Clover Club - How to Make the Pre-Prohibition Gin Drink & the History Behind It

[@noopur30]

Probably the only place where I found the entire clover's club history in detail. Loved it and thanks for the information shared here.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Thanks! Glad you liked the video. That was a fun one to do.

[@christinecamley]

This is such a fabulous cocktail! Love Julie's version and her bars!!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Same!

[@MeisterVasqus]

I have watched all your videos in a couple of days. You are doing a wonderful job, hard to find another channel thats as interesting, good researched and well filmed as yours.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Thank you. That's great to hear. This was originally supposed to be a simple one, but it just kept growing and growing. Haha.

[@54isabeast]

The return of the king ( of cocktails). Glad to see you back. You should consider creating a patreon. I could see you getting a lot of support.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Watch the video all the way through. 😉 www.patreon.com/DistinguishedSpirits Glad to hear you're into the idea.

[@54isabeast]

Distinguished Spirits totally missed it. Thanks for the heads up

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Haha. No worries.

[@SpontImagoSoul]

I have yet to try this, though I have seen videos over it and seen it in plenty of books on cocktails and early cocktail manuals. Yet when you come out with a video I always make right after, your informative and the editing style go hand in hand. Glad I found your channel, have a good day.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Great to hear! Thanks for the love. Hope you like this one. Let me know how yours turned out.

[@Barprints]

So many ways to make this cocktail. Not sure which is the "right" way, but they're all good. Cheers!

[@BeastOfTraal]

It's fun to use different syrups in this drink. I've done it with blackberry syrup, grenadine, cranberry syrup, and most recently rhubarb syrup.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Oh wow. Sounds exciting. Cranberry and Rhubarb. Good ideas. Cheers!

[@melchazaar]

Glad you got a patreon, hope it helps to let you continue making fine videos.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Yeah, I kept getting suggestions to create one. It's up, but I'm still putting together the rewards. Stay tuned for those. Thanks for your support!

[@Millennial_Cringe]

Aw yeuh, DS is back.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

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[@ThePartySourceReviews]

Oh, wow! Thank you for the recipe. I absolutely love old school cocktails, and this one looks fantastic.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Cheers! Glad to hear you liked it.

[@tommatson8398]

The videos keep getting better and better. Thank you

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Awesome. Glad to hear it. Cheers!

[@Wolfspiritzero]

Another great video. The history behind many of foods and drinks contain some amazing stuff.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Cheers! Glad you were into it. I agree, some of these stories are just so surprising.

[@briancorley1159]

Awesome. I've been waiting for you to do a vid on the clover club and what a great history lesson.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Haha. Thanks. It definitely had a few requests. Glad you liked it. Cheers!

[@dinosaur4jr548]

You can ad a little bit of dry vermouth. And what is also really cool to do adding a bit of rasberry marmelade

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

The raspberry marmalade/preserves version is how Jim Meehan makes his. The dry vermouth version was how Harry MacElhone did it during Prohibition and how the Clover Club in Brooklyn does it today. I definitely like that version, but I always default to making it this way at home.

[@SaroShow]

Have you ever tried to muddle 4 raspberries in the Shaker with sugar syrup, then add the remaining ingredients? It's a way to have more fresh raspberry taste! Cheers from Italy!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

No, but it sounds interesting. It would be a good way to make one when you don't have time to make raspberry syrup. Saluti!

[@TheAndy25026]

Great video, although I still prefer it with the Dry Vermouth! Slainte 🥃

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Gotcha. Yeah, that's how they make it at the Clover Club in Brooklyn and it's also how Harry MacElhone did it during Prohibition at his influential Harry's New York Bar in Paris. So, you've got some great company. I like it that way too, but I always end up making it this way at home.

[@waffletube5707]

just tried it with dry vermouth tonight. so good. nice addition.

[@FantomMind]

Did your voice get even deeper?

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Haha. I don't think so, but maybe I hit a growth spurt.

[@centpushups]

Sounds deeper when you are on all fours.

[@chuckfletcher2436]

Fascinating history.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Exactly and I had to start cutting out some details at some point such as the most famous incident at theBellevue-Stratford in the 20th century was that in the 1970's, due to several factors, it infamously became the birthplace of legionnaires disease. Anyway, this drink had a lot of unexpected connections. Glad you dug the video. Cheers!

[@brigittearmstrong304]

I'm making this one tonight!!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Excellent! Let me know how it turns out.

[@brigittearmstrong304]

I'm making my raspberry syrup now!!

[@SaroShow]

Well since I tried that way, I never used raspberry syrup again, (this is my favourite fruit cocktail ever), and always serve like rhis to my guests, and I use the syrup only when I don't have fresh raspberry :) Love your channel, lot of passion here!!!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Gotcha. Gotcha. Makes sense. Thank you. Glad to hear you dig the channel. Cheers!

[@goesman81]

Nice to see you are Back mate :)

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Indeed. I just got back from your homeland. I spent the holidays in Germany and the Netherlands. The trip inspired me to do some more gin drinks.

[@goesman81]

Distinguished Spirits very nice , hope you didn’t get to mutch of the cold and dark side of German weather Well then I curious about what drinks you will come up with, Bombay London Dry Gin was the first bottle I bought for my bar an started mixing with

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Yeah, it was just enough cold German climate for me. Haha.

[@intoxicary]

Love what you do. Keep it up.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Thank you! Glad you dig it.

[@matthewweitz1949]

Great video

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

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[@CptWerQ]

Thank you again for an awesome video!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Glad you dug it. Cheers!

[@LuisCarmezim]

God, how I missed these videos! They're just too damn good 👌 This is an easy one, I'll definitely use this recipe next time I make one 👍 Cheers!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Haha. Cheers! Let me know how it turns out.

[@DBELLTREE]

So damn interesting, I had to watch it twice.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Yeah, huh? Crazy backstory. Glad you liked it. Cheers!

[@tylerd2771]

Excellent drink. Still prefer it with the dry vermouth though. I recommend doing a Singapore Sling sometime. Cheers!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Cheers! Yeah, Singapore coming soon.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

The Singapore Sling video is finally up. Check it out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3-QXntuZq-aY7M

[@joshuamorris4572]

Great vid!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Cheers!

[@mrm4453]

I love Fords Gin.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Oh yeah! Gotta love Ford's!

[@shanemcneese5086]

Another great video, very rare to hear folks talk about the American Guilded Age, I thought I was back in undergrad. Keep up the great work, glad I subscribed.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Cheers! The connections on this one ran pretty deep. Glad to hear you dug it.

[@cameronfitzpatrick1770]

fantastic! gonna make this tonight can you skip the eggwhite?

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

You can. It’s mostly a texture thing, not flavor. But if you’re vegan or allergic to eggs or something, you can try using aquafaba (the liquid in a can of chickpeas) as an egg white substitute. It’ll help the drink foam up and give it that creamy mouthfeel you get with egg whites.

[@raphaelgordon7248]

Speaking of sweet gin drinks, I know the Singapore Sling's in the pipeline. But is there any chance you'll make Bermuda Bouquet vid somewhere down the line?

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Probably not any time soon. I've never heard of or tried it, but you dig it?

[@raphaelgordon7248]

I've actually never tried it, but I'm gonna get around to making one one of these days. It looks pretty good. It's in Trader Vic's bartender's guide, the '70s version at least. I don't know if it's in the original edition. It has: 1.5 oz gin, 1 oz apricot brandy, 1 teaspoon grendadine, 1/2 a teaspoon of curaçao, the juice of 1/4 orange and 1/2 lemon, and 1 teaspoon of sugar

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

I gotcha. I have the 40's version of the book and there's a very similar version in there called the Bermuda Cocktail. There's also a drink from another book from the 30's called Bermudiana Rose, which is also a very similar recipe.

[@raphaelgordon7248]

Yeah in the '70s version there are a bunch of similar, similarly-named drinks, like the Bermuda Rose, Bermuda Cocktail, etc. The Bermuda Bouquet just happened to look best to me.

[@KingstonSun]

Have you posted your raspberry syrup recipe anywhere?

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

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[@KingstonSun]

Distinguished Spirits Thankyou!!

[@eliotclarke6243]

Anybody know where he got the glass from? I really want some :)

[@seniorelzappo9919]

for those interested, the recipe for cocktail starts at 5.40 mins.

[@thomasneesen1]

Finally😂

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Haha. This was supposed to be out weeks ago, but then I scrapped my original script and re-wrote it after I fell down the rabbit hole of all of the crazy connections surrounding this drink.

[@calicodan1556]

Great video. Are you waering clothes in it? I'm 30% sure you shook that cocktail shirtless.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

That's the secret to good home bartending.

[@joshuaperrin3910]

Oh wow, this wasn't what I expected for your next drink.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Haha. What were you expecting? I actually had intended to put up another video before this, but that one hit a little snag in the research of its origin story. I figured this would be an easy one to explore, but then I fell down a rabbit hole of all kinds of connections and it ended up taking a lot longer than I thought.

[@joshuaperrin3910]

I was expecting the Singapore Sling to be honest.

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Haha. Okay. Yeah, that's coming soon... I burned through several recipes, and finally landed on a great one. I am just still working on pulling the story together on that one. So stay tuned.

[@garlicgirl3149]

Who knew?! All that info behind a drink. So much to it...the rich get richer and the poor get poorer!

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

What a difference a century makes... Yeah, it's sad how familiar all that sounded.

[@MerkinMuffly]

Clover Club needs to get the gang back together, gilded age is here again, can you say #GopTaxScam?

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

We can do better that some of the Cloverites. They weren't all as awesome as some of the guests I named. In fact, most of their best members, Mark Twain and Elbert Hubbard, were only guests of the club. But, either way, point well taken. Gilded Age 2.0 I love your user name by the way. I just watched Dr. Strangelove recently. I did a little post on it, here: instagram.com/p/BaaPXYnFI2E/

[@trindomi]

He's back from the dead

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

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[@chazz30000]

The actual making of the drink at 5:55

[@Eri-qi7bi]

Soy la única que viene por la canción? y habla español??? si? ok (._.)

[@DistinguishedSpirits]

Bueno, pero es una buena canción. 😉👍