Derrick Schommer: Welcome to Common Man Cocktail, I'm your host Derrick Schommer. Here we're going to create the Eliminator cocktail. This recipe comes to us from Eliza who partly likes Tequila and Bourbon mixed together.
We're using the Corzo. This is a brand new bottle, A Corzo. It's silver Tequila. I think it run me about $39.99. That enhances your pricing so I don’t know where it will be for you if catch is even cheaper because you guys have all kinds of awesome Tequila.
We have Knob Creek Straight Bourbon Whiskey, small batch. A hundred proof, right? Is that what we decided this was? Yes, 50% alcohol, 100 proof, potent. We've got some potency. Also orange drink or in this case orange soda, made this with my soda stream. You need 6 ounces. You're going to do an ounce and half, 6 ounces. If that’s not 6 ounces, it's okay because I've got another one. I made it just before I came up so it's not necessarily as cold as this one, but whatever. Shake it.
Female: Shake it.
Derrick Schommer: I'm going to shake it.
Female: The soda?
Derrick Schommer: Oh no, I'm not going to shake that.
Female: No.
Derrick Schommer: That’s a good thing. I don’t mind if I almost done that. So we're going to shake.
Female: Make sure I told you then than just laugh.
Derrick Schommer: It would have been dangerous had I shaken up a soda in here. So what I want to do is shake this strainer into. I'm going to use a high ball glass. It didn’t say what glass to use specifically. Six ounces, seven, eight, nine ounce total that should be good for that. Throw some ice in there and make them nice chilled. It should be good to go.
So, we'll start with the Bourbon. Get a mixing glass out so we'll do an ounce and a half. I don’t really know what made me choose that Bourbon. Actually I think the reason was, it isn’t proximity to me. So, whatever, right? Take your favorite Bourbon. Wow, it's really heavy. It's like a big piece of metal. It's got a little neat core thing, that’s different.
Female: They have to because they make that top of that ball really wacky.
Derrick Schommer: It is pretty cool. We have bottles that would have been funny if I dumped the top. We have bottles that are really awkward, but they don’t think about pouring of how the design should be played out. Should the design still kind of fit, but they did.
Female: But they did.
Derrick Schommer: Like the double cross is a similar bottle, but it's not as easy before. So there you go. I'm not going to put the soda in just yet. So we're going to do is basically chill up a little bit of Bourbon and Tequila. Wow, that might have been a little hard.
Now once you’ve made one of this, obviously you're going to need another. My two favorite things, oak and Tequila mixed together, Bourbon. So once you make one of this, you probably won't need to use or know how much the 6 ounces really is. You just do it by eye or fill it, but I'm going to do it proper. That’s a lot in there. Just to see what we really have, I'll use a measure for this. So there are two. We're not fitting six in here. I think we're going to go four. Four seems like a good number, bring the strength up a little bit.
Female: I thought you said that glass was 9 ounces.
Derrick Schommer: It is 9 ounces, but this ice, I didn’t consider the ice. You know it would have been me. I don’t have a Tiki godhead, but you put that in one of those Tiki godheads. You know, I think soda is over rated. Anyway, so that’s okay. Do you know it still comes through that oak and a little of the bright agave?
Weird, it's got some awkward burn where it almost takes like it's burning, but you don’t feel it. Does that make sense? Good finish. We've got a nice Bourbon oaky finish. If you're going to imagine like agave in orange, not two out of the normal. Margarita and orange cooler, you’ve got a little lack going on. Maybe a little Gromellier or I don’t know pick one different type of orange liqueur and their Triple Sec. So you're going to kind of get that play with the carbonation which is different, but then it ends with the oaky Bourbon. So you think Tequila, sweet then boom, finish with wood.
Not sure how many of this you really want to drink. They're pretty potent even though I'll fix it. Never needed to put an extra 2 ounces in there. Now let's see if it makes a difference. There is good potency to it but it's not overwhelming, but it's definitely in there. Punch right out into your face. No, it’s still there. So 6 ounces, 4 ounces, you probably need 10 to really dilute it but that’s dumb. You want to be able to taste the neat agave and the oaks playing together with the orange, and this kind of sweet of orange. Stick with four. If you don’t like it, do what I did.
There's the Eliminator Cocktail, nice orange-you can see that Carbonation probably good for a warm spring day like maybe 80-85 degrees. Watch people cut down the trees, whatever. I'm your host Derrick Schommer. Check us out on EverydayDrinkers.TV and we're teaching you how to drink.
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