It’s hot and muggy out. One of those days when water just ain’t gonna do it. So you look into your cabinet, pull out a bottle of Tres Generaciones, and channel the powers of National Tequila Ambassador Eddie Perales. Dig Lounge was poolside at the W Hotel in Westwood this week with the charming and talented barsmith and Ambassador for Tres Generaciones. He’s got old school talent with the shakers and new school talent with mixing cocktails. Here are a few of the recipes you might want to bring out next time you need a little help cooling down. A pool to dip your feet in helps too.
Eddie showing off his molecular cocktail skills.
LA Love
The perfect end of summer cocktail for our blistering concrete jungle. Lemon, lime, fig jam, orange marmalade, basil and a touch of vanilla. Refreshing, sweet, tangy and goes down easy. More please.
1 1/2 oz Tres Generaciones Anejo
2 oz Fresh Lemon Sour
Juice from 1/2 Lime
1 tsp Fig Jam
1/2 tst Orange marmalade
4 Large Basil Leaves
4 Large Wedges of Peeled Granny Smith Apples
1/2 Vanilla Bean
Muddle fig jam, orange marmalade, basic, apple wedges and seeds from the vanilla bean. Add Tres Generaciones Anejo, lemon sour, and lime juice. Shake, pour and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a dusting of fresh ground nut meg over a basil leaf.
Bells Will Be Ringing
This beauty of a drink was Angela’s favorite. Similar to the LA Love, with the kick of a little ginger.
1 1/2 oz Tres Generaciones Anejo
1/2 oz Navan
1 tsp Spiced Ginger Preserves
1/2 tsp Fig Preserves
1 1/2 oz Fresh OJ
Muddle ginger and fid preserves and add remaining ingredients. Shake with ice and double strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange twist.
Obamarita
In celebration of Obama enjoying a margarita at Macayo’s in Pheonix last week, they named this classic adaption of the margarita in his honer. Just a splash of brandy adds a little extra kick. Yes you can!
3 parts Fresh Lemon Sour
1/2 part Triple Sec
1 1/2 Squeezed Lime
1 part Brandy
1 1/2 parts Tres Generaciones Tripled Distilled Plata Tequila
Shake all ingredients. Pour and strain into salt rimmed margarita glass filled with ice. Garnish with a fresh sliced lime wheel, Salud!
24. August 2009 at 2:31 pm
Nice recipes. I just got back from lunch at the W and their backyard burger is pretty legit.
24. August 2009 at 2:45 pm
Yum, love me a good burger. Will have to check it out!
31. August 2009 at 11:17 am
Damn! You were there too? I’m seeing all these local LA drink folks whose sites I love posting about it, and yet I didn’t meet any of you. Oh well, next time. I was there, but I left after an hour. I was starting a new job the next day, and thought a tequila hangover maybe wasn’t the best foot to put forward.
31. August 2009 at 11:44 am
Yup, I was there. Too bad we didnt meet… next time hopefully! We’re always drinking, as was apparent at the Malibu Wine Classic this weekend.