Welcome to Common Man Cocktails. I’m Derrick Schommer. Today we’re going to cover a tequila mockingbird. It’s got a cool name so I figured it’s worth a try. It’s going to have a cocktail glass, looks similar to a martini glass because it’s the same thing. So if you hear something call for a martini glass, or a cocktail glass, there you go, funny shape to it.
We’re going to use tequila, I’ve chosen tequila connoisseur, I decided to go with Don Julio. Little kind of top shelf, kind of expensive, there’s other alternatives but please don’t do Cuervo gold just for me, don’t do Cuervo gold. You can do 1800 hundred if you want to go Cuervo style. And crème de menthe, you can use green or you can use clear. I happen to have clear so we’re going to use clear. And we’re also going to need a 1 ounce of lime so that’s about 2 halves of a lime because we’re going to need to squeeze them with our lime press. I also shaved off one corner of this so that we have garnish. So it’s close to the right amount of lime.
So let’s get started, shall we. We’re going to start with--let’s go with the 2 ounces of tequila. Now for the price of the Don Julio you get the cool little tequila stopper that lets it pour nice and easy. That’s part of your 40 dollars or whatever this thing cost. Sounds like a good price to see the size of it 375 milliliter, kind of expensive. Three-quarter ounce green or white crème de menthe. Don’t use too much, this stuff is quite potent. So I would go less than more unless you try to hide that tequila taste but then why would you be drinking a base of tequila in your mixed drink. Let’s do the lime. Unfortunately, it’s not going to fit in here all the way, so we’re going to do a little struggle. You can use the artificial like rose’s lime juice but it’s not going to be nearly as good, it’s going to be oversweet and you’re going to get a lot of high fructose corn syrup which is not really healthy for you. Totally worth just squeezing lime. Plus it tastes a little more natural.
This should go there. Where did my top go? Way over here. I think we’re good to go. Mix her up. Now because this is a cocktail glass, it’s not really an ice bearing snout glass. You put ice in here, you’re not going to get any of your drink. So it’s probably good as a shot. So you typically want to do and this is what we did except for it doesn’t really work on camera, is put in your freezer for a couple hours, days just leave it in there. It will get nice and frosty. When your guest come over you hand them a frosted cocktail glass, martini glass, you pour this in here, strain it in, and they’re going to be more impressed.
Now if you use artificial lime, this is going to have much more of a bright lime neon green look to it, looks cool but it’s artificial. If you’re going to impress people, you might as well go natural. It’s kind of a cloudy look to it, looks like lime. Stick our garnish on there, pretty, pretty. Let’s give it a try. Wow, I was actually expecting it to be a little more sour and bitter right up front, not nearly what I was expecting. I’ve actually, honestly tried it with the artificial lime, it doesn’t taste nearly as good. The artificial taste of this pretty much kills off any tequila in mint taste. It’s kind of like a lime meets mint which you think might be weird but it actually works out pretty good. Definitely tasty. So you can give that a try. This is a tequila mockingbird.
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