Is This Tequila & Rum Cocktail Better Than A Margarita? - Jamaican Cowboy Cocktail

Welcome to Booze on the Rocks. My name is David Edwards, and it's great to have you here today. We're going to make a Jamaican Cowboy. Now this is a staple of the Texas Roadhouse franchise, and I'm doing a slightly more adult version of it. So you can find the regular recipe online. No problem. It's really easy. It's pretty simple. However, it requires something that's called margarita mix. I don't feel like making that. This is my version. I've sort of amped up the amount of alcohol in it, and this is a, I just need one of these drinks in an afternoon and I'm good to go. So, uh, having said that you need a few ingredients. We start with a little bit of fresh pineapple juice, but you're going to fold this up with some more of the citrus stuff. So we have a little bit of orange juice and I'm using navel oranges here. Uh, you could use something like a Mandarin, something that will give you a little bit more orange, a little bit sweeter, totally up to you. Little bit of lime juice. We need a little bit of a one-to-one simple syrup, one part water, one part sugar, heat it up until it goes clear and just throw it in the fridge until you're ready to use it. You need a little bit of a triple sec. Now you could use a Cointreau if you want, and if you want to make this a little drier, you could maybe go with a dry Curacao, but I wouldn't really spend a lot of extra money on that. You need a little bit of tequila. I'm using a little bit of Bull Mecca tequila, which is fantastic for making cocktails and you need some rum. I'm using a little bit of Bacardi white rum because I didn't say it. I'm just using a little bit of the makers triple sec. Now this is a simple shaken cocktail. So grab your shaking glass and we are going to prep our fruits. So you want to cut a lime in half and we're going to do the same thing with an orange. So we'll start with squeezing half and half an ounce of the lime. Half an ounce of the lime. We'll just measure that up and pour it in. Now, just in case you're wondering that's actually one ounce or 30 mils of lime juice, uh, just a little confused here. Now we're going to use the same amount of orange juice, a full one ounce, 30 mils. We're going to follow this up with your pineapple juice. We're going to use a full two ounces or 60 mils. We're going to follow this up with a little bit of your simple syrup. Now you don't need a lot. You just need half an ounce, which is 15 mil. Now that we've got all the basics out of the way, we're going to start with our spirits and our liqueur here. So we're going to start with our triple sec. You're going to use a full one ounce, 30 mil following this up with a little bit of your tequila, and you're going to use a full pour of this for two ounces or 60 mils. And we're going to follow this up with your white rum of choice. I'm using Bacardi, as I said, so we'll use a full one ounce or 30 mils. Next, we're going to shake this with some ice and the eagle-eyed among you will notice that there's a fair amount of fluid in this. So your serving glass is going to need to be larger, or you could split this into two actual cocktails. Throw your ice in here because I have a problem with my ice. Now you're going to shake this hard for a good eight to 10 seconds. We'll pop that off with the strength of a thousand ingredients. You're going to put this off to the side. And this is basically just a variation of a margarita. So fill this up with more ice. And this goblet is a 16 ounce goblet, and we're just going to use your Hawthorne strainer and pour it in. All right. So your next goal, garnish it with something nice. I'm using a little bit of a, uh, half an orange wheel wedge thing. Anyways, this orange thingy here. And here we have a Jamaican Cowboy, I nearly said Texas Cowboy. This is very pale. I actually love the coloration of this. I also love the clashing of the orange, just kind of works really well together. You get a little bit of foam on top from the fresh pineapple juice. I'd give that easily a 9 out of 10 for looks. So initially off the top, you get a little bit of tequila with some pineapple. That is so good. Um, um, And the citrus is making my mouth water just oh fantastic. The orange pineapple and lime play together beautifully. So you get that beautiful light fruit flavor. Um, and the alcohol is completely wrapped up in this. You can barely tell at all that there's any alcohol whatsoever. Nine and a half. I really like this. And if you like cocktails like this, yeah, look at the video over here, but tell me what you'd swap thing ingredient wise.