Dawa Cocktail from Kenya
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- Right before the current Pandemic hit (well really while it was emerging) Marius had taken a trip to Kenya and came across a traditional cocktail called a Dawa. It was created at a very famous restaurant called Carnivore and it was an instant hit. So of course we go the stuff to recreate this fantastic drink. Hope you all enjoy! Also I found a dawa stick on Etsy and while it's a little steep in price I thought zI'd link it anyway for those of you who are sticklers for tradition.
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Two Dawa ways
1:22 Dawa Traditional Way
4:05 Tasting Notes
4:56 The Shaken Dawa
5:20 Cocktail Making
7:26 Tasting Notes
7:47 Dawa History
9:50 Recipe
10:00 Outro
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Here's The Specs:
Dawa Cocktail
2oz (60ml) Vodka
2 Barspoons demerara sugar
1 Lime Quartered
Honey Coated Stir Stick
Build in glass. Add pebble ice. Put vodka on top. Add stir stick. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
It has taken me Soo long to find educative videos on youtube. I'm a kenyan a beginner bar tender and making Dawa is just my favourite thing to do.. Im glad to finally see something here I can relate to personally.
Kenyan? That’s awesome. I love the idea of you doing a few more international cocktails from lesser known regions. I’ve had some amazing unique cocktails in my travels. 🌎🥃
what are some of the unique cocktails you can think of?
@@TheEducatedBarfly I’ve mostly only traveled throughout the Americas and you very well may have made these already but here are a few I distinctly remember enjoying:
Macua - Nicaragua
Ponche de Pina - Honduras
Canelazo - Colombia
Batida - Brazil
Chilcano- Peru
I also got one where the glass had a piece of sugar cane as a muddler in the rocks glass.
Digging though my honey stash now... Hopefully this is a sign of more African cocktails to come. Looking forward to your Amarula concoctions!
Seeing this two ways is great. It gives us some different perspectives on how the same drink can be interpreted.
There's apparently a third version; my fiancée traveled frequently to East Africa (including Kenya) for work prior to the pandemic) and the version she's had is essentially a toddy, but non-alcoholic.
@@renemenjivar1141 That sounds really good as well. Thank you. I will look it up.
I need a Dawa man to walk through my neighborhood.
I fricken love this TH-cam channel- thanks for providing so much cocktail inspiration throughout the years
Very cool drink and comparison between the glasses and the two different ways to make it. Glad you were able to have this drink come back from Kenya and make it to the channel. Cheers!
I love those traditional and/or more obscure drinks. Thank you guys for doing what you do. Cheers!
Man, I LOVED this video. As a fairly long time fan, I have to say the vibe here is the best I’ve seen. 👍🏻👏🏻
It's nice to see a cocktail from a different culture which has it distinctive preparation style
I love the two ways types of videos. Great length, good content.
I'm Kenyan and I love this cocktail
it's great
Very cool, great to see some lesser-known (for me) international cocktails.
Love learning about cocktails from different countries/cultures! Cheers!
There seems to be a lot of drinkmaking/bartending channels now; however, this is one of my go-to ones! I love the stories and eduction you bring to the channel! Much love brotha!
I had a few of those in Kenya years ago, and forgot what they were called. Thanks!
Simple and perfect for a summer day- love it. :)
I'm a mixologist in Kenya and I have made the Dawa cocktail for six good years and not once have I ever used sugar or shaken it. It's basically muddling 4 to 5 lime wadges with 2 barspoons of honey add in the vodka and stire the drink then top up with crushed ice.. Not sugar.. Any one that's making it with sugar they are doing it all wrong, Owh and it comes in a rock glass not the highball.
Yes, the original was made in a Rocks glass. But it does contain sugar, even the original Carnivore restaurant lists sugar as ingredient.
But everyone is allowed to do variations. If you haven't tried shaking it, give it a try, it's really good.
tamarind.co.ke/restaurant.php?carnivore
I prefer shaking or muddling with honey because the sugar will never completely dissolve but I sure will give it a try..
@@TheEducatedBarfly American living here in Kenya for 4 years and I have to say I was surprised by the addition of sugar as well. I have seen sugar used instead of heny at places where honey wasn't affordable but generally it's one of the other and almost always honey. Not surprised the original uses both, just goes to show how people make recipes their own. I'm going to give it a try with your honey syrup recipe and no sugar. Love the idea of the Dawa tray as well. That would be fun with visitors.
Very cool. I think I like the first prep better so you keep getting gradual tastes of the honey.
Great video!!! I think this may be my first look at an African cocktail!!! I'm going to have to try this. THANKS!!!!
Excited to try this one out tomorrow! Gonna go for the shaken version & use Honey Syrup, probably!
This sounds really good. Will try both ways.
Love it! My girlfriend's sister loves a caipirinha, lets see if she likes this!
With four ingredients, all of them pretty basics ones at that, this is pretty much a classic cocktail except that a lot of people haven't heard of it before.
I may try to make this one.. Seems easy and looks tasty
Lucky to have found this. The Cocktail is originally served in a Rocks Glass.
Looks really good and refreshingly simple^^. Think I might try making a version of this with Irish Whiskey instead of Vodka. It should pair really well with the honey without overpowering the other flavours
Hi Leandro,
I'm just now putting together a home bar and am wondering about glassware. When I go to shop for different glasses there are many different sizes for each type of glass (many of which I feel are probably too big for the drinks meant to go in them). Do you have a resource with the general sizes of the glassware you use?
Haven’t watched in awhile, what is this new set 😳 looks awesome
Your aside about making a caipirinha with vodka reminded me of the first time I tried making one with mezcal (Del Maguey Vida, to be precise). The sugar and lime played amazingly well with the smokey mezcal, to the point that I enjoy it more than the traditional cachaca version.
Also, when I was in Limpopo province in South Africa, the locals had a very simple cocktail that was essentially equal parts Richelieu brandy and Coke. We toasted the sun setting quite a bit with that mix.
I wonder if buckwheat honey would be a nice, relatively easy to find honey for this
That looks like a great drink. A mix between a caprivodka with a Bee's Knees. Might just make it for this weekend..cheers
Great way to remember the recipe!
Looks awesome, but didn't you guys only use half a lime for each drink in the video?
Hey man can you make an video with garnish (tel us some tips) for example like SKELETON LEAVES
Coincidence is a crazy thing, a bartender friend from Galway, Ireland did a kitesurfing season in Kenya and brought this recipe home with him and made one for us a few weeks ago! African cocktails trending up?
I dunno if they’re trending up but we’re digging this one for sure!
Hang on.....Dawa Medicine Man tray, love this.
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Could you get the same results by using a bit of honey syrup? That way the honey incorporates more.
am happy as a Kenyan mixology 🎉😊
Looking at the video the Kenyan appears to be using much chunkier ice and combined with the African heat I'd imagine the honey would release much quicker than indoors with pebble ice. In fact I think the more citrus forward cold start would be very refreshing, followed by a sweeter savoury finish as you get to eating would be very nice. Now I'm kinda sad I didn't try this when I visited Carnivore, might have to try this if I have some apt honey in the cupboard.
over a year in Nairobi, its always in a rocks glass!! also carnivore is great.
Wow
Tried this, and it is quite good! :)
Had to do it in another order as I didn't have any running honey :3
I made a riff of this adding soda(with less ice though). It was nice...
But I agree on the honey thing. It would have been nicer if it was a tad sweeter.
I also used dirt cheap potato tasting vodka...
Man this makes me wanna travel again
nothing very special about this one but its cool to learn about different cultures versions of cocktails. Definitely rustic preparations
Dawa is made with lemons. In Kenya plenty of lemon varieties are green, so it's an honest mistake. Also the Dawa tea is ancient and people have been pouring booze in it for ages so it is definitely not invented at Carnivore.
I looked up the product you used and it’s actually a blend of honey from different regions of Kenya. Acacia Honey is light in color (unless it’s the raw unfiltered type) and has a mild flavor. I think the stuff you guys are using is a blend of different raw honey’s. 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
That honey is also not the best quality here in Kenya. The dark colour could be molasses adulteration.
How much honey syrup would you use or do you recommend using regular old honey?
Just a big dollop something like .75oz (22.5ml) and you can absolutely use regular honey buuut it really shines with a more savory less sweet honey
I love the dawa cocktails and many other, there is school for training learning to
Very different 👍🏽
l like it
Who is the one behind camera?
What about making a honey and Demerara combo syrup?
That would have the same issue as a syrup and juice caipirinha - it would simply be a wildly different drinking experience. No increasing sweetness, just a flatter, fairly sweet drink. Doable, but probably not a great idea.
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Will you make this drink using honey syrup
I'll be trying it that way. Easier to mix for sure!
Almost a Caipirinha
Im waiting For the Jack sparrow Cocktail ;)
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Never heard of this, is it really that popular in Kenya?
I've had dawa warm- the regular ginger, honey, lemon nonalcoholic affair. Also had it in cocktails with gin. Just enjoy it however you'd like. Also, which Kenyan got you to carry Chrome?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😂😂😂😭😭
Marius here, chrome was just one of the Kenyan vodkas I found :)
I don't really like honey, is there an other option?
I wonder if British style cane syrup(treacle) would work, it's rich, somewhat savoury and about the same colour as that honey
I got some acacia honey for this particular drink. Will try tonight! Thanks, guess!
Can honey really be savoury? Been struggling with translating “savoury” for some time - there’s no Swedish word for it...
Well you have to take into account that Honey is sweet. But they also have other flavors honey to honey, region to region and that’s what makes it such an interesting ingredient. So if we already know that honey is sweet, and we accept that, then what we can do is try and break down the flavors further and pick out different elements.
Dawa, from the arabic دواء
Sexy dude, I just mixed Cointreau, Malibu Black and Pineapple juice and DAMN! This drink has GOT to have a name already. Tried the same only, subb'd Blue orange thing-ola whatever instead and, the drink was green, of course. Different, just as damn good. Make me something with these or tell me what I made, please? Pretty please?
Ummmm... Put the honey in BEFORE THE ice???
Hope in America people go for Potatoe Vodka - Try Grand Teton OverProof (Black Label) made from Idaho Spuds. Leave grains for what theyre good for!- Bourbons, & mash based drinks. I’ll never touch a corn based vodka, I mean, c’mon!#&@?! This is so vodka forward it better be quality vodka! If you know vodka, you’ll find best mouth feel from Polish, Swedish, a few Premium Russian Potato vodkas Like most EUsPirits the quality is on the label: standard/luxury/premium. (No artificial BS flavors please)
maybe ad the honey before the muddle!?
Would definitely mix better that way.
So early that we don't know what to write tho
Adult Lime-ade :)
This is probably the only reason why I would ever visit Kenya
I highly recommend trying it with ginger and turmeric, like the traditional non-alcoholic version:
th-cam.com/video/yigt1MyaS4M/w-d-xo.html
For anyone interested, this is the third version: www.kaluhiskitchen.com/dawa/ (non-alcoholic)
My fiancée and i have been procrastinating on visiting an African market down the street from us. You just gave some added incentive to finally go! Will definitely attempt to make this weekend.
use less ice, stirr the honey instead of just jamming it up and down.
So basically a caipiroska with additional honey? quite boring imo
you should try it! But get some savory acacia honey
I cringe every time he says a word and adds poo at the end of it. Like im going to unsubscribe cringe.
Don’t unsubscribe-poo
That would be “don’t Unsubscribey Poo” in Barflyenese 😂 😂 😂
@@TheEducatedBarfly haha! Thanks man! Thinking of making a White Russian tonight
Do it! I made one last night!!!!