What horrors await me... | How to Drink
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Little did I know that Meredith has been filling a cooler with the most terrible products available to torture me with one day. Joke is on her, I managed to make something pretty good out of it. If you want to see us truly lose our minds you will enjoy the end of this episode.
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00:00 - Cooler of Doom
00:48 - Lets dive right in with Friday's Orange Dream
01:50 - Tasting notes
04:17 - Moonshine Pickles Tasting Notes
06:47 - Skinny Girl Margarita Tasting Notes
09:20 - A message from our sponsors
10:49 - Truly Lemonade Freeze Pops Tasting Notes
13:59 - Buzzballz
14:35 - Lime Rita Chiller Tasting Notes
16:00 - Strawberry Rita Tasting Notes
17:51 - Choco Cooler Tasting Notes
18:23 - Pineapple Colada Tasting Notes
19:58 - Smirnoff Ice Red, White and Berry Tasting Notes
21:38 - Green Apple Tasting Notes
23:00 - Twisted Shots Sex on the Beach Tasting Notes
24:12 - Miami Vice Tasting Notes
25:05 - Lavender Martini Tasting Notes
26:56 - How do I get out of this
27:19 - I did an oopsie...
29:05 - Can it be done??
33:21 - It can, but only once.
33:50 - Tasting Notes
35:14 - Goodbye
Daffy's Delight:
Build in shaker
1 oz. or 30 ml. Vodka
Most of 1 melted mango Truly hard seltzer freeze pop
1 oz. or 30 ml. Green Apple Smirnoff Ice
1.5 oz. or 45 ml. Buzz Ball Pina Colada
1 oz. or 30 ml. Friday's Orange Dream
Add ice and shake
Pour into glass
Float of sex on the beach Twisted Shot
If you want to proof it up throw another oz of vodka in there, why not?
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That is great to hear! I hope it doesn’t get to a point where you ask the audience for ideas.
Could you make a cocktail 🍸 out of Malta Goya? It’s a lightly carbonated malt drink that is non-alcoholic as a very rich dark sugar taste!
28:41 Ick. If you're going to use pickles/brine in a cocktail why not a Bloody Bull/Mary?
Great to know you're not out of ideas! If you really want to suffer I also suggest recreating the crab juice from the Simpson to end this series
@@dominichawkins3 Ohohoh! I feel quite the contrary! I deeply hope that he will ask for ideas from us, the internet has so many terrible things it could inflict upon him!
This seems like an appropriate time to remind Greg that he's allowed to make episodes on good drinks.
Greg can have a good drink episode... as a treat.
Nah
I actually genuinely miss them. Would love to see him remake one of his old classic cocktail videos with longer video length, more detail, and variants.
Fr, while I do enjoy suffering sometimes, it's nice to see good drinks
… He already his “good drinks” tickets long ago.
As someone who works in a liquor store. This is a perfect combination of the products we’re amazed people actually buy
Hahaha
I mean I'm the kind of person who will honestly buy vanilla vodka tequila and sweet tea vodka all in one purchase that's just to have everything in stock at my place though Lol xD
Yeah that’s fine I’m talking about the beatbox’s, buzzballs, twisted shots, chi-chis
Start posting the recipe around your store. :D
It's fun to be adventurous sometimes XD
I thought this episode had hit peak chaos when Drunk Greg and Meredith started humming the Sabre Dance, but then we got Meredith freaking out when Drunk Greg reached for the dry ice, and then Drunk Greg insisting he knew what he was doing with all the misplaced confidence of a drunk frat boy about to do a backflip off the second floor balcony into the swimming pool.
drunk greg was going wild
“PeRhApS a StRaW??” Killed me
This cocktail creation portion of this episode has perfect 1AM at a houseparty energy.
Greg is TRASHED at that point.
It's giving "fuck I'm out of my preferred mixers and we drank all the hard liquor what do we have left I'm not pissed enough"
"safetywise this is a bad idea"
I do like the occasional "This is bad" episode. I definitely enjoy Meredith joining you in the suffering she has decided to put you through. But you need a "Good" drink to reward yourself for making all of the restaurant of the week and cooler of doom episodes.
Might I request a nerdy drink episode? D&D potions, video game drinks, or Greg's favorite drinks are what come to mind.
Fr. I miss the good drinks
I also really liked the mixology challenges he put himself to, like "worst bottles of my bar" was very fun to me, not because "suffering, haha", but because the process of developing a new drink was kind of fascinating.
He did do some drinks based on drinks in Critical Role, the dnd campaign! And it was really cool for him to try and make a drink as close to the descriptions but still make it decent, going so far as to offer to send CR a bottle.
He's done those before (specifically both the D&D and the video game cocktails), but would be nice to see a round 2 for both of those topics. Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a revisit with Edgerunner. That might be fun.
Greg should do a DRINKTIONARY. Where from A to Z, he makes his "ideal" version of a cocktail, and then at the end of it all, we have a nice playlist of 26 drinks that Greg has made an ideal version of.
I realize that Meredith was part of the show for some time before she showed up on mic and in the occasional shot, and I have to say that seeing the back and forth that’s part of the collaboration that makes this show is a total delight.
show's gone caketube with meredith, but it's ok.
@@FS_Scott Caketube? What do you mean?
@@tinyprince how to cake it's host would interact with offscreen personnel so much during recording it became a staple of the cake decorating youtube space, man about cake actually mics *everyone* for the entire recording
@@FS_Scott Mmm, cake.
Couldn’t disagree more. Would rather have solo Greg.
Meredith coming in to taste the drinks and just really quickly saying what she thinks is one of my favorite things in all the episodes. It really balances out Greg’s hyper analysis and tasting breakdowns, then here comes super chill Meredith just like. *Sips… Pause* “Yep that’s pretty bad.” And then goes back behind the camera, I love it.
I totally agree
I know Greg isn’t really out of ideas, but a bitters deep dive about history, ingredients, and modern bitters is something I would absolutely watch for 40 minutes. Similar to the rum and gin deep dive videos. Greg doing history is 👌
That sounds like an awesome idea!
Video Idea to make Greg Happy and stav off more cursed cocktails: it's a Wheel, Skull, and Dice episode where Greg needs to make a cocktail using randomized ingredients using the "Golden Ratio": 2 of Strong, 1 of Sweet, 1 of Sour (and a garnish).
The Wheel has a bunch of spirits, the Skull has a liquors, and Greg will need to roll some dice in order to randomly pick a source of sourness. also a fourth thing in order to decide a garnish. this can potentially make something good tasting (An Earthy Whisky+Coffee Liquor+Lemon Juice with a flamed orange peel) or make something Evil (Mezcal+Peppermint Schnapps+Orange Juice with an olive).
Yes please!
@@AdrianoChialastri The "Golden Ratio" idea can be tweaked in order to fit what Greg would want to do. like 2 of Strong, 1 of Weak (still a liquor), 1/2 of Sour (berry/fruit juices), 1/2 Sweet (one of Greg's thousands of Syrups), 2 dashes of a randomized Bitter (and a garnish).
This can allow for: An Earthy Whisky+Coffee Liquor+Rich Simple+Mole Bitters+a Sprig of Mint. The idea is "Can something good come from sheer randomness"
Yes
So basically Cult Moo's drink of destiny...
@@katiemay139 I was thinking of a more controlled version of Gary the BBQ Chef's Smart Coaster series.
I'd be down to see this once every 6 months/year. Whenever Meredith gets a good stockpile of doomed alcohols.
6 years is an awful long time to wait for a video but then again I follow Grade A under A and Sam O’Nella academy so I’d stick around for it
Hurts coming back to this episode knowing how devastated Greg must have been when the Choco Taco was discontinued.
Orange wine is essentially just wine fermented with white grapes with their skins during the fermentation process. It's actually pretty historically rich and stretches back thousands of years and is still pretty popular in Georgia (the country) as it has a lot of historical roots there. It's also pretty prevalent in Greece and I personally seen a lot of Greek grocers near me carry Greek orange wine.
It’s been making a “comeback” the past decade or so, I know several local wineries that produce it. Nice stuff, really.
as someone who's a buyer for a liquor store, seeing you try all the terrible products I also have to try brings me immense joy and solidarity
What’s the worst thing you’ve ever had to try?
@@disgustangy4901 it would either have to be a plastic bottle of "french white wine blend" or an RTD called "Faux Pas" Grapefruit & Orange Tequila Soda. that was straight up battery acid in a can. generally when people sample us on liquor it's either local distilleries or well known brands so it's pretty tame in that regard. but man oh man, the RTDs and "trendy" products make me want to die inside.
@@twistedgravity1 well at least they're self-aware.
You have such a great job tho
@@theraVen27 it is an insanely fun job especially for the market I'm in! I got very lucky to be able to do what I do at my age. you learn such an insane amount in such a short time.
We've had several arcs in HTD, the low budget homemade, the full hipster, the pop culture. And now, we've entered the Apocalypse Arc, where 2 people in their bunker passing time after the bombs fell surviving only on liquor trucks the came across while scavenging.
I'm trying to sleep but now I'm uncontrollably laughing at the line "these pickles are 20% alcohol by volume"
I think you should keep the cooler of doom, but instead of items selected by Meredith, have the items selected by the Patrons 😉
I'm not a Patron (yet) but I love this idea! Want to see what everyone can come up with.
@@1896ndt dude I’m just waiting for him to have to combine Baileys and lime juice or something. We coule get REALLY creative hahaha
A SPECIAL cooler of doom patron level. Limit to 10 per month, higher bidder can knock somebody out.
14:48 Orange wine is a white wine that has made contact with the grape skins during fermentation. It also apparently made a lot of snobby wine people upset because it’s not how white wine is “traditionally” made. Orange wine is commonly made in the countries of Slovenia, Georgia, and parts of Italy.
Why does the notion that wine snobs hate orange wine endear it to me?
Georgia is often thought of as the birthplace of wine. This kind of wine has been produced for literal millennia. All this shows is that most wine snobs have an extremely narrow view, mainly limited to French wine traditions.
@@baumgrt as a person studying the wine business and being from georgia I can tell you with 100% certainty the reason why theyre upset is because of how much money the rich châteaux pay to get themselves into the top places for these wine snobs
The buzzballz company claims its a neutral alcohol made from oranges
@@StridentEclipse Oh, whoops 😅
As entertaining as it is to watch Greg slowly drink himself into insanity, my favorite episodes are still the ones about the liquors. The All About Gin/Rum etc. Also, I really liked the one about precode movies. Educational and historical. It's fascinating stuff. If ya'll are wonderin'.
I get the feeling that those episodes are expensive to make, and have less mass appeal, where these require no research, use cheap products, and ultimately bring in thousands more views because it requires no knowledge from the viewer.
I'm not saying it's good content, I'm saying it's the kind of thing that gets produced when you want to maximize your viewership with minimal cost/investment.
AKA: another victim of the algorithm
i just want some more drink recipes i can actually try. another tiki episode maybe? him doing riffs on classics to invent his own drinks? aging/infusing your own alcohol at home? making your own cola syrup to create the ultimate cuba libre? historically controversial/banned drink taste test? idk.
the greg torture episodes are fine (even though i always end up turning them off about halfway through) but the episodes where he actually creates something and teaches you a bit are the best. i used to come to this channel for drink recipes but it’s been a long time lol
@@penguindrummaster I argue that it's good content regardless, and it looks like at least he is enjoying it. Why is it a bad thing that it is also appealing?
YESSS. The precode episode was phenomenal.
I was also so hoping for a follow up to the pre-code movie episode. One of my favorites. Greg, please?
There should be an entire episode of just strawberry flavored liqueurs and spirits, ending in Greg having to make Tequila Rose actually tolerable🤣
Tequila Rose is delicious! It's strawberry milk, you don't even taste the alcohol
I pour Tequila Rose over ice cream. 😊
Listen Satan we talked about you coming here with your worst ideas for specific souls. He suffers enough let him take it easy.
@@donnamargiotta6417 I could see that working out well
@@Rose-jz6sx Just not a huge fan 🤷♀️ But I get the appeal. It's definitely sweet.
Greg, Meredith was right on about Midwesterners putting Fireball into ciders. At the college bar I worked at back in Ohio (shouts to Miami OH, officially better than Northwestern), we had a drink called ''Angry Balls,' which was just Angry Orchard topped with a shot of Fireball. Honestly pretty tasty.
Yum!
Taste a bit like apple pie?
Is this the natural climax of the "Watch Greg Suffer" arc of HTD storyline?
yup!
This is to Greg what "Hard Time" was to O'Brien on DS9.
@@howtodrink Good, I hope the denouement is short then and we can do another arc of you being a massive lovable dork by injecting your other interests into the show. Those were my favorites, even if they weren't most people's (or the algorithm's).
@@vilhelmpuddintain9295 Same here, I hope we get more happy nerd Greg in the future.
@@vilhelmpuddintain9295 OMG... Mine too!!! I really need a nerdy drunk Greg. That's what I came here for!
The pickle moonshine actually works amazingly well as the vodka in a bloody mary
Made the same comment
That sounds really good for a savory cocktail
I personally love lavender flavour, but certain artifical lavenders can be soapy af. If I put normal lavender buds into some lemonade, I'd be cool.
This is a genius RUclips format. The longer the video goes, the drunker and more entertaining Greg gets. You get drawn in and you've watched a dad get hammered for hours without noticing.
The ominous lighting on Meredith when she walks in frame is hilarious. I love it. No notes.
Next episode: Greg learns about and tastes orange wines.
Orange wines are white wines made with the skins. So just a slightly orange colored wine. Sadly no oranges involved.
Making Meredith an actual part of the show was absolutely the right move. Love her.
Quick note on the orange wine: the orange wine that Meredith is describing is a specially made grape wine. That being said, you can buy a wine made from oranges in parts of Spain, mostly Valencia. Hard to get otherwise. I had it once and greatly regret not taking a picture of the bottle.
It's made from white wine grapes but instead of removing the skins when pressed they're left in for fermentation, giving the wine an orange colour.
I'd be interested in seeing Real Cocktail versions of the various oddities from the Cooler of Doom. So like an actual creamsicle cocktail, actual versions of the twisted shooters (save the cups from them even?), and like the chocolate Buzz Ball. That is, if you ever wanted to do anything with these things again. I like the formula of "here's weird thing, now I make good thing" in general.
Now that's a video I'd watch.
Watching Greg suffer for 36 minutes is exactly what I needed today, thank you Meredith.
Yanno what? Same. Absolutely same.
I can agree
I’m sure someone has mentioned this already, but orange wine isn’t an orange spirit, it’s a white wine made in the style of a red (fermented on the skins). They can be quite good, but often rather sweet/fruit forward.
Yup. Came here just to say this.
I think my favorite parts of How To Drink are when we've gotten a little over halfway into the episode & you've had a few, & your Tasting Notes get even more rant-y & expressive.
Entertaining & educational!
That TGI Fridays goo, when ever you pulled it out, just read as a similar "creamsicle" style drink mix that I've seen and had, which never instructed to just serve over ice; Rather, it was intended to be blended with ice to make a very thick slush of sorts, and I suspect the considerable dilution that would come from that, as well as the aeration would do at least SOMETHING to tame that.
Ahhhh that would make sense I think
At the end when it's ingredient name is liquid trump!
“It’s hard to argue with that. I never want it, but it is what it is” has to be the best tasting note ever…
This was hilarious - especially with the Patreon supplement - but I agree with others that it could be time to go back to serious episodes. Revisiting some classic cocktails from very old episodes and more histories would both be cool. I'd also be interested in some serious recipe development episodes - it's always interesting to hear you talk through the process of coming up with a drink.
Big fan of Greg and the show. Miss the great tasting and classic cocktails. Also love when you do the histories of beverages and/or ingredients. Small hint of it in this with the use of the strainer.
This was already a great episode and then Greg and Meriden started singing Sabre dance while Greg loses his mind and it became a masterpiece lol
I lost it at that bit. He started and she just automatically began riffing off him. Two people who have worked too closely for too long
a chaotic cavalcade of chemistry and cheery charm...you both just produce such quality content, love it! ❤️
SO nice to hear "I can't stand a dirty martini." They taste like truly foul dishwater to me, where a "clean" martini is vibrant, bright, and refreshing.
I haven't had one in years, but i remember the Smirnoff black raspberry - before they called them "Ice?" - being pretty good on a hot day.
Orange wine in this case is OTSO, other than standard orange wine. It's a neutral spirit made from orange peels that's been processed and filtered. That and citrus neutral spirits are used in the cream base. The creamy ones are made from one cream base that's shipped from NY and mixed with flavor by BuzzBallz.
i worry about greg's long term sanity sometimes
“You could serve that to somebody. They’d like it” might be the funniest thing Greg has said. 😂😂😂
Idk if these longer episodes are for everybody but honestly I absolutely love being able to sit down for a while and watch something like this. Even if I can't watch it all at once I like being able to come back to it later too
The Buzzballz Chillers are made with "orange wine" which “is neutral in taste and smells similar to vodka.” according to the company. Regular buzzballz are made with vodka. although it seems like the tequila'rita has real tequila and triple sec in it
If you're trapped in the Cooler of Doom the entire episode...
Does that make this a Bottle Episode?
_sigh_ take my like
I think all of these are bottle episodes. Maybe the occasional can episode.
Nah man it’s only a bottle episode if the characters are trapped in a bottle
I love these cursed and doomed cocktails. And honestly the daffy's delight looked awesome
I really hope you bring the cooler back, I loved that, it was so cool !
I can just imagine Meredith behind the camera with a ":)" expression while Greg suffers for our amusement.
More drink matrix's. I really liked those - as an amateur drinker and noob drink mixer, they give me ideas on what actually works together.
I love the descriptions on the left !
Meredith I am so glad you're so much more a part of this show cuz man this is awesome to watch so I encourage you to do it more please when he runs out of ideas you're in charge
So orange wine was new to me too - it is not made with oranges - it's white wine made in a huge vat with the skins and seeds still in contact with the juice (and if I had to bet, probably some stems, too), so basically lazy industrial wine - or to put a positive spin on it, wine that uses all of the grape 👍
It’s not necessarily ‘lazy industrial’ wine, it’s actually very rural and indeed becoming more well known these days. So specifically it’s white wine made from WHITE grapes with the skins still in, otherwise one would get red wine.I doubt however that’s what’s in Greg’s drink, that is probably actual orange ‘wine’, like a mead but with oranges rather than honey. Cheers! :)
Now I wanna see Greg try all the Ol' Smokys, or even just all the cream ones. People seem to love those things.
Unusual and informative - an intriguing window into parts of the liquor store I never knew existed.
Idk about seasonality of this but I would LOVE a cocktail or two with Horchata. I live in Arizona and I love it this time of year as fall gets started
Maybe you guys should film an episode where you make homemade cocktail freeze pops.
Ehh. If you're literally out of ideas; I'd personally still want a taste-test of making common drinks from good quality ingredients vs cheap quality vs "light" ingredients vs "just make it from scratch and add as much sugar as you want to". I've found some very nice low-sugar (&no sweetners) drinks... but I also have some friends who claim that cheap alcohol + cheap mixer tastes exactly same as expensive alcohol + expensive mixer... Rum&coke, Gin&tonic, Mojito, etc.
Anyone telling you that shit rum and good rum won't taste different, can't taste.
I'd love a video on various 3 bottle or 4 bottle bar starter sets! almost like a choose your own adventure. Select one and show off all that you can make from it, then in another episode do another. Love the show man! You're absolutely my favourite channel.
A Cursed Cocktail from one of my sister in-law's friends who went to college: "The Russian Coffee"
fresh Cold-Pressed but you sub the Water for Everclear. the product is ~80% ABV Coldbrew Coffee and it was their "Hair of the Dog". but at that point hair of the dog no longer cuts it and enter a new classification that should be dubbed "Scale of the Dragon".
There is no mention of watering down the Everclear so I imagine that if you drink this evil brew it would be like your body taking a screenshot.
I always thought the Smirnoff Ice with the Red/White/Blue tasted like melted bomb pops. I love the green apple flavor though.
Me and my mom agree with you about the bomb pop thing
"Smirlent Green" made me laugh hard out loud, which my co-workers were quite amused by. Something tells me Greg will have some fresh ideas to avoid doing this again.
I got a chuckle from Liquid Trump.
I would love a series of videos based on drinks you can make with that random bottle you bought. For instance if you bough a bottle of Luxardo maraschino... what are all the cool drinks you can make with it? DeKuyper peach tree? Who knows... Its a party.
You may like the mixing spoons with the flattened end for layering drinks. Fast pour down the spiral of the spoon, it hits the flattened end and you get a perfect layer.
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I would love to see a Cuba Libre matrix
Different cokes like bottled, canned, glass, or fountain and different rums
Please sir. I'm asking nicely
Maybe it would make more sense using different kind of cokes (like lesser known brands and flavours, possibly from all around the world)
@@mattia_carciola I may change my request.....
If you’re looking for ideas… maybe all the different drinks from lord of the rings (orc healing potion, elven wine, hobbit drinks). Greg could probably have fun with that.
Other drinks include portal fluid from ric and Morty, blue glow from Fortnite STW, literally any of the drinks from lower decks, drinks from the Thor movies.
I know you’re into dnd so it might be fun to make some the drinks from dimension 20. Namely, the expensive elaborate drink from misfits and magic episode 4 but there are others, might even be worth getting another cameo from Brennan or maybe have the bartender from dirty laundry).
It’s fun to watch you try these bad things but it’s also fun to watch you take these fantastical things and make them real.
All the best!
We need more episodes like this
I have a close friend who really appreciates well crafted cocktails. One night, we were out at Midnight Cowboy in Austin, TX pre-pandemic and I had shared that he should really watch your channel because you're awesome. He recently remembered that we had that conversation, but forgot the specifics and reached out to me and asked "hey what was that drinking RUclips channel you mentioned again?" and I replied: "It's called How To Drink and the guy's name is Greg and he looks like a Lego lumberjack figure brought to life."
Think this is one of my favorite episodes. Great job Greg and Meredith!
Also if you're running out of ideas for episodes, may I pitch one for you? Have people, maybe in the comments, on Twitch chat, or in a Patreon post, make up a name for a cocktail. Then you have to make a drink that fits the name. I think it'd be a lot of fun.
Hey Greg! One of my favorite series you did was the Game of Thrones series for Season 8 (ugh), and it would be fun to do drinks for new series that are out, like House of the Dragon, Andor, Rings of Power, etc. It was really fun to see you create combinations and recipes based on the themes and hear your thoughts and opinions about the shows.
Or, you could revisit Sex on the Beach. Ben Bentley would love that.
Thanks for doing this fun to watch!
We need a Halloween cocktail video. Looking to throw a party this year and haven't found the perfect drink yet.
Hey, you had a bergamot liqueur on the show a while back. I'd love to see an episode of drinks utilizing that.
Good job! Cocktail making challenges are always neat, learning something about flavors and such. Maybe do one with normal ingredients, like a fruit challenge?
This was fun to watch. and I needed the good laugh from you making the Daffy drink. :)
The orange light inside the cooler is such a perfect touch. *chef's kiss*
You should do another one of these with all those mixology cashgrabs, like the skinny syrups and those "cocktail syrups".
A new "strange flavor" that I just heard of is 1 part fireball, and 3 parts pineapple juice... It is supposed to taste like Pumpkin Pie? Haven't tried it, but might be interesting for the Autumn season.
I do hope this series makes a comeback. If not as a “cooler of doom” series, maybe as a “weird stuff we found” thing
How appropriate, the ad at your water break was for Deer Park water when I was watching.
i absolutely love those shine pickles, its perfect to pass around at the family BBQ lol
Yeah, I'd never thought of doing that, but while decent pickling cucumbers are still around, I may well knock up a jar or two and see what they're like.
It's easy to overdue lavender, as it's very strong. I acctualy had a lavender milk chocolate from Neewtree I really liked while living in Brussels. I was curious so I bought it expecting potpourri taste, but as it was well balanced it was very silky-smooth, melt in your mouth chocolate with a little twist. I think it's even worse with orange flower water, you put just a drop to much and it's like drinking hand-wash.
Green apple smirnoff ice is like green jolly ranchers melted down. Love that stuff
I appreciated the Night Meredith Cooler, made me think about good cocktails that travel well. Maybe tailgating options?
Hey, you kind of touched on it with the Orange Wine in the buzz balls, but there is a whole world of “fermented spirits” that could be interesting to try out. The brand that I’ve seen is Premium Blend. They’re liquor substitutes that allow restaurants to serve cocktails without a liquor license because they are considered wine. Would be interesting to see what you could do with them.
Well as a distraction from this absolute lovely episode and watching Greg slowly get more drunk as the episode goes on, I found a simple gin and tonic that ended up super good. You gotta get empress gin, some elderflower tonic water, and make whatever kind of simple syrup you think will go good with it (probably floral) and it turned out super good! Not to mention with the whole color change, can be a fun party trick drink!
I once did a shot of the pickle shine for laughs, that was one of the few times I've regretted drinking something as I was still pouring it into my mouth.
This was genuinely such a good episode, and I love how unhinged and off-the-rails it gets towards the end 😂
More of this!
I don’t know if you ever look to the comments for video ideas but I recently made an apple pie moonshine sour, this was based on you stating that Ole Smoky moonshine is really just whiskey. It came out pretty good! So maybe an episode of trying to make classic whiskey cocktails with different ole smoky flavors would be fun
Great episode, was waiting for you to do this
I may be missing something in the catalog but I would love an Amaro episode 🥺. So many diverse bottles to try out and make cocktails with. I've even made my own Amari with mixed success. Maybe an episode going over your bitters catalog and recommending/ showing us how to make bitters. I've only made Jasmine/wormwood bitters myself but they go lovely on top of a corpse reviver.
Even though it's just a bit, I'd love to see your opinions on some of the "stranger" alcohols out there, Ice Wine, Airag, Tepache, Arrak, Mamajuana, Soju, as well as your thoughts on using them in mixology.
Soju or maekgolli he can probably get ahold of but im not sure about airag lol
The pickle shine reminds me of something from Brink, a game no one remembers from the 360 days but anyway they have something called Saltshine because it’s a floating slum in the ocean, they make alcohol from seawater and blighted crops. Wrecks you obviously.
I remember being SO EXCITED for that game and then it was just... Mediocre lol
Oh yeah that game
@@swirlingtoilets Right? I can’t think of another multiplayer shooter with simply a parkour system as opposed to augmented movement. Oh I guess splinter cell blacklist with the crazy spies in 3rd person, merc in 1st. That was creative
@@swirlingtoilets omg same
The freeze pops are great for cookouts along with the actual drinks people are having. They can be refreshing
I know you said you’re out of ideas, but I have been waiting for a grasshopper variant episode!!:)
Joining in the requests for the return of the "actually good" drinks videos :) I miss the days when I could go to HTD for new cool recipes once in a while. Even if it's all original creations, even better!
Also how have you never heard of orange wine before!? It's been pretty much the no.1 trendy think to drink around me for the last couple of years.
Oh shit now after the pickle thing I've got a new dream: you and Meredith switch spots to do an episode of savory cocktails. Dirty martinis and pickles cocktails and any other salty cocktails you can come up with.
I googled Orange Dream and saw that yes, it's "Just add ice" but I think Greg missed "and blend."
The serving is "Just add ice and blend" which would help the "syrup" quality...a little bit.
cool idea for an episode! would be interested in more! although I can't think of anything else that would be more "boom" worthy than those balls, and ices