Derrick Schommer: Welcome to Common Man Cocktails. I’m your host Derrick Schommer. Today we’re looking at the La Bomba. This drink is going to have some tequila. Haven’t actually used tequila; it’s one of my favorite and I haven’t use it in a while so I felt that I need to go into the books and find me a tequila recipe. Some Cointreau, of course these guys always are married together. Orange juice, pineapple juice, and two dashes of Rose’s Grenadine or any grenadine you have available. We’re going to mix it all in a Boston shaker, we’re going to pour it into a chilled cocktail glass that’s big because that’s how I roll and we’re done.
So let’s move some of the stuff out of the way so you all could see what I’m making. First, some ice in there. So we’re going to do one ounce—oh this is by the way a Caramba. I recently reviewed this. It’s half gone because we had a bunch of Margaritas one night at a party and that’s when we did the damage to the bottle. The Caramba I believe is a fairly new brand; this is the Reposado Ultra Premium. Of course 40 percent alcohol 80 proof it’s your 100 percent agave. You haven’t seen this one in our tasting episode because it just came in after that. It’s got a big wax seal that you really have to break open and overall it’s got a really nice, unique flavor. And you go at EverydayDrnkers.com and read the review. I won’t talk about it here. That’s like “barketting” see that—pimping. Don’t want to talk about it and give away the ending. But it is pretty good. So there you go that is your ounce that’s you’re biggest ingredient. The rest are all going to be half ounces. So we’ll do a half ounce of the Cointreau. Actually I haven’t used this in a while. We have been using Citronge and all the other orange liqueurs. That’s a classic one right there, half ounce of orange juice, and half ounce of the pineapple juice. There you go.
And there’s a lot of drink variants that tend to look like this but I haven’t actually had this. So I will tell you how that goes. There you go. Strain that out. Now, it doesn’t call for a specific garnish so I think maybe for this one you could maybe use a lime. You know what would go really well though? Is like maybe an orange twist? If you wanted to get out your little zest or do a twist and throw that in there. That might be classy if you’re making it for guest. If it’s just for you, whatever, you could do it if you want to twist the orange over the drink so the zest falls on and might add a little cool elegance to it or a little extra tastiness. And so there you go that is what it would look like prior to the grenadine.
So what we’re going to do is attempt to—they say float the grenadine on top but we know that never works. So we’ll do as they say but what’s going to end up happening is it’s just going to form at the bottom and it could be a little fountain, just a little splash. So there you go. What that really does though is look at it, on how much it changes the drink, it makes it much cooler.
Female: As if one of those ice creams?
Derrick Shommer: Yeah the ones that you get at the little machine?
Female: The ones found at the bottom?
Derrick Schommer: The guy that goes by?
Female: The ice cream man.
Derrick Schommer: The ice cream man; the white box van. I do not know if they do that in other countryside and we have international listeners. But in the U.S., since I was a kid and they still do it now is you can—this little vans come by and they give you different types of ice cream and you could buy them usually for more they’re really worth. But the kids always run out to the machines or to the trucks to buy these ice creams and there’s an ice cream that looks very similar to this. Where it’s got the orange but is it a rocket? No.
Female: I don’t know.
Derrick Schommer: It’s in a cone shape and at the bottom I think it’s got bubblegum. Right so, it kind of has that effect or I could almost look at it like the Tequila Sunrise. This is like the tequila sunrise right there.
It smells like pineapple. Pineapple and a little hint of orange but I think the pineapple truly overwhelms it. The Tequila is hidden very well there’s some good texture, some good oranges. You are not going to really taste the Cointreau or think that it’s there but unless you sit down and drink that and then drink this because the orange juice is just amplifying the orange-esk flavors which I like and the Reposado sits really well over all, this specific Tequila has a lot of body to it—it’s not for the weak at heart. Not that it’s bad. It’s just very nice sweet agave and it works really well in here because this is a sweet drink. So you are going to get the sweet agave but you’re getting just little hints of it, nothing intense or out of control craziness; I think even you are going to like this one because it just got that type of elegance to it but yet refreshing. So there you go that’s the La Bomba.
Oh and if you’re into Tequila type stuff, you should go to EverydayDrinkers.TV/Partida. Go tell him. This is a different type of Tequila but you can enter that contest if you’re in California, Florida and New York or text us to win the cool bag and a bunch of the gear and we even got this neat buttons. I’m not really sure what you do with the Partida buttons but you can just blend or you can wear a whole shirt full of buttons once. Flare. So you’ll get your Boston shaker top, your strainer, the cool bag that you can carry your gear in if you’re going to a party. So there you go. Go to EverydayDrinkers.TV/Partida. For now, I’m your host Derrick Schommer this is the La Bomba. We’re teaching you how to drink.
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