The show I mentioned to you recently, RWBY, has this in-universe convention of taking heroes and grouping them together into teams of four which are then given team names by taking one initial from each team member's name and combining them to form an "acronym" (it's not really an acronym but I'm not sure what else to call it) wherein each team name can then be spoken out loud as if it were a word of equal or greater length. E.g., "RWBY" is pronounced "Ruby", "CFVY" is pronounced "Coffee", etc., and they do this because to them, they find color to be very symbolic of their continued struggle to fight against the forces of the world that would seek to destroy them, so the other requirement of the convention is that each team name evokes a color. That might sound a bit of a non sequitur, but I mention it because the B team of protagonists on the show is team JNPR (team Juniper), and so hearing you mention juniper kept reminding me of them and now I kinda want to come up with a set of four ingredients to infuse into vodka, one for each member of team JNPR, and of course another set of four ingredients for team RWBY. The fact that I've seen some of your Babymetal cocktails may have had something to do with this idea
That's cool. Infusing vodka is such a (relatively) quick way to generate interesting spirits from all manner of ingredients. Hope you have fun with it and create some neat tipples!
I do like Shakespeare. I do like professors. And I definitely do like physics. I absolutely love BABYMETAL. But Gin- not so much - I leave that to my wife. She had become more & more a fan of it as our years together have gone by. Dunno why. 🦊
Ha. Fair enough. In my youth I was mostly a beer and vodka guy. I still drink (and make) beer, but gin is my go-to (and single malt scotch). Each to their own.
Ah now being from Elgin in the heart of Speyside I do know a thing or two about a single malt…..and I really enjoy it. I can just imagine Su sinking a few with BOH (who I know for certain enjoys a wee dram.) after a gig. Moa likes her beers of course. 👌👍🤣🦊
Speaking of gin, almost two and a half decades ago, you made me a martini that was so smooth and perfect. I have tried desperately to recreate it, and I have failed every time. While I am certain you don't remember how you made a specific martini 24 years ago, if you have a preferred approach to making martinis, I would love to hear it.
Ha! Hi David. I'm trying to think about how I would have done it a quarter century ago. My habits/tastes have shifted some, over the years, though now by much as far as my default martini. Can you remember any of the elements (gin rather than vodka? brand? garnish?). Maybe I'll make a short video on martinis with my go-to recipes.
Sadly, I remember nothing at all about how you made the drink. I just remember it being sublime. I would love a video on martinis though. Maybe that can push me in the right direction.
I thought this was going to be along the lines of your cranberry sauce video, the one where cans grew on a tree.😅🤣😂 In my neck of the woods, there used to be a tradition of making sweet liquor by blending spirits with sugar and fruits from the garden. Black currant was most often used, but I also did this with blackberries, strawberries and wild plums. I suppose this tradition is on the decline as the old industrial workers of the Ruhr slowly die out. Another thing is Pili Pili Ho Ho, where you flavour a bottle of spirit with the hottest chilis you can find - lots of them. The stuff is almost undrinkable as long as you're not a Jalapeno addict, but we used it to spice sauces and soups.
@@AndrewHartleyIf you should ever want to try: "Aufgesetzter" (lit. "set up", classic home made working class sweet liquor from the Ruhr, Germany) Blend 0,7 l of spirit with 250g each of black currant (or any other strong flavoured berries) and sugar, preferrably in a big glass jar with twist-off lid. Shake or stir at least once a day until all the sugar is dissolved. Counterintuitively, this works best when you have big sugar crystals. Let it sit for a total of four weeks in a dark place and filter. Ready for consumption.
Interesting. I gave up gin decades ago, because I never really liked the taste and often it found my head was split in two the next day. Buy it's just infused vodka? That's weird. As a student, I could soak up a whole bottle of vodka no problem. And then ace my mathematics assignment. But gin? Nooooo waaaaay. I'll probably try this. I have some "interesting" ideas of what to put in there. (For once, they don't involve aardvarks y'all.) Thinking Babymetal gin. Chocolate, marshmallows, dried tomatoes, death, The One, ... That kind of thing.
Yeah, it's just a flavored spirit, so if you had bad experiences with it in the past it was probably either cheap gin (not well filtered) or you drank too much :) A few gins have a higher alcohol content than most vodka (Bombay Sapphire, for one) but mostly they are the same. And yes, most of the baby metal cocktails you'll find on my channel (there's a dedicated cocktail recipe playlist) tend to be on the sweet side, thought eh Metal Kingdom martini is a superb dry example :)
You might have a look at William Hogarths drawing "Gin Lane". Might change your mind about this crap, as it almost brought civilisation in parts of London in the eighteen hundreds to a standstill.
Ha. I’m familiar with Hogarth thanks, as I am with the poverty and destitution of the period which made alcohol the most common escape. The moment I start drinking gin by the pint, I’ll let you know.
The show I mentioned to you recently, RWBY, has this in-universe convention of taking heroes and grouping them together into teams of four which are then given team names by taking one initial from each team member's name and combining them to form an "acronym" (it's not really an acronym but I'm not sure what else to call it) wherein each team name can then be spoken out loud as if it were a word of equal or greater length. E.g., "RWBY" is pronounced "Ruby", "CFVY" is pronounced "Coffee", etc., and they do this because to them, they find color to be very symbolic of their continued struggle to fight against the forces of the world that would seek to destroy them, so the other requirement of the convention is that each team name evokes a color.
That might sound a bit of a non sequitur, but I mention it because the B team of protagonists on the show is team JNPR (team Juniper), and so hearing you mention juniper kept reminding me of them and now I kinda want to come up with a set of four ingredients to infuse into vodka, one for each member of team JNPR, and of course another set of four ingredients for team RWBY. The fact that I've seen some of your Babymetal cocktails may have had something to do with this idea
That's cool. Infusing vodka is such a (relatively) quick way to generate interesting spirits from all manner of ingredients. Hope you have fun with it and create some neat tipples!
I do like Shakespeare. I do like professors. And I definitely do like physics. I absolutely love BABYMETAL. But Gin- not so much - I leave that to my wife. She had become more & more a fan of it as our years together have gone by.
Dunno why. 🦊
Ha. Fair enough. In my youth I was mostly a beer and vodka guy. I still drink (and make) beer, but gin is my go-to (and single malt scotch). Each to their own.
Ah now being from Elgin in the heart of Speyside I do know a thing or two about a single malt…..and I really enjoy it. I can just imagine Su sinking a few with BOH (who I know for certain enjoys a wee dram.) after a gig. Moa likes her beers of course. 👌👍🤣🦊
Speaking of gin, almost two and a half decades ago, you made me a martini that was so smooth and perfect. I have tried desperately to recreate it, and I have failed every time.
While I am certain you don't remember how you made a specific martini 24 years ago, if you have a preferred approach to making martinis, I would love to hear it.
Ha! Hi David. I'm trying to think about how I would have done it a quarter century ago. My habits/tastes have shifted some, over the years, though now by much as far as my default martini. Can you remember any of the elements (gin rather than vodka? brand? garnish?). Maybe I'll make a short video on martinis with my go-to recipes.
Sadly, I remember nothing at all about how you made the drink. I just remember it being sublime. I would love a video on martinis though. Maybe that can push me in the right direction.
I thought this was going to be along the lines of your cranberry sauce video, the one where cans grew on a tree.😅🤣😂
In my neck of the woods, there used to be a tradition of making sweet liquor by blending spirits with sugar and fruits from the garden. Black currant was most often used, but I also did this with blackberries, strawberries and wild plums. I suppose this tradition is on the decline as the old industrial workers of the Ruhr slowly die out.
Another thing is Pili Pili Ho Ho, where you flavour a bottle of spirit with the hottest chilis you can find - lots of them. The stuff is almost undrinkable as long as you're not a Jalapeno addict, but we used it to spice sauces and soups.
Nice. I'm all for experimental infusions of all types. Alas, no gin bottles growing in my yard... :)
@@AndrewHartleyIf you should ever want to try:
"Aufgesetzter" (lit. "set up", classic home made working class sweet liquor from the Ruhr, Germany)
Blend 0,7 l of spirit with 250g each of black currant (or any other strong flavoured berries) and sugar, preferrably in a big glass jar with twist-off lid. Shake or stir at least once a day until all the sugar is dissolved. Counterintuitively, this works best when you have big sugar crystals. Let it sit for a total of four weeks in a dark place and filter. Ready for consumption.
Interesting.
I gave up gin decades ago, because I never really liked the taste and often it found my head was split in two the next day.
Buy it's just infused vodka?
That's weird.
As a student, I could soak up a whole bottle of vodka no problem. And then ace my mathematics assignment.
But gin? Nooooo waaaaay.
I'll probably try this. I have some "interesting" ideas of what to put in there. (For once, they don't involve aardvarks y'all.)
Thinking Babymetal gin. Chocolate, marshmallows, dried tomatoes, death, The One, ...
That kind of thing.
Yeah, it's just a flavored spirit, so if you had bad experiences with it in the past it was probably either cheap gin (not well filtered) or you drank too much :) A few gins have a higher alcohol content than most vodka (Bombay Sapphire, for one) but mostly they are the same. And yes, most of the baby metal cocktails you'll find on my channel (there's a dedicated cocktail recipe playlist) tend to be on the sweet side, thought eh Metal Kingdom martini is a superb dry example :)
You might have a look at William Hogarths drawing "Gin Lane". Might change your mind about this crap, as it almost brought civilisation in parts of London in the eighteen hundreds to a standstill.
Ha. I’m familiar with Hogarth thanks, as I am with the poverty and destitution of the period which made alcohol the most common escape. The moment I start drinking gin by the pint, I’ll let you know.