5 Tequila Cocktails | Silver Tequila | Alchemix

What's up everybody? Welcome back to Alchemics. As always, I'm Tommy Paul, and if you're new here, make sure to hit the subscribe button. We're coming out with videos weekly about cocktails and spirits, so if you don't want to miss out, hit the notification bell as well. And today we're making five tequila cocktails. Now these are five classics that require a Blanco tequila for their flavor profile. So the spirit of the day, and the one that we're going to be making all of our cocktails with, is Haradura Silver. It's a 45 day aged silver, and in my opinion, one of the best on the market for the price. So without further ado, here are five classic tequila cocktails. Alright, as you probably could have guessed, we're going to be making a Margarita, so let's just go ahead and get that out of the way first, because we all know it's the most popular tequila cocktail, at least here in the States. I'm going to start out by rimming a rocks glass with some salt. As most of you know, this step is optional, but we'll do it anyway just to make it interesting. Now as always, the history of classic cocktails is an incredibly hazy subject, but it seems as though the most reputable story for where the Margarita came from points in 1938 in Tijuana, Mexico, at a famous Mexican bar called Rancho La Gloria, by the owner Danny Herrera. So we'll just make it the way that we think they made it back then, that is one ounce of orange liqueur, Cointreau or Triple Sec would do, we're using a higher end French Caribbean orange liqueur called Clements, but as always, don't feel obliged. Match that with one ounce of fresh squeezed lime juice, and last but certainly not least, a two full ounce lick of our silver tequila, and then we will just ice our shaker and give that a shake. Alright, sounds ready, I'm just going to go ahead and now double strain this into my rocks glass with a salted rim. Alright now we are going to serve this over ice, I'm going to serve it with a nice big rock, but I'll leave that up to your discretion, and then all there is left to do is to put our garnish over like a nice wedge of lime, and that is it, that my friends is a Margarita. Alright let's go ahead and segue from the Margarita into a Tommy's Margarita, I'm not the Tommy that invented it unfortunately, this was invented by Julio Bermejo at Tommy's Mexican Restaurant in San Francisco sometime in the early 2000's, now it's obvious twist on a Margarita, it's going to use agave instead of like orange liqueur, so we're going to do a half ounce of agave syrup, one full ounce of fresh squeezed lime juice, and two ounces of our silver tequila. Now for the sake of diversity I'm going to serve this up with salt, although I think they originally served on the rocks, but as with Margaritas you can serve them up as well, so why don't we just do that for the fun of it, so I'm just going to salt my cocktail glass, everything's ready to go, add ice to my shaker, and give that a shake. Shaken up to dilution perfectly, now we'll fine strain into our chilled cocktail glass with a salted rim, looks beautiful, all there is left to do is garnish with a nice slice of lime, and that is Tommy's Margarita. Alright next up we have a Paloma, alright now this is a drink that I like to shake and the reason why is because I use fresh grapefruit juice instead of grapefruit soda as the original recipe calls for, I just prefer it, if you prefer grapefruit soda go ahead and use that, I'm going to shake it now. As always, we know cocktail history is a very shady subject, but all the evidence seems to point towards this cocktail being invented in a town called Tequila, in Jalisco, Mexico by the owner of a restaurant called Capila, named Don Javier Delgado Corona, so half ounce of lime juice as I just did, now I'm going to use some fresh squeezed grapefruit juice as I say, I'm probably going to use about 3 to 4 ounces, and again a full 2 ounce pour of our Blanco Tequila, we'll just ice our tin and give that a shake, now I'm going to serve this in a highball glass, with some new ice cubes, this sounds about ready, so we can double strain into our chilled highball, I like to garnish this with grapefruit and a slice of lime, and that is a Paloma. Alright next up we have a Tequila Sunrise, now I know what you're thinking, sounds disgusting, but don't worry, believe it or not there is actually a classic version of this cocktail made with fresh ingredients, and it's an actual shake and drink, so we'll start out with our tin, now this one actually dates back to prohibition to the Hotel Agua Caliente in Mexico, which is in close proximity to the California border, which was a popular watering hole during prohibition, so we'll start out with half ounce of agave syrup, match that with a half ounce of fresh squeezed lime juice, now similar to the Paloma, this one is actually going to need some grapefruit juice as well, so we'll just squeeze some fresh on hand, you're going to need about 2 ounces, now here's where it all happens, the original recipe actually calls for a creme de cassis, or a lily rouge, unfortunately I don't have either of those, I do actually have Coqui Rosa though, so we're going to use that, very similar, the original idea is to use fortified wine, so we're actually going to pour a full ounce of this, this is what's going to give it most of it's color, and then last up, 1.5 ounces of our silver tequila, that's it, another tequila cocktail, another shake and drink, ice your tin and give that a shake, now this is another drink we're going to serve in a highball glass, so all you're going to have to do next is fill it with ice, and then double strain into our chilled, etched highball glass, this looks gorgeous, now all there is left to do is garnish this with a nice slice of lime, serve this with a straw as well, that is the original Tequila Sunrise, alright we're going to finish up with a cocktail called Ametador, this cocktail was originally published in a Jose Cuervo ad booklet in 1962, it's another shake and drink so we'll start out with our tin, you'll need half ounce of fresh squeezed lime juice, 4 ounces of fresh pressed pineapple juice, I had a chance to actually juice some fresh last night, I'm sure it's going to make all the difference, and then a full 2 ounce measure of our silver tequila, simple cocktail, we're just going to ice our tin and give that a shake, we're going to serve this cocktail on the rocks again, so I'm going to double strain into my chilled rocks glass, you can tell as well that this is going to be a really frothy cocktail, pineapple juice and agave syrup together are really giving it some nice foam, that foam is also a pretty obvious indication that there's fresh squeezed pineapple juice inside, just throw a few ice cubes in there, garnish this with a slice of pineapple, and that is Ametador, alright everybody there you have it, 5 classic tequila cocktails, you can click right up here to subscribe and if you don't want to miss out on any of the weekly content you can hit that notification bell as well, click right here to watch our 5 dark rum cocktails video, right here to watch our 5 whiskey cocktails video, and 5 absinthe cocktails video right here, as always I'm Tommy Paul from Alchemics, cheers!