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Hey, everybody. Welcome to
Cocktails with Karl. I'm Karl.

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I'm a senior art director with
JCPenney and some of you might

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recognize me from our YouTube
videos. Check em out, they're on

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YouTube.com/JCPenney. Couple of tips and

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tricks for men's styling but
today we're talking about

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cocktails. Can't go out.
Can't go to bars can't go

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restaurants. Can't have someone
make our drinks so let's make

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one together and hopefully you
know, calm us down. Celebrate

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the end of one day cause we're
all one day at a time right now

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right? So I'm a beer drinker
primarily so I don't have all

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the tools necessary to make all
the cocktails that I'm gonna

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try and make for you, but today
we're gonna do margaritas. It's

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pretty basic, pretty simple: tequila, some citrus, little bit of

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salt and you're good to go. So
I'm gonna go ahead and start

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with the tequila. There's quite a
few options, but I've got a

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couple here that are, you know,
your nicer tequilas and I

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don't really make margaritas
with them. I saved them for

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sipping or ranch waters. 
Something where it's very few

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ingredients so the the taste
and the smoothness of the

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tequila is important. So we've
got our these other two

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tequilas, which I'm told are
pretty good for making margaritas.

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So they're about in the 20
dollar range and I think that's

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a pretty good deal. With this whole
lack of tools, we're gonna

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improvise a little bit here.
For example, I I don't have

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necessarily a traditional
shaker, so I'm gonna use this

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blender ball, which is great.
It's got the ball inside, helps

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mix everything even better and
you can just store all of these

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contents if you don't wanna
pour your drink or in our case,

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we're gonna make two so we're
gonna shake this up, pour it

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over the ice, keep the rest in
the fridge until later or

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share with someone else you know.
We'll see, it's up to you. I

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don't have any shot glasses
handy so we're gonna use...

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I don't do a lot of baking so
this rarely gets used, but

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according to my research, about
this bottom line is equivalent

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to one shot, so we're gonna
probably do three shots and

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these are all, this isn't
necessarily a recipe, it's...I

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would just use this as a
general guide

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Alright.

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And I need to squeeze.

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Dishes are done, but you know,
sometimes we just use that as

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storage right. Okay. So I've
got my juice press here, we're

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gonna do limes and I don't
have like a Triple Sec or a

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quantro like an orange liquor.
So I'm gonna use a little bit

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of orange juice that I've got
in the fridge. It will add a

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little sweetness and kinda cut
the tart of the limes. So let's

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get started. Tequila first, we're
gonna use this one.

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And here we go, alright. So
that's 1...2...3

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It looks like a lot, but I
gotta remember I'm making two

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drinks here and that one's for...just for funsies. Alright. So

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we've got that and I've already
washed these. I'm kinda washing

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everything that I bring home
from the grocery store right

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now, disinfecting it and then
washing it a little more than I

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usually would so everything is
ready to go. I usually roll my

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limes before I squeeze them. I
don't know I've just had luck

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like it makes them easier to
squeeze. You could just

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juice them quicker. Anyway,
little tip for you there. But I

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think I think I'm gonna do
three limes depending on how

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much juice we get. I wanna do
about a two to one ratio, so I

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need about a quarter cup.

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We'll see. Alright, here we go.

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Alright, there's that one. This is my
sink by the way. I'm gonna pick

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this up later so.

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Lime number two.

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Wish there was a way to tell which
limes were gonna be juicier

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than the others? But I guess
you just never know. Huh. Okay.

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You know, another thing I like to
do when I'm making a cocktail

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is turn some music on you
know, lighten the mood,

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whatever you like.

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We're getting close. I think I'm gonna have to do 3 limes so

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around a shot per lime, a lime per shot!

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I do not claim to be a
mixologist at all, but I've had

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my fair share of margaritas so.

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And someday we'll all get a go
back out to our favorite

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restaurants and enjoy our
favorite cocktails. There we go

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right at close to a quarter, so
we'll we'll stick with that and

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see what that taste like. It's so
fragrant, reminds me of a

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drinking limeade as a kid.
Alright, so we got that

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juice in. Orange jouice! As I said,
I'm kind of a beer drinker and

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you know this stuff takes
forever to make so yeah. If

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you're really in the mode, you
grab a Mexican beer, nothing

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pairs better with a margarita
then Mexican beer and I like to

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salt the rim slightly a
little pink Himalayan salt. It's

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usually the best that's what I
learned so cheers.

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And again making cocktails
should be about slowing down

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not being in a rush so enjoy
it. Alright, orange juice.

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Alright, we're just gonna do a
splash. So we're not really

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gonna measure this out. We're
just gonna...maybe a little more

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there we go that should be
good.

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The other thing that we're
missing, I don't have any

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simple syrup. That's nice to
have a little bit of sweetness,

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but what I do have is some
agave and you could use honey

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as well. What I'm gonna do, I'm
gonna put about a tablespoon

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loosely, right, about a tablespoon
in there and then we're gonna

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use the agave to rim the glass.
Since I don't have that device

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that bartenders have to put the
lime juice on the on the rim

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and apply the salt. I'm gonna
improvise here. So I'm gonna

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put some salt a little plate
and then put the agave on the rim

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of the glass. Lightly tap it get
that to adhere and then it

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will also add a little
sweetness to the salt. So let's

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get that shaking.

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Mmmm!

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And if you have any questions
about staying at home, you know

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these will keep you at home.
That's what I'm finding out so

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alright that's pretty nicely
shaken. I'm gonna grab a little

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plate here and I need a glass.
Alright. We got our glass,

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this is nicely shaken ready to
go. So what I'm gonna do is

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add some sea salt right here on the
edge. You kinda see how big the

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glass is so that'll work.

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A little bit mix in some of
this pink Himalayan sea salt,

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too cause I learned it's
delicious. Alright, we're gonna

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kinda push that out, spread it
towards the edges, so that we

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get as much on the rim as
possible.

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Alright, what are we looking
at? Yup! That's gonna be good.

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Okay. So here's where we take
our time. We're gonna rest the

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tip of the agave jar or agave
here right on the lip of the

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glass and let it just kinda
wash over the edge slightly.

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As long as it's going on the inside, we're
all good. Alright, it's pretty

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nice so let's get that in the
salt.

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I'm sure you can mix it in here
with the salt and then put the

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glass in there. Just try things
out have fun with it.

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I mean it works. So let's add
some ice. Here we go.

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We've got our cocktail mixed up
pouring it over the ice and I'm

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gonna leave a little bit of
extra room. The way I like to

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make my margaritas as with any
type of sparkling water or

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mineral water here. It just adds a
little bit of effervescent, a

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little bit of bubbles and it's
just really refreshing so.

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Let's go ahead and pour that
right on top. Let it bubble.

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And there you go! Everyone stay
safe. Stay home. Cheers.