welcome friends welcome back to cocktails after dark today we are
continuing our exploration of cocktails with a tequila cocktail now I have spent
a lot of time going back through old cocktail books and one of the things
that I found over and over and over and over again is a complete lack of tequila
and mezcal cocktails in these cocktail books prior to you know the 1960s and
they really don't start showing up in any great strength until the 1970s and
when they do start showing up they start showing up as a substitute for another
spirit and when I was looking at cocktail books published in Spanish from
Mexico even back into the 1920s there really weren't any mentions of tequila
or mezcal except as a sort of a very dismissive oh it's a coarse drink and we
don't want to talk about it which I find very odd because today 2020 tequila and
mezcal are hot everybody wants a tequila or miss Cal drink so today I'm going to
make a tequila Amaro which is tequila and the Serrano amaretto it also has gum
syrup or gum syrup depending on how you want to pronounce it which should add
really nicely to both the flavor and the way it the way it sort of lingers in
your mouth after you've tasted it so I'm using two different tequila's because I
want to taste the difference and I'm using a casa amigos tequila because
everybody out there who says that there are tequila fanatic absolutely loves to
hate that tequila I don't think it's that bad and I'm also using this one
kaya daughters or Cazadores or I'm sure I'm saying it wrong sorry I'll never get
it right and a couple splashes of orange bitters
in each one and then give these a stir we've built this in a glass with a nice
big clear ice cube
what's it stirred a little piece of orange over the top spritz it on rim the
glass and stick it in and we do the same for the second one now this is a
cocktail recipe that I found online I found it on too many websites to lists
where I found it it's everywhere and it's one of those things where most
websites are just cut and paste the same recipe and they've cut and paste the
same recipe with the same spelling mistakes so shame on you and there you
have it the tequila Amaro cocktail two ways to different tequila's because the
daughter is which I kind of really like the Cazadores and the Casa amigos that
just can't catch a break online nobody who leaves a comment likes it so let's
give it a shot right up front orange on the nose
obviously from the from the orange that I've used you get a undertone the
sweetness of the disa Rono or the amaretto and that's about it on
the nose
interesting and I know that I see it in the comments all the time people put in
the comments interesting that's Canadian for saying I don't like it
interesting it's it's trying to be sweet but it's it's not sweet it's not I don't
know it's confused let's try this one
same on the nose just that the amaretto is slightly muted
okay in this cocktail I'm gonna say Cazadores comes in second
Casa amigos comes in first this one the Casa migos has a much more complex
flavor there's there's several things going on there you get a little bit of
the sweetness you get the amaretto you get the orange you get a little tiny bit
of smokiness from the tequila cuz it is a slightly smoky tequila and when I say
slightly I mean slightly slightly smoky tequila it's so slight that you wouldn't
notice in a lot of other cocktails but in this one that flavors sort of comes
through a little bit and it helps it helps bring the whole thing up it lifts
it it's it's pronounced a little bit more okay of the two I like that one
better but giant asterisks caveat this is a cocktail that I would only have one
of this is a cocktail that I would have at the end of a meal or at the end of
the evening it's not something that I would start the evening with it's not
something that I would have in the middle if I was sitting down to Jimmy
some friends you know for a couple of drinks before we went to dinner that is
not something that I would order because it does have just a little bit too much
sweetness from the amaretto I mean this stuff is sweet any time I've ever used
it it it pulls through and I don't know I don't know if you could dial that back
any I mean you could dial back the gum syrup some but I know what the gum syrup
is bringing to this cocktail it's holding the flavor in my mouth and
letting it linger so that you can taste it for a longer period of time so it
just doesn't wash away it's still in there I would say this is one that you
could definitely play with I think for me this would be an end of the night
cocktail or kind of a wintertime you're bombing around on the snowmobile you
come back to the cottage you sit in front of the fireplace and you have one
of these and you just sort of relax a little bit thanks for stopping by
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