welcome friends welcome back to after dark and today we're going to be making
a pisco sour and a pisco sour is one of those kind of crazy cocktails where
there's a bit of controversy and there's some national pride at play at its core
it's a sour so there is there's lemon or lime I'm using fresh lime juice today
you see recipes back and forth alternately lime juice or lemon juice I
know that in Peru they generally use lime juice so we need a half lime juice
and into our shaker glass two spoonfuls of superfine sugar and you know it's not
an exact amount two spoonfuls next in is the pisco now pisco is a grape brandy
there's two types of pisco both named exactly the same thing if there's pisco
from Peru and there's pisco from Chile they both are made from grapes but they
use a different process and they use a different grape so you're going to get a
different flavor depending on which one you use so - in now that's all I'm gonna
put in the shaker tin right now I'm gonna shake this with ice so I'm doing a
reverse dry shake which means I'm gonna shake with ice first before putting the
egg in so into the tin to the cake okay now strain out the ice and I'm going to
double strain just to make sure I don't get a chips in
okay get rid of the ice now I add in the white of one egg and this is a small egg
a very small egg so if you've got a large egg or you use large eggs in your
kitchen I would only use about half of the egg white because that's about all
you need so separate the egg and goes the white back into the shaking tin and
shake okay take the ice out of the serving glass now no need to strain it
because we've already strained it look at that there you go nice egg froth for
the top and traditionally you're supposed to put in three dashes well
three he dashes for good luck I didn't quite make it and there it is the pisco
sour what can we say about this drink you're not going to see it in very many
places in North America anyway pisco is not something that you often find on the
bar and crunch Oh bitters same thing you're not going to find those many
places but when you do find them and you find someone who makes this well it is a
treat so you've got the bitters on your nose because they're right there on top
of the foam and crunch Oh bitters have this really really kind of fantastic
flavor unlike any other bidders they're made with botanicals that are found in
Peru
yeah that egg white immediately that egg white fills your mouth flavor of the
Pisco and the lime and I think that this would be a completely different cocktail
if you used lemon so you could you can try this a couple of different ways I'm
not going to do it today because I really like it with the lime and if you
can get key limes that would be perfect because the limes they use in Peru are
much smaller than the limes were getting from Mexico they're much more closely
related to the key lime than any other lime so they'll have a completely
different flavor yet again now you don't have to serve it up in a cocktail glass
lots of places will serve it in a rocks glass or an old-fashioned glass some
will even put it in a rocks or an old-fashioned glass with a lump of ice I
don't think clay ice is necessary I think this is a cocktail that you'll
drink before it gets warm and if you've never had pisco before I'd go out and I
try it somewhere if you can get a hold of a sample and give it a try at a bar
someplace ask for a shot try a pisco sour
I think pisco is something that you might add to your bar at home thanks for
stopping by I hope to see you again soon
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