Blind taste testing Canned Cocktails | How to Drink

[@howtodrink]

Each mysterious can I opened was a like sipping into a weird little Christmas present- Hope you're having a great one! Bright Cellars: bit.ly/BrightCellarsHowToDrink13 Buy the bottles and cans I like at drink.curiada.com Christmas Punch (smoking bishop) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3utp3yYgNRkeqs Eggnog - kzbin.info/www/bejne/forUiX2NhL-smLs Eggnog National Lampoons - kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZy0mnZmmtmGack Eggnot Chaser - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJiWZauPfa12rpo Twitch: bit.ly/2VsOi3d H2D2: bit.ly/YTH2D2 twitter: bit.ly/H2DTwit instagram: bit.ly/H2dIG Blog: bit.ly/H2DBlog Patreon: bit.ly/H2DPatreon Gear: amzn.to/2LeQCbW

[@Nerfyy]

First

[@humanfilth666ify]

I think I used to buy giant boxes of porno through your wine company.

[@Kaijugan]

Do a cocktail from Tripwire Interactive’s Maneater 🦈. More specifically the Flamingo Joe’s Sazerac or Singapore Sling.

[@bigman4900]

BAHAMA MAMA!!!

[@Mr.Pidgeon]

Would love to see your take on aquavit

[@remy300041]

The progression as Greg gets more and more inebriated is hilarious.

[@MarcusOTerra]

he clearly did the ad read AFTER the outro.

[@shelbyfawn1337]

all hail the chaos of episodes at the end of a shoot.

[@kennethcusick9074]

Thats kind of every episode lol

[@JimGreenthumb]

Hi bird. How are you doing bird?

[@30andBoard]

Truly😂😂

[@dawndeather9553]

"Oh no, it's in that champagne flue that we got from the burned down house." Now that's a story I'd like to hear, Greg.

[@zekenelsons2069]

I said basically the same thing to my husband! We were watching together and I literally paused the video and yelled at the screen "YOU CAN'T JUST DROP A LINE LIKE THAT AND NOT TELL US THE STORY, GREG"

[@LivingThroughLove]

I agree with this desire. Please, give us the story Greg!

[@scaper8]

Right?! I literally did a double take on that line.

[@lethke]

Give us the story Greg!

[@ryanengle3188]

The Horde has spoken, we demand the story of the burned down house GREG!

[@PMCocktails]

Thanks again for including us, Greg! You must have gotten one of our very last "Hemingway" daiquiris. We recently renamed to the "No. Four Daiquiri" - because you're right, a Hemingway should 100% include grapefruit. Unfortunately, real grapefruit juice turns too quickly - and we weren't about to put "grapefruit with natural flavors" into this cocktail! We'd love to see your thoughts on our 1944 Mai Tai and our Lemongrass Vodka Gimlet - but after all the canned cocktails you've tasted, you've earned an indefinite break!

[@pokysharpy]

Your reactions to Greg are so legit. I want to buy your stuff just for being a genuine and transparent company. Are your products available in Southern California?

[@PMCocktails]

@@pokysharpy Thanks! At the end of the day we're all just people, right? We worked really hard to be transparent about what goes into our cocktails, and try to bring that same energy to every interaction possible. While we aren't available locally in SoCal yet, we do ship there! The best way to support Greg & HTD is to order through his collection on Curiada. We do also have some shipping options via our website. Hope you give us a try!

[@TheSniperhotdog]

i actually kind of respect how honest that is. good on you guys

[@champo976]

Damn if I ever have a wild hankering for canned cocktails, just based on this, I think post meridiem gets a new customer....

[@ChaplainPhantasm]

Hi, Post Meridiem! It's lovely to see how you all try to be honest, makes it all the more great! I do have a question, however: Aside from the U.S., do you ship overseas as well? I'm honestly interested to try your stuff, and hey, nothing wrong with supporting a new brand. :)

[@LisaMantchev]

Whomever is responsible for the reaction lists off to the left side of the screen deserves a big ol' holiday bonus. They are consistently hilarious.

[@adamliebreich-johnsen6104]

If I recall correctly, that’s sober editing Greg.

[@LisaMantchev]

Bonus holiday bonus, then!

[@Heyovv]

GUD GAWD

[@MartyFox]

“The Nation of April” might be the best joke they’ve ever done

[@LisaMantchev]

(still stuck on "ghost booze" being vodka, because... where is the lie?)

[@barronvandeusen]

'The taste of confused goth child' is my favorite description for anything ever.

[@eafarrar]

I really like those Negronis, but I can't really argue with that descriptor. Haha.

[@peachyjam9440]

Taste of a child kinda sus

[@Mateo-mg4jw]

As someone who HATES the smell of incense in those stores I clearly understood what he was describing there 😅

[@schonlingg.wunderbar2985]

As someone who doesn't hate that smell at all: Why can't I buy this stuff here?

[@llab3903]

@@peachyjam9440 amogus?

[@gingerfoxx1476]

I had an experience in my childhood that was very similar to Greg's cheesecake story. One winter during high school, before leaving home to walk the half mile to my bus stop, my mum would make me a travel mug full of hot chocolate. One morning I reflexively almost spit out my drink, because I was expecting hot chocolate and got hot apple cider instead. My brain thought something had curdled until I realized what I was actually drinking... then it was fine.

[@incidentshappen]

I was viciously hungover on vacation this past summer in VT and went to the cider mill down the road for breakfast (cold hollow if you're in the neighborhood). They had hot cider which I, hungover and unable to read basic signage, mistakenly got instead of coffee but then felt bad to ask for another cup. Drank it and it was REVIVING. Like how I imagine those hangover IV's to be.

[@tygonmaster]

"I hope I don't spill anything" - Greg, a man that hopes for impossible things

[@marcogenovesi8570]

that's how we want to remember it, clean and not absolutely soaking wet

[@sethroy4318]

and then all the spills in the next frame

[@msrlapin99]

Good Lord, Greg, I would have stopped serving you at my bar 15 minutes ago. Last episode of the day, I take it? Laughed my head off. Thanks for taking one for the team.

[@heliveruscalion9124]

i don't know why but i looked quick and i thought your pfp was a photoshop of shadiveristy and lewis from yogscast as one person 😂

[@prettymigzu]

Stopped serving? My good man was only maybe half way getting cut of! :D

[@ebnaime]

To be fair, it's not like he's driving home lol

[@Darxide23]

"Sometimes I was wrong, sometimes the drinks were wrong." That's an epitaph if I've ever heard one.

[@adamg2031]

I love this concept! You should do a twist where instead of canned cocktails, the mystery cocktails are all fresh, made using Greg's formulas, but without him knowing which cocktails are in the mix.

[@Talmorne]

yes! blind serve him his own cocktails XD

[@scaper8]

That would be a fun episode.

[@Zoundstastic]

Yeah, I really want to see that.

[@Femme_Elf]

But pretend they aren't his/are canned to see if he can tell.

[@johncrocker4209]

@@Femme_Elf genius

[@sjhart14]

It brings me joy that the Red Lobster Dewgarita glass is in Greg's normal collection of glassware.

[@johnr797]

I knew I recognized that thing lol

[@ExhaustedElox]

Other content creators: "This video is brought to you by Bright Cellars." Greg: *"Oh look! WINE!!"*

[@pennyfarting]

Part of the reason I'm subscribed despite not drinking alcohol

[@DiggingForFacts]

"I got this! I.GOT.THIS."

[@daddyespressodepresso2207]

"I mean if you're drinking long island Iced Teas you've already given up, you don't care" Excuse me sir I did not come here to be personally attacked like this how dare you

[@Ijiot]

Favorite parts of these is when Greg says "I HATE it" and immediately goes in for another swallow. ^_^

[@kittykat490]

The comparison of the negroni to gothy teen energy is so amusing to me because I just bought cheap amaro to try and it tastes exactly like the smell of my witchy stuff drawers like the EXACT dead on smell of the incense and herbs and etc, is the flavor. I kinda dunno if I like it but it is very funny.

[@ryansch682]

I feel like a Moscow Mule is an extremely safe bet cause its primary flavor already comes in a can, and it's not hard to shove some vodka in there and call it good

[@StarfieldDisarray]

"Thats the champagne flute we got from the burned down house" theres a story there, greg.

[@schonlingg.wunderbar2985]

Alkoholic drinks and pyromania aren't a superstrange combination.

[@robertkendzie3]

I don;t even drink, but I watch these videos for the interplay between Greg and his screen titles. Always a fun gag.

[@reneew8181]

Re: the "I don't think anyone is buying this"... When my partner and I moved into our current apartment, we found that the previous tenants had left a single On the Rocks bottled Cosmo on top of a random laundry cabinet, unopened. We chilled it and drank it immediately. So while I have had that drink, you're totally right, I didn't buy it.

[@christopherreed4723]

So, was it intended as a welcoming present for whoever came after, or as a booby trap? Rather like GIs in Vietnam leaving cans of C-Ration ham & lima beans next to trails the VC were known to use...without wiring them up to anything explosive.

[@zifnab]

Friend of mine had the same exact experience. Grabbed a carton of Orange juice from the freeze and drank some and said to his gf at the time "bleh this is disgusting, it has gone bad" she looked at the carton and said "that's grapefruit juice".. then he was "ah ok, then it's delicious" xD

[@calamityaj7318]

Fun fact about the cut water Long Island iced tea. I drank a 3 cans to mourn because I thought I failed my national emt test. Turns out I passed, but couldn’t celebrate that next morning due to the searingly painful hangover. Cannot look at that can now with out physically gagging.

[@DustySquitoNM]

I freaking love these canned cocktail, weird drink orders, and cocktail machine videos. You've made more amazing drinks than I will ever get to try myself in a lifetime, but these funny videos are a thing I can go back and enjoy many times over.

[@xyzpdq1122]

Absolutely It is good that the channel is a mix of education and entertainment

[@Trevg979]

Return of the king. I prefer drink recipe videos, but these tasting videos are actually really entertaining content haha

[@bnanabrd9826]

Agreed. It’s a nice change that keeps things interesting. Spices it up every now and then.

[@MrJakson112]

I like when he makes drinks, but I subbed bc of a drinking matrix video, and I love his drinking videos the most

[@xorinoa]

Even if you feel like you've been doing this for a weird amount of time, it's been enough time to inspire me to start bartending school (and have an amazing time with it). A couple of folks there have also watched your videos and have said they've been super helpful. So you've definitely hit on something good over the years!

[@Ulebog]

"The taste of a confused goth child (in an occult store) in Philadelphia" is a heck of a line.

[@kareningram6093]

Greg, you are the only KZbinr I watch that I don't skip ahead when they do a sponsorship ad. Yours are always hilarious and a joy to watch, every bit as good as the rest of the video.

[@frenchy1138]

The canned drink reaching plague proportions in Australia at the moment is espresso martinis. I *kind* of get it, they can be a fiddly drink to make if you don't have an easy way to get espresso coffee, but I'm deeply suspicious of them. In other words, I'd love to see Greg drink them.

[@noobyoverlord]

Ah yes, I love mixing accelerants with depressants. Really gives the body the ole one two. Slow it down just to speed it up. I do like me some Jäegarbombs though.

[@marcinfrackiewicz8391]

Hey man. Wanted to give you a huge credit for my mixology development. I'm a fresher and it started with just buying a shaker set. Found your channel like a week or 2 ago and spent my every non working hour on watching as much of your content as possible. I have watched around 100 of your videos and rewatched most of them after that including theory videos. Finished my 11th cocktail recipe today. Cannot express my gratitude enough, so I'm just gonna say that you gave me a whole new dimension to life.

[@greenmind3488]

Just as a PSA Walnut wood is toxic, to a small degree. So Greg, don't chew on your bar top!

[@IaCthulhuFthagn]

Unsurprisingly, quite a large number of herbs and botanicals used to flavour different types of alcohol is slightly toxic. The trick is to keep the levels low enough that the alcohol is still the most toxic substance in the glass ^^

[@LordSither1]

Whoever your editor is. I love them. The notes during the "Hemingway" daiquiri was golden

[@LordSither1]

@@Fataliese Greg's cheeky with himself. 🤣

[@Iamlono100]

That key lime pie story really made me laugh!

[@TheGordos]

surprisingly didn’t mind a canned old fashioned i tried one time. thankfully it’s quite simple so they shouldn’t be getting it wrong!

[@chewie1644]

I’ve been a big fan of this show for awhile now, but I truly feel like it’s just been getting better and better this past year!

[@mpbx3003]

It's interesting how much better Greg seems to be able to process things once he knows what they're trying to do. I'd love a video where people send in weird cocktails they've made with an explanation to see the before-and-after review of him knowing the intention.

[@zekenelsons2069]

Oh, this is actually a FANTASTIC idea!

[@jenniferalbert910]

Okay, your videos are usually funny. But this one was especially hilarious! I had abdominal surgery last week and am healing nicely but this one almost literally made me bust a gut 😂 Thanks for the laughs and the service of trying these so we don’t have to.

[@fergusoh5092]

"Not a magic shop where you buy tricks" Caption: They're illusions Greg And that is why we love this channel

[@craiggibbs9888]

I think you might have undersold how genuinely awesome and RAD AS HELL it is that you had a collection of Hawaiian shirts left to you, Greg.

[@paladonis]

That dark and stormy looked so sad. it looks so much cooler when you float the Black strap rum on the top for a dark top and a clear bottom from ginger beer. Thanks Greg! Appreciate you doing these so I don't have to! 🤣🤣 Also an alternate title to this episode "Showing off Greg's cup collection"

[@insertname7325]

Yeah that expectations phenomenon is amusingly accurate and it gets me all the time when I'm trying vegan alternatives to meat. If someone tells me that it "tastes just like -insert meat here-" chances are my expectations causes me to absolutely hate the product when I probably wouldn't have minded it to begin with.

[@howtodrink]

Always just prefer actual vegetables to vegetables trying to be meat. Though that Impossible/Beyond stuff is pretty good

[@bag8412]

hell yes harry's occult world is great. last time i was there he had a resident cat named snowball. very nice store

[@floundrrpoundrr2456]

Speaking of not having a Bahama Mama, that would make an awesome episode: "Making Drinks I've Never Had Before"

[@Joshua-dx7zn]

I like how he says "I hope I don't spill anything". Coming from the guy who literally spills something with every shot.

[@vectorz2677]

Bahama Mama episode onto the wishlist! Even if just to make Greg say it two dozen times!

[@philosophicalfishtanks1575]

Greg: "that last one almost killed me I'm getting a spit bucket!" Also Greg:

[@CM-ux9yh]

Oh, I had far, *far* too much fun watching the gradual descent into tipsy antics. Wonderful episode. Incidentally, I actually also really dig these looks at “Ready-to-Drink” cocktails like this; while I have this show to thank for an improvement in my own mixological skills, getting a look at what’s good to pick up when putting the time and effort in to making something yourself isn’t viable is quite nice. Also, that tasting note of confused Goth kid vibe is one of the funniest things Ive heard in a long while.

[@tartarosist]

Been watching for a long time and i just wanted to say that i'm really happy about how big the channel has grown. I thought the channel died when you guys took that one year off hiatus, really enjoying the videos, keep it up!

[@HappyNBoy]

Meredith's choice of glassware for the drinks is surprisingly hilarious. I had a chuckle with each of these drinks. 👍

[@nicholasromig5506]

I'm still goth at almost 40 and some exes have taken me into the sorts of Ritual Magick shops you're describing. none in Philly but one in Bethlehem. that was a very evocative description

[@dude11579]

3:15 Ok, Greg, you don't need to hit me in the feels that hard. You don't need to call me out like that.

[@henra0940]

Been watching this show for a long time, and while you’re not solely responsible for my interest in making cocktails you’ve definitely helped me up my game. I have an idea for you because of some stuff I’ve been trying. Makes some traditional cocktails with less traditional alcohol choices. For instance I just tried a whiskey sour with ardbeg 10 and wow. Just a thought Thanks for the content 👍

[@johnp.2267]

Some companies make Long Island Iced Tea in cans. Even flavored ones, like cherry and peach. It would have been amazing to see Greg do his gag face and "get thee behind me, bad drink" dance.

[@damascusraven]

It's fun following Greg's slow decline into drunkenness.

[@gregoryrenfroe3537]

As a fellow Greg, I'm glad to see someone, (you), elevating our name from the depths that the Greg on Fox Nuze plunged us down to. I also appreciate the increased and hardly disguised toastiness of your delivery.

[@goshisanniichi]

Back when I was still quite young, maybe 12 years old or so, virgin Bahama Mamas were my favorite drink from Red Lobster. It makes me laugh to think back on it now.

[@Nemo2342]

This was amazing and I hope you do more of these; it's amusing as hell watching you correctly guess the mystery drinks.

[@metalbloodnoisefire]

the tasting notes are next level snark in this episode and im here for it

[@eremiss4771]

They really are lmao

[@markusneukamm675]

Now I want to see Greg doing a real Bahama Mama and compare it again with the canned Baccardi version. Btw, the side notes are on point like all the time. Makes so much fun to read them alongside ;)

[@TweakaliciousTV]

Lmao "if you're drinking long island iced tea, youve already given up" too true... Now where's my long island...

[@jenmedlock]

You're so fun! I've enjoyed the heck put of the few episodes I've watched back to back, so I'll be returning for more. I was so busy in my teens and 20s working all the jobs that I hardly had time to sleep much less learn what kind of drinks I liked. 30s were busy with raising kids and too broke (due to all their activities) to enjoy many nights out. Here I am now 40 and still have no idea what I really like. Watching you pick out the flavors in different drinks helps me figure out what cocktails I'd like. I'd love to go out with my husband and do the town, we live just outside of Austin, but I hate ordering drinks and ending up not drinking them because they're not what I like. This is funny and surprisingly helpful!

[@Terratops474]

#10 was funny. If anything is going to throw off the "what is this?" it's a can of everything you can grab mixed together.

[@toddavis8151]

How about #11?

[@Alexm920]

For various reasons, I can't really drink these days outside of a weak cider once in a while, but I still really enjoy watching Greg being confused and surprised. I hope we get even more surprise and (occasionally) delight in 2022.

[@archeogeist]

I love that you can just see him getting more and more intoxicated

[@GSL.Adventures]

Watching from Australia I’m certain that I won’t find any of these products on the shelf at my Bottle-o but I still watched to the end. You have a great show man, love it!

[@eafarrar]

I'm with Greg on the St. Agrestis amaro -- I find it very toothpastey. I actually love their Inferno bitter and therefore their premade Negronis though. It's very different than a Campari Negroni, I'll allow, but I really enjoy it. (Their spritz is pretty good too.)

[@chaunceymattei5049]

Yes - Chapters! Lol just recently started binging your videos, I appreciate the chapters on your long-form content.

[@howtodrink]

Meredith sees you!

[@GHosTinWild]

I want to see you make an Empirical you actually like now. With all the flavors it has at play I'd love to see how you mix it up!

[@eyesotherworldly]

12:01 The subtle Myrtle Beach dig cracked me up. Nailed it, as always.

[@Arbiter21100]

I’m so happy he tried the Cayman Jack Moscow Mule, that shit is one of my favorite bottle cocktails

[@Mrefintechnical]

This episode it was really easy to see the gradual increase in drunkenness and I'm here for that. Love your show Greg thank you for being awesome!

[@skadoosher7747]

Another canned cocktail video?! I'm so excited.

[@Werewolf_Korra]

You can tell when Greg is at the end of a shoot day. Dude is absolutely blitzed and I love it.

[@mstieler8480]

Something about "Do not quote the deep magic at me" got me :D Edit: Also "The end result is *pre-vomit noises*"

[@terrymiller111]

Your descriptions are what many of your 1.45M subscribers yearn for. Love you, G.

[@TheAlexanderkl]

As a Philadelphian, "Confused Goth Child in Philadelphia" for the occult store had me laughing. Very accurate!

[@Amanda-cv7vn]

I'm kinda glad at all the years you sunk into the channel I don't really drink and you help me find tasty drinks for special occasion that I can enjoy plus you're very entertaining 😊

[@JMenitta]

I had a Cayman Jack canned mojito last weekend. I honestly liked it. It wasn't horrible as a drink. But I also threw up the next morning so I don't think I'll ever have one again.

[@christopherreed4723]

🤣

[@ianturner1704]

Greg bringing up the glass choices with increasing inebriation is terrific.

[@christophertidwell2422]

Anyone else wanna hear more about old earl and his collection of Hawaiian shirts cause I sure do

[@citylemon7832]

Love the bottled aperol spritz.

[@SilencedForgotten]

literally anyone says 'cranberry' near me i instantly jump to that scene from the departed.

[@johnoneil9188]

That story about great uncle Earl was kinda wholesome.

[@Publikwow]

Would be fun to see you try a blindfold type challenge with you or some guest where you have them try a can version / Bartesian version / your version and see if people can tell the differences/their thoughts

[@Amaya_Okami]

XD I love the expectation explanation he did. I went to a wine tasting with my mom and found a vendor giving out tequila shots (her favorite) so I gave her one thinking she'd understand. She took a sip and made a face yelling out "that's terrible wine" I told her "that's cuz it's tequila" she finished the shot then said "that's awesome tequila" that was like 5 years ago and we still bring it up!

[@TheWhiteDragon3]

I feel like a great deal of why these aren't all that appealing to you and to us, your audience, is that we're a part of the craft cocktail scene. A "normie" would find these very convenient and probably pretty tasty, whereas we would like a more personal flair and more personal control over its contents. A more reasonable middle ground is pre-batching and pre-diluting cocktails so they can sit in your fridge and stay ready to go at a moment's notice. In fact, in quite a few pre-prohibition cookbooks, there's often sections for pre-batching literal barrels of cockails to keep in the cellar, and apparently, Manhattans and Martinis benefit greatly from long-term storage. Also, now that you mention it, I wanna see pictures of Papa Greg's goth phase.

[@ethanmccue4468]

Maybe a bonus episode where you take some of the canned cocktails and reimagine them for what they could have been. Things that lacked like the grapefuit Paloma.

[@bertskinner1592]

"My bar is made of walnut, it's never occurred to me to go down there and start chewing on it." Well I know one Rodney Marino that went down there and sure did lick it.

[@shelbyfawn1337]

thank you for saving the Bahama Mama for the end of the shoot. Greg hit that title riiiiight in the sweet spot.

[@Pxtl]

I feel like he should've brought out the spit bucket for this one. Stay safe, Greg.

[@keyne444]

PUT THE TROPHY IN THE MIDDLE >C

[@falkhornfalk9201]

It is good that greg doesn't have to drive to get to bed after he records these videos lmao

[@dr.feelgood2358]

a big part of cocktails (to me) is the preparation, i mean making it or seeing it be made. if i show up at a party and someone hands me a cocktail can...well ok i'll drink it, but there's no magic there. honestly whenever i try a new one i have low expectations, and sometimes i am actually pleasantly surprised. i have a friend that used to own a local bar, then he started a distillery to make canned cocktails. i think they are pretty good for the most part. it's called (503 distilling)...that's our original local area code for all of Oregon.

[@gibson1005]

This ad had some very specific chaotic energy

[@bunyan6101]

I love it when you do the cut scenes from maybe buzzed to obviously inebriated and back again. You should do all of your commercials half in the bag.

[@christopherreed4723]

My journey into making my own cocktails was largely prompted by wanting to make a Margarita, but recoiling in horror at the chemistry-lab list of ingredients on the bottles of premix I looked at. I *knew* there had to be a better way. And there is. So my initial intention of making my own notes on Greg's tasting notes started at snarky and went rapidly downhill from there. I'll just condense them as follows: Walnut wood. As bar tops...check. For rifle stocks...check. In drinks...hard "Nope". Also, WTF a canned Mimosa? If you can't find fruit juice and Prosecco where you live, MOVE! And don't come back at me with the "We're on a camping trip into the darkest wilderness" shtik. They sell itty bitty pony bottles of Prosecco specifically so that you can pull them out in the middle of the equatorial African jungle and make Mimosas.

[@bsteven885]

Talking about "pony" (spec. 187ml) bottles of Prosecco, I've bought them -- and some of these are SOOO GOOD. LeMarco is decent, and I will try Ruffino pretty soon.

[@workinprogress5936]

Thank you Greg for sacraficing your liver so we can avoid the disgusting canned cocktails.

[@mrfacerock8806]

Honestly I'd love to hear more stories about your great uncle. Sounds like an interesting guy.

[@IIBLANKII]

The look of the drink really affects your decisions. I'm betting a blindfold he would nail them.

[@jmag196]

The ad read was the most interesting one I’ve ever seen. I am now HEAVILY considering subscribing to bright cellars… ya know… when I’m old enough lol

[@StereoTyp0]

If this series keeps going you'll have to add... Canned Laughter?