welcome friends welcome back to cocktails after dark today we're going to do a cocktail
called the lupita from this 1933 cocktail book called cocktails their kicks and sidekicks now
1933 this is a tequila or mescal cocktail very few tequila or mezcal cocktails in cocktail books in
this time period this is one of only a handful that i have and 1933 is a long time before the
rules came into play about what you could call tequila and what tequila had to be made from
that doesn't happen until 1949 so the fact that this calls for tequila or mezcal
not that surprising um especially since at this time period tequila and mezcal were
pretty close to each other in their flavour profile so i'm going to start out this one with
mezcal i'm using monte lobos dozens of mezcals in my cupboard that i could have
chosen from but i chose that one for some reason and for tequila i'm using this cuervo
this definitely would have been on the shelves in this time period next up it calls for a quarter
teaspoon of lime juice and i'm using our super lime quarter teaspoon that's not much at all is it
and a quarter teaspoon of grenadine and this is our homemade grenadine you can find that recipe
also on our channel so the thing about these small measurements is they're very difficult to do
but the reality is this cocktail book presents it as you would make four cocktails exactly the
same in a beaker like this stir it up and then portion it out for your guests but because i want
to try and taste and try different things and get julie and i each our own cocktail i'm doing it in
a smaller amount which may be a bit of a mistake okay stirred enough we'll get a couple of glasses
this one is the mezcal
and this one is the tequila
okay there we go hey glen hey jules i see you're making uh tasting size
well which is good yes but it's also i mean the farther back you go cocktails were smaller well
and they were also straight up alcohol yes right it's not like they were alcohol and
soda or alcohol and juice it was like here's three alcohols together well yeah and so a lot
of the older really older cocktail books they're served in very tiny glasses you were meant to
have a taste and then go back to work or you were meant to to sip through a bunch of different ones
over an afternoon and not just be slamming back it's a massive 12 ounce coffee martini
okay so i wasn't handing it to you i was thinking um let me set it down it's
interesting because i know that because i know the flavour of this particular tequila yeah
i can't inherently just guess what it is although i think that might be i don't know
no now that i smell it this one's definitely the mezcal yeah huh okay that's
i like both of those but i do like the tequila one a little bit better
this one has is interesting somehow seems sweeter yes which is fascinating right because
the sweetness level would not be the difference unless you like got a little heavy-handed
no i don't i don't want i don't think i was on the grenadine and it's interesting so i do like
i do like this one with the mezcal and it is one where in this small size i could sit and enjoy
it and then move on to something else if i had this in a larger glass i don't think i would enjoy
it as much near the end near the end of drinking it i'd be like i'm done with this the skulls do
sometimes have that stronger flavour right it's like a nimble i really like this one i think
it's balanced it uses the lime super juice that we made a couple of weeks ago on the channel um
and the interesting thing about this is so this is 1933 you've got lime grenadine tequila or mezcal
you fly forward to a recipe that we're going to do on the channel
from this little book published in 1951 and it has something called the sunrise tequila
and it uses a lot of the same elements and these are elements the lime and the grenadine that you
see used over and over and over in the evolution of the tequila cocktail moving forward well and
i can see that though right because you've got the sour the sweet it all sort of goes together
and then it's and it's and it's a matter of from this point forward refining it but i gotta say
that is pretty well refined for me i kind of really like that one yeah so if you like if you
like tequila this is this is something this is something for you this is look back at these to
see where we are today and choose your favourite mezcal or your favourite tequila there you go