welcome friends welcome back to
cocktails after dark today we're going
to do a cocktail out of this
1946 cocktail book called trader vic's
book of
food and drink and this is um
this is much more than a cocktail book
it it really is a book
it's a lifestyle book it talks all about
how to throw your party
what to serve at your party a bunch of
rest recipes to
to serve at your party drinks for your
party
what to do with unruly party guests how
to get rid of them
how to make up your guest list in the
first place it really is a total
lifestyle of tiki um
and i'm not a huge fan of tiki there's
there's some things about it that bother
me a little bit
but i do like the cocktails um so today
we're going to do something called
the hua pala i think that's how you
pronounce it it is a trader vic
original and it's denoted in the book as
a trader vic original
so we're going to start out with a dash
of grenadine and i'm going to make this
cocktail two ways like we always do
dash of grenadine and this is our
homemade grenadine and we'll see if i
can actually get a dash
how about a bar spoon of grenadine
there we go next is some lemon juice and
yes it is freshly squeezin
so here we go same amount in each
mixing glass
next up is gin so
i'm going to use this dylan's gin in
this cocktail
and then i'm actually going to clean out
the [ __ ] with some rum and i'm going
to use this diplomatico 8 ear rum
it's not the one specified in the actual
recipe
but so far this has proven to be a
really nice rum for mixing
and in this cocktail i'm going to use
bombay sapphire gin
just to compare the flavors
okay i'm going to ice shake and pour
the dillons first and then come back
and do the sapphire second
okay pour out the first one
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and double strain but you don't have to
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and we'll ice the second
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hey jules hi glenn hi friends so
the hua pala the voip
it is uh from trader vic's a book of
food and drink
it and trader vic is known as being mr
tiki
okay but this is a decidedly
antiquey cocktail there's a whole
section in this book that are
untiki cocktails like there there's
there's none of that
all that stuff that you see in a cup in
a cocktail i don't see
any no extra bits shoved in it no it is
it is
no fruit no this is from this is from a
section in his book where
at most there's a cocktail onion
well you know if it's about holding a
party you've got to have drinks for
everyone
yes so something that's easy to make
something that's really quick to bring
out
to the party which is probably why his
most famous recipe is not in here which
is the mai tai
oh there you go not in this book so
let's give it a go that is
the dylan's gin and this one is the
sapphire okay
that's kind of a bit of a bite to it
it's okay yeah it's not a grand it
doesn't blow me away
it's not a grand drink for me i think
the it's
all lemon doesn't yeah the lemon and
the lemon is the least amount of
anything it doesn't it's not balanced
to me yeah like it doesn't this
it's the one with the bombay sapphire i
find completely
flat in terms of of flavor profile
like there's nothing that says oh um
i've got something in my mouth that i
would really want to have in my mouth it
doesn't it's not there
this one has a little bit of something
that is a little bit of a it's
sharp yeah but it's not but it's still
not not a drink for me
but it might be a drink for you who am i
to say well and that's it
different gins again different rums
again
and the cocktail is completely different
it just says to use a light rum
which isn't a white rum it's a light rum
so it has been aged so it's been on on
age for a while
says to use bacardi
i'm not a huge fan of bacardi rums to
begin with um
don't let the grenadine pull the wool
over your eyes
i don't know why the grenadine was going
to pull the wool over my eyes but it
doesn't seem to add anything either
i think that's kind of a funny statement
for a handful of reasons one
it's a book full of tiki drinks yeah
so i'm not really sure where the
judgment's coming in like i don't know
how we can judge one drink for heaven
grenadine
when so many of the other drinks in this
book have so many other
other additional complainers yeah add
sweetness and fruit and
so they're all fruity drinks i don't
know what the problem is
um okay so not a winner
but if you might like it and that's the
thing about cocktails
just because we don't find it that
great doesn't mean that someone else
isn't going to absolutely love it so let
us know down below in the comments
what you think there was another gin and
rum drink
that we did a little while ago it was
very similar the atlantic
that we both happen to like i really
liked that one so and it was just a
subtle difference right
yeah anyway thanks for stopping by see
you again soon
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