welcome friends welcome back to
cocktails after dark i am just cracking
some ice cubes for today's cocktail
today we're going to do a cocktail out
of this
little 1951 cocktail book called
cocktails tequila cuervo la rogena
and we're going to do a cocktail called
the sunrise tequila now this is from
1951
and
1951 is within a couple of years of
the first rules around what could be
called tequila or what tequila was what
tequila had to be made from
where tequila could be made all of those
things and
those rules came in in 1949 now the
thing about the rules is
they're fluid they change constantly and
if you think you know the rules about
tequila
today
you probably don't really have much of a
clue about the rules about tequila going
back into time
and so i'm going to make the cocktail
today with two
different types of cuervo tequila
just to kind of exemplify this
okay we've got our ice set up next i
need a lime and
cut that lime in half
and
each of the glasses is going to get half
of a lime
and it asks you to put the lime shell
in the glass
now the rules around
tequila today is that you can call it
tequila if it's made in tequila
from
51 weber blue agave or blue agave
blue weber agave
and
i would call that mixto um i
would in a very derogatory sense i would
call that mixto and that's what this is
but i got my wrist slapped
um
by someone from one of the tequila
councils
you can't call it oh it's tequila
so we're going to use tequila this one
which is only 51 blue agave the rest of
the alcohol in here could be derived
from anything probably corn
and it says one [ __ ] so
in goes a [ __ ] of tequila
next we're going to use
a hundred percent blue weber agave
tequila so what's in this bottle is
derived 100
from agave
that's 100 blue agave weber blue weber
agave tequila it just gets so confusing
and it obfuscates um for the consumer
what's really happening you go to the
store and you buy this and you think oh
it says it's tequila must be good
and it might be good i don't know this
might be better but we're going to give
them both a try head to head
and so a [ __ ] of that
now we need
six dashes of grenadine and this is our
homemade grenadine
you can find that video elsewhere
and the whole idea of a dash is
the whole idea of a dash is pretty
subjective i have cocktail books going
back to the early 1800s and when you
look through the ones that actually list
what they think a dash is
none of them agree a dash is all over
the place so that was six dashes of our
homemade grenadine now we need two
dashes of
creme de cassis
so just a little bit less
i'll be very careful
or i'll try to be
now the last ingredient is uh club soda
so i'm gonna use club soda it says
sparkling water but in effect what they
were looking for was
club soda
so we fill that
and give it a little bit of a stir
hey glenn hey julie jones so here we go
okay the sunrise tequila uh one made
with tequila and one made with 100 blue
weber agave tequila okay
so we'll see there you go
okay
it's not um it's not a whole lot of
flavor no it's very
that's not fair it's not a big bold
flavored drink it is a light kind of
refreshing
it's sitting by the pool
like it really is it's cold it's liquid
you taste any different yeah
okay which one
um
they're very different
i mean i don't know that you could say
which one is better because they are
distinctly different where this one was
the cold light refreshing not a whole
like a very neutral kind of slightly
fruity
this one has that distinct tequila um
and more so than a tequila just like
that that smokiness of
a so this one is tequila
and this one is 100 blue weber agave
tequila okay so clearly that one has a
different flavor to it as a base flavor
yeah
don't call them mix dough to the tequila
people because they'll slap your wrist
so
um
and and
it's not and it's not a matter of which
one is better
it's a matter of which one which flavor
you like which flavor you like better
uh
you know if you like the flavor of of of
a
mix dough um
then that's the one you should buy
because it is definitely a less
expensive option yeah because i can see
that's not a flavor for everybody i
happen to like it but not everyone likes
that smoky flavor it's like getting
something from isla right like it's just
and it's not to say that this one is
overly smoky like this is not this is
not
and that could also be my lack of the
ability to you know have enough words to
describe the flavor like it's not
veering into mezcal territory no no but
it is it does have just a distinct
flavor like a roasted
yummy kind of yeah and i and
some of that comes down to the process
as well what process are they using
for the pena
before they get it into the distillation
process you know some of them are doing
it in an autoclave which gives a very
clean neutral flavor some of them are
roasting some and it's just
it's a really wide category and to say
that it's one thing is almost impossible
because there's so much difference and i
would say that you could make this with
four or five different types of tequila
and have four or five different drinks
and you just have to choose which one
you like best and different and so and
then and then you know play with the
other ingredients
to me it could use a little bit more
supporting flavor
little afternoon of experimentation yeah
so
um try the sunrise tequila this is from
1951 this is a long
time before the origin story of the
tequila sunrise
i'm not saying that this became the
tequila sunrise but it
i don't know
uses a lot of the same words
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