Transcript: Taca Tuaca Collins

Cocktails on the Fly
Episode “Taca Tuaca Collins”

Alberta Straub: Hello, flighty here, guess what time it is. It is time for another girly cocktail. You know you like them. Flighty has to admit that she likes them too. So I am going to teach you how to make something very tasty, it is my Taca Tuaca Collins. Now it is named for that famous Central American airline, this is supposedly to be one of the only ones beside Aero flight of Russia, that you can take livestock on board with you.
And I created this cocktail for one of my weekly themed parties at my old bar where I used to work at, called trip out Tuesday, where I decorate the whole place like a different airline. I had some fun with that. That was kind of what made me make up these cocktails, because I made myself make up three cocktails a week for each different airline.
Let me tell you some of my puns, I love puns. Want to hear some of my pus? You want to? You want to? You know it; you have to because it is my show. Ok, cool yea. Alright so for Iberia airlines in Spain, I had the lie me up, lie me own. The Spanish flight and the barcelounger, that’s a good one huh?
And for Anset airlines of Australia, I had the rumper stumper, and the lets get Fizzycal, and the Nugensation, its what you need. And ok I am not going to tell you any more, I am just going to make the drink now. Its time and you have suffered enough.
Alright so what we are gong to do, and it is a girly drink, so were going to use some vanilla vodka. Very tasty, got some sky vanilla. Whew, here we go and we are going to put in an ounce and a half, there we go. And so you know what, you are going to mix it in a glass that is going to be a tempered glass. I call this my summer glass. It is tall, but it’s definitely strong enough that you can muddle in. it’s got a nice solid base, and that is important. You can look at it and say this is a solid glass. You can muddle ok, because we are going to muddle this. So I hope you got a muddler, you got a muddler right?
Ok, so we got an ounce and a half of vanilla vodka. And then this is the Tuaca. Tuaca is a super yummy, kind of forgottenish orange vanilla liqueur. It is quite tasty and I like it a lot. So it complements vanilla vodka as well. It is very good. Ok, whew, there we go, yummy, yummy. Okay and then I am going to put in a splash of Gary Regan’s orange bitters number 6, that’s going to give it a little flavor, a little dynamic goodness.
And then I have got another fabulous show where I show you how to make this citrus sugar, it is going to add a bright orangey flavor to this cocktail. So I am going to put in three ounces. That is three quarters of an ounce so wait. Whew, there we go. That is enough. Perfect. And then I am going to put in an ounce of lime juice.
Okie dokie, and then I am going to squeeze in some fresh orange in there. So I will put in a little bit of this orange. Oh, Okie dok. Try not to squirt anyone. And I am going to put in some blood orange because it is so very tasty, blood orange, look at that. I can tell this s going to be good. Okie dokie, now the muddling comes in because we are going to put some rounds in here. Rounds of orange, adds some brightness and some flavor because you got the peels going. Okay muddle time.
Whoa, try not to splash it all over yourself. Sometimes flighty forgets these things in her excitement and enthusiasm to get to the end portion of the cocktail, which is the drinking of the cocktail. Alright we are muddling, were muddling , mudding. Ok it is not too much muddling, but just a little bit ok? And then add some big old ice cubes in there ok? Add some big old ice cubes. There we go.
And then we are going to do a little stirring. Get in there, stirring it up a little bit, dong a little bit extra. Not really muddling just kind of getting the flavors out you know. This is looking good. Ok some more ice cubes. Those are kind of stuck together, there we go this is what we need. There we go a little bit ore ,ok? And then we are going to top this off with some seltzer, soda water, whatever. You know it’s also nice with ginger ale sometimes. Depending on how sweet you like it.
There we go, and we are going to put nice little orange round on top for garnish, and some cherries. Don’t use those, those red, red maraschino cherries. Try to get something good ,like from some fancy pants store. It will taste better. Ok, your right I am going to eat this one actually, yummy, ok cool. Do you guys do that little trick with the peel ,with the stem I mean? I can’t do it but I would like to meet someone who can though. Alright there we go. Cheers. A Tuaca Collins, super yummy, refreshing great girly drink, there we go.
Taca Tuaca Collins:
In a tall glass add;
1. 1.5oz vanilla Vodka
2. 1 oz. of Tuaca
3. Splash of orange bitters
4. 2 oz. of citrus sugar
5. 1 oz of fresh lime juice
6. Juice 1 orange
7. 3 orange rounds & muddle
8. Add big ice and stir
9. Top with seltzer
10. Garnish with orange wheel and brandied cherry
11. Delicious!