The 9th Wonder, absolute banger

Today we're making a cocktail from San Diego bartender Eric Castro. It's a last word variation called the Ninth Wonder. In a tin. We're going to do this, you know, the way that professionals do it and grab our citrus first and not jump the gun by grabbing all sorts of things you don't need out of turn. I feel like these limes are not going to give a lot of juice. I can just feel like they're like under ripe or something. Let's see. Let's see if one half will give me, well, it wasn't that hard to, I think it's going to be what we need. Three quarters an ounce of lime juice, so just under. No, I was wrong. I had all sorts of faith in that lime and my faith was completely tested. What's that? You couldn't like squeeze out a little bit more? No, it was completely done. The nice thing about this juicer that hasn't shipped yet for some reason is that you get a really good squeeze on your citrus and you don't waste any of it. All right. So three quarters of an ounce of lime juice, three quarters of an ounce of ancho reyes into the tin. Hey, poblano pepper liqueur. There are two varieties, regular and green. That is the original. One of the reasons why I chose this cocktail is because it is a citrus cocktail that also contains creme de cacao, which I think is going to be amazing. I did say it was all last word variation, so it's an equal parts cocktail. And then we're going to be using some plata tequila, or I guess it would be tequila plata, which means blanco in Spanish. I thought it meant silver. It does mean silver, but you know, it's blanco tequila. And we're going to do three quarters an ounce of that plata tequila. Silver and blanco is not the same, is it? No, it's not. But plata, meaning silver, is blanco tequila. So the words don't mean the same thing. Right. But it is the same type of tequila. Is it? Yes. There is no such thing as silver tequila and blanco tequila as two separate things. Why do they call them different things then? I don't know. Because for the same reason that, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I do not know. Plata sounds better. I don't know. Marketing. Tequila blanco. This is going in a coupe. And we're going to use a barf-like coupe because why not? And I think we're going to do this old school style instead of using a freeze-dry, which is what we normally do. Calls for a lime wheel. Why not a fresh lime wheel this one time? Let's give it a taste. Oh my god. The pepper. Okay. So the entrees gives it like a little bit of spice and you get that depth of flavor. It's like poblano spice flavor. Along with the chocolate and lime. Chocolate and lime goes together so freaking well. It is so amazingly good. And then of course you have your blanco tequila. Bring in some of the agave. Bring a little minerality. A little salinity I guess. It's really, really nice. Very nice take on the last word cocktail. And a very nice sour. Pretty much your sour. So there it is guys. The ninth wonder.