welcome friends welcome back to cocktails after dark a video series
where I am exploring cocktail recipes and in the process I'm changing out some of the
spirits just to see how that affects the flavor profile today we're going to do
something called the Loch Lomond cocktail which appeared in a 1937 cocktail book and it
is essentially Drambuie Cointreau and lemon juice but just to throw a little
bit of a curve in there I'm going to do one with triple sec because like most of
you I know that these are both orange liquors and I know that they're slightly
different and some people would say that they are radically different but to me
they both kind of they both kind of smell the same they kind of taste the
same I want to see how they react in a cocktail so here we go this is a shaken
cocktail so we go in with an ounce of Drambuie 1/2 ounce of Cointreau and 1/2
ounce of lemon juice freshly squozen of course I start in and shake okay our
glass has been chilling with some ice so I'll get rid of that and we double
strain into our cocktail glass
okay second one exactly the same Drambuie
I like Drambuie I've realized that I kind of really like it on ice
on its own it's got really nice flavor the right amount of sweetness for me and
so exactly the same freshly squozen lemon juice ice the two and shake okay
and double strain just like the first one and cocktail number two with the
triple sec so here we have the loch lomond cocktail as it's written in the cafe
royale cocktail book with Drambuie and Cointreau and variation with triple sec
let's see I'm going to try this triple sec one first it's a different color
it's a little bit darker let's see
interesting
okay let's taste it
that's nice that's in isolation that is nice well-balanced the orange and the
lemon sort of layer very nicely the sweetness from the Drambuie and that you
know that honey flavor that it has and those other things I mean it says that
it has Heather in it and spices Scotch whisky of course that's the base spirit
that is a very nice cocktail now let's try it as it was written with Cointreau
and see if that makes it any different so right off the bat right on the nose
the the one the one with the Cointreau I'm getting a more pronounced orange
orange smell you know that it's right there
front-facing how can I put this in a way without sounding like a complete ass
take your favorite brand of anything absolute favorite name brand of anything
that's this one and then the store brand or down market or yellow label or
no-name brand that's this one it's good it'll do it's got some flavor there I
really like it this one is amazing there's no other way to put it otherwise
they're both pretty similar ok let's do a tasting test straight up between the
two and see which is which
okay straight up the triple sec I'm getting hotter I'm getting alcohol in
the nose that is number one and then orange with the Cointreau orange with a
hint of alcohol on the nose so I'm going to try the Cointreau first orange peel
tiny little bit of bitterness from like a p-- if that pith flavor but definitely
overwhelmingly orange now the triple sec which should also be orange okay
hot hot alcohol orange but hot alcohol which is funny
because the Cointreau is 40% alcohol by volume and this one this triple sec is
35 so i get a real alcohol burn they both have about the same sweetness
better orange flavor from the Cointreau than the triple sec alright but didn't
you know it in this cocktail i don't think you could go wrong i think no
matter how you made this it would be good
Cointreau would be amazing triple sec would be good give it a try at home let
me know what you think down in the comments thanks for stopping by see you
again soon
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