Welcome to Common Man Cocktails, I’m your host Derrick Schommer. Today, we’re going to create the what? Oh you’re doing a countdown? Five, four, three two, we’ll really do countdowns, but apparently we do now. We’re going to do the Sunday Snuggie, this comes from Dave who sent this recipe. This has yagger, bum yagger —what. It’s got Bourbon whiskey, so we’re using the Woodford Reserve Distiller’s Select, but its still 750 milliliters. Is it not amazing how many different bottle the science can fit the same physical volume of alcohol, it’s awesome, and probably not this size, it will be like 750.
It’s going to have just a little cranberry juice in here. We’re going to top with cranberry juice. We’re going to use a little like grenadine. Now I’ve been getting not really too many, but a couple of people say never use this pre-made mix masters or master mixes, sweet and sour mixer, so i decided, you know I’m not going to, this is probably why it’s got a lot of high fruit dose, corn sugar, but typically the ingredients read the way I think the most ingredient is right. So you’ve got water is the first, high fruit dose, corn syrup is the second, lemon, citric acid lime.
So if you think about it, make your own, it’s not had I guess. See it kind of looks like lime, but one ounce of lime, so I squeezed the lime, you should get an ounce. An ounce of lemon, so you use the big as you can, you don’t necessary have to use all the lemon, and then an ounce of simple syrup. Lots of different recipes for sweet sour mixes on the internet and you can probably submit yours if you want to. This is just one part of each, I think it’s very simple, taste tasty and sour and sweet, so we’re going to use that, and no high fruit dose or corn syrup. We save for the grenadine. And that’s it. Two ounces of these three ingredients here and we’re good to go.
So it must be good to go. We’ll do the two ounces of Bourbon first and Jennifer’s comment before the show is this is going to taste weird. It’s going to be weird, Bourbon and yagger, I don’t know. Weird could just be awkward, something we’ve never had before which i have never have this before, so it could be in fact weird. There’s a lot of alcohol in here too.
So you’ve got four ounces of alcohol, not a weak drink. You could probably fill up your glass with ice and just pour for two that way you don’t have as much intensity, because I mean it’s a lot. That’s some serious liquor right there and I will do two ounces of this sweet-sour mix. Now it happens to be, I have a little leftover, if you do one, one and one you’re going to have enough for two ounces.
Now it says build over a glass. I want to chill it. So I’m going to pour over glass. One reason is the sweet sour, typically shake juices. So I’m going to shake the juice. I like it better that way. And we’ll splash the cranberry juice in last. If you want you can go into maraschino cherry, I don’t have any on me. Shake it up.
Now had it been clear like it was just the alcohol, so even though it is pretty dark, you could build any the —glass, you could build it anyway, they’ll like screw you guys. There you go and strain that right in here. Smells good. A little room for our cranberry and grenadine put this in last just because—a little float on the top there. Splash a little cranberry in there. If you wanted to, I don’t have any cool sticks, but stick with a maraschino cherry on there. Very dark, very coffee like almost like a Kahlua in here.
Complex, definitely you get the— I don’t know it pay pretty well. It got definite Bourbon taste, lots of Bourbon, Bourbon cranberry juice by the way. It seems they go pretty good together. Not getting a lot of cranberry. Little sour note, little acidity, you know like that little acidity stuff. The yagger actually plays really well. You’re playing well today. The problem with yagger it typically overpowers a drink especially when you do dual parts like two and two. Yagger can easily just eat that drink alive and you’re just like, oh it’s like a Bourbon flavor yagger, but this is not like that, this is very much melted together. The scent is definitely that herbal quality of the yagger.
Overall though, pretty much get like a black liquorish with acid. It’s definitely— it’s got the qualities of lemonade in the acidity probably because we’re using natural sweetener or sweet sour. Definitely cool, not out balance both meld well together making a very unique tasting cocktail, something different, little herbal, nice smooth Bourbon. So there you go, that is the Sunday Snuggie, probably good if you just got back from shovelling your yard on a Sunday when there was snow fell and you’re really hot and you just needed a drink. So there you go. I’m your host, Derrick Schommer. Check us out on everydaydrinkers.tv and we’re teaching you how to drink.
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