Dude the margarita is the king of mixed drinks, right?
Is it?
No.
HAHAHA!!!!!
The Modern Rogue makes a Spicy Texas Margarita
If you're in Texas and you're drinking and you're not drinking beer, what are you drinking?
It's gotta be a margarita, right? it's a margarita
It's a margarita!
yes ok now when I think of a margarita
it's always like you pour in the tequila
you pour in the mix and you're done it's a
margarita a lot of people would do that
but Trevor is going to show us the error
of our ways, oh by the way ya back again in
an undisclosed location, the best secret
bar in all of Austin with Trevor
yeah yeah now the history of margarita
again no one really knows exactly where
and when it was conceived everyone has
their own story but one of the most
commonly accepted ones is that in the
early 20th century in Ensenada, Mexico
there was a bartender, he was
experimenting with drinks and the
daughter of a German ambassador walks
into this bar in Ensenada and tries out
one of these experiments. She likes it
and he names it after her, the margarita,
Awww, so it's like a fairy tale but with
alcohol my favorite fairytale yeah
that's ok so have I been making
margaritas wrong my entire life you
don't just use the mix like I don't know
how to make one from scratch it's pretty
easy really all you need is tequila, lime juice,
a little bit of simple syrup you
want a little bit of sugar in there and
some salt and maybe a little bit of
orange flavoring and you've got a margarita
but we're in Texas so today we're going
to do a spicy margarita, spicy margarita i'm
in there are a lot of like heathen recipes
for this where it's like take limeade
pour in tequila you have a margarita
I mean technically right did you see
that did you see the sneer on his face
it was like somebody just
pooped their pants
yeah exactly alright walk us through it
man I've got some pre-cut serrano
peppers here and you want to cut them
thin, you don't want them too thick it
can really add too much spice the drink
so you want to take 2-3 I'm gonna put them
in the tin we're going to pour just like
about a quarter ounce of fresh lime
juice here just a dash essentially
and now we're going to muddle it just
to try to get those oils now how muddled
are you making it, you're just pressing it, just
enough to kind of squeeze out those
essential oils, yeah you don't want to crush
it up too much
then we're gonna add one and a half
ounces of silver tequila here, today
we're using Espolon, what is the
difference between gold tequila and
silver tequila. The way its aged there's
barrel-aging and the amount of sugar that's
also put it now does it matter
the quality of tequila that you put into
the margarita yes and no once you get
into like higher levels of tequila you
don't necessarily want to put it in their
margarita cause then you're just you're
spending twenty dollars on a margarita
something like this you know this is
kind of a mid-level tequila you can get this
just about anywhere
sometimes when I get a margarita they'll
ask if I want top shelf I intentionally
take the house because otherwise if it's
too high quality of alcohol it stops
tasting like alcohol right at some point
yeah like Don Julio 1942 it tastes like
you're sipping caramel it's amazing I
would not want to waste that on a
mixed drink
ok so we've got the muddled serrano
peppers we've got lime juice what else
and we've got one half ounces of tequila
in there now we're going to add this
Texas orange liqueur it's just going to add
a little bit of flavoring to it
what are some of the other more common
liqueurs that you can put in there
well and the other one we're gonna put
in is cointreau oh you're going to do both yes
right on you're this is going to have a blast of
spice and orange in it and again we're
just puyying in a half ounce in there
we're going to shake this all together
and like any time that we make drinks
citrus you know we're gonna shake
I notice you're shaking longer then I
would expect so I assume that you want
the ice to break apart and dilute the
mix a bit
yes essentially rinse this out
now here's the important step here
because of those serrano peppers you
don't want those seeds to get into the
drink cause it it will really just
overpower the door yeah so we're gonna
double-strain this drink so you take a
fine-mesh strainer over the glass so
this way we just get that kind of essence
and serrano peppers and that way no
pepper or seed come in there and if
you look
yeah we got a lot that's amazing now
we're going to add ice 3 and to top this
off and add a little bit more flavor we're
gonna take some main root ginger beer
oh wow and it's gonna add even more spice
to the drink so how much ginger is there
in the ginger brew have you never had
one of the main root ginger brews it's spicy
this is delightful right this is gonna
be an amazing margarita and it's so
gingery it will knock the fillings out of
your teeth that's great
so this is a much more elaborate
margarita than I would have expected but
I'm gonna try go for it i'm not afraid
now this is interesting does it matter
whether or not you use the straw i put
the straw in there just in case you
don't want the salt
wow it's almost like a Moscow Mule this
is gonna sound super pretentious but that is
a really diverse flavor profile
I'm gonna do with the salt that serrano
hits you right up front yeah I did not expect that then you
take the ginger yeah it's like it's all
there that is a much more complex
tasting margarita then I've ever had
if you did not tell me this was a
margarita I would not think it's a
margarita
all i know is that it's spicy it it's
got some bite up front it's got just
enough sweetness that it's easy to
process you don't taste the alcohol like
that little bit of Serrano completely
masks the alcohol somehow. K so we have
some lime juice, muddled serranos, tequila
some cointreau and some orange liqueur
topped with ginger brew I i don't think
i've ever tasted a margarita quite like
this does this have an official name
Gary's fire crotch margarita
wait what what is it really is it really
Gary's fire crotch margarita smart move
to wait until after we drink it to
give us the name. Oh God! HAHAHA. Oh God!
PRAISE BEARDMAN