welcome friends welcome back to after dark where we are exploring cocktails
and it's getting a little chilly here in Toronto
so I thought let's do three hot toddies and we're gonna do a hot toddy with an
Irish whiskey with a Canadian rye and a tequila now a lot of people when you ask
them about a hot toddy or the history of the hot toddy they're gonna tell you
that it originated in Scotland or Ireland but there is a belief that it
actually originated in India and when the British rolled over India invaded
India conquered India however you want to put it they found this drink there
and they brought it back to England so I don't really know where it started but I
do know that there is a beverage in India called the tadi it seems pretty
similar first one we're gonna do uses this tequila now a friend gave me this
tequila I've never tried it before this will be the first time I've ever opened
it so we'll see how it works out I'm gonna start out with some lemon juice
next in a couple of dashes of ginger bitters let's see there we go and then
it gets a scoop of honey
stir the honey into it a little bit see if I can dissolve it now by definition
of toddy has alcohol sugar water and a spice and it can be hot or cold
expecting a toddy to be hot is a fairly recent thing and two ounces of tequila
now the great thing about tequila is that it's very closely controlled by the
government and you can go to a website called what's my Nam Kham almost forgot
and you can plug in the number that's on the back of the label and you can find
out all of the other tequila's that are made in that distillery and in the
distillery that makes this cass amigos there's 27 other tequila's made there
and I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing
I'm still undecided and since I haven't tried it I'm gonna reserve judgment
until I try this drink so the next ingredient is hot water and
then the garnish but I'm not gonna put the hot water in yet I'm going to make
all of the bases and we'll put the hot water in at the end so that we can drink
them all at the same temperature this next one is a right Adi and instead of
using just hot water we're going to use tea as the water component so we start
out the same a little bit of lemon juice then we put in some honey and of course
this is local honey every time I use honey people leave comments that I
should be using local honey this honey is as local as it gets I have a number
of cousins and aunts and uncles who have hives who raise bees this is their honey
so it's really good honey use what you can get next in is an ounce and a half
of Canadian rye so put that in I'll just give it a bit of a stir to try to
dissolve some of that honey of course it will completely dissolve when we put the
hot liquid in so I'm going to put this one here we're gonna do the same thing
we'll add the tea when we add the hot water okay this last one's pretty
straightforward we're going to use the Irish whiskey and so we start out with a
couple of bar spoons of brown sugar and this is like a sugar in the raw kind of
deal again with the lemon juice lemon juice seems to feature prominently in
all of these recipes two ounces of whiskey and a little bit of a stir just
to start dissolving the sugar and now it's time to boil some water okay this
first one gets tea
with a lemon wheel floated on top and a cinnamon stick next one gets hot water
topped up a lemon peel and then float a star anis pod on top and the last one
hot water another lemon wheel and another cinnamon stick okay three
different hot toddies I'm gonna try the Irish whiskey one first I don't know why
but I am lemon cinnamon exactly what you would think
that's good I like the warmth that it brings like it is it's a hot beverage
lemony beverage you'd barely know that there was any whiskey in it
the cinnamon fairly light flavor of cinnamon because the stick will slowly
give off the cinnamon flavor you'll get more towards the end let's try the
tequila one next oh yeah tequila right away right at the top tequila a little
bit of the star nice but overwhelmingly I'm getting the smell of tequila that's
nice I like that I like that much better than this one there's star nice on top
but it's floating on top of the lemon so I'm only started getting a little bit of
star nice on the nose I'm not getting it in the drink that's nice I like that a
lot I think that one could stand with a
little bit more of the ginger bitters the ginger flavors there but it's just
slightly in the background overwhelmingly tequila in this one even
the lemon the lemons giving a little bit of acid zing but it's not at the
forefront this one was at the forefront now we're gonna try the one with the rye
and the tea I'm expecting something completely different
yeah on the nose completely different
no that's not for me that one is not for me at all the flavors are muddled does
that make sense like it's it's it's muddy it's muddy there's no one flavor
that's coming out and saying try some more I'm gonna try some more because I
have to give it a second chance no because I would not finish that one
which is which is kind of ashamed because I like this right I've had this
rye in other cocktails and I really like it in this particular not a fan I'm
gonna say that a tequila hot toddy wins out for me I really like this one so
there you have it I'm not saying that any of these are bad I'm sure that
someone who had this one there's someone out there who's gonna love that
absolutely love that it will change with the type of rye you use it will change
with the type of tea you used it will change with your flavoring with your
honey bringing a different kind of honey you're gonna get a different flavor and
the same with this one again with the tequila change out the tequila your
flavors are gonna be different and maybe this one's just kind of beige because
Tullamore Dew isn't that great of a Irish whiskey I don't know someone gave
us that bottle haven't had too much out of it do you like tell them or do let me
know in the comment section below and I'm you know as much as I was a little
bit skeptical about the Casa migos I'm gonna give this another try I'm gonna
try this in a bunch more cocktails and see if it stands up so out of these
three I'd say this one but of course just play with it at home and come up
with your own concoction and see what you like so I means we've got hot water
a sugar a spice and an alcohol you've got a hot toddy thanks for stopping by
see you again soon
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