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That would be thinking along the lines of the eighties being a continuation of, or reaction to the seventies. I wonder of there's another explanation. Maybe excess is enough for such an explanation.
So early on you mentioned the cocktail / speakeasy revival, amd how it all stemmed from one man in the rainbow room, and then basically all his disciples that he trained with a codified system. I would Love to see an episode specifically around just that- what he did, how he did it, basically the entire history of the period, and where that's gotten us to today. Hashtag boosey history is fantastic.
It’d be pretty cool for Greg to do that, and I would personally love to see a deep dive on the history of the cocktail revival, especially since I personally don’t know much about it at all
If you quickly scan through the tags for each drink in this episode, it reads like a “battle of the heavy metal bands” lineup from 1985. Which i don’t think is a coincidence
When I was in college, we had a completely different 'velvet hammer'. It was a pint of Guinness (preferably draft or one of the nitro-draft cans) with a double shot of vanilla vodka in it, like a weird Boilermaker. Smooth as velvet going down, hit you like a 10lbs sledge.
Sounds a bit like a Irish Car bomb. Guinness, Irish cream and whiskey. Drink it quickly or the cream will curdle, unless you like drinking cheese that is…
"There are so many better things that you could put in your mouth," -Greg... Right after praising a drink called a Ding a Ling... My inner 14yo is snickering in the corner.
My actual job is to taste Southern Comfort, and Greg's opinions about Southern Comfort are objectively correct. It tastes like someone tried to make whiskey using only the contents of a chemical supply truck by asking people standing on the side of a highway to yell out instructions as they drove past. XD
@@howtodrink Among other things, haha. I work in QC for Sazerac and taste every batch of product we make. We also do a lot of Fireball. (Please don't tell my bosses I bashed SoCo...)
@@perciusmandate"Professional SoCo and Fireball taster" sounds like the worst job anyone has ever had, I don't envy you! (The flipside is that "Professional Eagle Rare taster" sounds like one of the best jobs ever.)
I think Fireball is great, if you add it to apple juice it tastes like an apple pie you can drink. One summer when I was in uni, I kind of got into the habit of daytime drinking because I had this big bottle of Fireball and it was just too delicious when added to apple juice, which I had a big container of, so I kept doing it no matter the time of day. Drinking grog for hydration purposes is, um, bad for your health.
I would unironically wear his western outfit to an outdoor event down here in Texas, just saying. Something informal and playful, it would fit right in.
@@desert7868 when this one came out I remember seeing all the comments about how hammered he got. At one point I was like omg wow yes he is quite drunk. Looked down and was only halfway through the video 😂
For a true 80's drinking experience don't forget the widely available white power chaser that was in every club and bar. And slots have moss in their fur that turns it green so the color works to on the 3-toed Sloth.
Finally, a cocktail/bartender guide channel making a video about the successful 80's film with the mega hit single "Kokomo" by The Beach Boys, Cocktail
@@Kaotiqua The only way I’ve ever gotten close to one is because I wife asked me to make a Harvey Wallbanger cake for her birthday… it actually wasn’t bad.
Suggestion for @howtodrink : with Grand Theft Auto returning to Vice City in the next instalment, Greg has to bring back the White & Teal to do an episode based on the drinks of GTA - from Sprunk and Pißwasser to Junk Energy - and of course, a special... Columbian... inspired drink for Tommy Vercetti
So I don't drink, never did because of personal reasons and now im on medication where i can't. I love watching you talk about and make drinks that i will never drink.
I think it’s because he talks so much about the history and flavour profile as well as anecdotes, I mean it just feels fun and educational even for people like me and you who don’t drink lol. That’s how I justify it anyway.
Same. Never liked the taste of alcohol, and being married to an alcoholic for almost a decade didn't help. But the alchemy of cocktails is fascinating.
This channel is such a comfort for a bartender like myself; I've had to make so many terrible drinks and my soul can only take so much. Thank you for this service you've done. One of the worst I've made is a tequila with kahlua and raspberry syrup and soda with lime. They didn't mind it; maybe it was the choice of tequila for me but the thing was rank.
@@jacqueline8121Coffee and raspberry can work together, and I don't think lime would be out of place, but I definitely wouldn't go to tequila for that flavor pairing. It could work with like a nice añejo tequila.. but I think that would be a waste of a good añejo tequila.
Episode idea: It would be awesome to see you go through your bitters and give us a taste profile on what they do and how they change a cocktail/drink, since as you mentioned with the last drink Death Spasm that all or any of the bitters could have worked. Maybe choose a both a simple and complex drink and show the difference of what the bitters does with them.
I saw (and hated) Cocktail and thought I was going nuts when he mentioned the "Three-Toed Sloth." Somehow, hearing Greg confirm that it doesn't exist and watching him make his own rendition was healing, so thanks for that.
Booger sugar absolutely does have an antiemetic property. You will FEEL less drunk, you're not ACTUALLY less drunk. Like four loko or slamming a cup of coffee. Does NOT make you less drunk, or more coordinated. That scene from wolf of wall street is fairly accurate.
...Antiemetic? Are you sure that’s the word you’re looking for? Antiemetic means anti nausea or anti vomiting. I would assume the relevant property of cocaine here would be that it is a stimulant, a euphoriant, and/or a vasoconstrictor?
20-24 year old me concurs. Cocaine was just "Vitamin C," the vitamin that allowed you to drink more without throwing up. The hangover the next day was consequently sooo much worse though.
Even more dangerously, it probably does make you temporarily more coordinated. It's a powerful performance-enhancer, formerly favored by baseball players, bowlers, darts players (etc.) since it does have an effect on hand-eye coordination, which could increase someone's confidence enough to encourage some stupid behavior
Hey Greg! I’ve been watching you make drinks and obscure movies references for years now and have enjoyed every second of it! Keep doing what your doing, you’re amazing!
Somehow during the '90s my sister's copy of the cocktail sound track ended up being the only cassette my mom had in her jeep so I have no idea how many times I've listened to the cocktail soundtrack.
Greg, I had an idea about 3/4 of the way through this great video. Are their any drinks that USED to be bad until someone came out with a better version of the spirits/syrups/etc that go into the drink? Like, a rum drink that was bad until someone came up with a rum with a new flavor profile that fixed the drink? I think it would be interesting to make some old/classic drinks using only brands/styles of spirits that existed when the drink was invented or popularized.
This reminds me of a morsel of food history: the reason why so many Boomers and Gen Xers remember hating Brussels sprouts as kids but they're all the rage in restaurants now is that the cultivars used in the 20th century for their industrial-scale yield had terrible flavor profiles. In the 1990s a Dutch botanist worked out how to crossbreed non-bitter heirloom cultivars into the industrial stock and suddenly Brussels sprouts were back on respectable menus.
@@kimberleyhoff6255yea older millennials too. this happened within my lifetime. brussels sprouts when i was a kid were like the absolute worst most concentrated form of cabbage on steroids. nowadays i’ll order them whenever i see them on the menu, and have a couple recipes of my own for the oven or air-fryer. the new cultivars have *dramatically* reduced the incredibly unpleasant sulfurousness that the old varieties had, and nowadays we’ve also figured out that pretty much any brassica variant is much better roasted than boiled/steamed.
Martinis and Manhattans, in a way. It’s not that anyone developed a new thing to fix it, but that better options became more accessible. I’m not a fan AT ALL of the most common vermouth brand (Martini & Rossi), neither their dry white (tastes like salty grape juice) nor their sweet red (tastes like horehound candy and cough syrup), and not only are that particular brand’s base offerings not all that great, but people didn’t know it oxidized if left unrefrigerated, which adds a godawful bleu-cheese-and-jet-fuel twang to an already bad product. Nowadays I can find Noilly Prat or Dolin quite easily, and Cocchi or Carpano if I’m willing to drive just a little farther. Or even Martini & Rossi’s higher-end “riserva speciale” offerings that taste far better and more complex than their standards.
@@jamesc8563 Agree on the vermouths, also so many good new whisk(e)ys. And with a good ice cube and actual nice cherries and a freshly squeezed orange twist, a modern Manhattan is a glorious experience IMO. But I still can't stand Brussels sprouts. They're horrible. They're up there with durian for things I've tried multiple times that I can't stomach.
Here's a challenge for you: For the last couple months I've been playing with replacing simple syrup with Maple syrup for the last couple months in classic cocktails. You aught to try this in a video. Will say, some I think there is and improvement, some the flavor does get a little lost. Then a month ago my son made some homemade Maple syrup. He boiled it down over an open wood fire. Now I'm on my way back through since the smoke does change the flavor some!
Hearing you say you hate Southern Comfort immediately reminded me that I had a buddy who used to drink 'Soco and Dew" Southern Comfort and Mt Dew. It tasted as bad as it sounds. I haven't drunk it in over 20 years but that immediately brought me back there.
Southern Comfort is, what, peach flavored? (I don’t drink alcohol.) Mountain Dew has come out with a thousand flavors, I wonder what new kinds of abomination you could make with Southern Comfort and Mountain Dew. Combine SoCo and Mountain Dew Sweet Lightning (which is also peach flavored) and call it Peach Hell? Or combine SoCo with the Hard Mountain Dew that they sell now. The possibilities are both endless and horrifying.
It could be that the velvet hammer recipe is expecting cheaper triple sec. De Kuyper comes in at 24% abv vs Cointreau's 40%. If there's a similar differential in terms of intensity of flavor, that would explain why the orange was so overwhelming in the video.
The "good" version of the Velvet Hammer and the Friar Tuck is a Brandy Alexander, just modified with triple sec (or maybe Grand Marnier) or hazelnut liqueur, respectively. Whether the Brandy Alexander is a good cocktail is up to you, but that seems like the direction.
I went to one of Toby Keith's bars some years ago. When his song "I love this bar" came on, they poured a round of complimentary Kamikaze shots for the bar.
my 'go-to' 80's drink (bearing in mind the object was "I really can't taste the alcohol") was: 48% vodka, 50% Orange Pineapple juice and 2% grenadine (Or really anything sweet and red: Kool-Aid, High C , etc). called them exactly what they looked like- Bloody Pus.
Epic instructional vid!✨🎉 I remember the movie "Cocktail" and mostly, everyones parents liquor cabinet had coconut rum and southern comfort lol so 80's! TY!🎊🎉
Greg, you're invading my dreams. By coincidence, last night in a dream I remember telling someone that Galliano is a fennel liqueur, and that it's the go to weapon for a bartender if someone comes at them, all of which I learned from the 70's episode.
How about another 80's drinks show, but focusing on drinks from other movies - in gags, movie title or otherwise? You'd have Orange Whip (Blues Brothers), Tequila Sunrise (Tequila Sunrise) and so on. Make them as is, then try to make them as you feel they should be?
Tom Cruise mentioned Pink Squirrel in the clip... funny name but very good desertish drink. Kinda like a grasshopper or brandy alexander but use creme de noyaux & nutmeg garnish. Tastes like a creamy chocolatey think with just a hint of cherry.. Tempus Fugit makes creme de noyaux but I can get it but have friends in some places that curiada can't ship it to even though they can get other tempus fuguit stuff :(
Considering the Grasshopper is my favorite, And I recently basically figured out how to make an alcoholic drink that tasted almost exactly like a samoa cookie, a lot of these actually sound good to me…
@@ffwast I wasn’t measuring, and I was adding as needed til I had the taste where I wanted, so it’s not exact. Basically just caramel vodka, coconut vodka, chocolate, and milk/cream. I specifically had Smirnoff kissed caramel, Smirnoff coconut, Penzey’s hot cocoa powder, and I think milk. I would love to try it with one of the Godiva chocolate liquors instead of cocoa powder someday.
@@kamianya writing this down as a fellow sweet enjoyer. my wife likes to make her own cocktails too, usually based on baileys, and they're soooo good. she also like dessert beers. :3
I love this series so much, have you ever considered doing a national/regional drinks series? Being from an island, I’d love to see you make some of our cocktails!
Cocktail is one of my favorite movies ever. That's where I learned about Alabama slammers! I can't get enough of 'em. Well, not as much as margaritas, but....
8:18 It's a good look and you pull it off well :D Gotta say though, blue shirt + white jacket + alcohol makes me think of Rick Sanchez lol Great episode!
My GF in college LOVED Cocktail so we got some friends together, bought a bartenders recipe book (no Googles back then kids) and went out to try and recreate Flanagan's list of drinks. Then we realized how much all the ingredients were going to cost and ended up making White Russians, Screwdrivers and Sex on the Beaches.
I kinda dig the white jacket and blue shirt too. Bennigans used to have a tall cocktail called the candy bar.. it was another ice cream sort of concoction with rum and chocolate involved. I don't remember what else was in it. It was lovely for a mid afternoon snack in college... but that was the 70s Oh.. that Alabama slammer reminded me of another college drink memory.. They called it a godmother.. just Jack Daniels and Amaretto.. no ice, in a brandy snifter by the fire on cold nights.
Alabama slammer is supposed to have OJ in it. And the color looked off, but that could be something else, but also I don't think I've ever seen them shaken.
I remember reading a recipe for a "Three-Toed Sloth" a long time ago on some recipe blog...and it was kind of like a fusion between a Grasshopper and a Mojito, but with no cream. It was Creme de Cacao, Creme de Menthe, White Rum, Fresh Lime Juice, and chilled Seltzer Water. I'll do a bit of an archive crawl and will update this comment if I can find it.
These drinks remind me of a ‘game’ from the late 80s early 90s called the alphabet game. It starts with the Alabama Slammer, then the Bahama Mama, and ends with a Zombie. I doubt anyone got very far before getting ill. Edit: no, I didn’t try it. Even in my early 20s I had more respect for my liver than that. Not much more, but enough more.
The only way I can imagine doing this is over the course of a month. Or with 25 cooperative friends. Or, perhaps, over the course of a month with friends? You'd have to have quite a variety of ingredients so perhaps you could go in on ingredients with a group and then have cocktails together for a whole month lol
@@awaredeshmukh3202 It was meant to be done at a cheap bar all in one night. Most of the folks who talked about it were vets or lived near military bases.
I once went to a small BYOB party of like 7 people with my older cousin. Sadly all i had to bring was a handle of Captain Morgan Spiced rum. We played kings cup and my cousin who was sitting next to me pulled 'waterfall' and he slow downed a whole pint....and immediately looked at me and said "Bro I am sooo sorry i forgot you were playing with rum!" I woke up on a couch i did not know, in an apartment i had never been to, in clothes that were not mine. I had puked all over mine and my home girl Kendra and her dude phil totally had my back after i had blacked out. This chick not only washed my clothes but changed me out of my gross ones and into a set of duds phil lent me and never batted an eye at it. Those two will forever be my people for that!
I enjoy the 80s movies drinks occasionally. They give me a sense of nostalgia that I have no idea why I have. I was not old enough to drink until the early 2000s. But one of my best friend's parents owned a bar in the 80s and 90s. They taught her how to mix drinks and she hosted many parties.
You're 100% spot on about the rum spiked friar tuck, because I'm pretty sure I was drinking exactly that at about 10 years old (juuust past the end of the 80s). But I grew up in Louisiana on rum milk punch - we used to call it "Christmas Milk" because one of the many uses was knock out us excited children on Christmas Eve. Cannot stand a drink with milk in it these days except maybe a dressed up irish coffee on a cold night on the patio.
I'd love to see an episode of you building drinks based on your own tasting notes from past episodes. Building something out of the weird stuff past greg & meredith said would be neat, i think.
Hey greg, Deposit into a cedar cask; 1 packet of wine yeast, 2 gallons of distilled water, a half liter of grenadine, one dry jalapeno, one half cup dried diced mint, a quarter cup of instant coffee; seal with airlock serve in 5 to 10 months or when the bubbling stops
I don’t know if it’s feasible but I got an image of a brunch table, with a pitcher of death spasm in the middle and a flight of amaros for everyone to try a drop of their preferred flavor
I really enjoyed this in learning how bitters works after everything going together..or at least another way to use bitters..am I right..I feel like I'm right!
I'm delighted to learn that there is a cocktail called a Screaming Orgasm, but disappointed to learn that it's just a Blind Russian with amaretto added.
watched Cocktail on one of those TV's with artificial motion blur (forced 120mhz?)(and I TRIED FOR AN HOUR TO TRY AND TURN IT OFF, YOU COULN'DT ON THAT MODEL) still liked it and would watch it again. in my own home
I love how sometimes when listing the notes for drinks he dislikes in one way or another, Greg pushes the drink away and stares at it with contempt. It's the little things.
I'm a bartender. I used to work at a cocktail bar, and I used to get recommended this movie all the time by the old timers. Always said I would, but I think I actually will this time.
16:52 - Same, nintendo was such a great game. I laughed so hard at the way you were about to say "...at a friend's house" but stopped and suddenly remembered, "Wait, that wasn't a friend, that was just some kid..." How did you get into this kids house??
I think Greg is a year or three older than I am, but back in the 90s we kinda cycled between houses depending on which system that house had (was like a group of six of us including my younger sibling, neighbor's two kids, and kids from two other houses, and we all had different friend groups)
So in 2012. ROOT BEER Cool aid Beer and Lemon Smirnoff top with Cookie. No straw do to acid in lemon oil .. OR COFFEE RED BULL VODKA And a Vitamin Tablet.. Vitamin tablet=Digestive Biscuts not drugs
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Looking good! Thanks for the videos, I'm loving both the regular content and the last release about the formula and history of cocktails!
You’ve got a “Miami Vice” or “China Beach” vibe going on. It’s not bad
Looking slick! If nothing else, the movie Cocktail did have one good thing: the ending song: _Wild Again_ by Starship.
where did you get the sweater in the ad read? I need it
that white and teal's your best outfit yet
I imagine with all the smoking going on in the 80’s I’m going to guess people needed such sweet drinks to cut through their dead tastebuds.
That would be thinking along the lines of the eighties being a continuation of, or reaction to the seventies. I wonder of there's another explanation. Maybe excess is enough for such an explanation.
Cigarettes, Beer, and Coke and I don't mean cola
I never had any trouble tasting things when I smoked. 🤷🏼♂️
@@Goulash45 Smoke 2 packs a day for a few years
@@Nitro1000 I did. I was a pack a day guy for 15 years.
three toed sloth is usually slightly green from the algae growing on their fur. The color of the drink is a match to the creature.
I came down here to say this too.
I don't know how you can make a cocktail called a three toed sloth without sloe gin though.
@@danlwarreneasy you taste most sloe gins, they are usually horrid
@@jediknight1294 I can't argue with that, but the sloth/sloe pun is too good to resist.
@@danlwarren honestly the only sloe anything iv had that wasn't awful was sloemotions sloe brandy and sloe whisky
"Greg adds ango" is the middle square on my HTD bingo card for sure.
Greg adds ango- Take a shot!
Rip @@Kaotiqua.
add "banana funk"
I was successfully conned into watching a cocktail video. Well done
It was just uploaded so you haven't watched it?
It's a joke based on the episode, seem they've watched more than you have lol
@@howtodrink yep, got it, just used to spam accounts saying they're so into a video that just got uploaded.
The japes are strong with this one lmao
So early on you mentioned the cocktail / speakeasy revival, amd how it all stemmed from one man in the rainbow room, and then basically all his disciples that he trained with a codified system. I would Love to see an episode specifically around just that- what he did, how he did it, basically the entire history of the period, and where that's gotten us to today. Hashtag boosey history is fantastic.
That would be so cool!!
Has David Wondrich ever guest starred on a RUclips show? 🤔
Tasting History's Max Miller would be a perfect guest for that episode
I know where rainbow room is and its insane honestly. Theres 2 technically but one is a tourist trap.
It’d be pretty cool for Greg to do that, and I would personally love to see a deep dive on the history of the cocktail revival, especially since I personally don’t know much about it at all
If you quickly scan through the tags for each drink in this episode, it reads like a “battle of the heavy metal bands” lineup from 1985. Which i don’t think is a coincidence
I respectfully disagree. Alabama Slamma? Ding a Ling? Three Toed Sloth? You're reaching.
@@magickmarck true, it’s a bit of a stretch…I’d be willing to bet at least 2 of those 3 have been real metal band names at some point though
@@magickmarckDude, I know all the band members! I didn't know anyone else knew them!
@@magickmarck dude, I saw Velvet Hammer open for Crue at the Whiskey. Hell of a show
Alabama Slamma is not out of reach for the 1980s. Matter fact I'm willing to bet that's a real Lynard Skynard cover band.
When I was in college, we had a completely different 'velvet hammer'. It was a pint of Guinness (preferably draft or one of the nitro-draft cans) with a double shot of vanilla vodka in it, like a weird Boilermaker. Smooth as velvet going down, hit you like a 10lbs sledge.
Sounds a bit like a Irish Car bomb. Guinness, Irish cream and whiskey. Drink it quickly or the cream will curdle, unless you like drinking cheese that is…
Greg: "If it fails, it fails. I'm not going to workship it."
Also Greg: *workshops the drink*
Greg workshopping a drink/brainstorming ideas and at least mentioning bitters are two must haves in any How To Drink episode.
Drunk Greg wrote some checks that Drunk-er Greg refused to cash
The Angostura was just too tempting.
👆😂
"There are so many better things that you could put in your mouth," -Greg... Right after praising a drink called a Ding a Ling... My inner 14yo is snickering in the corner.
My actual job is to taste Southern Comfort, and Greg's opinions about Southern Comfort are objectively correct. It tastes like someone tried to make whiskey using only the contents of a chemical supply truck by asking people standing on the side of a highway to yell out instructions as they drove past. XD
You’re a professional southern comfort taster?!
@@howtodrink Among other things, haha. I work in QC for Sazerac and taste every batch of product we make. We also do a lot of Fireball. (Please don't tell my bosses I bashed SoCo...)
@@perciusmandate"Professional SoCo and Fireball taster" sounds like the worst job anyone has ever had, I don't envy you!
(The flipside is that "Professional Eagle Rare taster" sounds like one of the best jobs ever.)
I think Fireball is great, if you add it to apple juice it tastes like an apple pie you can drink. One summer when I was in uni, I kind of got into the habit of daytime drinking because I had this big bottle of Fireball and it was just too delicious when added to apple juice, which I had a big container of, so I kept doing it no matter the time of day. Drinking grog for hydration purposes is, um, bad for your health.
....that's exactly what my stomach and mouth always felt when I drank SoCo.
$20 says Greg does these episodes so he can go costume shopping and write it off as a business expense! 🕺
Alternatively, he does these episodes so he can wear these outfits without judgement
I would unironically wear his western outfit to an outdoor event down here in Texas, just saying. Something informal and playful, it would fit right in.
Greg got...HAMMERED in this one. 😂
haven't seen him this drunk since the cocktail matrix.
Velvet hammered
@@desert7868 That was one of his best videos, ngl
@@desert7868 when this one came out I remember seeing all the comments about how hammered he got. At one point I was like omg wow yes he is quite drunk. Looked down and was only halfway through the video 😂
Drunk Greg best Greg (but in moderation lol)
For a true 80's drinking experience don't forget the widely available white power chaser that was in every club and bar.
And slots have moss in their fur that turns it green so the color works to on the 3-toed Sloth.
Finally, a cocktail/bartender guide channel making a video about the successful 80's film with the mega hit single "Kokomo" by The Beach Boys, Cocktail
Also Don’t Worry be Happy was a big hit from it
It should have been about the city in Indiana, but we live in an imperfect world…
You should absolutely shoehorn the miami vice fit into other videos, you can't just kill it this hard and leave it a one-off
Weirdly works up till 1996 unless I drank too much
I used to drink something in the 80s called a Bagpipe. 151 rum and butterscotch schnapps. 😵💫
Bacardi 151 i have bad memories with that stuff yeesh I think Lambs is the only one that makes 151 Rum now and Goslings
Yeah, apparently Bacardi kept getting lawsuits.
@@thegreatcanadianlumberjack5307 both Lemonhart and Hamilton also make 151
That sounds wonderful.
Sounds exactly up my alley it's so hard to get a good actual 151 nowadays though.
Our theory in the 90s was that Galliano's purpose was to provide an object the bartender could use to control the TV above the bar.
Seen it happen.
Also as a club to control the more rowdy clientele.
I never used it. It just sat on the top of the bar shelf and looked pretty.
So Drug deals? Yahh
You need it for a Harvey Wallbanger... assuming you need a Harvey Wallbanger for some god forsaken reason.
@@Kaotiqua The only way I’ve ever gotten close to one is because I wife asked me to make a Harvey Wallbanger cake for her birthday… it actually wasn’t bad.
Suggestion for @howtodrink : with Grand Theft Auto returning to Vice City in the next instalment, Greg has to bring back the White & Teal to do an episode based on the drinks of GTA - from Sprunk and Pißwasser to Junk Energy - and of course, a special... Columbian... inspired drink for Tommy Vercetti
So I don't drink, never did because of personal reasons and now im on medication where i can't. I love watching you talk about and make drinks that i will never drink.
I think it’s because he talks so much about the history and flavour profile as well as anecdotes, I mean it just feels fun and educational even for people like me and you who don’t drink lol. That’s how I justify it anyway.
A lot of drinks have non alcoholic alternatives so you might be able to try them
Ditto & agreed OP.
Same. Never liked the taste of alcohol, and being married to an alcoholic for almost a decade didn't help. But the alchemy of cocktails is fascinating.
This channel is such a comfort for a bartender like myself; I've had to make so many terrible drinks and my soul can only take so much. Thank you for this service you've done. One of the worst I've made is a tequila with kahlua and raspberry syrup and soda with lime. They didn't mind it; maybe it was the choice of tequila for me but the thing was rank.
The raspberry seems so wrong in this. Coffee and tequila isn't inherently bad, but the other add ons are a PROBLEM
@@jacqueline8121Coffee and raspberry can work together, and I don't think lime would be out of place, but I definitely wouldn't go to tequila for that flavor pairing. It could work with like a nice añejo tequila.. but I think that would be a waste of a good añejo tequila.
I love Frangelico and Aperol. The flavors pair off each other and asking for it gets some looks.
@@grammar_antifa There was no añejo or reposado in sight, it was the cheapest shit possible.
@@grammar_antifa it genuinely should have prefaced that it just might be a me thing, I hate fruity coffee flavors.
19:47 green honestly fits a 3 toed sloth, they often appear greenish in the wild bc they tend to have algae/moss grow in their fur
Episode idea: It would be awesome to see you go through your bitters and give us a taste profile on what they do and how they change a cocktail/drink, since as you mentioned with the last drink Death Spasm that all or any of the bitters could have worked. Maybe choose a both a simple and complex drink and show the difference of what the bitters does with them.
I saw (and hated) Cocktail and thought I was going nuts when he mentioned the "Three-Toed Sloth." Somehow, hearing Greg confirm that it doesn't exist and watching him make his own rendition was healing, so thanks for that.
It does. It's a layered shot with apple schnapps, dark rum, and sloe gin.
@@Kaotiqua Ayo fr? Got a link I could look at?
Booger sugar absolutely does have an antiemetic property. You will FEEL less drunk, you're not ACTUALLY less drunk. Like four loko or slamming a cup of coffee. Does NOT make you less drunk, or more coordinated. That scene from wolf of wall street is fairly accurate.
And the *instant* it wears off, you will feel absolutely hammered!
...Antiemetic? Are you sure that’s the word you’re looking for? Antiemetic means anti nausea or anti vomiting. I would assume the relevant property of cocaine here would be that it is a stimulant, a euphoriant, and/or a vasoconstrictor?
@@justbree2764Antiemetic was because of what Greg says at 3:55
20-24 year old me concurs. Cocaine was just "Vitamin C," the vitamin that allowed you to drink more without throwing up. The hangover the next day was consequently sooo much worse though.
Even more dangerously, it probably does make you temporarily more coordinated. It's a powerful performance-enhancer, formerly favored by baseball players, bowlers, darts players (etc.) since it does have an effect on hand-eye coordination, which could increase someone's confidence enough to encourage some stupid behavior
Extra points for the teal undershirt, let it be not the last time you combine colors in your attire! it REALLY adds up to the emotion of the episode.
I know Greg had a stomachache and migrane after this one 😂
Plain water for the rest of the day, you can just Tell.
I got a sugar/booze migraine just watching it.
I saw Cocktail in the theaters. I was 10. Saw Flashdance in the theater too… I was 6? Gen X parents were wild! 😂😂
Terminator 2 in the theater. 8 years old. By that point I’d worn out my VHS’s of Aliens and Terminator 1
Your generation's parents just didn't care about you and everyone had lead poisoning 😆
As a Gen X parent - you’re welcome. Now go drink from the hose and play chicken with lawn darts
Hah! Same. Went with my delinquent cousin and her friends. I was 12
I think you probably mean Boomers unless your parents were about 15.
Hey Greg! I’ve been watching you make drinks and obscure movies references for years now and have enjoyed every second of it! Keep doing what your doing, you’re amazing!
Somehow during the '90s my sister's copy of the cocktail sound track ended up being the only cassette my mom had in her jeep so I have no idea how many times I've listened to the cocktail soundtrack.
Both don’t worry be happy and Kokomo ended up becoming big hits because of cocktail’s soundtrack
Oh I love you so was an underrated gem
The movie is kind of a “so bad it’s good” classic, but the soundtrack is legitimately pretty good. Wild Again by Starship is underrated.
Oh. What do these drinks look like under UV/ black-light? Seriously curious, that would've been part of the presentation.
Greg, I had an idea about 3/4 of the way through this great video. Are their any drinks that USED to be bad until someone came out with a better version of the spirits/syrups/etc that go into the drink? Like, a rum drink that was bad until someone came up with a rum with a new flavor profile that fixed the drink? I think it would be interesting to make some old/classic drinks using only brands/styles of spirits that existed when the drink was invented or popularized.
This reminds me of a morsel of food history: the reason why so many Boomers and Gen Xers remember hating Brussels sprouts as kids but they're all the rage in restaurants now is that the cultivars used in the 20th century for their industrial-scale yield had terrible flavor profiles. In the 1990s a Dutch botanist worked out how to crossbreed non-bitter heirloom cultivars into the industrial stock and suddenly Brussels sprouts were back on respectable menus.
@@kimberleyhoff6255yea older millennials too. this happened within my lifetime. brussels sprouts when i was a kid were like the absolute worst most concentrated form of cabbage on steroids. nowadays i’ll order them whenever i see them on the menu, and have a couple recipes of my own for the oven or air-fryer. the new cultivars have *dramatically* reduced the incredibly unpleasant sulfurousness that the old varieties had, and nowadays we’ve also figured out that pretty much any brassica variant is much better roasted than boiled/steamed.
Martinis and Manhattans, in a way. It’s not that anyone developed a new thing to fix it, but that better options became more accessible.
I’m not a fan AT ALL of the most common vermouth brand (Martini & Rossi), neither their dry white (tastes like salty grape juice) nor their sweet red (tastes like horehound candy and cough syrup), and not only are that particular brand’s base offerings not all that great, but people didn’t know it oxidized if left unrefrigerated, which adds a godawful bleu-cheese-and-jet-fuel twang to an already bad product.
Nowadays I can find Noilly Prat or Dolin quite easily, and Cocchi or Carpano if I’m willing to drive just a little farther. Or even Martini & Rossi’s higher-end “riserva speciale” offerings that taste far better and more complex than their standards.
@@jamesc8563 Agree on the vermouths, also so many good new whisk(e)ys. And with a good ice cube and actual nice cherries and a freshly squeezed orange twist, a modern Manhattan is a glorious experience IMO. But I still can't stand Brussels sprouts. They're horrible. They're up there with durian for things I've tried multiple times that I can't stomach.
Here's a challenge for you:
For the last couple months I've been playing with replacing simple syrup with Maple syrup for the last couple months in classic cocktails. You aught to try this in a video.
Will say, some I think there is and improvement, some the flavor does get a little lost. Then a month ago my son made some homemade Maple syrup. He boiled it down over an open wood fire. Now I'm on my way back through since the smoke does change the flavor some!
Hearing you say you hate Southern Comfort immediately reminded me that I had a buddy who used to drink 'Soco and Dew"
Southern Comfort and Mt Dew. It tasted as bad as it sounds. I haven't drunk it in over 20 years but that immediately brought me back there.
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Southern Comfort is, what, peach flavored? (I don’t drink alcohol.) Mountain Dew has come out with a thousand flavors, I wonder what new kinds of abomination you could make with Southern Comfort and Mountain Dew. Combine SoCo and Mountain Dew Sweet Lightning (which is also peach flavored) and call it Peach Hell? Or combine SoCo with the Hard Mountain Dew that they sell now. The possibilities are both endless and horrifying.
It could be that the velvet hammer recipe is expecting cheaper triple sec. De Kuyper comes in at 24% abv vs Cointreau's 40%. If there's a similar differential in terms of intensity of flavor, that would explain why the orange was so overwhelming in the video.
The "good" version of the Velvet Hammer and the Friar Tuck is a Brandy Alexander, just modified with triple sec (or maybe Grand Marnier) or hazelnut liqueur, respectively. Whether the Brandy Alexander is a good cocktail is up to you, but that seems like the direction.
In todays episode, greg develops severe diabetes for our enjoyment.
I mean, Tom Cruise and Wilford Brimley were in a movie together...
I went to one of Toby Keith's bars some years ago. When his song "I love this bar" came on, they poured a round of complimentary Kamikaze shots for the bar.
my 'go-to' 80's drink (bearing in mind the object was "I really can't taste the alcohol") was: 48% vodka, 50% Orange Pineapple juice and 2% grenadine (Or really anything sweet and red: Kool-Aid, High C , etc). called them exactly what they looked like- Bloody Pus.
You in that suit is like a This Old House + GTA Vice City mashup
Seeing another this old house watcher in the wild is so pleasant. I'm so sad it's hard to find online.
Epic instructional vid!✨🎉 I remember the movie "Cocktail" and mostly, everyones parents liquor cabinet had coconut rum and southern comfort lol so 80's! TY!🎊🎉
Greg, you're invading my dreams. By coincidence, last night in a dream I remember telling someone that Galliano is a fennel liqueur, and that it's the go to weapon for a bartender if someone comes at them, all of which I learned from the 70's episode.
How about another 80's drinks show, but focusing on drinks from other movies - in gags, movie title or otherwise? You'd have Orange Whip (Blues Brothers), Tequila Sunrise (Tequila Sunrise) and so on. Make them as is, then try to make them as you feel they should be?
He already covered the orange whip. I tried it, but I ended up adding 0.5 Oz simple
Greg is refreshed as a newt. He has reached maximum refreshment.
Tom Cruise mentioned Pink Squirrel in the clip... funny name but very good desertish drink. Kinda like a grasshopper or brandy alexander but use creme de noyaux & nutmeg garnish. Tastes like a creamy chocolatey think with just a hint of cherry.. Tempus Fugit makes creme de noyaux but I can get it but have friends in some places that curiada can't ship it to even though they can get other tempus fuguit stuff :(
In his 70’s drink video he made a pink squirrel
Considering the Grasshopper is my favorite, And I recently basically figured out how to make an alcoholic drink that tasted almost exactly like a samoa cookie, a lot of these actually sound good to me…
Well? Spit out the recipe
@@ffwast I wasn’t measuring, and I was adding as needed til I had the taste where I wanted, so it’s not exact. Basically just caramel vodka, coconut vodka, chocolate, and milk/cream. I specifically had Smirnoff kissed caramel, Smirnoff coconut, Penzey’s hot cocoa powder, and I think milk. I would love to try it with one of the Godiva chocolate liquors instead of cocoa powder someday.
@@marlenagoodman9796 There's such a thing as too sweet.not everyone has to like drinking straight syrup.
@@kamianya writing this down as a fellow sweet enjoyer. my wife likes to make her own cocktails too, usually based on baileys, and they're soooo good. she also like dessert beers. :3
@@gwennorthcutt421 Baileys is SO good. I have been known to replace the cream in drinks with Baileys.
I love watching Greg get progressively messed up in these kind of episodes 😂 aka missing the Cointreau cap at the 22:00 mark
You lied about there being nothing fresh in there drinks! They're full of fresh milk!
I love this series so much, have you ever considered doing a national/regional drinks series? Being from an island, I’d love to see you make some of our cocktails!
I'm currently at the viski read, and Greg is drunk. This episode is going of the rails, isn't it?
A full 5 sheets to the wind 😂
Cocktail is one of my favorite movies ever. That's where I learned about Alabama slammers! I can't get enough of 'em. Well, not as much as margaritas, but....
8:18 It's a good look and you pull it off well :D
Gotta say though, blue shirt + white jacket + alcohol makes me think of Rick Sanchez lol
Great episode!
Amazing cross section of drinks with a fun spiral into inebriation. Love it!
My GF in college LOVED Cocktail so we got some friends together, bought a bartenders recipe book (no Googles back then kids) and went out to try and recreate Flanagan's list of drinks. Then we realized how much all the ingredients were going to cost and ended up making White Russians, Screwdrivers and Sex on the Beaches.
I kinda dig the white jacket and blue shirt too.
Bennigans used to have a tall cocktail called the candy bar.. it was another ice cream sort of concoction with rum and chocolate involved.
I don't remember what else was in it.
It was lovely for a mid afternoon snack in college... but that was the 70s
Oh.. that Alabama slammer reminded me of another college drink memory.. They called it a godmother.. just Jack Daniels and Amaretto.. no ice, in a brandy snifter by the fire on cold nights.
Idk why, but when you said 3 toed sloth my brain went sloth->slow->sloe gin. Would it work? Probably not. But I still think my logic is sound lol.
I thought the same thing
Alabama slammer is supposed to have OJ in it. And the color looked off, but that could be something else, but also I don't think I've ever seen them shaken.
Yeah without the oj it would be horrible
I think it's off because he used lemon juice instead of orange. Slammers shots were bright and cheerful looking, not that weird brownish color.
I must have been at a weird bar because the Alabama slammer I had was basically koolaid with a ton of whatever alcohol in it.
Hey, I watched that Red Eye episode! And you're right, Cocktail is uplifting but depressing.
Joke's on you Greg, I watched that video AND this one
I remember reading a recipe for a "Three-Toed Sloth" a long time ago on some recipe blog...and it was kind of like a fusion between a Grasshopper and a Mojito, but with no cream. It was Creme de Cacao, Creme de Menthe, White Rum, Fresh Lime Juice, and chilled Seltzer Water. I'll do a bit of an archive crawl and will update this comment if I can find it.
These drinks remind me of a ‘game’ from the late 80s early 90s called the alphabet game. It starts with the Alabama Slammer, then the Bahama Mama, and ends with a Zombie. I doubt anyone got very far before getting ill.
Edit: no, I didn’t try it. Even in my early 20s I had more respect for my liver than that. Not much more, but enough more.
The only way I can imagine doing this is over the course of a month. Or with 25 cooperative friends. Or, perhaps, over the course of a month with friends? You'd have to have quite a variety of ingredients so perhaps you could go in on ingredients with a group and then have cocktails together for a whole month lol
@@awaredeshmukh3202 It was meant to be done at a cheap bar all in one night. Most of the folks who talked about it were vets or lived near military bases.
I got a laugh out of “not much more, but enough more.” So thank you for that
I once went to a small BYOB party of like 7 people with my older cousin. Sadly all i had to bring was a handle of Captain Morgan Spiced rum. We played kings cup and my cousin who was sitting next to me pulled 'waterfall' and he slow downed a whole pint....and immediately looked at me and said "Bro I am sooo sorry i forgot you were playing with rum!" I woke up on a couch i did not know, in an apartment i had never been to, in clothes that were not mine. I had puked all over mine and my home girl Kendra and her dude phil totally had my back after i had blacked out. This chick not only washed my clothes but changed me out of my gross ones and into a set of duds phil lent me and never batted an eye at it. Those two will forever be my people for that!
I love these episodes but I love them even more when he makes them his way and Better right after. Love the show!
My favourite part of the horrible drinks episodes is when something is actually good.
Yes!! I love 80s and 70s Greg! White blazer, go forth!!
I got ill from drinking in the 80's more that any other era. Maybe it was just the 80's that made me sick and not that I was in my 20's.
I enjoy the 80s movies drinks occasionally. They give me a sense of nostalgia that I have no idea why I have. I was not old enough to drink until the early 2000s. But one of my best friend's parents owned a bar in the 80s and 90s. They taught her how to mix drinks and she hosted many parties.
16:36 🤣🤣🤣 that reaction 🤣🤣
You're 100% spot on about the rum spiked friar tuck, because I'm pretty sure I was drinking exactly that at about 10 years old (juuust past the end of the 80s).
But I grew up in Louisiana on rum milk punch - we used to call it "Christmas Milk" because one of the many uses was knock out us excited children on Christmas Eve. Cannot stand a drink with milk in it these days except maybe a dressed up irish coffee on a cold night on the patio.
Going over the ingredients for the velvet hammer, I'm like, "Orange and MINT!?"
Creme de Cacao is chocolate, not mint!
I'd love to see an episode of you building drinks based on your own tasting notes from past episodes. Building something out of the weird stuff past greg & meredith said would be neat, i think.
Why did he use lemon juice in the Alabama slammer? Everywhere I look it says use orange juice
Love watching Greg get progressively more plastered the deeper into the episode he gets 😂😂😂
You went for Miami Vice during the Rick and Morty generation? Prepare for a LOT of people to mistake your outfit.
Huh?
@@howtodrinkhalf your audience will think you're dressed as Rick
Hey greg,
Deposit into a cedar cask; 1 packet of wine yeast, 2 gallons of distilled water, a half liter of grenadine, one dry jalapeno, one half cup dried diced mint, a quarter cup of instant coffee; seal with airlock serve in 5 to 10 months or when the bubbling stops
Suggestion: Do you think you could make cocktails inspired by Heavy Metal (1981)? I think that'd be tight as hell.
I definitely could, and it would be an episode that only the two of us would watch
@@howtodrink Ooh, that's fair. Yeah, that sounds correct.
@@howtodrink Three at least. Five if I give a heads up to my sister and her husband. Six if I email my college boyfriend. So we'll call it five.
I will stand by Cocktail as a film! I watched it this week, while my wife was at yoga - time well-spent
the white coat and teal is really just channeling rick sanchez, cant unsee it
I had never heard of Cocktail but I'm gonna go watch it after watching this episode
I don’t know if it’s feasible but I got an image of a brunch table, with a pitcher of death spasm in the middle and a flight of amaros for everyone to try a drop of their preferred flavor
1:55. I literally had the thought there "what if no one watches the video still" while... You know... I was watching the video... 😁😁🤦🏻♂️😁
I really enjoyed this in learning how bitters works after everything going together..or at least another way to use bitters..am I right..I feel like I'm right!
I'm delighted to learn that there is a cocktail called a Screaming Orgasm, but disappointed to learn that it's just a Blind Russian with amaretto added.
Flashback from these things to the Checkmate Club in North Little Rock ~shutter~. The Velvet Hammer reminds me of the candy Terry's Chocolate Orange
The green for the 3 toes sloth is perfect! Sloths are covered with algae 🎉
watched Cocktail on one of those TV's with artificial motion blur (forced 120mhz?)(and I TRIED FOR AN HOUR TO TRY AND TURN IT OFF, YOU COULN'DT ON THAT MODEL)
still liked it and would watch it again. in my own home
the white jacket gives mad scientist's labcoat more than jacket but I'm all for it. Fits the show damn well
love that you called it booger sugar, always one of my favorites.
My absolute favorite 80’s cocktail is a Japanese Slipper! Midori, lemon juice, and Cointreau with a maraschino in the glass. Looks radioactive green
I love how sometimes when listing the notes for drinks he dislikes in one way or another, Greg pushes the drink away and stares at it with contempt. It's the little things.
I for one absolutely HAVE been wanting a Cocktail (1988) episode ever since the red eye. Take that, algorithm!
Hey man, I love that movie. Elizabeth Shue and TC. What’s not to love?!
Yes, 80s Greg is back!! You were missed!
I'm a bartender. I used to work at a cocktail bar, and I used to get recommended this movie all the time by the old timers. Always said I would, but I think I actually will this time.
Thank you for your service(!) I've screencapped one or two of these to try
Underberg (Jaeger if you’re boring), kirschwasser, and bison grass vodka is my new favorite.
I do:
1 bottle Underberg
2 Oz of kirsch
2 Oz of vodka
As an 80s kid, enjoyed this quite a bit! Cocktail was a movie that I watched quite a few times.
I came for the 80s, stayed for the gloating about tricking viewers into watching a video based on "Cocktail." 🤣❤️
16:52 - Same, nintendo was such a great game. I laughed so hard at the way you were about to say "...at a friend's house" but stopped and suddenly remembered, "Wait, that wasn't a friend, that was just some kid..." How did you get into this kids house??
I think Greg is a year or three older than I am, but back in the 90s we kinda cycled between houses depending on which system that house had (was like a group of six of us including my younger sibling, neighbor's two kids, and kids from two other houses, and we all had different friend groups)
Bringing in the "yo dawg" meme really brought me back to high school and I bust out laughing remembering those days of the internet XD
So in 2012. ROOT BEER Cool aid Beer and Lemon Smirnoff top with Cookie. No straw do to acid in lemon oil .. OR COFFEE RED BULL VODKA And a Vitamin Tablet.. Vitamin tablet=Digestive Biscuts not drugs
this is so unhinged I love it