welcome friends welcome back to
cocktails after dark today we're going
to do
a cocktail out of this tiny little
cocktail book called
sloppy joe's bar season 1933
and sloppy joe's bar was in havana cuba
and every season they put out one of
these tiny little books and they weren't
for sale it was a it was a souvenir that
they gave you if you were a patron of
their bar
and so 1933 that's at the end of
american prohibition but it's in the
middle
of the depression and so those people
who had money
um but maybe not enough money to go to
paris went to cuba
and spent some time drinking and
partying and gambling
because cuba was crazy at that time so
we're going to do something called the
sloppy joe
from the sloppy joe's bar and we start
out with some pineapple juice
so we start out with pineapple juice
and i'm making two cocktails today so
we're gonna double this up
and then he says martel cognac which is
one of the few brands that he lists off
i just have a regular old cognac here
and then port wine
and then a few drops of curacao
that's maybe more than a few and the
same of grenadine
okay
ice this down
now it says to pour into a tall glass
and the picture shows something like
this like a champagne flute
so we're going to give that a go
oh almost sloppy joe
hello glenn hello friends hey jules so
what have i got 1933 from sloppy joe's
bar in havana
okay not there anymore uh
many things from 1933 are not there
anymore the sketch in the front is quite
quite fun though yeah it's um yeah
certainly shows a very lively bar
doesn't it oh yeah everyone's dressed up
yeah dresses suits hats hats
so many hats this one looks like a
police officer yes
and there's a cat and a child and a
child yes of course every bar needs a
child
so this is i don't know if it's the
signature drink from sloppy joe's bar
but it is called the sloppy joe
so in that case let's give it a go oh
these don't ting
no do they know
oh that's a bit bitter
it is a bitter beverage it's not um
considering it's got pineapple juice and
grenadine in it it's not
yeah and the the sweet isn't really
there
and and and the cointreau should add
some sweetness too
ah yeah but no no no
um and it's not
i don't know okay so maybe bitter
i don't know that i find it bitter or i
wouldn't use
moldy you know when you have moldy bread
have you ever had moldy bread or a piece
of moldy cheese
i don't know about that i don't know
what's going on there that's not
something that i would come back for
and i so and here we go again
each and every one of those ingredients
i like on their own i like cognac on its
own
i like port on its own i like pineapple
juice on it so for you they're not meant
to go together they don't they don't go
together at all
so yet another cognac or brandy cocktail
that
just doesn't work for me but that's the
best part
you just try a whole bunch of different
things and you say you know what that
doesn't work for me and you just don't
have it again and so
in in this cocktail book and so when you
look online there's several resources
online where you can find
scans of these cocktail books they make
this one look like it's
like it's like it's a magazine size
because they want you to see the great
the great
the great pictures in the front there
but there are several
uh brandy and pineapple recipes
in this book the pineapple would make
sense yeah um
so very interesting book and we're gonna
come back to this one because there's
there's some very early cocktails in
here um
that we would now think of as standards
that are slightly different
of course in this time frame so um
i'm going to say the sloppy joe not for
me i'll agree
thanks for stopping by see you again
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