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Today we’re going to review Cazadores Tequila, because everyone keeps asking us to do it and has for years. So, today we’ll review up reposado and blanco tequila by the Cazadores brand.

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This video is slightly a bit chaotic due to our live stream going down mid-recording, losing internet access and trying to pickup and continue where we left off. But, we did get a chance to taste up the Cazadores and give our impressions of the flavor profile for both Cazadores Reposado and Cazadores Blanco tequila.

Video Table of Contents
0:00 Introduction
0:36 Dan mentions tasting The Rock’s new tequila
3:09 What does Cazadores mean?
4:07 Ian participates
5:13 Cazadores tasting notes
7:40 Dan’s great idea for next filming, margarita flights?
10:37 Price check argument about Patron
12:56 Outro

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Today we’re going to make the naked & famous cocktail twice: once with expensive mezcal and once with cheap mezcal. Bookmark the recipe here: https://bit.ly/3jIJyBV

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The Naked & Famous is a mezcal cocktail, but how does it fair when you use a $100 bottle of Mezcal instead of a $40 bottle? Is it that much better, or is it actually worse as we’ve found with so many other cocktails. We explore this with Montelobos Tobala against their standard Espadín variety to find the differences. Here is our Tobala review if you want to know more about this $100 mezcal: https://youtu.be/TohqSiOOW6E

The Naked & Famous
0.75 oz Mezcal
0.75 oz Aperol
0.75 oz Yellow Chartreuse
0.75 oz Fresh grapefruit juice

This drink brings some bitter, with the use of Aperol, but won’t be as bitter as a campari drink, however, you’ll find that the overall cost of this cocktail isn’t cheap. All the ingredients besides the grapefruit juice are fairly costly.

Overall, however, the drink holds it’s own no matter what brand of mezcal you’re using, but you’re probably going to want to like a smokey cocktail before dipping into these waters.

Table of Contents

00:00 Introduction
01:25 The Recipe
02:08 Cocktails & Sandwiches
03:25 The Pour, Naked and Famous
04:02 Love to Steven V – Executive Producer
04:47 Can you tell the difference?
07:27 Derrick’s pick
09:11 Dan’s thoughts
09:45 Chartreuse reaction
11:20 Death & Company opinions
12:18 Covid Cohort
12:43 Outtro

Playlist for cocktails with mezcal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaUfUyzjqFI&list=PL5zfqDuFro3y5Olgj6z_HsON3rI79DCQo

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Our negroni cocktail deconstruction involves taking a standard negroni drink design and making it three times – once with Hendrick’s, Barr Hill, and Beefeater Gin.

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Today we break down those three gin flavors to see what the negroni is all about. Keeping it to standard ingredients outside of the gin change up allows us to focus on what the gin does to the drink. As it seems to turn out, Barr Hill, while a fantastic flavored gin (watch our review here https://youtu.be/2HmvX65aq78) it brings an off-balance sweetness that contradicts the bitter flavor of campari.

Hendrick’s was “different” and perhaps a bit floral but doesn’t really make it “better” than your standard London Dry (such as Beefeater). An interesting experiment indeed.

Time Segments
0:00 Introduction
0:30 Gin Brands Used
0:54 Recipe Card
2:20 Love for Danny Morris
2:33 The Reactions
5:34 That time Dan had to drink a glass of campari
6:25 Which one is better?
6:57 What does landcrafted mean?
7:43 The Terroir & Derrick the hipstir
8:41 Nerding out, Deep Space 9, and Wallace Shawn
9:36 Ian’s Ranking
10:25 Comic Recall: Landcrafted
10:50 Outtro

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Today we’re going to taste and review Bully Boy Rum Cooperative Volume 1 using Norlan Tasting Glasses available at amazon: http://amzn.to/2sLEen4

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We love rum, that’s nothing new, but we’re very particular about the excitement level we get for rums, they have to really wow us or come in at a low price point. At $30, that’s a big ask for rum when you can get a $15 light rum for your daiquiri. When the price breaks $25 we start getting particular about the flavor profile.

This rum comes in sweet, but not too sweet, potent but not too burny on the backend, and has a nice round flavor with some molasses, butterscotch and vanilla / oak. We’re not at the $50 range so we’re not looking for a sipper, we want something that will play well in some basic cocktail designs using rum.

Sure, light rum often works but aged rum that’s got a few more years on it tends to give more depth of character and overall experience. Plus, you can only have so many basic daiquiri’s before you yearn for something a bit different. Bully Boy doesn’t disappoint.

Given the label “volume 1”, we can only imagine more volumes coming in the future? Oh yes, let’s hope!

The video time series
0:00 Introduction
0:20 Price & Breakdown
0:40 Love to Alan Joyce !
1:11 Tasting Notes
1:48 Gold Metal Winner Rant
2:37 What cocktail would work?
3:54 Outro

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Today we’re going to show you how to make the Americano, you can find the cocktail recipe here: https://bit.ly/2RX6Isa

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The Americano cocktail is a recipe for those that think a Negroni is a bit aggressive on the palate. It’s like the intro to campari for those getting used to the idea of bitter cocktails.

The Americano
– 2.0 oz Campari
– 2.0 oz Sweet Vermouth
– 3.0 Club Soda

The club soda here can be used liberally until you’re used to the flavor of campari and want to love it more. Of course, perhaps you never get to that stage in your life where you want to love campari, but at least you can say you’ve had an Americano and you probably don’t want a negroni.

The negroni does have its own unique flavor profile, because of its use of gin vs. that of club soda. In this case, you get a bit more “prune” like flavor from the sweet vermouth playing through with the bitterness and the club soda simply makes it more prominent without adding any other additional flavors.

Campari cocktails can definitely be hard to swallow for some folks, the Americano cocktail just tries to make it a bit easier on you.

0:00 Introduction
0:42 The Americano Recipe
1:19 The Money Shot
2:02 Executive Producer Charles Lubanje
2:15 Ian shoots carbonation in his face
2:41 Americano Tasting (bitter face)
4:13 James Bond and Americano
5:22 Dan continues to want to like it
6:13 Derrick’s nerd is showing
7:26 Outtro

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Today we’ll do a little review of Miramar Rakia, listed as a Modern Brandy. It’s a clear brandy with different unique flavor from other brandy’s we have had.

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Rakia means “fruit spirit”, usually around 40% ABV, much like a standard brandy but Miramar is a Bulgarian brandy. Miramar says Rakia “has a great history. Bulgarian archaeologists discovered a fragment from a Rakia distillation vessel that dates all the way back to the 11th century, proving that Bulgaria was the birthplace of Rakia. However, It was in 1382 that others outside Bulgaria learned about this powerful beverage. In that year the Ottomans were busy trying to conquer Bulgaria. It was during their siege of Sofia (Bulgaria’s capital) that their witness to the magic of Rakia was recorded.”

You definitely get some floral notes form this brandy, which is abnormal (since it doesn’t seem to be rested in oak for awhile) but the nose definitely has a bit of malty “moonshine” like notes to it. Interesting product, we’ll see what we can do with it for cocktails next!

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Today we’re going to make a gin & tonic, and we’re going to do it four times with four brands of gin: Bombay Sapphire, Ransom Old Tom Gin, New Amsterdam Gin, and Brockman’s Gin. The recipe https://bit.ly/3hEp0IU

The idea here is to give a wide variety of flavor profiles based on London Dry Gin, American Gin, an Old Tom style as well as a more berry-forward gin like Brockmans.

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We’ll have a bit more gin-forward recipe, as we’re only using 4.5 ounces of tonic (using Q Tonic).

Gin & Tonic
2 oz Gin
4.5 oz Tonic

We’ve done a tonic deconstruction in the past using different tonic brands, you can check that video out here: https://youtu.be/8FNJ-dCj4nQ – That deconstruction breaks apart the tonic to see how it influences the drink, this time we’ll do the gin itself to see how it changes the flavor profile of a gin & tonic recipe.

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Today we’re going to show you 3 cocktails you can make with Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur including the Dorchester, Division Bell, and the Hemingway Daiquiri. They all use similar ingredients so it’s not a reach to build all if you can build one of them.

The Dorchester:
http://recipe.awesomedrinks.com/recipe/the-dorchester/

The Division Bell:
http://recipe.awesomedrinks.com/recipe/division-bell/

The Hemingway Daiquiri:
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We’re giving you three of our favorite Luxardo Maraschino cocktails, these are the three drinks that keep us buying bottles of Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur. They pair well together because they do not require a ton of additional ingredients and share a lot of the same key flavors.

While the Hemingway Daiquiri and Dorchester definitely share a lot of ingredients (making it quite possible to keep a bottle of rum and gin on hand to pair against all the rest of the ingredients), the Division bell is the friendly neighbor that utilizes your Maraschino Liqueur with Mezcal, and offers the use of some Aperol.

Definitely, out of the three drinks the Division Bell casts the most smoke + luxardo flavor while the others offer up a bit more fruity flavors paired with their spirit of choice. Our goal was to give you a good sense of “what we’re drinking” on a week to week basis, these are the three drinks.

Hemingway Daiquiri
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2.0 oz Light Rum
0.75 oz Fresh lime juice
0.5 oz Maraschino Liqueur
0.5 oz Fresh grapefruit juice
0.75 oz Simple syrup

Division Bell
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1.0 oz Mezcal
0.75 oz Aperol
0.75 oz Fresh lime juice
0.5 oz Maraschino Liqueur

Dorchester
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1.0 oz London Dry Gin
0.75 oz Fresh lime juice
0.5 oz Simple syrup
0.5 oz Fresh grapefruit juice
0.25 oz Maraschino Liqueur

Time Indexes
0:00 Introduction
1:36 Division Bell Recipe
2:12 Dorchester Recipe
2:23 Hemingway Daiquiri
3:10 Derrick explains bad shaker tin design
4:08 Money Shot (the pour)
4:57 Hemingway Daiquiri Tasting Notes
5:21 Division Bell Tasting Notes
7:03 Dorchester Tasting Notes
7:35 Luxardo Maraschino Explained
8:36 How to get the recipes & bookmark
9:08 Andrew Turner’s special love

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Today we’re going to show you how to make the Knickerbocker, which is like a really simple Raspberry Daiquiri. Bookmark the recipe: https://bit.ly/3h1dlUt

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The nickerbocker is a slightly more tart raspberry daiquiri, it has all the right components: rum, lime, sugar with a hint of orange liqueur. In this situation, the sugar is a raspberry gum syrup, which gives you a new fantastic intensity.

Knickerbocker
– 2 1/2 oz gold rum
– 1/2 oz raspberry syrup
– 1 teaspoon orange curaçao
– 1/2 oz lime juice

You can probably use any orange liqueur you have on hand or leave it out entirely and still get a version of this drink that’s close to what we present here in the Nickerbocker cocktail.

This drink recipe will make a good beach cocktail or summer time cocktail recipe. Heck, it’s a good spring drink too!

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