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I’m very happy to see my favorite d and d setting Greg played in back in the day. Dark sun is a beautiful setting to dm and play d and d in and it irritates me we will never see it fully finished and realized aside from the burnt world of athas website.
It's highly fortuitous that the DMG also states that the average potion is between 1-4oz. which is also a good size for a cocktail (or shot of liqueur, as the case may be).
"Bartender asked us why we brought our weapons into the bar. We said 'Mimics.' He laughed, we laughed, the table laughed, we killed the table, it was a good a time." lol
I can definitely see Greg's Grogs being a chain restaurant and bar in the Dungens and Dragons multiverse. Greg is behind the bar of every single one of them simultaneously. And he remembers your character from the last Greg's Grogs that you were in.
Man, I'm a regular ol' bartender and even I can't remember some of my customers' names! I sure as shit wouldn't fault one that couldn't remember my name through multiple planes of existence; especially if he's omnipresent lol
It's not always red flannel either. He's palette swapped like a Pokemon nurse in every different tavern you find him in. He is running every tavern. All of them. Every single one.
@@kappage11 There may be alternatives. It may be that alchemists of the realm haven't thought of other delivery systems yet. Like an arrow/bolt with a hypodermic needle and potion cylinder on the end, and it deals 1 + Dex modifier damage on a hit, but you roll with advantage on the healing dice. Or maybe a contact potion? If there are contact and inhaled poisons, why not potions that function similarly? Craft all that crazy goodness. Hell, introduce it to your players by kobolds shooting special, jerry-rigged healing bolts at each other and their tamed, giant combat lizards?
24:13 At my table our DM used to make us chug a drink in real life whenever we wanted to drink a potion in game. The better the chug, the more healing we got. They had managed to find a case of Tang from somewhere and none of us liked it so naturally that was what we had to chug in order to get the healing
IMO, your real-life chug shouldn't affect the game. Potion of healing as an action should give 10hp; as a bonus action, 2d4+2. But, I have heard of DMs who use the rule 'your character takes a potion, you take a shot'. The idea being that potions are unnatural, and repeated use will affect you. This assumes all players have a safe way home.
@@azraelf.6287 After I wrote this I remembered that chugging in real life was actually optional, if we did chug a soda then we would get max healing from the potion but if not then we just rolled for healing
Since you mentioned "aqua vitae" and the various liquors whose names derive from it: The Gaelic translation of "water of life" is "uisce beatha" (Irish) or "uisge-beatha" (Scottish), from which we derive the English word "whiskey".
15:24 My immediate thought was to make a stupid pun: Greg: "i want to start with an ounce and a half of gin" Me: "djinn?! i thought this was a GIANT strength potion?!"
If you're doing agar filtration, I find the more effective method is, after you've hydrated the agar on the stove, to actually put it in the freezer until it's a solid block, then put it in a cloth-lined strainer in the fridge. The water and flavourings will melt way before the agar and solids do. I've done this with oranges and lemons, and it works well, so limes should be no problem!
Man I wish this video had come out a few months ago! Me and my D&D group did a "potion party" for New Years, and we were just basically flying by the seat of our pants to come up with potion recipes.
I think Cachaca is also a really good base spirit to use for any kind of "potion" theming. The funkiness of it lends itself really well to tasting "medicinal" in an otherworldly way.
I've been watching this channel for years despite only a couple of months ago turning 21 and am yet to drink any alcohol. Greg is just a great entertainer and I love seeing his craft. If I am to ever make cocktails, 99% of them will be non alcoholic or mocktails as I would like to keep my alcohol consumption to a minimum. Considering my long family history of alcoholism and addiction, I'd rather not unlock some hidden trait lol. I'll just keep drinking water, milk, tea, and occasionally coffee as my main beverages.
Very wise. There's 3 roads with alcohol: you stay away from it, you control it, it controls you. It is real easy to go from being in control to being controlled
Your timing is impeccable. Doing a one shot tomorrow with my group (and one at the library tonight where I DM for the teens, but I don't think they're allowed to drink). For tomorrow, I'm making a "Session 0 punch" from the DungeonMeister book 16oz vodka 16oz silver rum 10 cans of beer 1 frozen lemonade thingy Mix all, and have DD to get home from DnD
We used to call that electric lemonade back in my highschool days. I was always a ”little sissy” and added some pre sugared Kool aid powder to my drinks (the blue raspberry lemonade one, because I was and am still a discerning, classy, little sissy).
You mis-described the Potion of Fire Breath. A Potion of Fire Breath gives the drinker the ability to breath fire, as in expelling a blast of fire, like a dragon's breath, not being able to breathe while consumed in fire. The potion lasts for an hour and gives the drinker three charges to breathe out a blast of fire to a single target within a 30ft range. The target must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 4D6 fire damage, or takes half that damage on a successful save.
I heard Greg's description and was like "no, no, absolutely not, no way." Looked it up and found exactly what you did. Mechanics like that just aren't in 5e that I've encountered anyway.
The most important part of this episode is that Gregg played Dark Sun back in the day, it would be great to hear what your group got up to in that post-apocalyptic setting.
To be honest the main thing I remember was that I was a Thri-kreen, and I was floored by how cool multi attack was, and I kept the ears of my victims. Oh, and weapons broke sometimes.
@@howtodrinkThat sounds like Dark Sun. Bone and obsidian weapons. And freaking defiler wizards that blighted and dessicated the landscape with the casting of their spells by powering their magic using the plants' very life essence!
"Bubbles as if boiling" wouldve been a great opportunity for a shard of dry ice there. Would bubble and roil without actually boiling just like the description, and you'd get that hazy fog effect as a bonus! Other than that, awesome episode. I love how you tried to make them on-brand with not just the color, but the flavors and oddities too, like the drop of milk; that was brilliant, or the "hold my beer" liquid courage angle. Also loved the 'medicinal' angle with them maybe not necessarily needing to be yummy, like the inclusion of salt in the last one. Really cool, inspired stuff. I've been watching your channel for a while and, imo, this is one of your best yet!
In my DnD campaigns, healing potions taste like cola. The spices used irl to make cola don't exist in the world because it's based on Vikings, but still healing potions taste like cola because it's one of my favorite flavors.
I’m sending this vid to my dnd buddies, they’ll be so happy to see that you’ve essentially kinda become canon to dnd lore. Gonna ask the dm if we could possibly add a Greg’s Grog’s to our campaign as well (and maybe try to replicate the potions as well 😉).
There are several awesome Grog related roll tables that are fun for spicing up a campaign. It was optional to participate, but every character that did it got weird flavor to their play. I had a jewel encrusted grille and a penchant for shiny things.
As a brief note (though there's probebly other comments on it) but potions of fire breathing let you breath OUT fire, similar to a dragon's breath. It does not let you breath in fire.
to clarify juice, you could try to freeze it. then, let it defrost covered in some cloth or piece of clothing or something (it has to act like a filter for the lime solids). you can put it over an oven rack and put something under it to colect the juice
for some reason I could see a group of adventurers seating around a table for DnD and having those potions near by wondering when the real fun i.e drinking begins.
always fun to see people drink it, when you yourself has built a massive tolerance for the burn. Also agree it is fun to see people use it, when you are from Aalborg.
Recently added Greg's Grogs to my one shot market place. Players really enjoyed interacting with my Greg and I had a lot of fun turning the videos and personality into an NPC! Eventually someone figured it out and showed everyone a picture, but players loved the little Easter egg even more.
Greg, I'd love to see you do a full episode on different super juices. In addition to Nickle Morris, I know Kevin Kos has a recipe that got very popular as well. I personally didn't like that one at all and have instead been using a recipe from Brian Tasch of Corpse Revived, as I think he makes a good argument for taking out the citrus juice entirely to avoid any possible oxidation. Would love to hear your take on different recipes, their merit over regular citrus, and perhaps a blind taste-test with the new setup. Cheers!
I have finally realised why i started watching this channel as of couple of days ago. Does anyone else remember a mixology internet game somewhere in the early 2010, where you are instructing this suave, mustached bartender to make drinks for him to try and he has a range of emotions from ascending to heaven to just straight up droping dead, feet in the air depending on what you make. Greg reminds me of that. Thank you, Greg
I am a big fan of Aquivit, with Linie or O.P Anderson being favourites. There is a very simple and pleasent cocktail which mellows out some of it's stronger more overpowering flavours called a Fjelbeck. Shot each of Vodka and Aquivit, fresh lime juice and top with Sprite. Good long drink in the summer served over ice. Also if you want a crazy idea for drinks look up a series called Danger 5, each episode came with a truly crazy cocktail!
Retro old-school campaigns where magic items are extremely rare is really in theme with a lot of the Appendix N books where the world is mostly swords and sandals with maybe a legends sword and a one-night consult with a summoned demon.
Love this video (and all of your videos)! We can’t wait to try the potion of heroism with our own lager tomorrow. Our producer has run a few D&D one shots for us and they were super fun, and we hope to make some interesting beers/sangrias inspired from those fun adventures!
You have GOT to open your own fantasy themed bar. Complete with German style beer hall sitting and individual tables for playing D&D. This needs to be a thing.
Imagine playing a session of D&D but there's a table rule of anytime your character drinks a potion, you have to drink a cocktail/shot based on said potion. Could be great, could be a PROBLEM
I love all your D&D content and any tie you have to make potions (the Harry Potter episode is still one of my favourites), needless to say I wasn't disappointed! And it's especially cool that you're now basically canon in both cyberpunk and D&D. (also nice that you finally checked on Kevin Kos)
FUN FACT: It does kind of make sense that healing potions are red given that there are a number of red berries with medicinal properties. These include the like of goji berries, lingonberries, rowan berries, and juniper berries. (Yes…juniper berries are medicinal as is. They do NOT need to ferment into gin first. Don’t go there.) Maple Story actually makes this more literal by having their healing potions all being made of red berries at different concentrations.
1st Edition had a rule that if you mixed two random potions they would result in a random extra effect. There's one story I heard once (from The Spoony Experiment if you want to look it up) about a character who downed an antidote and healing potion in quick succession, rolled a nat 1 on a d100 and exploded.
I'd love to see you tackle some of the drinks from The Red Dragon Inn game series. Make some Dwarven Firewater, Orcish Rotgut, Pixie Punch, etc many to choose from
Agar agar decomposes in highly acidic environments as well as with the compounds in many tropical fruit. This decomposition will increase heavily if added to anything over 160F. If you want to try buffering the acid try adding Sodium Citrate. The acid might work in your favor for freeze syneresis of pectin or tapioca starch. Guar gum would be off the table as it highly resists syneresis. If you want to do this more often on the show, I would recommend grabbing a cheap vacuum pump and a vacuum filter flask. You’ll save a lot of time. The cheap $120 pump will do fine for this stuff.
Offer potions with or without pulp- You have to kind chew the pulpy ones and some components you can feel rub against your teeth or get stuck on your tonsils going down.
I love that my contact knowledge of cocktails has grown so much that the second you out the shotglass down for the Potion of Heroism I knew it was going to end in a Boiler Maker.
Wow Greg was committed to that clarified lime!! Impressed!! Needed some booze tho, vodka for a clean spirit was my pick. The flame based drink was my fave sounding
I feel like color theory could help a lot with choosing between glitters. As in, do you want the shimmer to be in stark contrast with the drink? Or do you want it to act more as a support to the color of the drink? Warm colors, cold colors, etc For the health potion I probably would have used the red one myself, because the silver kind of faded out the red. But also don't take this too seriously, I'm just high as shit and get too invested in random stuff
I love the idea of renaming a potion of heroism to a potion of 'Hold my beer'. Definitely the feel of that one. Too bad I never use it because I'm saving it for the next fight. Is it bad to have an entire bag of holding devoted to potions?
I learned somewhere that potion means "tea" or something. That means all the weird ingredients are dried out and stuff so they can be boild and steeped in the tea-afication prosses.
I had to laugh when most people talk about 'The Old Days of D & D', 2nd edition or whatever. I began back in the days of Dungeonmaster Guide and Players Handbook. We were thrilled when Unearthed Arcana came out.
Lol I LOVE akvavit. Had a Swedish neighbor lived across the street from me at my old place, and he'd get all sorts of Swedish akvavit shipped over. The variety of flavors within that one "type" of spirit is amazing to me...there are sweet akvavits, dry akvavits, spicy ones, herbal ones...love it.
So I’m currently writing the second book in a potential series of mine, one that’s very D&D inspired…I very much might have a fun bartender named named Greg at some point who is very funny and makes exquisite and creative drinks at some point, maybe even as the personal barkeep for my main characters when they get their own guild hall! Keep up the good work, fine sir!
Did I hear mention of Greyhawk? I played D&D in the late 70s, when Greyhawk *was* D&D. And dungeon masters had boxes full of 3x5 cards (one per room, hall, et c.), binders full of graph paper maps, and of course, baggies full of polyhedral dice. It was lots of fun ... and if you see an old Level 1 cleric wandering in the forests of Midkemia, that's me. Say hello.
I hope this becomes such a popular recurring segment that one day we can watch a "cocktails of athas" episode in which you sample the few fresh water sources from the scorched world beneath the darksun. I remember the sourcebook containing extensive tasting notes on how muddy, brackish and unpleasant most desert springs were.
24:15 Fun fact! The Strange Brew item in Terraria does exactly this. While there are normal healing potions as well, Strange Brew is noted to both look and smell terrible, and seems to have wildly unstable quality control. It will always heal you by a certain amount, sometimes it'll make you straight up invincible for a moment, and the Potion Sickness debuff (the thing that keeps you from just constantly healing) varies a great deal in length instead of being consistent like the other forms of healing potions.
@@howtodrink wouldn't be surprised- it's sold to you by a skeletal peddler who only appears underground. Mice are plentiful, and who wouldn't want a bit of protein in their potion?
8:57 according to the FDA: "Common ingredients in edible glitter include sugar, acacia (gum arabic), maltodextrin, cornstarch, and color additives specifically approved for food use, including mica-based pearlescent pigments and FD&C colors such as FD&C Blue No. 1".
Greg's Groggs sounds like a good basis for having a game of Drunken D&D. I like the Idea you start the night of TTRPG by making these drinks and in order to enable them you have to drink from them. When you've emptied them out, you're character is out of their supply of said potion. I could even think of making a concoction of a Medical tea as a pregame to make it so that if someone downs a little too much of their potions they can not have a hang over but still get pretty plastered while playing.
Oh my god the super juice for the limes also extracts the incredible flavors from the peels themselves. The aromatics that don't really exist in the lime juice. Well plus adds some EXTREME sorta possibly fake tasting sourness from those two added acids. But combined with the peel flavors it might taste more natural? Brilliant! Really gets everything you can out of that ingredient!!
I was trying to remember why this episode felt so incredibly familiar. Like, "Damn I've seen these recipes before and the episode only released today." And now I recall that I watched you shoot this one on Twitch! 😂
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So, what is edible glitter made out of? According to the FDA: "Common ingredients in edible glitter or dust include sugar, acacia (gum arabic), maltodextrin, cornstarch, and color additives specifically approved for food use, including mica-based pearlescent pigments." I think the part you're curious about is the mica-based pearlescent stuff.
However, mica is not generally safe to eat. The only reason the FDA allows it in this case is because you're going to get a very tiny amount of it. Additionally, there's a vague warning from the FDA to only use edible glitter that states it is "edible". The part that they leave out, though, is that you really want to avoid the ones that just say "non-toxic" because those are probably just straight up plastic that is large enough to pass through your body unabsorbed, which means it qualifies as not being toxic.
Greg we still really need to have some episodes where you try to replicate the drink based solely off the editors notes 😅
I’m very happy to see my favorite d and d setting Greg played in back in the day. Dark sun is a beautiful setting to dm and play d and d in and it irritates me we will never see it fully finished and realized aside from the burnt world of athas website.
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It's highly fortuitous that the DMG also states that the average potion is between 1-4oz. which is also a good size for a cocktail (or shot of liqueur, as the case may be).
"Bartender asked us why we brought our weapons into the bar. We said 'Mimics.' He laughed, we laughed, the table laughed, we killed the table, it was a good a time." lol
😂
😂 YEEES!! Love Mimics!!!
Gets me every damn time 😂
That’s funny
I had a friend base an entire campaign around the concept of this joke.
I can definitely see Greg's Grogs being a chain restaurant and bar in the Dungens and Dragons multiverse. Greg is behind the bar of every single one of them simultaneously. And he remembers your character from the last Greg's Grogs that you were in.
Simulacram's with permanent Telepathic Bond ?
Mountain man nurse joy
@@Mark-ki7ic Yes, that would be a way to do this within the rules.
Gonna need to add Greg's Grogs to my next campaign.
Man, I'm a regular ol' bartender and even I can't remember some of my customers' names! I sure as shit wouldn't fault one that couldn't remember my name through multiple planes of existence; especially if he's omnipresent lol
Greg you should do "Monster Cocktail Roulette," where you flip to a random page of the Monster Manual and build a cocktail based on that creature.
Seconded.
This sounds awesome.
Agree
Most certainly
Fuck yes. Let's do this!
So, uh, my players have definitely encountered a flannel wearing bartender named Greg who made a bunch of very interesting drinks.
It's not always red flannel either. He's palette swapped like a Pokemon nurse in every different tavern you find him in. He is running every tavern. All of them. Every single one.
@@MichaelRainey Excuse me while I steal this idea. I wonder how long before they figure it out.
It pretty much has to be a thing, doesn't it?
@@silmarian it took my players until midway through the second campaign lol.
We have a bartender named Greg too.
I mean, if anyone has the Brew Potion feat in real life, it's you. Congrats on being quasi-D&D canon!
The potion of heroism feels like you're meant to chug it.
YOU are, I'm just doing my job here
Technically you only have 6 seconds to drink any potion. You're supposed to chug them all
@@kappage11 There may be alternatives. It may be that alchemists of the realm haven't thought of other delivery systems yet.
Like an arrow/bolt with a hypodermic needle and potion cylinder on the end, and it deals 1 + Dex modifier damage on a hit, but you roll with advantage on the healing dice.
Or maybe a contact potion? If there are contact and inhaled poisons, why not potions that function similarly?
Craft all that crazy goodness. Hell, introduce it to your players by kobolds shooting special, jerry-rigged healing bolts at each other and their tamed, giant combat lizards?
@@derekstein6193 or the Baldur's Gate 3 method where you have a teammate hurl the potion bottle at your face
@@adams3627 I feel if you do that it should do damage immediately before the healing, because glass shattering on you face.
24:13 At my table our DM used to make us chug a drink in real life whenever we wanted to drink a potion in game. The better the chug, the more healing we got. They had managed to find a case of Tang from somewhere and none of us liked it so naturally that was what we had to chug in order to get the healing
IMO, your real-life chug shouldn't affect the game. Potion of healing as an action should give 10hp; as a bonus action, 2d4+2.
But, I have heard of DMs who use the rule 'your character takes a potion, you take a shot'. The idea being that potions are unnatural, and repeated use will affect you. This assumes all players have a safe way home.
@@azraelf.6287 After I wrote this I remembered that chugging in real life was actually optional, if we did chug a soda then we would get max healing from the potion but if not then we just rolled for healing
Since you mentioned "aqua vitae" and the various liquors whose names derive from it: The Gaelic translation of "water of life" is "uisce beatha" (Irish) or "uisge-beatha" (Scottish), from which we derive the English word "whiskey".
Sure is- almost made it into the edit
15:24 My immediate thought was to make a stupid pun:
Greg: "i want to start with an ounce and a half of gin"
Me: "djinn?! i thought this was a GIANT strength potion?!"
LOL that's fantastic!
You do in fact always start a cockatrice...I mean cocktail with "Spirits" heh.
If you're doing agar filtration, I find the more effective method is, after you've hydrated the agar on the stove, to actually put it in the freezer until it's a solid block, then put it in a cloth-lined strainer in the fridge. The water and flavourings will melt way before the agar and solids do.
I've done this with oranges and lemons, and it works well, so limes should be no problem!
What’s this? I’m minding my own business doing some D&D prep for an upcoming session, and THIS comes across my screen?? What luck, I say!
You and me both, pal!
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Me too! hahah.
wth same. I gotta update my sheet and pick what I want for my level 5 Twilight Cleric.
Same! Yo Thursday D&D day
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19:09 "Go home Soos!" I laughed so much, keep rocking Greg.
That interpretation of a potion of heroism is hilarious and so on point.
Man I wish this video had come out a few months ago! Me and my D&D group did a "potion party" for New Years, and we were just basically flying by the seat of our pants to come up with potion recipes.
"If i had toenail fungus WHICH I DON'T!" made me laugh far too much.
In other fantasy properties, Pathfinder's Lost Omens Travel Guide has a quartet of cocktail recipes you might want to try out
100% adding greg's groggs into any and all future campaigns of mine
You can make a potion of blindness by having a few shots of wood alcohol.
Your alchemists were so concerned about whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Most underrated comment of the day! 🏆
I think Cachaca is also a really good base spirit to use for any kind of "potion" theming. The funkiness of it lends itself really well to tasting "medicinal" in an otherworldly way.
Starting up Baldur's Gate 3, open up youtube and I see this. A DM couldn't have planned it any better. Made my day.
I've been watching this channel for years despite only a couple of months ago turning 21 and am yet to drink any alcohol. Greg is just a great entertainer and I love seeing his craft.
If I am to ever make cocktails, 99% of them will be non alcoholic or mocktails as I would like to keep my alcohol consumption to a minimum. Considering my long family history of alcoholism and addiction, I'd rather not unlock some hidden trait lol. I'll just keep drinking water, milk, tea, and occasionally coffee as my main beverages.
You're not the only dry viewer! I don't drink alcohol for various reasons, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying the channel.
@@ashleya3236 He's an amazing entertainer whether you drink or not. I don't drink much, usually just at home, but he's awesome regardless.
Very wise. There's 3 roads with alcohol: you stay away from it, you control it, it controls you. It is real easy to go from being in control to being controlled
"Can you glower approvingly"
According to my fanfictions you can
Gowron is the undisputed master of the glower of approval, especially if you bring glory to your House.
This video has simultaneously inspired me to finally get into cocktail making, and also made me realise I will never be able to do this
I remember an interview with a schnapps maker, and she said “In the morning, we call it medicine 💊 . In the evening, we call it a cocktail. 🍸 ”
It is pretty good medicine if you have stomach problems. It doesn't taste good but I do take a shot with meals to help settle my stomach.
Your timing is impeccable. Doing a one shot tomorrow with my group (and one at the library tonight where I DM for the teens, but I don't think they're allowed to drink).
For tomorrow, I'm making a "Session 0 punch" from the DungeonMeister book
16oz vodka
16oz silver rum
10 cans of beer
1 frozen lemonade thingy
Mix all, and have DD to get home from DnD
We used to call that electric lemonade back in my highschool days. I was always a ”little sissy” and added some pre sugared Kool aid powder to my drinks (the blue raspberry lemonade one, because I was and am still a discerning, classy, little sissy).
Was pleased to see Greg combine Suze and All Spice Dram! I arrived to that combo for a whiskey sour variation I made
Imagine a bar that's themed around a classic dungeons and dragons tavern that serves drinks just like this
You mis-described the Potion of Fire Breath. A Potion of Fire Breath gives the drinker the ability to breath fire, as in expelling a blast of fire, like a dragon's breath, not being able to breathe while consumed in fire.
The potion lasts for an hour and gives the drinker three charges to breathe out a blast of fire to a single target within a 30ft range. The target must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 4D6 fire damage, or takes half that damage on a successful save.
I heard Greg's description and was like "no, no, absolutely not, no way." Looked it up and found exactly what you did. Mechanics like that just aren't in 5e that I've encountered anyway.
Thank you! You can breathe on the Elemental Plane of Fire just fine... the trick is not immediately bursting into flame.
I came here to say this!
It was a joke XD. That look he gave at the end of his description was a tell.
Also he breathed fire after he made it. He knew what was up.
Haha I was waiting to find this chain of comments :)
The most important part of this episode is that Gregg played Dark Sun back in the day, it would be great to hear what your group got up to in that post-apocalyptic setting.
To be honest the main thing I remember was that I was a Thri-kreen, and I was floored by how cool multi attack was, and I kept the ears of my victims. Oh, and weapons broke sometimes.
@@howtodrinkThat sounds like Dark Sun. Bone and obsidian weapons. And freaking defiler wizards that blighted and dessicated the landscape with the casting of their spells by powering their magic using the plants' very life essence!
"Bubbles as if boiling" wouldve been a great opportunity for a shard of dry ice there. Would bubble and roil without actually boiling just like the description, and you'd get that hazy fog effect as a bonus!
Other than that, awesome episode. I love how you tried to make them on-brand with not just the color, but the flavors and oddities too, like the drop of milk; that was brilliant, or the "hold my beer" liquid courage angle.
Also loved the 'medicinal' angle with them maybe not necessarily needing to be yummy, like the inclusion of salt in the last one.
Really cool, inspired stuff. I've been watching your channel for a while and, imo, this is one of your best yet!
Dry ice is a dangerous recommendation for a bartender to make on a public forum. It can burst your stomach if consumed.
@sarajamesaerial ahhhhhh, I forgot to account for the idiot/liability factor. Good point. Ah well.
6:48 legit alchemey going on there, very on-theme!
Varrying numbers of d4s in 5e ;) 1:57
I was thinking the same thing
also, bless doesn't give either of the effects he said :D
P.S. it's also just a d4 to attack rolls and saving throws in 5e
In my DnD campaigns, healing potions taste like cola. The spices used irl to make cola don't exist in the world because it's based on Vikings, but still healing potions taste like cola because it's one of my favorite flavors.
In mine it's Code Red Mountain Dew
Ginger ale
No, wait, HOT DR PEPPER!
Healing potions taste like root beer in my game, so when people opened a mysterious bottle and smelled sarsparilla they knew what they were getting
even though there's no rule in DnD, we make all our potions taste terrible because in videogames you cannot chug more than one without a cooldown.
I’m sending this vid to my dnd buddies, they’ll be so happy to see that you’ve essentially kinda become canon to dnd lore. Gonna ask the dm if we could possibly add a Greg’s Grog’s to our campaign as well (and maybe try to replicate the potions as well 😉).
There are several awesome Grog related roll tables that are fun for spicing up a campaign. It was optional to participate, but every character that did it got weird flavor to their play. I had a jewel encrusted grille and a penchant for shiny things.
As a brief note (though there's probebly other comments on it) but potions of fire breathing let you breath OUT fire, similar to a dragon's breath. It does not let you breath in fire.
D&D and HTD is such a perfect pairing. The amoint of dopamine I recieve every time there's a D&D related episode is insane lol
Holy crap is that cool!! I was a huge d&d nerd in the mid/late 80s! Congratulations from a fellow adventurer!
to clarify juice, you could try to freeze it. then, let it defrost covered in some cloth or piece of clothing or something (it has to act like a filter for the lime solids). you can put it over an oven rack and put something under it to colect the juice
for some reason I could see a group of adventurers seating around a table for DnD and having those potions near by wondering when the real fun i.e drinking begins.
Greg's Groggs is awesome
Always fun to see people use Aalborg Aquavit, when you live in Aalborg :D
always fun to see people drink it, when you yourself has built a massive tolerance for the burn.
Also agree it is fun to see people use it, when you are from Aalborg.
Afraid I prefer O P Andersen’s … sorry Aalborg people
@@AndrewJacksonSE Dont make me get my pitchfork :D
A Gravity Falls themed mocktail episode would be really cool. Greg would even look good in a fez and an eyepatch
Recently added Greg's Grogs to my one shot market place. Players really enjoyed interacting with my Greg and I had a lot of fun turning the videos and personality into an NPC! Eventually someone figured it out and showed everyone a picture, but players loved the little Easter egg even more.
Greg, I'd love to see you do a full episode on different super juices. In addition to Nickle Morris, I know Kevin Kos has a recipe that got very popular as well. I personally didn't like that one at all and have instead been using a recipe from Brian Tasch of Corpse Revived, as I think he makes a good argument for taking out the citrus juice entirely to avoid any possible oxidation. Would love to hear your take on different recipes, their merit over regular citrus, and perhaps a blind taste-test with the new setup. Cheers!
I love these D&D shows! Thank you for doing them!
I want to see Greg's Grogs in more D&D stuff!
I have finally realised why i started watching this channel as of couple of days ago.
Does anyone else remember a mixology internet game somewhere in the early 2010, where you are instructing this suave, mustached bartender to make drinks for him to try and he has a range of emotions from ascending to heaven to just straight up droping dead, feet in the air depending on what you make.
Greg reminds me of that.
Thank you, Greg
22:14
"Seduce that dragon"
😂😂
Ayyyeeee its all cloacas to me😂
"Good ol' cloaca" Mike Rowe
many, many times 🤣
Any hole's a goal.
I am a big fan of Aquivit, with Linie or O.P Anderson being favourites. There is a very simple and pleasent cocktail which mellows out some of it's stronger more overpowering flavours called a Fjelbeck.
Shot each of Vodka and Aquivit, fresh lime juice and top with Sprite. Good long drink in the summer served over ice.
Also if you want a crazy idea for drinks look up a series called Danger 5, each episode came with a truly crazy cocktail!
Retro old-school campaigns where magic items are extremely rare is really in theme with a lot of the Appendix N books where the world is mostly swords and sandals with maybe a legends sword and a one-night consult with a summoned demon.
Love this video (and all of your videos)! We can’t wait to try the potion of heroism with our own lager tomorrow. Our producer has run a few D&D one shots for us and they were super fun, and we hope to make some interesting beers/sangrias inspired from those fun adventures!
I have already shared this link to my tabletop group :) Greg's Grogs everywhere across the multiverse!
I love this channel, it allows me to procrastinate and not just consume shitty youtube shorts
You have GOT to open your own fantasy themed bar. Complete with German style beer hall sitting and individual tables for playing D&D. This needs to be a thing.
This is great, I love the narrative that Greg is in the D&D universe.
Imagine playing a session of D&D but there's a table rule of anytime your character drinks a potion, you have to drink a cocktail/shot based on said potion. Could be great, could be a PROBLEM
I love all your D&D content and any tie you have to make potions (the Harry Potter episode is still one of my favourites), needless to say I wasn't disappointed! And it's especially cool that you're now basically canon in both cyberpunk and D&D.
(also nice that you finally checked on Kevin Kos)
I always imagined healing potions tasting like a mix of strawberry, cherry, pomegranate , and citrus. Happy your interpretation was close.
SHOUTOUT TO THE GREEN ROOM GOBLINS!!
FUN FACT: It does kind of make sense that healing potions are red given that there are a number of red berries with medicinal properties. These include the like of goji berries, lingonberries, rowan berries, and juniper berries. (Yes…juniper berries are medicinal as is. They do NOT need to ferment into gin first. Don’t go there.)
Maple Story actually makes this more literal by having their healing potions all being made of red berries at different concentrations.
1st Edition had a rule that if you mixed two random potions they would result in a random extra effect. There's one story I heard once (from The Spoony Experiment if you want to look it up) about a character who downed an antidote and healing potion in quick succession, rolled a nat 1 on a d100 and exploded.
I'd love to see you tackle some of the drinks from The Red Dragon Inn game series. Make some Dwarven Firewater, Orcish Rotgut, Pixie Punch, etc many to choose from
Agar agar decomposes in highly acidic environments as well as with the compounds in many tropical fruit. This decomposition will increase heavily if added to anything over 160F.
If you want to try buffering the acid try adding Sodium Citrate.
The acid might work in your favor for freeze syneresis of pectin or tapioca starch. Guar gum would be off the table as it highly resists syneresis.
If you want to do this more often on the show, I would recommend grabbing a cheap vacuum pump and a vacuum filter flask. You’ll save a lot of time. The cheap $120 pump will do fine for this stuff.
Buchner Funnel? It’s on my list
Been a long time fan, Greg. Keep up the awesome work. Your drinks sound amazing and your jokes are hilarious.
Offer potions with or without pulp- You have to kind chew the pulpy ones and some components you can feel rub against your teeth or get stuck on your tonsils going down.
Beautiful potions worthy of high fantasy. Thank you for including the lime juice extraction!!
I love that my contact knowledge of cocktails has grown so much that the second you out the shotglass down for the Potion of Heroism I knew it was going to end in a Boiler Maker.
Wow Greg was committed to that clarified lime!! Impressed!! Needed some booze tho, vodka for a clean spirit was my pick. The flame based drink was my fave sounding
I feel like color theory could help a lot with choosing between glitters.
As in, do you want the shimmer to be in stark contrast with the drink? Or do you want it to act more as a support to the color of the drink? Warm colors, cold colors, etc
For the health potion I probably would have used the red one myself, because the silver kind of faded out the red.
But also don't take this too seriously, I'm just high as shit and get too invested in random stuff
These type of videos of drinks from games and movies/shows are the best videos on the channel
You go the extra mile for these recipes and it's always appreciated 👍
The potion of fire breath isn’t for inhaling fire, it’s for exhaling fire.
Hmmmmm, are you sure about that? I don’t really have time to look into it, I’m low on blinker fluid and need to fill it up
Get you a man who can do both
See, but Greg made a potion of fire breathing. different thing, but seemed to have the same description. /s
I love the idea of renaming a potion of heroism to a potion of 'Hold my beer'. Definitely the feel of that one. Too bad I never use it because I'm saving it for the next fight. Is it bad to have an entire bag of holding devoted to potions?
Greg's Groggs is great. I love the 2-for-1 appetizers on Tuesdays.
I watch all your stuff; but sometimes feel there's missing from the old day; episodes (That feels like the right word here), capture that old magic.
I learned somewhere that potion means "tea" or something.
That means all the weird ingredients are dried out and stuff so they can be boild and steeped in the tea-afication prosses.
My DnD group has two people who work at a liquor store. I immediately shared this with them. 😂
For those that don't want to go through the pain of making your own grenadine, master of mixes makes some that's not too shabby
I had to laugh when most people talk about 'The Old Days of D & D', 2nd edition or whatever. I began back in the days of Dungeonmaster Guide and Players Handbook. We were thrilled when Unearthed Arcana came out.
Lol I LOVE akvavit. Had a Swedish neighbor lived across the street from me at my old place, and he'd get all sorts of Swedish akvavit shipped over. The variety of flavors within that one "type" of spirit is amazing to me...there are sweet akvavits, dry akvavits, spicy ones, herbal ones...love it.
So I’m currently writing the second book in a potential series of mine, one that’s very D&D inspired…I very much might have a fun bartender named named Greg at some point who is very funny and makes exquisite and creative drinks at some point, maybe even as the personal barkeep for my main characters when they get their own guild hall! Keep up the good work, fine sir!
If you want water of life but don’t like akevit, use whisky. From the old Irish “uisce,” meaning “water of life.”
Yeah I almost had graphics explaining that but it was too messy
Did I hear mention of Greyhawk?
I played D&D in the late 70s, when Greyhawk *was* D&D. And dungeon masters had boxes full of 3x5 cards (one per room, hall, et c.), binders full of graph paper maps, and of course, baggies full of polyhedral dice.
It was lots of fun ... and if you see an old Level 1 cleric wandering in the forests of Midkemia, that's me. Say hello.
I hope this becomes such a popular recurring segment that one day we can watch a "cocktails of athas" episode in which you sample the few fresh water sources from the scorched world beneath the darksun. I remember the sourcebook containing extensive tasting notes on how muddy, brackish and unpleasant most desert springs were.
Gregg has now officially influenced both video games AND films with his craft!! WOOOO
See as soon as you said "as if boiling" for the potion of heroism my brain went straight to dry ice
I have the perfect adage for stir vs shake. “If it’s opaque give it a shake. If it’s clur give it a stir.” 😌
24:15 Fun fact! The Strange Brew item in Terraria does exactly this. While there are normal healing potions as well, Strange Brew is noted to both look and smell terrible, and seems to have wildly unstable quality control. It will always heal you by a certain amount, sometimes it'll make you straight up invincible for a moment, and the Potion Sickness debuff (the thing that keeps you from just constantly healing) varies a great deal in length instead of being consistent like the other forms of healing potions.
Also there’s a mouse in it, eh?
@@howtodrink wouldn't be surprised- it's sold to you by a skeletal peddler who only appears underground. Mice are plentiful, and who wouldn't want a bit of protein in their potion?
I'm a simple man I see Potion-themed drinks I click
I regularly drink stuff out of a glass bottle with a cork to feel like I'm drinking a Potion
Aw hell yea, I'm gonna go mix this recipe and then lose a swordfight.
Greater Health Potion as some kind of Bloody Mary base, especially if served in Orcish/Barbarian rich areas.
It is SHOCKING how different Greg looks without the flannel shirt and fancy bar background!
8:57 according to the FDA: "Common ingredients in edible glitter include sugar, acacia (gum arabic), maltodextrin, cornstarch, and color additives specifically approved for food use, including mica-based pearlescent pigments and FD&C colors such as FD&C Blue No. 1".
Sounds healthy!
Greg's Groggs sounds like a good basis for having a game of Drunken D&D. I like the Idea you start the night of TTRPG by making these drinks and in order to enable them you have to drink from them. When you've emptied them out, you're character is out of their supply of said potion. I could even think of making a concoction of a Medical tea as a pregame to make it so that if someone downs a little too much of their potions they can not have a hang over but still get pretty plastered while playing.
Hey Greg, what is that device you use to take notes?
Oh my god the super juice for the limes also extracts the incredible flavors from the peels themselves. The aromatics that don't really exist in the lime juice. Well plus adds some EXTREME sorta possibly fake tasting sourness from those two added acids. But combined with the peel flavors it might taste more natural? Brilliant! Really gets everything you can out of that ingredient!!
What perfect timing. I'll make these for my DND session tomorrow!
A centaur walks into a bar. “Why the long face?” asks the bartender
Cast fire ball
Centaur walks into a bar and orders a drink.
Bartender asks if he's feeling okay, "You're a bit ho(a)rse..."
I was trying to remember why this episode felt so incredibly familiar. Like, "Damn I've seen these recipes before and the episode only released today." And now I recall that I watched you shoot this one on Twitch! 😂