this is how to drink the show about
making cocktails and how to drink them
I'm Greg and I have never been a
professional bartender I've never even
had a job in a bar I don't worry too
much about precision and technique
because at the end of the day if the
drink you like is in the glass you get
it right let's get going how the drink
is back in the saddle again
some things are the same some things are
a little different that's all right
everybody's a little different life
moves on man whatevs
welcome back to the smooth and more
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season 5 you're amazing I feel amazing
let's make some drinks that's enough of
an intro it's boring nobody wants to
hear about it let's make a cocktail
today we're gonna make a margarita no I
are making a margarita we're gonna make
a margarita because of Cinco de Mayo not
because of Cinco de Mayo we're gonna
make a margarita in time for Cinco de
Mayo and I thought about putting on a
really offensive costume but I realized
that that would be really offensive so
no I love margaritas we have done on the
show I don't know why I make mine
extremely simple I don't mess with
orange juice or sugar or anything it's
just lime and Curacao and tequila it's
really stripped down actually when you
make it right I think but to do that I
think you should use a better tequila I
would definitely use a 100% agave
reposado tequila
I like for two Zoila
Oh No four too late I like I like
Fortaleza you know but other tequila's
are fine as well I just would you know
middle shelf middle shelf not bottom
shelf middle shelf you don't need like
top shelf but middle shelf do that I'm
going to need a shaker is the shake and
drink and I'm going to need a lime when
I cut this line in half so it's one
ounce of lime juice one ounce of lime
juice we're gonna use one ounce of
Curacao and two ounces of tequila
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I have saved the hull of the lime that
we juiced before and just the outside
I'm going to kind of moisten with lime
juice now why am i doing just the
outside because when you rim a glass you
don't want to rim the inside of the
glass you don't want to add salt to the
cocktail liquid just to where the
outside is so let's go I'm not very good
at running glasses some of you are
probably better at this than I am I
don't actually make I'm not a
professional and so I make the drinks I
make at home and I don't actually in my
home bar do much rimmed cocktails
unless that's the glass we're gonna put
this margarita in it's okay
you could probably do a better job in
that I am going to put some ice in my
shaker here I'm going to throw in one
cube whole like that and then the other
one I'm gonna crack why I'm gonna do
that well come on baby
I'm doing that because Dave Arnold did
this really fun study a number of years
ago trying to prove that the kind of ice
you used didn't matter and he proved
himself wrong and he found out that the
best way to set up your shaker was with
one big heavy object that displaces a
lot of liquid and around it some what he
calls agitator cubes but smaller cubes
to provide the dilution
just a quick shake and I'm ready to pour
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I'm gonna garnish just a lime wheel keep
it easy if you look at this you're gonna
see that there are cells and you know
the natural wedge is there and then
there's the center you want to make sure
you cut not quite to the center like
that
that way it'll stand upright instead of
sinking and falling all the way across
I made a margarita I made it let's see
how it is oh yeah okay I needed this
is the hell with them drinking salted
margaritas stumble on something that
people in the cooking world have known
for a number of years which is that salt
is a flavor enhancer gave Arnold for
example advocates for making saline
solution and he uses saline solution and
salt as an ingredient a lot of drinks
this drink is fantastic the salt is a
part of it you don't need to salt the
rim some people only do a 50/50 so you
have an option on a sip or they do a
lighter salt drink is citrusy and bright
and fresh and you can really taste the
tequila still a lot of times a margarita
recipe involves like orange juice or
simple syrup just a lot of ingredients
that shouldn't be necessary if you're
using a quality tequila and if you're
using a quality tequila tequila you
should let it come out in front you know
history of the margarita is a little bit
murky they wonder tolds that it is a
evolution of a tequila Daisy that kind
of comes out of a hotel I forget the
name of up top my head but that's okay
you can tell me in the comments
it's from Tijuana in during Prohibition
I think he's probably right I've heard
some other stories I won't misspoke them
now because I don't have the memorized I
don't really care it's a damn good drink
I will be enjoying them all summer long
as we approach the warmer months got a
little bit on my mustache there I don't
know what I don't know what else to say
but I Marguerite he probably had a
margarita this is a good margarita and I
like this recipe it's very easy I never
forget the recipe two one one the only
three ingredients in the salt and their
taste be nominal oh my god is good
what's a good time for margarita sunset
how about with dinner oh yeah that for
me actually it's like a dinner drink
because some cocktails are like dessert
drinks some cocktails are before day
drinks some cocktails are day drinking
drinks breakfast cocktails I like a
margarita at dinner because it doesn't
conflict with the flavors for me because
it's like a palate cleanser kind of like
the ginger that goes with sushi oh yeah
I'm being told I was supposed to say
beach I was supposed to say I liked it
margarita at the beach I don't go to the
beach I live in an edit suite there's no
window only darkness
Cheers so this is how to drink show
about making cocktails and how to drink
them and it's season five so thank you
for watching and I'm gonna see you guys
next week with another drink on how to
drink oh by the way happy happy Cinco de
Mayo hey who knows the history on that
one cuz Cinco de Mayo a lot of people
think ah guys think that sick of the
Maya was when Spain no when Mexico got
free from Spain but that's not true
sick of the Myo is when Mexico got free
from Napoleon that's right yeah they got
free from spit out from France it's
actually I don't think I think it's not
kind of a big deal in Mexico like
Mexican Independence Day is another day
I don't know it that's when they got
free from Spain that's a big deal that's
you know Napoleon tiny man Bonaparte you
ever read the Aubrey and mature novels
they take place during the Napoleonic
Wars it's about Captain Aubrey and his
dr. Mattern they made one of them into a
movie Master and Commander far side of
the world
great movie it's about sailing this is
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