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Dumb Idea: this series seems like the alcohol version of 'The AK Guy' 's series "cursed gun images" where a dude who makes a living building, selling, and talking about firearms looks at pictures of firearms the internet sent in thinking they are cursed... I dunno why but I think given he likes drinking you guys could do an interesting collaboration of 'most cursed shit' so long as no one shoots guns drunk, as that as The AK Guy says is a recipe for disaster. Separately though that could be interesting.
I remember trying one of the "cursed" receipts from Mover and Shaker once on a bet that it would be good. A margarita, sub vodka, add vanilla, spicy. I lost the bet that it would be awful -- no lie, it was genuinely delicious, like an orange creamsicle with tajin. It's become a part of my home bar menu at this point.
@@KMAC-mf4dk Yeah, details would be good. If someone told me to make that I would definitely ask them to elaborate on the "vanilla," part. Like straight vanilla extract? Vanilla syrup? What?
My dad was a bartender when he was younger and he once told me about a customer who ordered a drink that was milk with an ounce of lemon juice, two ounces of cherry liqueur, and an egg white. My dad referred to it as the Cherry Crime Cocktail.
Milk and lemon juice is what I use to sub for buttermilk when I make pancakes bc it kinda cuddles the milk and activates the sodium bicarbonate... I cannot imagine drinking Cherry Crime Cocktails tho
"Why isn't the Sprite in the shaker? I'd think that would be obvious." You'd think that, but I decided to add lime juice to Vanilla Coke Zero, and decided to put everything into a shaker, and *then* it became obvious.
On the subject of Sprite "cocktails": When I was in college, the very first time I ever went to a bar, I randomly decided to order a very basic Midori and Sprite. I actually liked it enough that I ordered another, and then half the table did too. My roommate decided to name it a "Reginald" after me - not because my name is or has ever been Reginald, but on the grounds that I "looked like a Reginald".
One time some mates of mine ran out of coke so we made our last round of cuba libres with sprite. Disgusting as hell lol, something in the sweetener they use reacts badly with alcohol
I lengthen midori with lemonade sometimes. I don't like how sweet sprite is here in Australia - its soooo sweet. But if you have a sweet tooth it'd work fine.
This is definitely my favorite series at this point. The tutorials on normal drinks are fine, but the weird stuff, odd drinks, bad drinks, canned drinks, and such are way more fun.
There's a shocking amount of things you can learn from the weird shit people come up with. Like Kahlua and Coke just tasting like distilled depression. Lol
On my 18th birthday here in England, my sister made me a "cocktail". My sister was 15 at the time and had really no experience of drinks and what could go together. So, she just put some of everything we had drinks wise, in a pint glass, and called it the Thames Estuary, because it looked just like the water at the mouth of the Thames, where we live. It had (among other things) rum, vodka, whiskey, cola, lager, ale, cider, various carbonated soft drinks and fruit juices in it. I don't recall the taste precisely, but I did ask for a second pint of it🤣
As a Swedish person, it's pretty funny to see Greg repeatedly apologizing for using bäsk and not real malort, because ever since I learned about malort I've thought of it as "oh, like knockoff bäsk, I guess?"
"The Customer is Always Wrong Part II: Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right." It was right there! Anyways love the show, thanks for the laughs and the drinks!
@@dimitarapostolov9788 It's lovely. It's just the sweetness that would make it bad if too much. Fine if you make it the 'old fashioned' way by muddling bittters (preferably orange) over one sugar cube.If you're used to the sweetness in a gimlet, tempered by lime, then the sweetness in a gin old fashioned, tempered by the gin bitterness, is not shocking to the palate.
The bar I used to frequent had a cocktail called Armageddon. It's equal parts Harakiri liqueur, absinthe, gin, and ouzo. Do not add a spoonful of simple syrup, an ounce of grape juice, or any bitters. No, do not. You just mix the four liquors and maintain eye contact until the drink is gone or the customer is.
@@shanethebrownwolf5575 I think....I think he's being serious....and I think I just heard an air raid siren just reading those ingredients. In case you don't know though, absinthe and gin are the only appealing flavor profiles in that, but if you mix the flavor of ouzo and gin or ouzo and absinthe, it becomes a completely unpalatable concoction that will almost certainly melt the top of your tongue. There's a similar "horror cocktail" that's served at my local bar, it comes in a high ball glass, and if you can finish the entire drink in 5 minutes, you get I think either free drinks for the night for yourself, or a certain number of free drinks. I tried one time, I failed, and their bathroom got a sick new paint job. 💀
@@crazycherokee8552 I feel the these drinks get away with it because people get drunk trying to psych themselves up and at that point can't handle it. If you walk in stone cold sober and just down one, it's probably possible to hold it down long enough to then have a good time after.
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A couple weekends ago we went to Milwaukee and we learned that no one sufficiently fucks up a good cocktail better than they do. We dubbed it "the Milwaukee Twist." I ordered a smoked old fashioned and it showed up with pepsi in it. When I went to the wedding I was impressed with the Tequila selection. They had Siete Leguas Blanco on deck. So I thought, alight, let's do a nice dry refreshing easy drink with that tequila being the forward flavor. I literally told the bar tender every ingredient and (I kid you not) the moment I looked away and back I saw her pull out a 2-liter bottle of squirt ready to sufficiently destroy it -- there was a slow motion NOOOOOOOOOOO! involved where I saved it at the last moment. What is up with that place?
I kind of like the “unusual” drinks more than the bad ones. Given, the bad ones are fun to watch the reaction to, but the unusual ones seem like drinks I might want to actually try.
Okay, so I'm telling on my Canadian girlfriend here: 1) my girlfriend tells me that apparently kahluha and cola (with vodka and milk) is a western Canada thing. it's called a Paralyzer and is topped with a cherry. when she overheard your flavor note analysis about the motel alcove, she said "yeah that's basically all of Saskatchewan". It is also known as a "Colorado Bulldog" in the states. It was apparently invented in Winnipeg by a few idiots who were trying to make a white russian. 2) This same woman took me as a plus one to a family wedding last year. When I wanted to grab drinks from the bar for us both, she said "yeah get me a tequila and coke". I told the bartender our order, and she said "....what, really?" I shrugged. My girlfriend doesn't drink much, and then pretty much only tequila or hard seltzer, but i figured she must know what she was ordering. I tried it. She did not know what she was ordering. It was not good tequila, either (poking around on the internet based on what I remember of the bottle, I think it was Exotico Blanco). I will never get the taste of that drink out of my mouth.
Kahluha and coke is one of my goto when I feel like drinking. Toss in a measure of vanilla vodka and you're all set. 3:1 K/V and then top off the glass with a can of full sugar coke. Then toss in some ice, surprisingly good on a warm night
My parents both love paralyzers! I had no idea it was just a Canadian thing. I enjoy a variation made from spiced rum, vanilla coke and cream. Tastes exactly like a coke float!
For the first one, I think using the dill flowers might impart a more rounded flavor over the dry herb. I find the dry to be bitter rather than sour like the flowers/buds. The flower has a brightness to it that goes up your nose and causes the ultimate pucker face that you het from a good homemade dill pickle.
When you have akvavit in Sweden at least, you usually have it together with herring or other fish, and a lot of the time there will be dill and/or lemon involved in those dishes, so honestly to me that first cocktail does seem a bit intriguing as a Swedish herring and akvavit enthusiast.
Yep. 100% agreed. In addition Besk or Bäska droppar can be nice with salmon or other fish with high fat content. It is an acquired taste, though. Also, it may very well (most probably) be dill seeds used to spice the akvavit, not the green leaves or stem. It gives a mustard-y-ish spicy tone to the drink, rather than the normal "dill" flavor.
I, personally, don't necessarily WANT to see you suffer from these drinks. I just want to see them held up and realized for what they are. People look at the orders and tilt their collective heads, but something is only that way until it is known. Really hope this series continues, whether the customer is wrong...or right.
The worst drink we used to make was Everclear and grape Kool Aid powder. No water to cut the potency of the grain alcohol. We were pretty stupid in our rural youths. Or Black Velvet and sprite orLord Calvert dry gin and diet coke. THAT tastes just like pinesol.Those are NEVER AGAIN drinks
I'm gonna need clarification- is the black velvet, sprite, gin, and diet coke all one drink or are those two separate ones? That reminds me of the kinda stuff I'd mix when I just wanted to take a little bit out of each of the less-used bottles in the cabinet so my family wouldn't notice. Where did you guys even get champagne for a Black Velvet? Edit: I'm stupid, I assumed "black velvet" was the mixed drink, you probably meant the whisky brand
@@AngharadMac we called it purple Jesus but of course hyper religious types got their undergarments in a firm bunch. But purple passion is pre mixed Kool aid where it's made up the standard way. We didn't use anything to cut the potency of the Grain alcohol. It sent several people to the hospital with alcohol poisoning.
@@AngharadMac Yes sir, it's one of the reasons Virginia ABC stores stopped selling Grain alcohol for many years. A pint can send you to the Emergency room quick. The way Purple Passion is made, one gallon of Cold water. Three scoops grape Kool aid powder, add grain to taste. The way Purple Jesus is made, one scoop grape powder to on 750ml bottle of Everclear. Hence the name. The first thing you say after a sip of this is "JESUS". We used to do it on a regular basis. But I do not recommend nor endorse the consumption of said lunacy. Again I will state that is a beverage from my misspent youth, and would NEVER consume such a concoction EVER again.
I once put 12 cl of ginger beer in a shaker and let me tell you: that shit exploded all over my kitchen. It was like a ginger bomb had gone off or something. I was making 5 moscow mules and thought shaking it would be cool (I was trying to impress someone). Well I ended up looking like a ginger soaked fool.
My dumbass was making like 8 of these shots with Empress gin, lemon, and honey and forgot to dry shake first…I got a block of frozen honey at the bottom of the shaker, and it was the most sour failure ever 😂 luckily this was a house party and I never claimed to be a great bartender anyway 😂
I worked at a bar in college, and there was this one older lady who claimed to be a psychic that would always come in and order a PBR with a shot of Jack Daniels and a shot of olive juice in it. Truly wild.
I love your reaction to the Spritehatten saying it is an "angry drink" with that face. After watching your show for a few months I decided to make my own cocktails, barely knowing what I'm doing, and I would definitely describe a lot of my drinks tasting "angry" (try mixing sailor jerry, clementine juice, and maraschino while barely measuring and you may experience this.) I don't know how else to describe it, they weren't bad per say but I can only say they would be drinks you would shoot back quickly before storming out of the house angrily screaming at the gods. Edit: If you try making my drink and decide its disgusting after one sip, add a couple ounces of ginger ale and it becomes actually delicious but barely a drink at that point.
So Sailer Jerry as a spiced rum is kinda vanilla heavy, so the Clementine juice makes loads of sense. Round my way spiced rum and orange with simple is a thing. I can see why maraschino is probably a bit much, but I have a feeling a bit of mint, be it muddled or a bar spoon of creme de menthe and now I wish I had the bits to try
Sub Maraschino with Curacao (or Cuantro if you want it sweeter) then add either some cinnamon syrup, ginger syrup or grated nutmeg. That should balance the drink and highlight the other flavors in the rum so that the vanilla is toned down a bit. @gavxmas is correct, Sailor Jerry is a med proof spiced rum. Like most cheap spiced rum, it has a vanilla heavy profile.
I have had a sprite drink in Norway that tasted really good. It was in a hiball and it was aquavit with honey, topped with sprite. Kinda like a lemony honey-y gin and tonic.
I'm loving this series. Thought: fixing these awful drinks to give them what they want but in a way that doesn't taste like a motel ice machine alcove?
Imagine you do this and then next time the customer orders the same thing thinking it tastes great, and the other bartender makes it how its written, and now the customer is complaining that they're not making what he wants
The Coke/Kaluha/olives...it's like something from H.P. Lovecraft, gazing from the murky depths into your soul through its baleful olive eyes. Those pimento irises burning into your brain, convincing you to try more of the Spitehattan (because truly, that one sounded like you wanted to fight whoever created it). 😆
I'm semi-new to this channel and want part 3-4-5-6-7-ect of this. Your production quality, humor, and bartending skills are amazing and it's so fun to see you try these special order drinks. We have a very similar palate and I love seeing you try different things, especially when I haven't myself. I'd love to try unusual drinks that don't sound good but are actually phenomenal.
As a Chicago girl who loves her Malört, and as somebody who got a taste for akavit while living abroad in Denmark, I'm absolutely going to try making that sour. Also the gin Old Fashioned actually sounds damn nice.
Yeah as a gin enthusiast myself I do agree and have made myself a few gin old fashioneds.. But you have to use a gin with a fairly unique flavor profile.. I would also probably use "gin syrup" (or juniper style syrup) instead of simple and most likely not necessarily go with plain Angostura Bitters (although it can work, especially with Old Tom or classical Belgian Genever)
I could never explain why I'm so interested in this channel when I don't drink lol. I've never had any alcohol whatsoever (religious reason), yet I'm still entertained by these.
Making mock tails/non alcoholic mixed drinks is really fun, I like mixing different herbs and citrus and sparkling water to make fun drinks just because
I think there's something inherently entertaining in watching someone who is very good at what they do talking about something done terribly and discussing it.
I don’t drink neither for medical reasons, and I also hate the taste of alcohol. Hearing the whole tasting process is fascinating like he takes out flavors from something that to me is nothing but bitter spicy mess. Also since I don’t hang out around drunk people I can’t even differentiate when Greg is tipsy or not, so it’s honestly fun to go down to the comments and have people point it out when it happens
The episodes with more ridiculous cocktails are great, but this was almost more interesting because I could see a non-deranged person ordering most of these cocktails. I also appreciate not faking it for content, and hope these keep coming!
This episode triggered a couple of suppressed memories in me - one based on your comment regarding “piney” notes in alcohol, the other based on adding Sprite (or other lemon lime soda) to drinks you wouldn’t think of normally. Both memories share a common element - absinthe. Back in the dark ages, before absinthe was deregulated in the US, the only way to get it was through nefarious means (hopefully the statute of limitations has expired on my transgression). Essentially, you had to bring it in via courier - an expensive proposition. I wanted to try the genuine article, so I sprang for the added cost. I ultimately got an assortment of 3 half pints in various styles. The best of the bunch was a variety called Sapin which was infused with the piney notes you describe. Something about the pine flavor mitigated the anise seed overtone that many find off putting in absinthe. Highly recommended if you can find it still. When I received this assortment, being a newbie to absinthe, I wanted to try the traditional style with the spoon and sugar cube etc. - which I did. I hated it! In my opinion, the sugar and water did nothing to abrogate the absinthe’s tendency to overwhelm your taste buds and burn out your nose hairs. And anyone who drinks absinthe ultimately realizes that trying to drink it neat quickly results in one seeing green fairies 🧚♂️ and the undersides of tables. I deduced that there must be some validity to the traditional approach of sugar and cold water. In my desperation not to waste the exorbitantly expensive hooch, I turned to lemon lime soda. I figured “ What is lemon lime soda but bubbly water and sugar with a little citrus added?”. And you know what, I was absolutely right! I’m sure absinthe purists are shuddering at the thought, but it was really good.
I am an avid fan of both absinthe meant for the traditional style of serving and sipping neat. and most people who like it prefer one or the other, and gonna be honest, to like the kind you make with a sugar cube and cold water... it helps if you like Scandinavian style licorice candy and genuinely enjoy Jaeger. the herbally licorice style or aparteif tonics. but Sprite and the sipping neat style is absolutely how I serve it to people on the fence worried about the flavor to give it the best chance. if you go very heavy on the sprite, if kinda tastes like a black jelly bean. it's kinda an acquired taste but it also means not many people wanna share.
I was intrigued by the gin old-fashioned, so I made one using a sugar cube (my favorite method) and some rose bitters from the Portland Gin Project, and W O W. An absolute stunner of a drink. I used a London Dry gin like Greg did, but now I want to try a whole rotation of different gins and bitters combos ...
I LOVE gin old fashioneds and my go to gin is Tanqueray Rangpur. Rangpur is not a “flavored” spirit the way that’s usually thought of, the lime is just infused with the other botanicals. I’m not sure why but it makes it extremely smooth!
I think the Sprite inclusion in drinks must’ve happened from someone ordering a Sprite first and then their alcohol of choice- and once they took a sip a both in quick succession decided- “WOW these taste good together!!!” Cut out the middle man of drinking from two separate glasses and just add the lemon lime soda straight to the Manhattan 🥴
You get people who put 7Up in an Old Fashioned. Really. A variant on using soda water, which also doesn't go in an Old Fashioned. Sprite is a less nice tasting version of 7Up. If some people put 7Up in an Old Fashioned, it was a matter of time before someone came up with the Sprite in a Manhattan thing.
I like the recipe and deep dives when I'm in the mood to learn something or add a new drink to my repertoire. I like these bad drink and experiment videos for the pure entertainment value and a good laugh! Plus debating with my husband about how to try and make the drink passable lol Thanks for the part 2! Keep up the good work!
that gin old fashioned sounds *really* good, and it actually makes sense if it's got "christmas" spices, seeing as junipers are also known as *cedars*, so it's basically drinking something with the aroma of a christmas tree
A few years back my Swedish uncle gave me a bottle of dill aquavit. We used it to make Mojitos in place of rum. Best Mojitos ever and I've yet to be able to find another bottle since.
If you want truly great Swedish alcohol you have to find some moonshiners, all the best stuff is homemade. If the bottle has a real cork and a handwritten label you know it's going to be special.
To me, sprite brings less interruption to the drink flavors than seltzer water/soda water does. Sprite is my go to and I have made many makers manhattans with a sprite splash. Sometimes you just want a little bubble
Honestly I think sprite might be an acquired taste thing with alcohol because everytime I've tried a mixed drink with sprite, I've hated it lol. Did sprite with green apple ciroc - could only do three sips before i dumped it. a friend mixed sprite and pink Whitney and let me try it - awful. I ordered a Washington apple at a bar once and the bartender decided to add a splash of sprite to "help cancel out the bitterness" and it did the complete opposite and made it extremely bitter. I love sprite but I don't ever want to drink it mixed with alcohol ever again lol.
Watching the first customer is always wrong is what introduced me to your amazing channel and bartender RUclips in general. Thanks to your videos I’ve gotten so much better at making drinks and have laughed so hard. Glad to see it back!
That gin old fashioned sounds really nice... And the first one's tasting notes sounds like how the bakery I used to work at smelled. Good memories, that.
Im rewatching this, and I really have to say- the surprise is better than the agony. I found it delightful watching you realize that the aquavit thing was drinkable.
I wasn't thinking one time when I was experimenting with a drink and put 7up in my shaker. As you would imagine, two shakes and I was showered with 7up, apple pucker, lime syrup, and orange bitters. the drink wasn't bad, but I shook everything but the 7up and topped off my glass. Much less cleanup
In the 1970s I went to England with an English girl who'd lived with us in San Francisco for a year. At a local pub she really got snotty with a waiter who didn't know what a Harvey Wallbanger was. I'd been a waitress and didn't like that, so I got up, beckoned the waiter to the bar and gave him this recipe: You make a screwdriver and float a half measure of Galliano on top. Then you put it in a pretty glass with a straw, carry it over on a tray and pour it in her lap.
I just randomly found this channel and out of everything one of the pictures already made me love your channel. My grandmother had the same water and rock painting in her home for years, most don't realize it's a paint my colors too with some quality paint always looks great. It even has the seagulls as well. I have never seen another person with that picture, what a small gem of a find.
There is a drink in switzerland served commonly on carnival called Fröschli (eng.: Frog): - 2 shots of green trojka vodka - 1 sugar cube - peppermint teabag - Hot water It is surprisingly good, you should try it!
I am swedish so here is my obligatory "Malört and Akvavit is freaking awesome and it turns you into a viking and you Americans are weak etc etc". Kudos to Greg tho for not bashing it to hell!
That was fun. While it is entertaining to see reactions to truly awful drinks, it's also pretty interesting to see stuff that's unexpectedly good or bad. Trying to guess how good or bad the cocktail will be is a game for the viewer!
Honestly I like the surprise good ones more than the expected failures - surprise good ones are fun, and they push you out of your comfort zone in unexpected directions. Love 'em.
There should be an empty bowl called the “redraw bowl” where if you don’t have all the required materials to make it to the letter it goes in that bowl then you pick a new one until you have all the ingredients and at the end of the episode the redraw bowl is poured back in to the regular bowl
I’ve got the perfect name for the Kahlua and Coke with olives: “The Oakland”. Based on your description, if bus terminals had bars, that would be their signature drink.
You're expression when you drank the sprite Manhattan was so funny I couldn't help but laugh out loud for quite a while! I haven't laughed like that and quite a while!
I actually liked that it wasn't nearly as crazy as the last episode - or rather, that you didn't try to fake it to be as crazy as the last episode. You had some hit-or-miss and exploring interesting ideas honestly is better than hamming it up and exaggerating the badness.
After watching this the other night, I decided to make a gin old fashioned. It was very good and I highly recommend it. It's exactly like what Greg says - you get the baking spices from the bitters and a citrusy juniper note from the gin that pair really well together.
Rye bread recipes often use dill pickle brine as an ingredient, and caraway (an ingredient in standard aqvavit) is also common. So if malort is at all symbolic of grain (probably not, but technically grain is a grass), then the similarity to rye bread is not as surprising as it appears.
Firstly, count me among the voices appreciative of the "reality" approach. I kid, about the feeling that "reality" anything evokes, but I do appreciate the realism. B) your summation of the Kahlua and Coke cocktail, that description of the alcove, spoke to me on a level of which we do not speak. That alone was worth watching this instalment, that sense of sad nostalgia that I try to tell myself isn't 'that' sad.
I heard gin old fashioned and couldn’t believe that it ended up on a vid like this, sounds delicious. Then you gave how much syrup to add and I thought that sounded way too sweet, just for you to affirm that it was. I’m quite confident in my ability to replicate gin based drinks in my head, can’t say I’m exactly proud of it though.
Try it the proper way as you would with rye or bourbon, and use a sugar cube. Soak the sugar cube in the bitters (use orange) first, and mash it before adding the ice cubes. It won't be too sweet, just really cold. It gets sweeter as you get towards the bottom, but not overwhelmingly. I prefer a well made martini, though, but it is pleasant.
Sprite Vodka and Blue Curracho makes an Iceberg/Icebear around here, pretty tasty and for many it was our first drink we had when we got old enough to go out drinking (by ourself)
I actually love seeing unlikely or bizarre drinks somehow work, and I had a lot of fun watching how surprised you were! Thanks for another great time at your bar.
I found you just at random after playing final fantasy opera omnia as I was looking for a guy who knew his drinks and boy howdy, as a first video ever with you and yo get the opera omnia ad. I was the happiest FF nerd alive. Yours is the only Ad I’ve watched to completion and I LOVE your phoenix down drink. Permanent watcher in me now.
Kahlua and Coke is actually one of my favorites. Had it the first time I ever went to a bar because I didn't really know alcohol. I love both coffee and Coke, and when I got asked what I wanted, I choked for a second and then ordered that as a gut reaction. I have no regrets and I continue to drink it.
Question does it taste similar to the coke coffee? Like the tall thin cans you'd see in store thats Coke and then below it in like Bullet print or something C O F F E E
@@bigdog421 It actually tastes similar enough if you can get the portions right. I personally enjoy the Coke with Coffee drinks, so I'd say so, yeah. Fresh, ice-cold coke mixed with just the right amount of Kahlua can get it done!
"Pink Gin" is gin with copious bitters (angostura).... this would be a sweeter rif, but I can see it being BETTER than the standard Pink Gin. Gotta try that. Cheers.
Would love to see you take a crack at the drinks in the recently release Final Fantasy 14 cookbook! See if those Square Enix folks can make a little something of it since the free trial for the game is back online!
Recently had to think on my feet to make a cosmopolitan for my friend, I had everything except triplesec and so I subbed it for Midori in desperation. The drink turned brown but tasted like apple cider. Actually not terrible! 4/5☆
I used to put green olives in my rum and cokes when I wanted a snack, but also was drunk so that was the easiest way to eat them 😄 I did learn that mixing vodka into the olive brine was good idea as well for boozy snacks
As soon as you said "Gin Old-Fashioned" i knew it was out of place. Honestly sounds really nice, a Manhattan is pretty much a whiskey martini, why shouldn't it work the other way?
This nightmare drinks series is a delightful guilty pleasure. But yeah, gin old fashioned seems to pretty much like the Pink Gin Cocktail with some sugar added. I see nothing wrong there.
One of my favorite cocktails is the Fitzgerald: 1.5 oz dry gin, 0.75 oz simple, 0.75 oz lemon, 2 dash bitters, shaken. So not surprising that the gin cocktail is tasty.
I found your channel a few days ago and absolutely love your content! You remind me a bit of my brother in law, who I miss and don't see often. Thank you for the wonderful information, and for a good laugh along the way!
I personally think Malort tastes like you licked a stamp. Somehow I've tricked myself into liking it. Probably because my favorite bar practically forces it on you. If someone buys a round you can bet it's a round of Malort...
My partner likes it apparently. I have yet to be brave enough. Most alcohol makes me turn bright red and get hives so I don't usually venture far from vodka. Which sucks, because glögg is truly a gift.
Oddly enough, a favorite drink from my early twenties, that was popular with all my friends at parties, is a simple mixture of a Spiced Rum like Sailor Jerry's, with Sprite or 7up. It tastes like Cream Soda. It makes no sense, but it does taste good and is quite dangerous lol
@@AaronComo I used to combine Raspberry UV vodka with Mtn Dew and call it a Mutagen when serving to my friends. Because it damned near glowed green. It looked like toxic hell, but tasted all right. Because it's artificial raspberry flavored Mtn Dew. And we were young idiot gamers.
I don't know if you run DnD or Cyberpunk, but you absolutely should. You're descriptions of just flavor profiles for drinks is so precise and comes right off the dome so fast, you'd be so good at it, if you don't already
Back when I was too young to buy my own alcohol, I drank Kahlua and coke pretty regularly - it was what I could steal unnoticed from my parents' liquor cabinet, and being a kid I just remembered from movies or somewhere that booze + coke was supposedly tasty. I won't say it would hold up going back to it as an adult, and I DEFINTELY wouldn't add olives, but the coffee + coke flavor profile isn't bad. The coffee + coke combo you're thinking of was called Coke Black, and I actually liked the stuff, but I was the only person I know who did, so it's not shocking it got taken off the market in the US. I have heard it's popular in Europe somewhere, Germany if I remember correctly but I could be wrong. Maybe I just associated those flavors with my underage drinking days and I liked it out of nostalgia.
i have never drank alcohol, probably never will, but watching this is like how i’d imagine going to a very very private and quaint bar- during a shift with no customers so the bartender is just telling stories, experimenting with drinks, and amazing me with their alcohol knowledge.
I’ll have to remember that, cause I’ve heard that Malort is the alcoholic equivalent of Lutefisk or Surstromming. It’s fundamentally wrong yet so steeped in tradition as to be sacred.
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you mangleing scandinavian languages is funny.
malört - mall-ehrt . not LORT which means filth in Swedish.
it comes from ört on the end of it meaning herb.
Dumb Idea: this series seems like the alcohol version of 'The AK Guy' 's series "cursed gun images" where a dude who makes a living building, selling, and talking about firearms looks at pictures of firearms the internet sent in thinking they are cursed... I dunno why but I think given he likes drinking you guys could do an interesting collaboration of 'most cursed shit' so long as no one shoots guns drunk, as that as The AK Guy says is a recipe for disaster.
Separately though that could be interesting.
We here in Denmark drink the Akvavit chilled and in 2cl shots. Its mostly put on the lunch table along side the herring
"Malort and dill akvavit sour"
Huh. I thought most bars had policies against serving the ghosts of 100-year-old Swedish fishermen.
HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THIS!?? XD
Tell 'em Large Marge sent ya!
to garnish with pickled herring or not? That might be the real question.
Gold coins are gold coins.
Love your idea, to make it a real swedish ghost you need to serv this along side surströmming
I remember trying one of the "cursed" receipts from Mover and Shaker once on a bet that it would be good. A margarita, sub vodka, add vanilla, spicy. I lost the bet that it would be awful -- no lie, it was genuinely delicious, like an orange creamsicle with tajin. It's become a part of my home bar menu at this point.
Add vanilla Vodka or straight vanilla. I'm curious about the actual recipe, because my mind can't see how it would be good
I actually want to try it; do you have the recipe, or at least a link to it
@@KMAC-mf4dk Yeah, details would be good.
If someone told me to make that I would definitely ask them to elaborate on the "vanilla," part. Like straight vanilla extract? Vanilla syrup? What?
The audience demands a recipe!
I would also like to throw my hat in that ring. Commenting to get a recipe if one appears :)
My dad was a bartender when he was younger and he once told me about a customer who ordered a drink that was milk with an ounce of lemon juice, two ounces of cherry liqueur, and an egg white. My dad referred to it as the Cherry Crime Cocktail.
wtf 😭 im pretty sure they use lemon juice in the kitchen to “curdle” milk
Milk and lemon juice is what I use to sub for buttermilk when I make pancakes bc it kinda cuddles the milk and activates the sodium bicarbonate... I cannot imagine drinking Cherry Crime Cocktails tho
Ok.
Buttermilk for sour, cherry sour sweet, egg white for froth and kind creamier feel?
I can *maybe* see it. Lemon goes a little too far.
Wow that is CRIMINAL
the milk would curdle instantly from the lemon, I don’t even want to think about adding liqueur and EGG WHITE to that mess
I would have called it Pink Vomit
"Why isn't the Sprite in the shaker? I'd think that would be obvious."
You'd think that, but I decided to add lime juice to Vanilla Coke Zero, and decided to put everything into a shaker, and *then* it became obvious.
Hahaha, that's awesome
🤣
Reminds me of the time I tried to use sparkling water for gfuel because I somehow like it. My wall is forever stained
I did that one time but with 7up, 2 count them 2 shakes later and I got a shower.
Lol. Learning has been achieved
On the subject of Sprite "cocktails": When I was in college, the very first time I ever went to a bar, I randomly decided to order a very basic Midori and Sprite. I actually liked it enough that I ordered another, and then half the table did too. My roommate decided to name it a "Reginald" after me - not because my name is or has ever been Reginald, but on the grounds that I "looked like a Reginald".
Midori & Sprite sounds good.
My wife calls it an ecto-cooler because its bright green
One time some mates of mine ran out of coke so we made our last round of cuba libres with sprite.
Disgusting as hell lol, something in the sweetener they use reacts badly with alcohol
I lengthen midori with lemonade sometimes. I don't like how sweet sprite is here in Australia - its soooo sweet. But if you have a sweet tooth it'd work fine.
I Remember i used to be able to find a Cucumber-Mint-Lime bottled juice that went amazingly well with Midori
I love how the kahlua coke was some kind of magic synesthesia drink that just makes you astral project to a point in your past via your tastebuds.
This is definitely my favorite series at this point.
The tutorials on normal drinks are fine, but the weird stuff, odd drinks, bad drinks, canned drinks, and such are way more fun.
But is it more fun because we learn of the weird drinks, or just because we get to see Greg torture himself? 🤣
@@crucix1483 Its joyful mix of the two.
@@crucix1483 yes.
There's a shocking amount of things you can learn from the weird shit people come up with. Like Kahlua and Coke just tasting like distilled depression. Lol
@@crucix1483 both is good!
On my 18th birthday here in England, my sister made me a "cocktail". My sister was 15 at the time and had really no experience of drinks and what could go together. So, she just put some of everything we had drinks wise, in a pint glass, and called it the Thames Estuary, because it looked just like the water at the mouth of the Thames, where we live. It had (among other things) rum, vodka, whiskey, cola, lager, ale, cider, various carbonated soft drinks and fruit juices in it. I don't recall the taste precisely, but I did ask for a second pint of it🤣
This has the same vibes as B. Dylan Hollis' baking series. Now that I think about, a collab between the two of you would send me over the moon.
That would be legendary.
@@trezalkapeliskova2121 FIRE!
I love him! I preordered his cookbook the first time he shilled it in his video 😁
@@andynicholson7944and if they add the eggy!
Man that would be a great crossover!
As a Swedish person, it's pretty funny to see Greg repeatedly apologizing for using bäsk and not real malort, because ever since I learned about malort I've thought of it as "oh, like knockoff bäsk, I guess?"
It’s like a drinking game, every time they pronounce malört like that I take a shot of gammeldansk
Yeah, Malort is a brand of bäsk made by a Swedish immigrant in Chicago about 90 years ago.
@@jesseshelton9302 Having had both, I will say either are fine spirits if you're concocting death in a glass.
@@jesseshelton9302 i took bäska droppar
"The Customer is Always Wrong Part II: Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right."
It was right there! Anyways love the show, thanks for the laughs and the drinks!
But fast and the furious reference!
But...there were two 'rights' in there. Or at least one 'right' and one 'not wrong.'
cant wait for the Florida special
IMMEDIATELY went to my cabinet to make the gin old fashion, all the notes were extremely accurate. Loved it.
It's funny how he thought it won't be good, then immediately changed his mind as he tasted it. 🤣
@@dimitarapostolov9788 It's lovely. It's just the sweetness that would make it bad if too much. Fine if you make it the 'old fashioned' way by muddling bittters (preferably orange) over one sugar cube.If you're used to the sweetness in a gimlet, tempered by lime, then the sweetness in a gin old fashioned, tempered by the gin bitterness, is not shocking to the palate.
The bar I used to frequent had a cocktail called Armageddon. It's equal parts Harakiri liqueur, absinthe, gin, and ouzo. Do not add a spoonful of simple syrup, an ounce of grape juice, or any bitters. No, do not. You just mix the four liquors and maintain eye contact until the drink is gone or the customer is.
I can’t tell if you’re trying to reverse psychology me or if you legitimately mean not to add those 😆
I would love to try this
@@shanethebrownwolf5575 I think....I think he's being serious....and I think I just heard an air raid siren just reading those ingredients.
In case you don't know though, absinthe and gin are the only appealing flavor profiles in that, but if you mix the flavor of ouzo and gin or ouzo and absinthe, it becomes a completely unpalatable concoction that will almost certainly melt the top of your tongue. There's a similar "horror cocktail" that's served at my local bar, it comes in a high ball glass, and if you can finish the entire drink in 5 minutes, you get I think either free drinks for the night for yourself, or a certain number of free drinks. I tried one time, I failed, and their bathroom got a sick new paint job. 💀
@@crazycherokee8552 I feel the these drinks get away with it because people get drunk trying to psych themselves up and at that point can't handle it. If you walk in stone cold sober and just down one, it's probably possible to hold it down long enough to then have a good time after.
Not a fan of black licorice taste.
“You can make a cocktail in the old fashioned way with anything.”
Did you forget the Malibu pineapple old fashioned?
apperintly given that was 5months ago
Let the demon die
Pineapple Malibu isn’t actually any kind of liquor, but is in fact rejected sun lotion, when batches have too much alcohol in them; it was never meant to be consumed, but it began being used during prohibition, and has remained in use since then for unknown reasons. As such, Malibu doesn’t count
@@eazy8579 hes refering to a drink made in the FIRST the customer is always wrong ep. it was a old fasioned that just sucked existing
I think Greg has suppressed the memory because it was so horrific.
A couple weekends ago we went to Milwaukee and we learned that no one sufficiently fucks up a good cocktail better than they do. We dubbed it "the Milwaukee Twist." I ordered a smoked old fashioned and it showed up with pepsi in it. When I went to the wedding I was impressed with the Tequila selection. They had Siete Leguas Blanco on deck. So I thought, alight, let's do a nice dry refreshing easy drink with that tequila being the forward flavor. I literally told the bar tender every ingredient and (I kid you not) the moment I looked away and back I saw her pull out a 2-liter bottle of squirt ready to sufficiently destroy it -- there was a slow motion NOOOOOOOOOOO! involved where I saved it at the last moment. What is up with that place?
tbf you're in Wisconsin not drinking beer
Have you heard of the “Wisconsin old fashioned…”
@@knuth12 I think I experienced it.
@@knuth12 there's cheese in it isn't there?
@@squiddwizzard8850 mayhaps
I kind of like the “unusual” drinks more than the bad ones. Given, the bad ones are fun to watch the reaction to, but the unusual ones seem like drinks I might want to actually try.
this si why the series is now existing, is it customer is always wrong, or was the madlad on to something.
Okay, so I'm telling on my Canadian girlfriend here:
1) my girlfriend tells me that apparently kahluha and cola (with vodka and milk) is a western Canada thing. it's called a Paralyzer and is topped with a cherry. when she overheard your flavor note analysis about the motel alcove, she said "yeah that's basically all of Saskatchewan". It is also known as a "Colorado Bulldog" in the states. It was apparently invented in Winnipeg by a few idiots who were trying to make a white russian.
2) This same woman took me as a plus one to a family wedding last year. When I wanted to grab drinks from the bar for us both, she said "yeah get me a tequila and coke". I told the bartender our order, and she said "....what, really?" I shrugged. My girlfriend doesn't drink much, and then pretty much only tequila or hard seltzer, but i figured she must know what she was ordering.
I tried it. She did not know what she was ordering.
It was not good tequila, either (poking around on the internet based on what I remember of the bottle, I think it was Exotico Blanco). I will never get the taste of that drink out of my mouth.
Kahluha and coke is one of my goto when I feel like drinking. Toss in a measure of vanilla vodka and you're all set.
3:1 K/V and then top off the glass with a can of full sugar coke. Then toss in some ice, surprisingly good on a warm night
My parents both love paralyzers! I had no idea it was just a Canadian thing. I enjoy a variation made from spiced rum, vanilla coke and cream. Tastes exactly like a coke float!
A whiskey paralyzer is heaven! Albertan here and my family introduced me to them years ago.
100%
Did she order a tequila IN a coke like a coke and rum or did she get tequila shot with a coke chaser?
For the first one, I think using the dill flowers might impart a more rounded flavor over the dry herb. I find the dry to be bitter rather than sour like the flowers/buds. The flower has a brightness to it that goes up your nose and causes the ultimate pucker face that you het from a good homemade dill pickle.
You can purchase specifically made dill aquavit. Its usually served at easter in Denmark.
“You can do an old fashioned out of anything” is the HTD equivalent of saying you can milk anything with nipples.
just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
the worst part of this comment is they're both named greg
Except for Pineapple Malibu. You can't (or at least shouldn't) make an old fashioned out of Pineapple Malibu.
@@freaquin Interestingly enough, Malört is what you get if you try to milk Robert De Niro.
Well,,,, not ANYTHING,,,
When you have akvavit in Sweden at least, you usually have it together with herring or other fish, and a lot of the time there will be dill and/or lemon involved in those dishes, so honestly to me that first cocktail does seem a bit intriguing as a Swedish herring and akvavit enthusiast.
Saaame.
As a dane.. i feeel that bottel Of Aalborg Got offended 😂 nomally we just shot it like u guys to fish
Yep. 100% agreed. In addition Besk or Bäska droppar can be nice with salmon or other fish with high fat content. It is an acquired taste, though.
Also, it may very well (most probably) be dill seeds used to spice the akvavit, not the green leaves or stem. It gives a mustard-y-ish spicy tone to the drink, rather than the normal "dill" flavor.
@@King-Kongstad værste del af påskefrokost når bedstefar insisterer man skal have et shot akvavit, fy for satan
pickled herring with buffalo grass vodka is a Polish christmas tradition for my family. Its amazing
I, personally, don't necessarily WANT to see you suffer from these drinks. I just want to see them held up and realized for what they are. People look at the orders and tilt their collective heads, but something is only that way until it is known. Really hope this series continues, whether the customer is wrong...or right.
In all honesty, they don't have to be painful. Just seeing some of these orders actually being a surprise banger is very cool to see 😎
The worst drink we used to make was Everclear and grape Kool Aid powder. No water to cut the potency of the grain alcohol. We were pretty stupid in our rural youths. Or Black Velvet and sprite orLord Calvert dry gin and diet coke. THAT tastes just like pinesol.Those are NEVER AGAIN drinks
I'm gonna need clarification- is the black velvet, sprite, gin, and diet coke all one drink or are those two separate ones? That reminds me of the kinda stuff I'd mix when I just wanted to take a little bit out of each of the less-used bottles in the cabinet so my family wouldn't notice. Where did you guys even get champagne for a Black Velvet?
Edit: I'm stupid, I assumed "black velvet" was the mixed drink, you probably meant the whisky brand
Everclear & Kool Aid is essentially Purple Passion
@@AngharadMac we called it purple Jesus but of course hyper religious types got their undergarments in a firm bunch. But purple passion is pre mixed Kool aid where it's made up the standard way. We didn't use anything to cut the potency of the Grain alcohol. It sent several people to the hospital with alcohol poisoning.
@@stevenbaker8184 Damn dude
@@AngharadMac Yes sir, it's one of the reasons Virginia ABC stores stopped selling Grain alcohol for many years. A pint can send you to the Emergency room quick. The way Purple Passion is made, one gallon of Cold water. Three scoops grape Kool aid powder, add grain to taste. The way Purple Jesus is made, one scoop grape powder to on 750ml bottle of Everclear. Hence the name. The first thing you say after a sip of this is "JESUS". We used to do it on a regular basis. But I do not recommend nor endorse the consumption of said lunacy. Again I will state that is a beverage from my misspent youth, and would NEVER consume such a concoction EVER again.
I once put 12 cl of ginger beer in a shaker and let me tell you: that shit exploded all over my kitchen. It was like a ginger bomb had gone off or something. I was making 5 moscow mules and thought shaking it would be cool (I was trying to impress someone). Well I ended up looking like a ginger soaked fool.
I’ve done the same. Ginger beer isn’t hard to get out of your hair, but you’ll never get it out of your memories.
I'm crying this is the best comment I've seen yet on this video
But were you a *coool* ginger soaked fool is the real question
My dumbass was making like 8 of these shots with Empress gin, lemon, and honey and forgot to dry shake first…I got a block of frozen honey at the bottom of the shaker, and it was the most sour failure ever 😂 luckily this was a house party and I never claimed to be a great bartender anyway 😂
...you can NOT make champagne out of white wine in a Sodastream.....you can not.....trust me....and bring a mop and bucket.
I worked at a bar in college, and there was this one older lady who claimed to be a psychic that would always come in and order a PBR with a shot of Jack Daniels and a shot of olive juice in it. Truly wild.
I love your reaction to the Spritehatten saying it is an "angry drink" with that face. After watching your show for a few months I decided to make my own cocktails, barely knowing what I'm doing, and I would definitely describe a lot of my drinks tasting "angry" (try mixing sailor jerry, clementine juice, and maraschino while barely measuring and you may experience this.) I don't know how else to describe it, they weren't bad per say but I can only say they would be drinks you would shoot back quickly before storming out of the house angrily screaming at the gods.
Edit: If you try making my drink and decide its disgusting after one sip, add a couple ounces of ginger ale and it becomes actually delicious but barely a drink at that point.
So Sailer Jerry as a spiced rum is kinda vanilla heavy, so the Clementine juice makes loads of sense. Round my way spiced rum and orange with simple is a thing. I can see why maraschino is probably a bit much, but I have a feeling a bit of mint, be it muddled or a bar spoon of creme de menthe and now I wish I had the bits to try
Sub Maraschino with Curacao (or Cuantro if you want it sweeter) then add either some cinnamon syrup, ginger syrup or grated nutmeg. That should balance the drink and highlight the other flavors in the rum so that the vanilla is toned down a bit. @gavxmas is correct, Sailor Jerry is a med proof spiced rum. Like most cheap spiced rum, it has a vanilla heavy profile.
"drinks you would shoot back quickly befofe storming out of the house angrily screaming at the gods'
So, the best kind of drink then?
@@Burner-B Ah, so you're the guy drinking the poitin. I was wondering who bought that.
@@SighNaps as Ciara would say, "oh, that's lovely"
I have had a sprite drink in Norway that tasted really good. It was in a hiball and it was aquavit with honey, topped with sprite. Kinda like a lemony honey-y gin and tonic.
HTD: Mentions Critical Role
Also HTD: It's like drinking fresh cut grass!
*Fearne has entered the chat*
I was thinking the same thing lol, I always enjoy seeing two channels I like overlap.
Memento Mori⚫⚪
@@brenden6836 unus annus 💀
Also HTD: Mentions Dungeons & Daddies with the 1d4 psychic damage for a dad joke
*Writes down note: FCG is a Thermos.*
I'm loving this series. Thought: fixing these awful drinks to give them what they want but in a way that doesn't taste like a motel ice machine alcove?
Imagine you do this and then next time the customer orders the same thing thinking it tastes great, and the other bartender makes it how its written, and now the customer is complaining that they're not making what he wants
@@iguessmynamesriya7658 I mean hopefully the bartender would tell them they made the drink different
The Coke/Kaluha/olives...it's like something from H.P. Lovecraft, gazing from the murky depths into your soul through its baleful olive eyes. Those pimento irises burning into your brain, convincing you to try more of the Spitehattan (because truly, that one sounded like you wanted to fight whoever created it). 😆
If there was some Bailey's in it, it would be the deep one.
The olives throw me off
and in the middle of the rant you have the editor writting "DELICIOUS"
The worst thing is the clashing olives, but probably not much worse than the blue cheese stuffed olives some weirdos put in martinis.
@@iainrobb2076 is this a personal attack at Meredith lmao?
I’m so glad you do more of these, something to cheer me up on this dreary February afternoon
My thoughts exactly!
Excuse you, today is 2’s day
@@_Gecko …yeah?
I'm semi-new to this channel and want part 3-4-5-6-7-ect of this. Your production quality, humor, and bartending skills are amazing and it's so fun to see you try these special order drinks. We have a very similar palate and I love seeing you try different things, especially when I haven't myself. I'd love to try unusual drinks that don't sound good but are actually phenomenal.
As a Chicago girl who loves her Malört, and as somebody who got a taste for akavit while living abroad in Denmark, I'm absolutely going to try making that sour.
Also the gin Old Fashioned actually sounds damn nice.
I love how when Greg gets something bad to drink he instantly turn into a Harbinger of the end of days .
A gin old fashioned using Ransom Old Tom Gin is actually amazing. The gin is aged in whiskey barrels. You should try that one!
Yeah as a gin enthusiast myself I do agree and have made myself a few gin old fashioneds.. But you have to use a gin with a fairly unique flavor profile.. I would also probably use "gin syrup" (or juniper style syrup) instead of simple and most likely not necessarily go with plain Angostura Bitters (although it can work, especially with Old Tom or classical Belgian Genever)
@@inst4rmin.x4_onYT Orange bitters is fine.
I could never explain why I'm so interested in this channel when I don't drink lol. I've never had any alcohol whatsoever (religious reason), yet I'm still entertained by these.
Making mock tails/non alcoholic mixed drinks is really fun, I like mixing different herbs and citrus and sparkling water to make fun drinks just because
I’ve been watching off and on for years. I can’t drink on my meds and never have. Love watching anyway.
I think there's something inherently entertaining in watching someone who is very good at what they do talking about something done terribly and discussing it.
I don’t drink neither for medical reasons, and I also hate the taste of alcohol. Hearing the whole tasting process is fascinating like he takes out flavors from something that to me is nothing but bitter spicy mess.
Also since I don’t hang out around drunk people I can’t even differentiate when Greg is tipsy or not, so it’s honestly fun to go down to the comments and have people point it out when it happens
Is it because it's akin to cooking, you don't need to be a chef to watch alton brown.
The episodes with more ridiculous cocktails are great, but this was almost more interesting because I could see a non-deranged person ordering most of these cocktails. I also appreciate not faking it for content, and hope these keep coming!
This episode triggered a couple of suppressed memories in me - one based on your comment regarding “piney” notes in alcohol, the other based on adding Sprite (or other lemon lime soda) to drinks you wouldn’t think of normally. Both memories share a common element - absinthe.
Back in the dark ages, before absinthe was deregulated in the US, the only way to get it was through nefarious means (hopefully the statute of limitations has expired on my transgression). Essentially, you had to bring it in via courier - an expensive proposition. I wanted to try the genuine article, so I sprang for the added cost. I ultimately got an assortment of 3 half pints in various styles. The best of the bunch was a variety called Sapin which was infused with the piney notes you describe. Something about the pine flavor mitigated the anise seed overtone that many find off putting in absinthe. Highly recommended if you can find it still.
When I received this assortment, being a newbie to absinthe, I wanted to try the traditional style with the spoon and sugar cube etc. - which I did. I hated it! In my opinion, the sugar and water did nothing to abrogate the absinthe’s tendency to overwhelm your taste buds and burn out your nose hairs. And anyone who drinks absinthe ultimately realizes that trying to drink it neat quickly results in one seeing green fairies 🧚♂️ and the undersides of tables. I deduced that there must be some validity to the traditional approach of sugar and cold water. In my desperation not to waste the exorbitantly expensive hooch, I turned to lemon lime soda. I figured “ What is lemon lime soda but bubbly water and sugar with a little citrus added?”. And you know what, I was absolutely right! I’m sure absinthe purists are shuddering at the thought, but it was really good.
I am an avid fan of both absinthe meant for the traditional style of serving and sipping neat. and most people who like it prefer one or the other, and gonna be honest, to like the kind you make with a sugar cube and cold water... it helps if you like Scandinavian style licorice candy and genuinely enjoy Jaeger. the herbally licorice style or aparteif tonics. but Sprite and the sipping neat style is absolutely how I serve it to people on the fence worried about the flavor to give it the best chance. if you go very heavy on the sprite, if kinda tastes like a black jelly bean. it's kinda an acquired taste but it also means not many people wanna share.
I was intrigued by the gin old-fashioned, so I made one using a sugar cube (my favorite method) and some rose bitters from the Portland Gin Project, and W O W. An absolute stunner of a drink. I used a London Dry gin like Greg did, but now I want to try a whole rotation of different gins and bitters combos ...
I LOVE gin old fashioneds and my go to gin is Tanqueray Rangpur. Rangpur is not a “flavored” spirit the way that’s usually thought of, the lime is just infused with the other botanicals. I’m not sure why but it makes it extremely smooth!
I think the Sprite inclusion in drinks must’ve happened from someone ordering a Sprite first and then their alcohol of choice- and once they took a sip a both in quick succession decided-
“WOW these taste good together!!!”
Cut out the middle man of drinking from two separate glasses and just add the lemon lime soda straight to the Manhattan 🥴
I'm wondering if maybe since a lot of bars have sprite on tap if that splash from the pressurized fountain makes a difference some how.
Honestly my favorite way to enjoy daiquiris is to lengthen them with some sprite
You get people who put 7Up in an Old Fashioned. Really. A variant on using soda water, which also doesn't go in an Old Fashioned. Sprite is a less nice tasting version of 7Up. If some people put 7Up in an Old Fashioned, it was a matter of time before someone came up with the Sprite in a Manhattan thing.
I like the recipe and deep dives when I'm in the mood to learn something or add a new drink to my repertoire. I like these bad drink and experiment videos for the pure entertainment value and a good laugh! Plus debating with my husband about how to try and make the drink passable lol
Thanks for the part 2! Keep up the good work!
that gin old fashioned sounds *really* good, and it actually makes sense if it's got "christmas" spices, seeing as junipers are also known as *cedars*, so it's basically drinking something with the aroma of a christmas tree
A few years back my Swedish uncle gave me a bottle of dill aquavit. We used it to make Mojitos in place of rum. Best Mojitos ever and I've yet to be able to find another bottle since.
If you want truly great Swedish alcohol you have to find some moonshiners, all the best stuff is homemade. If the bottle has a real cork and a handwritten label you know it's going to be special.
I looked it up and you can buy bottles of dill aquavit online, but im not sure if you're looking for a specific brand though.
"Who is putting sprite in their drinks" damn i got so called out lol
To me, sprite brings less interruption to the drink flavors than seltzer water/soda water does. Sprite is my go to and I have made many makers manhattans with a sprite splash. Sometimes you just want a little bubble
Y'all've gotta use some light ginger ale instead.
@@keyonhutson1539 ginger ale brings too much of its own flavor, even a light one.
Honestly I think sprite might be an acquired taste thing with alcohol because everytime I've tried a mixed drink with sprite, I've hated it lol. Did sprite with green apple ciroc - could only do three sips before i dumped it. a friend mixed sprite and pink Whitney and let me try it - awful. I ordered a Washington apple at a bar once and the bartender decided to add a splash of sprite to "help cancel out the bitterness" and it did the complete opposite and made it extremely bitter. I love sprite but I don't ever want to drink it mixed with alcohol ever again lol.
i feel like there's a big difference between mixing sprite with a vodka-based drink and mixing sprite with a whiskey-based drink
The slo-mo ingredient pours are like visual ASMR to me, I love it🥰
Watching the first customer is always wrong is what introduced me to your amazing channel and bartender RUclips in general.
Thanks to your videos I’ve gotten so much better at making drinks and have laughed so hard. Glad to see it back!
That gin old fashioned sounds really nice... And the first one's tasting notes sounds like how the bakery I used to work at smelled. Good memories, that.
I'd live to try that. I've found that with the right gin, many cocktails can handle a gin sub. Gin Mule is my personal favorite.
Well yeah, I was thinking that's more or less just a sweetened Pink Gin, not?
Im rewatching this, and I really have to say- the surprise is better than the agony. I found it delightful watching you realize that the aquavit thing was drinkable.
I wasn't thinking one time when I was experimenting with a drink and put 7up in my shaker. As you would imagine, two shakes and I was showered with 7up, apple pucker, lime syrup, and orange bitters. the drink wasn't bad, but I shook everything but the 7up and topped off my glass. Much less cleanup
'They want the PAIN, Meredith.' Might be my favorite line from this video.
In the 1970s I went to England with an English girl who'd lived with us in San Francisco for a year. At a local pub she really got snotty with a waiter who didn't know what a Harvey Wallbanger was. I'd been a waitress and didn't like that, so I got up, beckoned the waiter to the bar and gave him this recipe: You make a screwdriver and float a half measure of Galliano on top. Then you put it in a pretty glass with a straw, carry it over on a tray and pour it in her lap.
She lived with you for a year. Was she never snobby before?
I just randomly found this channel and out of everything one of the pictures already made me love your channel.
My grandmother had the same water and rock painting in her home for years, most don't realize it's a paint my colors too with some quality paint always looks great. It even has the seagulls as well. I have never seen another person with that picture, what a small gem of a find.
This is such a neat and earnest story! Thanks for sharing
I love it when advertisers actually let the content creator make the ad instead of just throwing a script at you to read makes it much better
There is a drink in switzerland served commonly on carnival called Fröschli (eng.: Frog):
- 2 shots of green trojka vodka
- 1 sugar cube
- peppermint teabag
- Hot water
It is surprisingly good, you should try it!
That actually sounds really interesting, really wish I could have a try!
(Allergic to mint)
@@pumpkinlightsfanservice9484 You should try it with green tea instead! :)
😂 Äuä öpis woni zweni katholisch bi drfür. No nie hani vo däm kört.
I am swedish so here is my obligatory "Malört and Akvavit is freaking awesome and it turns you into a viking and you Americans are weak etc etc".
Kudos to Greg tho for not bashing it to hell!
Is my love of Swedish and Norwegian melodic black metal why I love Malort? I chose to believe this.
That was fun. While it is entertaining to see reactions to truly awful drinks, it's also pretty interesting to see stuff that's unexpectedly good or bad. Trying to guess how good or bad the cocktail will be is a game for the viewer!
yep, its even more fun for someone who never had a drink in their live, not even a dead pan bud lite
the way this guy comes up with expressing his emotions and thought process is just the best.
Honestly I like the surprise good ones more than the expected failures - surprise good ones are fun, and they push you out of your comfort zone in unexpected directions. Love 'em.
There should be an empty bowl called the “redraw bowl” where if you don’t have all the required materials to make it to the letter it goes in that bowl then you pick a new one until you have all the ingredients and at the end of the episode the redraw bowl is poured back in to the regular bowl
I’ve got the perfect name for the Kahlua and Coke with olives: “The Oakland”.
Based on your description, if bus terminals had bars, that would be their signature drink.
I'd call it "The Emergence".
This was a great episode, surprise good cocktail, Meredith on screen, free extra videogame cocktail, loved it!
That first drink is the main reason why I'm excited for this series. Finding those hidden gems and potential for improving odd drinks.
I like how the first jigger you put in (2:52) was Malort, but the second jigger (3:05) was Malort.
Personally, Dill is Amazing. I think Dill Akavit-Rye Sour might be a thing to tinker with.
I absolutely love the “How does that happen in your mind?” We’ve all run into that exact question when dealing with perceived idiots and I love it.
You're expression when you drank the sprite Manhattan was so funny I couldn't help but laugh out loud for quite a while! I haven't laughed like that and quite a while!
I actually liked that it wasn't nearly as crazy as the last episode - or rather, that you didn't try to fake it to be as crazy as the last episode. You had some hit-or-miss and exploring interesting ideas honestly is better than hamming it up and exaggerating the badness.
After watching this the other night, I decided to make a gin old fashioned. It was very good and I highly recommend it. It's exactly like what Greg says - you get the baking spices from the bitters and a citrusy juniper note from the gin that pair really well together.
I really like it with 2 dashes each of peychauds and orange bitters and I did mine with a barspoon of Maraschino cherry syrup which was awesome
Rye bread recipes often use dill pickle brine as an ingredient, and caraway (an ingredient in standard aqvavit) is also common. So if malort is at all symbolic of grain (probably not, but technically grain is a grass), then the similarity to rye bread is not as surprising as it appears.
Firstly, count me among the voices appreciative of the "reality" approach. I kid, about the feeling that "reality" anything evokes, but I do appreciate the realism. B) your summation of the Kahlua and Coke cocktail, that description of the alcove, spoke to me on a level of which we do not speak. That alone was worth watching this instalment, that sense of sad nostalgia that I try to tell myself isn't 'that' sad.
I heard gin old fashioned and couldn’t believe that it ended up on a vid like this, sounds delicious. Then you gave how much syrup to add and I thought that sounded way too sweet, just for you to affirm that it was. I’m quite confident in my ability to replicate gin based drinks in my head, can’t say I’m exactly proud of it though.
Try it with a lightly oaked Dutch jenever. Obviously you don't need much syrup, if any.
Try it the proper way as you would with rye or bourbon, and use a sugar cube. Soak the sugar cube in the bitters (use orange) first, and mash it before adding the ice cubes. It won't be too sweet, just really cold. It gets sweeter as you get towards the bottom, but not overwhelmingly. I prefer a well made martini, though, but it is pleasant.
Sprite Vodka and Blue Curracho makes an Iceberg/Icebear around here, pretty tasty and for many it was our first drink we had when we got old enough to go out drinking (by ourself)
That was my first legal drink lol, I was at the Senior and Co distillery, where they make curaçao
Add raspberry cordial and you have my favourite drink, a fruit tingle.
Been a fan for years and years, your posts always seem to come at the best times 🙏🏼 thanks for all you do H2D crew ♥️
I actually love seeing unlikely or bizarre drinks somehow work, and I had a lot of fun watching how surprised you were! Thanks for another great time at your bar.
I found you just at random after playing final fantasy opera omnia as I was looking for a guy who knew his drinks and boy howdy, as a first video ever with you and yo get the opera omnia ad. I was the happiest FF nerd alive. Yours is the only Ad I’ve watched to completion and I LOVE your phoenix down drink. Permanent watcher in me now.
It doesn't matter that the drinks are not that cursed, you add enough of yourself that the format very much works. More, please!!
man there’s all kinds of communities on youtube . i appreciate them all equally . not the bad ones of course but you catch my drift
Kahlua and Coke is actually one of my favorites. Had it the first time I ever went to a bar because I didn't really know alcohol. I love both coffee and Coke, and when I got asked what I wanted, I choked for a second and then ordered that as a gut reaction.
I have no regrets and I continue to drink it.
Question does it taste similar to the coke coffee? Like the tall thin cans you'd see in store thats Coke and then below it in like Bullet print or something C O F F E E
@@bigdog421 It actually tastes similar enough if you can get the portions right. I personally enjoy the Coke with Coffee drinks, so I'd say so, yeah. Fresh, ice-cold coke mixed with just the right amount of Kahlua can get it done!
Coke and coffee was a thing way back when.
@@ExhiledGod2 i still see it in stores
"Pink Gin" is gin with copious bitters (angostura).... this would be a sweeter rif, but I can see it being BETTER than the standard Pink Gin. Gotta try that. Cheers.
That was the most honest ad plug I've ever seen a RUclipsr do in my life
Would love to see you take a crack at the drinks in the recently release Final Fantasy 14 cookbook! See if those Square Enix folks can make a little something of it since the free trial for the game is back online!
I would love to see some sake cocktails on this show. I've been trying a lot of sake
Never tried sake…I’m on a whiskey kick right now
I know you hate making and drinking them, but we love watching them. Please make this a proper series!
Recently had to think on my feet to make a cosmopolitan for my friend, I had everything except triplesec and so I subbed it for Midori in desperation. The drink turned brown but tasted like apple cider. Actually not terrible! 4/5☆
I really love these! Glad that it has become a series!
I used to put green olives in my rum and cokes when I wanted a snack, but also was drunk so that was the easiest way to eat them 😄
I did learn that mixing vodka into the olive brine was good idea as well for boozy snacks
As soon as you said "Gin Old-Fashioned" i knew it was out of place. Honestly sounds really nice, a Manhattan is pretty much a whiskey martini, why shouldn't it work the other way?
This nightmare drinks series is a delightful guilty pleasure. But yeah, gin old fashioned seems to pretty much like the Pink Gin Cocktail with some sugar added. I see nothing wrong there.
The flavor you described from the kahlua and coke is so incredibly specific that I feel like I have to try it now.
One of my favorite cocktails is the Fitzgerald: 1.5 oz dry gin, 0.75 oz simple, 0.75 oz lemon, 2 dash bitters, shaken. So not surprising that the gin cocktail is tasty.
LOL, funny that you mentioned the critical role factor in the previous one, and then compared the Besk to "Fresh Cut Grass"
I found your channel a few days ago and absolutely love your content! You remind me a bit of my brother in law, who I miss and don't see often. Thank you for the wonderful information, and for a good laugh along the way!
I personally think Malort tastes like you licked a stamp. Somehow I've tricked myself into liking it. Probably because my favorite bar practically forces it on you. If someone buys a round you can bet it's a round of Malort...
Is your bar situated in hell?
@@KR-hg8be Probably Chicago. So close enough.
My partner likes it apparently. I have yet to be brave enough. Most alcohol makes me turn bright red and get hives so I don't usually venture far from vodka. Which sucks, because glögg is truly a gift.
Oddly enough, a favorite drink from my early twenties, that was popular with all my friends at parties, is a simple mixture of a Spiced Rum like Sailor Jerry's, with Sprite or 7up.
It tastes like Cream Soda. It makes no sense, but it does taste good and is quite dangerous lol
I guzzled sailor jerry and cream soda in my early 20s it’s candy.
Another odd flavor combination is Mnt Dew and peach schnapps. It comes out tasting like cotton candy.
@@AaronComo I used to combine Raspberry UV vodka with Mtn Dew and call it a Mutagen when serving to my friends. Because it damned near glowed green. It looked like toxic hell, but tasted all right. Because it's artificial raspberry flavored Mtn Dew. And we were young idiot gamers.
Quite!
I don't know if you run DnD or Cyberpunk, but you absolutely should. You're descriptions of just flavor profiles for drinks is so precise and comes right off the dome so fast, you'd be so good at it, if you don't already
That needs to be a quote on a shirt: “they want the pain, Meredith.”
Back when I was too young to buy my own alcohol, I drank Kahlua and coke pretty regularly - it was what I could steal unnoticed from my parents' liquor cabinet, and being a kid I just remembered from movies or somewhere that booze + coke was supposedly tasty.
I won't say it would hold up going back to it as an adult, and I DEFINTELY wouldn't add olives, but the coffee + coke flavor profile isn't bad. The coffee + coke combo you're thinking of was called Coke Black, and I actually liked the stuff, but I was the only person I know who did, so it's not shocking it got taken off the market in the US. I have heard it's popular in Europe somewhere, Germany if I remember correctly but I could be wrong. Maybe I just associated those flavors with my underage drinking days and I liked it out of nostalgia.
i have never drank alcohol, probably never will, but watching this is like how i’d imagine going to a very very private and quaint bar- during a shift with no customers so the bartender is just telling stories, experimenting with drinks, and amazing me with their alcohol knowledge.
I’ll have to remember that, cause I’ve heard that Malort is the alcoholic equivalent of Lutefisk or Surstromming. It’s fundamentally wrong yet so steeped in tradition as to be sacred.