Rum Drink to Know - El Presidente

welcome back friends it's anders today i'm going to show you how to make the el presidente that was a little redundant the el presidente today we're making el presidente that's better which is a rum sipping cocktail that comes from cuba and you don't see a whole lot of rum sipping cocktails that come from cuba it's got rum vermouth grenadine curacao it's considered cuba's answer to the manhattan so you know it's got to be good and it is that's really good if you're new to the channel hit that subscribe button for more tips tips and recipes and let's make el presidente to the bar [Music] to tell the story of el presidente we need to discuss two different cuban presidents this cocktail was created in the early 1900s in honor of president cuban president mario garcia menocol and apparently he was a big drinker so he wanted a drink named after him well actually i don't know if he wanted the drink named after him but he got one and it was a good one it was the cuban rendition of a manhattan so it had rum vermouth and a little bit of grenadine then that drink took off people loved it it was a hit even more so when the american prohibition hit because american tourists went down to cuba to have actual drinks then in 1925 a new president came to town and it was gerardo machado and he wanted that cocktail to be named after him because he was now the president and this was the drink everybody was drinking so one bartender in havana added a splash of curacao and said this one's for you mr president and the president said i'm happy and i will spare your life because you are wondering i know you were the name of that bartender was eddie wolkey at the jockey club in havana just added a splash of curacao and altered history so good job eddie for the tools this is going to be stirred so i've got my mixing glass bar spoon my [ __ ] julep strainer i've got a knife and a peeler i'm going to do a little zest of orange on top and then i've got some cherries as well because i'm gonna garnish with a cocktail cherry you don't have to do the cherry but it is good with the cherry also at this time get your glass chilled i'm gonna serve it in a martini glass but it's beautiful in a coop you're the one drinking it put in a coffee mug now the booze we are going to need white rum white vermouth orange curacao and grenadine the rum i'm using is probitas the vermouth is dolan blanc and the orange curacao is pierre feron dry curacao this was created in cuba so it's meant to be a spanish style light white rum originally it would have been served with bacardi which was a cuban company at the time now bacardi is out of puerto rico but if you want to use that that's going to be great it's going to be light and easy if you wanted to keep it cuban use something like havana club which i can't get here in chicago but i'm kind of bucking the system propitas is a blend of jamaican rum and rum from barbados so they're two english style rums and they have bigger flavor a little bit of funk little earthy but i like tasting the rum in this cocktail and this is just a great white rum as far as the vermouth this is an interesting story because for the longest time everybody was making it with driver move but in 2012 david wundrich discovered that a blanc vermouth which is a bit more of a semi-sweet not quite as dry would be truer to the original vermouth that they were using in havana and it's very very good with this vermouth now i've made a number of them with dry vermouth and you can use dry vermouth in fact if you do so i would recommend using an older kind of richer rum something that has a little bit more sweetness just natural sweetness curacao dry curacao you can use any orange liqueur we're just adding a little bit and the grenadine make that a good grenadine nice homemade grenadine if you need an easy recipe i've got one for you but whatever your favorite store-bought is that'll work let's build we'll start with the rum do one and a half ounces of white rum as far as the vermouth we'll go half of that so three quarters of an ounce a lot of recipes will call for the same equal parts room to vermouth and that's very good too but i just want a more rum sipping cocktail built in the style of manhattan quarter of an ounce of your orange liqueur [Music] and then just one bar spoon of the grenadine [Music] now we add ice and stir in about 30 seconds just stir away [Music] you ever have one of those those moments where you think you're forgetting something i'm feeling that right now this should be everything if this isn't everything i'll have already edited all this out this is everything that's looking pretty good very subtle pink to it all right grab your chilled glass and then we can just filter off the cocktail into the cocktail glass [Music] grab a swath of orange zest i'm gonna do it right over the glass so i get all the oils on it straighten out the edges i'm gonna make this look beautiful for you express the oils get the sides and then i'm going to do my my standard little little fold run a skewer right through that it's a very simple thing but i think it looks nice grab a cherry there we go right on the side my mouth is watering i'm excited about this one this is a great drink el presidente cheers oh oh man if if you are a rum fan try it with this one right here that is outstanding as you want to try i actually really like this one i think it's a beautiful cocktail beautiful to look at as well it's like an inverted manhattan with a manhattan you have this sweet vermouth that's really rich and then the base spirit of whiskey will dry that out so it balances out really nicely and that's what makes a manhattan so great now this is kind of the opposite you've got a dryer vermouth and then you get the natural sweetness from the rum balances it out it's really interesting you don't have the bitters that a manhattan does but the manhattan doesn't have a little splash of grenadine or orange curacao so so if you have a favorite el presidente recipe please let me know in the comments down below i've had this a number of ways and honestly i enjoy all of them if you like this video like and subscribe hit that notification bell if you want to be notified the next time a video comes out and do yourself a favor make one of these things you're gonna be happy i'll see you next week [Music] cheers [Music] you

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Length: 7min 9sec (429 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 19 2021