welcome friends welcome back to cocktails after dark and this is our
Mexico trip mezcal haul video hmm so here in Ontario where we live there's
four or five mezcals listed with the LCBO listed listed but the only one that
you can really get on any sort of regular basis is this one from Casamigos
the other ones they come and they go and they come and they go and they
come they go really quickly and if you're not there you don't feel them as
being seasonal they're seasonal ok let's go let's go seasonal so we were in
Mexico and we went to Mexico to learn how to make tacos al pastor and the chef
that we were working with suggested this one MonteLobos mm-hmm so we so we
picked that one up and then we were driving around so we had a cab driver
they suggested this Ojo de Tigre and then the hotel you're staying at the
sommelier I said this is the one I've got I've got a line I can get you this one
apparently it's quite rare because it uses while a wild agave an agave that
they haven't been able to grow in a farm situation you have to find it out in the
wild it takes 25 to 35 years to mature yeah so it's clearly a piece yeah it's a
it's a it's a specialty one I feel kind of bad buying it because my
understanding is that that particular agave is in trouble from people of all
making all trying to find it and make this so I have my own internal struggle
so we're just gonna taste you them we're not miss cowell experts no no not in any
way so we've got something to palate cleanse you may not see us because I'll
probably edit that out but it's happening so we're just gonna chase
through them we're gonna figure out which one we like and then over the
coming months I will be using them in cocktails to see if something that I
don't like drinking on its own it's better it's better than a compounder
complimented right and this is always fun right because you it's your chance
to kind of explore a bunch of different flavors well east which one do I like
which one I don't like and so these three all use the same agaves
this one uses a mix of espadin and Tobelo and this one is tepextate
it goes by a couple of different names depending
on where you are in Mexico but they're all going to be a completely different
expression anyway enough talking let's do you want to start at that end okay so
I'm just gonna I'm just do though yeah well and taste that one definitely
smells like agave oh no we should start down here
we should start yeah no let's start here so these are from the same maker okay
the same maker the same agave and how are they different then well just on the
nose completely different Earth Day yeah so this one has a bit of a greeny greeny
blue tinge and that's not just from the label when you actually see it in the
glass it does but how are they technically different then it it comes
down to I think how the agave was cooked smoked crushed okay and the type of
still that they used whether it was done in a copper still or in a clay still
doesn't but like all my scales they're all labeled here's the bottle here's the
lot here's who made it yeah okay so I'm gonna taste this one first all right so
I just wait I smell this one then that's a really rich smell Wow okay well
haven't smells completely different yeah
that's really pleasant on the tongue yeah really Pleasant really okay that
being said moments later you get that oh yeah that was that you know okay so oh -
quiet cleanse completely different completely different and so of the of
these two because it's from the same maker which one would you choose this
one yes that's the one alright this one gives me flavors of diesel I was
thinking yeah oh it's a twitch now that being said it's not a bad thing
Rieslings tend to have its flavor yes diesel is a sentient flavor is not
uncommon and so when you when a lot of Somalia's when they pull out a Riesling
the more diesel in the Riesling the better they rate it I'm just saying it's
not a flavor for me if I had to choose from these two I would choose this one
which is the San Juan I'm very pleasant very nice very
fragrant and floral but again we're not experts this is just our own personal
preferences and not you know okay so the 400 rabbits hmm
this again so this is third this 400 it's is 38% alcohol which could be yes
so this one's 47% alcohol which the higher alcohol content would certainly
you taste it first the one thing I'll say is that they all have a very lovely
mouthfeel to them like none of them you put in your mouth and go yeah sometimes
you drink things like a heavy alcohol and it's like wow yeah there's no burn
it's all very pleasant there's no burn okay I'm gonna so that
one has a I think this mint still house has a similar flavor to this one total
similar to this one than this one tone down yeah much more toned down not as
you're not pumping this one you're pumping the diesel there's an unfair I
think that's unfair no I don't think it is I don't think it is unfair because
that's what I'm that's the flavor that I'm getting I'm getting diesel I still
get it in this one but not as much I still think this one is more so give
that one to smell let's try them on two logos that was a really light smell like
there's very little it's a very light okay hmm
that one's got a couple different flavors I think that one has the more
complex of all the flavors so far does that make sense
mm-hmm it has a bunch of different flavors in that it's a gain it's still
very pleasant on the tongue yeah a bit of a pungent flavor to it but it's a
broader flavor so my understanding of from these six is it this one is an
experiment that one of the big whisky companies is trying in Mexico and so
they're using whereas my understanding of this particular maker this is
old-school this is my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather
did it this way and we're continuing to do it this way which is fantastic this
is let's use science to come up with something that tastes great and I don't
I don't think that either way is is wrong or takes away from the process but
it is a very clean clean taste isn't it mm-hmm okay
oh hold the tigre okay so this is a mix of two different types of again light on
them and I say light on the nose that could just because I'm now you know
nosed four of them so many of them I'm gonna pour this one just to add it into
the mix at the end I'm gonna let you taste it first before I throw my what
I'm thinking so this is the one that our our driver mm-hmm suggested this is my
time to
yeah I found had a slight sweet smell flavor to it
yeah which was interesting and quit a game quite pleasant um it is quite sweet
isn't it it's got a it's got her yeah like there's a I can't quite what do I
know that's now tasted so there's this many there's still I still get a little
bit of diesel what is that a common mascara flavour like I don't know it
could be it could be it could be in the same way that you know a Riesling has
that smell to it none of these so far are overly smoky no
which is interesting because I often the few times I've had miss Kyle they've
been I associate the smokiness overpoweringly so and all of these are
artisanal they're all they're all cooking they're agaves underground with
wood and fire so I had expected a little bit more on the smoke level but I'm not
I'm not getting that it's it's there's there but it's kind of pleasantly in the
background mm-hmm like it's not an overpowering okay so the last one last
one is a I mean the hard part is you it's like I'm only gonna sip this tiny
little bit cuz I got it got to keep it in check okay on the nose completely
different than the other ones
what do you get it's got I feel like this one has that sweeter bit to it like
this one knows mm-hmm I don't feel like I'm like this one I'm not really getting
that diesel no the way that I did with these ones no it is but I'm I'm not
getting it's not like this one though it's very pleasant again let's go let's
go okay so of these six I still think my favorite is this one cuz it has a wider
range of flavors happening so I'm getting some floral I'm getting some
vegetal I'm getting you know what I mean and then you get so this one I mean Kass
amigos this is full-on this is Gallo industrial mezcal and I'm not saying
that's bad I'm not saying that's good I'm not saying it's bad it's just
another method it's another method it's on a bigger scale yeah I wouldn't put it
as my favorite no it was my favorite it they all have that similar thing I think
um like you I really like this one yeah but I also really like this one if I had
to choose but have you told me you were gonna give me any of these to kind of
just live with some ice I would have I would be good with that
I would have any of them and I think any of them would work in a cocktail I think
even this one even though I wouldn't like to sip it would work in certain
cocktails because that flavor would balance it with something else in the
mix so I think from a cost standpoint I wouldn't buy this one again and I don't
think that it brings anything extra to the party for me for you for me and I
know that some people would want it because it is that special bottle made
from a special and I think you should probably be probably a great gift yeah
and if you can if you want you can't get something cuz it's unique its unique and
if you can find someplace that has it it's well worth getting a shot glass and
tasting anyway definitely so for me this will be my favorite and this would
probably be my second favorite but again in a cocktail I think all of these would
work yes this one probably does need a little bit of something for me but
someone else might really like that strong flavor well yeah
I think that I think that mixed with the right things this flavor profile would
definitely work yeah like anything and of course they're not that easy to get
hold of no challenge right there is what we are maybe where you are there it's
more common but I you know certainly there are so many Miss Cal's on the
market that that nailing some of these down and I also think that from a that
these ones that are super artisanal mm-hmm batch to batch probably taste
test and variation the very might whereas I think the ones made by the
larger companies is certainly this one and probably this one would be more
consistent from batch to batch but please let us know in the comments what
you think what ones you like which ones you've tasted which ones you think we
should taste and stick around over the coming months because we will be using
these Miss Cal's in a bunch of different cocktails to
just see what we like and if you never tried I'm at miss Cal you know I know in
Toronto there's a bar called El Rey the dismissed miss Cal's and they have a
really good selection of miss cows that they bring in from from all over Mexico
so thanks for stopping by I hope this was helpful see you again soon
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