipe doesn't explicitly
say to stir
but i have to imagine
you need to stir it a little bit hey
friends we don't often get drinks that
aren't uh uh shaken and strained or
stirred and strained no so this is um
this is from the odd stuff or the odd
ones section of this of this cocktail
book odd stuff that's there you go okay
so
casamigos
casadores
excellent
huh
it's a light that's really weird it's a
light fruity drink
it's weird in a good way though like
it's
i'm having a hard time with the ice but
uh okay
let's
quick
i like that the cassis actually brings a
lot to that drink yeah
okay so now i've got the casadores
they're they're very different
this one has a uh i guess more of a
smokey flavor better
so
i know
people love to hate the casamigos
george clooney that guy cannot catch a
break
he just cannot catch a break really yeah
he's had a rough life people people love
to hate on this tequila and you know
what i think it's a pretty good tequila
especially when you're mixing it with
stuff even on its own it's a pretty good
tequila
for me i like the flavor
i would drink either one of those yeah i
would as well i would you know at a pool
someone breaks hanging out with someone
bringing me
life would be this would be so in the
future my friend
so i think this is a winner i would even
i would even hazard to say that we
should try this with some of the mezcals
we have
we've got really good got a collection
of like a dozen different mescals and
that sounds like a dangerous event a
dangerous event
thanks for stopping by see you again
soon
you