I got a jungle juice and a pina colada
with a extra shot the daiquiris for my
old lady and I also got a shot of baka
on the side we don't go right on the
lake and she was going on out there but
we might end up at City pulp just sit
down and watch the Ducks and drink I was
drunk such a diverse trainings you make
it into anything like a big-ass 64 ounce
cup of booze that you get through a
drive-thru and go to the levee with
something that's pretty unique to New
Orleans people from out of town
frequently described them as Lucky's
with alcohol a daiquiri the taste
atresia tantalize your tongue in your
throat and makes you smile it's a cool
refreshing drink your dad grips like a
hot day a cool day I've just completed
Wednesday at my job day I just got back
into town this was the first stuff that
we made I'm gonna go home and chill out
now I'm gonna actually take it on the
lake today it's a little rainy but I'm
gonna go ahead and do a drink there I
come here every day I am going to go get
on my bike with my girlfriend and drink
it
I guess we're probably gonna go to Jack
and crap funeral wedding reception the
birthing of a child the conception of a
child well look children are conceived
going back drinking daiquiris you know
the problem with daiquiris is you never
know how much pleases in them it's like
rolling the dice on booths it's like
well it could be week it could be strong
you can't really tell I had a 12 ounce
glass and it was like drinking five
beers and it was easily the strongest
thing I've had in a long time
everything's good these five our
strongest our strongest and most popular
it's called a what the are five
strongest mixed together daiquiris will
sneak up on you you don't really taste
the alcohol so much how to just taste
like you're drinking something sweet
classic Zachary definitely is two ounces
of rum
some people use white room somebody's
darkroom I like the white especially
during the day it's cleaner just under
3/4 ounce of lime and then a full
rounded half ounce of simple just
one-to-one sugar to water add your ice
the tin and give it a good shake
chill down so the classic daiquiri
started off in Cuba this mining engineer
Jennings Cox I created the drink and it
was pretty localized and tall like the
40s there was a like wartime rationing
for World War two they took they got rid
of whiskey and vodka you know for like
the major population or you know made it
really difficult to get a lot of it but
they also at this exact same time like
open up like free trade through a lot of
the Caribbean islands and sort of like
romanticize the idea of like trading
through them instead so rum became
fashionable and so in the 40s people
sort of you know drinking the daiquiri
Ernest Hemingway that was his favorite
drink I think I read somewhere that John
F Kennedy was also at one of his drinks
so that's the classic daiquiri that's
sort of where everything starts changing
people start using jar chrome aged rum
you know different like types of limes
they'll use sugar that's you know weird
there's turbinado sugar you know I've
seen like all kinds of like different
styles
our daiquiris here are different kind of
thing they come out of machines like
this we serve them in much larger
quantities we get two gallons
Oh
an extra shock off the dollars
the daiquiri evolving to the frozen
daiquiri and I have to keep doing air
quotes because I don't even think that
that's really a decorate but uh that
whole transformation is sort of the same
way that the martini went from gin sweet
vermouth and orange bitters to like
anything in a martini glass is called a
martini so you put - teeny at the end
and that's what it is so it's sort of
everybody's perception of what teeny
means it's the same thing as like
everybody's perception of what daiquiri
actually means at some point frozen
daiquiris showed up here in Louisiana
and I think a lot of people around
whether they take the time to sit down
and ask questions about it as far as I
can tell that's not necessarily the way
of things down here people just enjoy
things for what they are whoever the
Creator was I'd be inventor I would like
to shake your hand kiss them on the
forehead compliment them bow down to
them because creating the daiquiri was a
good thing it's like making mistake you
know how does he somebody came up with
that idea to take this 7-eleven slushies
and stick balloons in them it's a genius
idea I think kind of goes hand in hand
with it just being so hot just trying to
beat the heat somehow the great part
about this is I'm standing outside I'm
drinking a daiquiri and it's a big part
of the culture here whether it's a
daiquiri or any other go cup drink but
daiquiris are definitely the most iconic
of that you can walk the streets and
drink then again you can't have a bottle
or a can on the streets and less than a
bag
well with the styrofoam cups its
container itself or you can walk and
enjoy a breezy day a sunny day a nice
little brisk breeze and drink your
Decker at the same time it's interesting
that you can buy one and just drive
around town with a alcohol alcoholic
beverage I guess it's mind blowing uh
what's in the m-i-a m-i-a is pretty much
like joe
okay I'll get a large pina colada
okay thanks there's a stipulation that
specifically says that if your drink is
frozen and it has a lid on it with a
seal that hasn't been punctured with a
straw then that's legit you guys up to
today
oh just rolling around and join the fine
day y'all take care thanks you too so I
just got my drive-through daiquiri but
they did not put the straw in the lid
which means it's totally legal for me to
drive with this right now so it's kind
of crazy because charter daiquiri places
are everywhere but there's never there's
no like drive-through cocktail bar and I
don't know why the daiquiri was made is
like the perfect to go but and works
so here we are booty's in the Bywater
it's a neighborhood quickly growing
neighborhood the daiquiri that I'm
holding this is got older ones rum got
fresh pineapple juice orange juice lime
juice rose water even in bitters things
you wouldn't necessarily find in your
general general jacker ease in those
places and it's a kind of a trade-off
you're not getting that old-school optic
feel but this one's going after flavor
this one's going after your palate
making a gourmet daiquiri some people
make some cringe you know if they're big
fans of the old-school daiquiris the
frozen daiquiris that you'd find it
jeans or any of the place where you know
they're not using fresh juice they're
using their own blends of citric acid
one on the throne science but it's very
different than this and other places are
doing this too now taking some craft
ingredients taking some cues from the
fancy cocktail movement that's been sort
of a renaissance the last decade and
getting into the frozen daiquiri thing
this is a watermelon basil cucumber
daiquiri rum simple but it's hard
because you talk about large amounts of
liquid it's not like you know a small
cocktail so it's if you mess up if you
go too far in machine like this you can
might have to empty the whole batch to
start again you know the more bars like
us not necessarily fancy bars or
cocktail bars but just a bar can put
together a decent decorate with fresh
ingredients that is gonna it is just
unique it's kind of a new platform for
cocktails in a weird way it's something
that I want to see maintain the terror
tej but also grow and also become new
things and different things while
remembering where it's been the deck of
shots that it came from and still be
able to incorporate new ingredients and
new ideas and be new for a new
generation the romantic idea of the
daiquiri is staying true so you're still
like drinking a fresh like Beach style
drink in amazing city you know that that
we call homes in Orleans is incredible
so if you can like keep that romantic
idea alive maybe that can you know step
over and like transcend the drink there
are different forces at work in New
Orleans be a mother nature be it levees
to break be it crime politics weed just
the spirit of one that eat drink and be
merry because you don't know what's
going to happen tomorrow all that
pervades here and the daiquiri is a
consistent part of that it's a symbol of
that and ability just will march down
the street on your own two feet on a hot
day holding a drink in your hand and
preferably a very cold and frozen one