welcome friends welcome back to cocktails after dark today we're going
to do a cocktail called the dirty tequila or I think it's called the dirty
tequila I'm not terribly sure like most Canadians Jules and I will go on a
winter vacation we'll go down south the Caribbean somewhere last couple of
winters we've gone to Mexico and so for our winter vacation we'll just go to an
all-inclusive resort and the last couple of winters we've gone down to a place
where the bar they don't sell the drinks because it's all-inclusive so you you
roll up to the bar and you ask for a dirty tequila and this is generally what
they pour for you although the place that we go to has has four or five
different bars in different parts of the property and you go up to each bar and
each bartender makes it differently some of them shake it some of them stir
it but it always is handed to you in a plastic cup which kind of takes some of
the magic away from it except you know you're by the beach or you're by the
pool and you're in Mexico so it is tequila dry vermouth and orange bitters
it's really not a complicated drink at all so give a stir and now there is a
garnish for this and that is a pickled jalapeno pepper
the dirty tequila straight up simple easy cocktail not much to it at all
something that these guys at the bar at the pool just slammed out like you
wouldn't believe I'm amazed how much alcohol they go
through at a pool bar at a resort in Mexico or anywhere in the Caribbean for
that fact now Jose and I did have a few of these
while we were there and we did try them with a bunch of different tequila's and
some tequila's that we'd never heard of that
you know just aren't for sale where we live and of the tequila of course
because there's not too many ingredients it makes a huge difference in what this
tastes like and just just on the nose between these two completely different I
mean this one I'm getting almost a caramel scent on the nose so I try the
Cazadores first
yeah I mean it's not as great as it is in Mexico I mean there's no beach
there's no pool it's minus 20 outside and it's snowing um that could be
coloring my perception of what's going on here but it's still a great cocktail
and this one I don't know where that caramel nose is coming from
very nice okay now I mean the color is more there is more caramel color here
this has spent more time in the barrel it's gotten more from the barrel but on
the nose there isn't a whole lot of caramel
there isn't enough caramel in that to create that much of a caramel nose in
the cocktail so this tequila is mixing with the other components and really
bringing that that caramel nose out there's no flavor though of caramel I'm
gonna say
I'm gonna say the Casa amigos wins this one the whole flavor profile it's a
little bit brighter a little bit wider there's more going on there there's more
layers in this combination then the cazador is and this is this is a tequila
that I kind of really like so I'm surprised but you know if you put that
down for me I'm gonna enjoy it I would enjoy it something I might try a little
bit differently is is muddling the pickled jalapeno or me just let's just
put a little bit of let's just spoon a little extra jalapeno juice in there and
see what that does to the cocktail because I mean you know we're playing
around we're experimenting oh that's the wrong spoon completely wrong spoon Larry
oh so okay yes
jalapeno pickle juice changes it once again a little bit of extra with the
jalapeno pickle juice it is now the Cazadores that wins Cass amigos is a
close second though it doesn't take much to to completely change a cocktail at
all so have you ever had this and if you're going New Mexico this winter give
this a try thanks for stopping by see you again
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