welcome friends welcome back to
cocktails after dark we're going to do
another cocktail out of this 1930s
cocktail book called
cocktails written by jimmy late of ceros
in london
and we're going to do something today
called little devil
and i'm interested in doing this because
it sort of meshes with a cocktail we did
a little while ago
from this cafe royal cocktail book and
we'll talk about that at the end
so this is a rum cocktail specifically
asks for bacardi rum
it doesn't say whether it's a light rum
or an aged drum or anything like that i
have to assume
1930 during the
prohibition that it's probably a light
rum or whatever rum
you could get your hands on it didn't
matter so i'm going to make it two ways
i'm going to use this aged diplomatical
rum this is an eight-year-old rum
so i'm gonna make one with that and i'm
gonna make one
with the bacardi and we'll compare the
two
next in is some gin and there are quite
a few
rum and gin drinks and i'm amazed at how
well they go together if you find
a combination that works for you the
mesh is
wonderful next is cointreau
and so put that in and of course
you could probably use any curacao that
you like
we've got about a dozen different
curacaos on our bar
and i think at some point i'm going to
do a taste off between all of them and
see what the difference is
in different brands finally it is
some lemon juice and so we put the lemon
juice
in and then we ice this off and shake it
and i'll ice these one at a time
so it doesn't get too dilute
okay so the first one
this is the one with the diplomatico rum
should have a really nice color maybe
not as dark as i thought it was going to
be
and the bacardi oh it is quite a bit
lighter look at that
hi glenn hey jules hi friends those are
visually very different yes so it is the
little devil yeah i can see that now
with the two different rums so an
eight-year-old aged drum
and a white rum should give us a
different flavor should give us a
different perspective on it
and it's very close to the atlantic oh
we like the atlantic
yes so that one was cointreau rum
gin and absinthe
this one has lemon juice instead of the
absinthe and the
slightly different who knows lemon is
distinctly different from absence so it
might be just enough to make it
completely different yep let's go
how's that same banana smell really this
one does
wait let's switch oh i'm sorry
not this one though
okay what do you think they're really
refreshing a bit like having a lemonade
yeah you know what i mean it's like i
wouldn't say that i wouldn't i don't
have that cocktail flavor to it i have
like that
that this could be very dangerous
lemonade a porch sipping
a pitcher this is a pitcher drink load
it up with ice and put it in a pitcher
and people just serve it as the as the
afternoon goes on i mean the ice would
of course
melt into it and it would but it is a
it is a pitcher drink yeah i like
it's like a really refined hard lemonade
yeah
i like both of them i would drink either
of them
yeah even though they're hot day they
just yeah
they're a little little slightly
different but not
not a huge amount i don't think
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except for that banana that banana smell
you don't get that with that one i get
it a little bit not as much as we did
with the atlantic
the atlantic definitely had a banana
smell
and i don't know what that is the
combination but again it was just one of
them the one of them had
the banana smell more than the other
yeah check out that video
i get a little more alcohol heat
from the bacardi and there is a
difference between the bacardi
and and the diplomatico of two percent
in alcohol volume
which shouldn't really make this one
that much hotter and i don't know what
that i don't know what that difference
is
i like that i can't put my finger it's
just it's it's one of those things that
again it's just different enough
that when you're standing here side by
by side you're like oh those are
slightly different
but if someone said at the bar
what do you what kind of rum do you want
in your little devil i could go with
either
and again i only use one type of gin the
gin would again
change and layer it and it just becomes
and then throw in a different cointreau
and then throw it like there's
so many things right yeah you could
change just in this combination yeah the
curacao
could change it again here's the fun
part you could find a drink you
generally like
and just make a dozen different versions
of it get together with your friends
what do they own for rom
try it all have a big party pick one
cocktail
and as many different brands of the
alcohols that you just have them bring
it from their house and have a good time
and do it together
thanks for stopping by see you again
soon
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