sounds tasty

I always comment I want to have a Halloween party that only serves variants of the Corpse Reviver

looks amazing i'll have to try them when i get some absinth and elderflower liqueur

that sounds good

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Just made a Prescription. Delicious!

Nice tip with Sonic for crushed ice

Kind of like a Pina Verde with orange added

I like a Rob Roy scotch instead of rye Monkey Shoulder is my Scotch of choice

Nice one, enjoy your vids

Thanks for putting me on to this video. My wife loves this drink 👍

Love your vids. Could you make a blood and sand please??

I like this idea. Choose a style of cocktail you want and focus on it, rather than the usual “here’s the 5 bottles you need to make anything” type of recommendation, which tends to leave you not being able to make what you really want to drink. I started out by listing a couple of dozen or so cocktails I wanted to try, and then selecting the ingredients that would allow me to make the largest number of them. I already had most of the base spirits, so I was focusing on the liqueurs and fortified wines I needed. I think I started with dry vermouth, maraschino, triple sec, Benedictine and Chambord. A year or so down the line, and they are still the ones I use most.

Interesting video, the tiki recommendations sound great I also have a 151 Demarera, like Lemon hart or Hamilton. Good info on the gin some of those I've never heard of and sound interesting. A correction on the Tequila though, Reposado (rested) is younger than Anejo, being aged less than a year, Anejo (aged or old) over a year and up to three and Extra Anejo over three years

Hey. Just found your channel and I’ve watched a few videos. Any chance of an updated bar tour?

My preferred Manhattan uses equal parts 50% abv rye and high quality sweet vermouth. This gives you the same final abv as a 2:1 Manhattan made with 40% abv rye, but you get more of the taste of the vermouth. I think Angostura bitters works better than a Boker's style bitters, and that may be why Angostura bitters survived the 1970s and '80s.

Straight up in a coupe or martini glass only. No ice.

not my favorite

Just found this, subscribed, hope you make it to your goal and beyond. Greetings from Mexico!

good job. i would love to try them both

Great idea with the small bottles. Thanks!!

Great video, and the Last Word is my wife’s favorite cocktail! Your story is similar to my story. Cheap beer in college, then whisky cokes at country dance halls, to nicer whiskeys and craft beers, wines, and then crafted cocktails - which I then began making at home. Subscribed! Keep up the good work!

Good synopsis. Spiced Rum isn't rum, it is a liqueur, its like calling Southern Comfort bourbon whiskey. You are so correct when you say there are a lot of good rums out there, you just have to look for them. In a way we are fortunate that they are not more popular and can find them relatively inexpensively. The bourbon "craze" has taken a lot of the fun and affordability out of drinking good whiskey, but we still have that with rum. Some regions have good regulation, like Barbados for instance, they allow no sugar or other additives, same for the Rum Agricoles of the French Carribean. No beef against Bacardi though. I enjoy making a Mai Tia with it 1 oz Bacardi silver, 1 oz Meyers's Original Dark, 1 oz lime juice, 1/2 oz orgeat and 1/2 Oz. Curacao. Hard to find a better one even if you go high dollar with something like Appleton 12 or 15. Bacardi in place of vodka in a Mango Cooler also makes a great refreshing, slightly more flavorful drink..

It’s crazy that most bars are stocked with half a dozen “high end” vodkas that in a blind test you couldn’t differentiate from bottom shelf vodka sold in gallon plastic bottles, but then when it comes to rum they just have Captain Morgan and Bacardi. I have very little experience of the full range of rums, but I really like Plantation 5 Year old. I use it in my wife’s favorite cocktail, a Brass Rail and she loves it.

I’m rather fond of a bourbon old fashioned with cherry bitters and maple syrup. It’s a bit like drinking breakfast.

I can't believe you only have 413 subscribers amazing video wish you the best looking out to more of your videos 😃

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Just wanted to say that I really appreciate you listing all the bar equipment that you use. I’ve been admiring your juicer for a while now. I looked it up on Amazon, and was surprised that the link took me to an aluminum juicer; I thought that aluminum reacted differently to alcohol and that stainless steel was a better option. Would love to hear your opinion.

I have never tried a Last Word cocktail but I sure do want to now.

That's the longest and most annoying drink name I've ever heard. You'd think the bartender and every server in that bar would get sick of it after a week.

Reinvested = beer money .. priceless

Yea, it's really unfortunate how little most places seem to know or care about rum. One time I asked for a daquiri at a place trying to be a fancy cocktail spot in upstate NY and the owner looked at me funny and said they only serve "classic" cocktails LOL. I didn't have the heart to explain how dumb that comment was and just ordered an old fashioned instead. In the city it's a different story, and rum is gaining popularity among bartenders and restaurants, but even here you'll get the odd cocktail made with some chemical tasting infused bacardi at places that really should know better.

Such a great cocktail to play with.. My favorite "El Presidente" vermouths include Dolin Blanc, Comoz Blanc, Cocchi Americano. ( BTW, "High End Vodka" is an oxymoron! )

Well said! ❤

I completely agree! Rum is so under appreciated!

You're so right about the uninspired cocktails, but rum is such a mild flavour that it quickly gets lost in the mix. It's hard to design a drink around a spirit that's so easily camouflaged by juice and sweetness. Outside of an El Presidente which features and highlights the rum, very few cocktails use the spirit as anything more than generic sugary booze... it's almost seen as vodka with molasses.

A call to rum (arms)!!!!

Brilliant. I like your thinking. 👍

Really good idea this, that's gave me good inspiration

Freezing the egg white is such a pro move. I can't believe I didn't think of that!

thanks

thanks so much

Definitely enjoyed this one… No, no, just no! And I’d really like to know who actually certifies the colors. 😂 On a more serious note, I am assuming Meridian makes other ready-made drinks; it would be interesting to find out if they also come close to hitting the mark. Fun video - keep up the good work!

Nice video.. i love watching it..

your videos are so interesting

Very cool.

Love those Fee Brothers Black Walnut bitters! Makes any whiskey top shelf.

Very glad I found your video. I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to cocktails but this by far is the best lesson for old fashions on KZbin. In my opinion, you crush any other lesson video on this particular cocktail. Bravo!

Fwiw... The Walmart great value brand of cocktail cherries are quite good. Trader Joe's will " sometimes" in the fall have a really nice jar of Morello cherries in a decedent syrup. If you find them buy at least 2. In a pot belly stove shape jar.

Tax evasion sounds delicious! Thanks for the info on how to make the cherry syrup that won’t taste like cough syrup.