welcome friends welcome to the first of our 2019 cocktail series and I thought
I'd start this off with sort of the quintessential Canadian cocktail some
people would call this the National Cocktail of Canada and that is the
Bloody Caesar or just the Caesar depending on on who you are and what you
want to call it -Kinda like a Bloody Mary Cocktail - now there's a great there's a great origin story for this
cocktail but like any origin story for any cocktail you have to take with a
grain of salt there's a guy named Walter who came up
with this in the mid-60s for the opening of a brand new restaurant in Calgary the
only problem with that story is that there were several of these cocktails
that are essentially the same that already existed in predated Walters
concoction and one of those cocktails was the clam digger it predated the
Caesar by a few years and the other was the Smirnoff smiler but all three of
these share the same sort of pedigree it is tomato juice mixed with clam juice
vodka and some spicing but for whatever reason Walters took off it really
grabbed Canada by storm and you see this drink everywhere the Canadians get
together even in Mexico you're down in Cancun you see someone with a red tomato
juice in their hand it's probably a Canadian drinking a Caesar so I started
out this is a build in the glass cocktail
so I rimmed the top with some lime and you just put this into some Rimmer now
originally the rumor was just celery salt it has morphed over the years into
something that is much spicier and a lot of people really like this product this
spice mix is really good on chicken too so and for a lot of people who are
screaming that I got the Rimmer on the inside of the glass it is expected with
a Caesar to have the Rimmer on the inside of the glass next thing we need
to do is you fill the glass with ice
okay so this is a vodka cocktail and you could choose any sort of craft or
high-end vogue that you want potato vodka I probably
wouldn't use because they're just gonna completely lose the flavor and Kraft
vodka I'm sort of in the same way I don't think that a craft vodka is really
worth it in the string because there's so many other things going on the vodka
should just fade into the background chug vodka I'm gonna tell you plastic
jug vodka is all you really need in this drink so we need about an ounce of vodka
I'm not saying this is bad vodka I'm just not saying that this is great vodka
so put that in next are four dashes of hot sauce and the original recipe
doesn't say what kind of hot sauce today most people use Tabasco or Franks and
I'm going to use that but you could use any hot pepper sauce that you really
like so this is two dashes of hot sauce or three or four depending on what you
like but the original recipe is two and then four dashes of werster so didn't -
out very nicely did it now a little bit of black pepper sprinkle that in and a
little pinch of salt now we come to the Clamato Clamato is the original it is
the reason for this drink motor recently this has come on to the scene Walter
Caesar mix and this Walter Caesar mix is a great product very natural product and
I'm torn between the two but Clamato lots Clamato is the original so that's
what I'm going to use I got to tell you the Walters is much more expensive than
the mots and the mots isn't very natural but you're having it in a cocktail so it
doesn't really matter now you just take a spoon and you stir this up and that's
it now for garnish traditionally it would be a piece of celery stock a lot
of people will put in a shrimp over the top lately a lot of people have been
putting in a hot pickled bean which is an absolutely fent
a stick addition in my opinion and for garnishes I've seen this with a lobster
tail a hamburger I've seen onion rings and french fries and all kinds of other
things like just gets absolutely crazy this is a drink that there doesn't seem
to be a whole lot of dogma around people will change it and make it their own
each bar will have their own version so Cheers
yeah spicy tomato just a hint of seafood a lot of people get worried about
Clamato clam juice and tomato juice it just doesn't seem right it it's not
overpowering with the clam juice the clam is just sort of this note that's in
there you're actually probably getting more on the nose from the shrimp on the
rim from the vodka the vodka just completely disappears into the
background you shouldn't taste the vodka at all which is why plastic jug vodka
comes in handy for this drink now a whole lot of variations to this you can
mix this up as much as you want changing that the hot sauce is gonna change it a
little bit a little bit more Tabasco a little less Tabasco what do you put on
the rim if you just do celery salt on the rim it's going to give you a
different flavor and taste and for those of you that can't get Clamato or this
product regular tomato juice and you put in a jigger about an ounce or 30 mils of
this clam nectar and that's gonna get you to the same spot thanks for stopping
by see you again soon
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