I made Britain's weirdest Christmas cocktails

As an immigrant in the UK, I LOVE trying British stuff - so why not make some British Christmas cocktails at 10am? Sounds reasonable. These were so much fun to make - leave a comment down below of your favourite UK cocktail for me to try next!
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a thirty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a KZbin video every Tuesday plus an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 5:30pm GMT/BST on Twitch.
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[@PHDarren]

What's more Christmassy than seeing Alanna get drunk on youtube. 🥂

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

🙏

[@Canalcoholic]

I think she was already pissed or hung over before she even started recording this. And I approve.

[@grahvis]

Nothing like a video of Alanna getting slowly pissed.

[@weeddegree]

What’s wrong with getting pissed, true thoughts come out 😛

[@dave_h_8742]

It's becoming a British Christmas tradition 😂

[@jcasillas78]

That was fun and very Christmassy! You know it's a good video when it's only halfway through and Alanna is already glassy eyed XD

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Cheers pal, thanks for watching! ☺️

[@user-sd3ik9rt6d]

We havent seen drunk Alanna for so long, I missed you girl....good to see you back.

[@EndertheWeek]

Not sure about drunk but Alanna and alcohol is always a good mix. Loved that a tight grip was kept on each drink as the next one was being made. Happy Christmas to all!

[@howardkey1639]

Alanna, alcohol, Cocktails and all before 11 in the morning, what more could you ask for. Classic Naps. 🍸🍸🍸👧😀

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😅

[@Bostonjude]

ADVENTURE S AND NAPS

[@Daytona2]

"They're both fruit. And they're both red." and it worked! 😂 [ten o'clock Prosecco popping] "I really hope the neighbours don't hear..." whoa... Alanna... such British inhibition. Now that should be part of the Nationality test 😉

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😂

[@mikem1473]

The building tension in these videos where Alanna gets very slowly and progressively pissed are like a fine Chekhov drama.

[@Canalcoholic]

From childhood memories of ‘snowballs’ and Advokaat, I will pass on the eggnog, but the rest was hilarious and I am so sorry I can only award one thumbs-up.

[@dominicskelton3031]

As a child of the '80s the Snowball is a fundamental Christmas memory.... 😂

[@angelique_cs]

The chaos of Alanna's "cooking" videos are both a lesson in surrendering my own hang ups on doing it right or not at all and delighting in the creativity of others. Thanks for the reckless good time!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks so much for watching! 🎉

[@wilmaknickersfit]

I have a feeling Alanna will end up being a great cook because she's been substituting and guessing virtually from the start! By the time she's middle aged she'll know what she can 'tweak' (😜) and still end up with something delicious! ❤

[@mouse-junkie]

One of my favorite pasttimes: Watching Alanna drink.

[@Terry.W]

Start off with a .."night of passion "...then a "between the sheets "..

[@grahamgresty8383]

What a christmas treat! Another Alana gets pissed video.

[@frankmitchell3594]

Alanna mixes alcoholic cocktails from whatever she finds in the cupboard. What can possibly go wrong? Thanks Alanna, that's very enjoyable for Christmas.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks for watching!

[@ianwills2738]

Ohh I’ve missed cooking adventures Alanna! I love the enthusiasm of “well I don’t have any cherry brandy so here we go”. Just brilliant, hope you had a good rest of the day and merry Christmas

[@MAdams853]

Alanna definitely missed her calling as a Blue Peter Maker Presenter! Happy Christmas Alanna!!

[@MareSerenitis]

Turn the spoon round and use the handle to extract your tiny amount of stuff from the jar. An interesting drink that isn't too common any more: Egg Flip P. much egg nog but hot beer instead of milk.

[@Bedfordshireman]

You can use the other end of the spoon for "pinches" from a seasoning jar.

[@petershelley1406]

I remember Alanna and cider

[@AnthonyValentine-vm1yc]

Great to watch somebody getting slowly pished! LOL! Your vlog on PM Churchill wartime drink regime was a classic!

[@dimrill7489]

Just took my delivery of Chartwell from your Eden Bridge. It's lovely. My wife says I smell like a leather chair in a library. High praise!

[@stephenlee5929]

That was wrong in so many ways. Loved it.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

☺️

[@TeaBreak.]

The neighbours talk about that colonial lady who quit her job and spends her days talking to herself and daytime drinking. 😂(more getting drunk content please, great to watch sobriety descend in to oblivion). 😁

[@harrymarshall]

,, Any person that understands the grace of good whisky 🎉🥃 ,, are fine people indeed 🙏🏼😊😌😁

[@philjameson292]

Most popular British cocktails: eggnog or Tennant's with a whisky chaser

[@johntindling5948]

Whenever you are drinking alcohol, it's never 11am, 3pm, 9pm etc. It's always Beer O'clock 😊

[@tonys1636]

The sun is always over the yardarm somewhere.

[@lottie2525]

Haha Alannah, you follow recipes the same way I do. Well, it says this, but I don't have it so this will do instead, right? Put exactly 25g - add a bit more, that'll do. Mmm. Forgot what I was doing. Oh yeah, wait half an hour, so either 5 minutes or 5 hours cos I forgot I was making something. And boom, whatever, that'll do.

[@Canalcoholic]

A couple of minutes in, and I’m smashing the ‘like’ button. On with the show.

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

I loved this, Alanna. I'm so glad to see you in the Christmas spirit (hic 😊), enjoying what you're doing. Yes, I did know about Eggnog and its heritage as I was once a Cocktail bartender, I don't think you whisked it enough so, it ended up more like Advocaat which has exactly the same ingredients as Eggnog, Advocaat is thicker and more custard like, as Eggnog is thinner and more fluffy due to the whisking.

[@mothmagic1]

Alanna + alcohol. What could possibly go wrong? Keep going lass we love your videos.

[@josephturner7569]

My favourite xmas tipple is hot buttered rum. Take a 1 pint mug as used in beer tents at folk festivals. Put in a good sized lump of butter and a large spoon of muscovado sugar. Half fill with boiling water. Stir until the solids have dissolved. Top up with good dark navy rum. Merry Crimbo and hohoho.

[@zhukov43]

hope you and yours have a great Christmas, thank you for all your videos this year, they have been absolutely awesome, bring on another year of content. once again thank you.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! 🙏

[@Leonard_Smith]

A video in the true style of Alanna 👍 Who needs the right ingredients anyway? 🤣 It's all about the "attitude" 😎

[@eugeneshadwell6596]

'I've got some stuff I gotta do today that I can't move so we gotta do this... this morning' Be honest, Alanna, that stuff didn't get done, did it?

[@GenialHarryGrout]

Tuesday's are always better when there is a drunk Alanna video to watch 😁

[@alanparkinson549]

"Both fruit and both red" love it!

[@robertlonsdale5326]

You remind me of the Galloping Gourmet, he liked a drink and was Canadian. Your parents will remember him.

[@peterwatts7731]

Oh I so want to see you on tv doing all your cooking and beverage videos better than the pros anytime lol

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

Episode 17 in the series Canadian girl gets pissed on KZbin

[@LaughingAndy]

I never realised how much I missed drunk Alanna until now.

[@CollectiveWest1]

Cocktails at 10 am? That's fine. It's Christmas. I kind of lost track (about 11 minutes in) about whether you were following recipes or investing new drinks. Nigella has new competition. I don't think she is losing much sleep over it though. But she does have help from elves. I like the way you are building your own channel traditions such as Christmas videos about creating alcoholic drinks. I found this inspiring so tomorrow I'll be straight down to the offie to stock up on cocktail ingredients.

[@deepee6602]

You need to try Buckfast straight from the bottle. It's a scottish speciality.

[@gordonwallin2368]

Yay! a booze feast again. Eggnog with rum, and lots of cinnamon and nutmeg, and whole milk(Homo milk in Canada) Alanna; that's Canadian. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

[@AndrewCollins-fs7oz]

Wasn't feeling Christmas this year, but I am now. Thanks Alanna fab video.

[@tomw2131]

I’ve seen Cherry Brandy in Tesco/Asda, but probably more common at Christmas (or that’s when I’m looking!) but always a good idea to ask a shelf-stacker… they generally know their stuff or can check on their tablet thingies!

[@nw8000]

"I dont have any ideas..." Wheres my BOOOZE!

[@mccpcorn2000]

I rarely drink before 4pm, and I struggle to get things done sober. I envy your youthful energy lol

[@richt71]

Oh goody Alanna gets pissed...for research of course! I'm sure her partner must love us!!! 😂

[@daveelgie1363]

Awesome video. You cracked me up.

[@stuartferguson8967]

for cocktails syrup is a light syrup, pretty much just sweetened water

[@MS-19]

Another one of *those* videos - YESSSS! I'm giving this video 11 out of 10 boozed-up BritCanadians.

[@PawelNiksa]

Hi, I had so much fun watching your video :) It seems that you really enjoyed the process of making it. I like your sense of humour and how precisely you follow the recipes :) I hope you do another one at some point in the future (making European foods or drinks, so that the finished product would be unfamiliar to you so we can all enjoy your first impressions after tasting it). Great job Alanna :)

[@ZebraKitten]

Alanna add a shot of dark rum or schnapps to your mulled wine! Absolute game changer! Dark rum is my favourite and I don't normally drink dark rum. Trust me, just try it!

[@ChrisC30]

Needs a White Claw cocktail recipe to be a legit Alannah cocktail vid.

[@charlestaylor9424]

Alanna back on the booze! Yay.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

🎉🎉🎉

[@kawaljeet8252]

My alanna❤

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

Eggnog, turn it into a 'snowball' by putting between an inch to two in a half pint glass, a couple of cherries and fill with lemonade, delicious 😋. Like deployed 👍

[@tonys1636]

Your local Off Licence would have had the Cherry Brandy and the syrups. Making EggNog, just buy a bottle of Advocaat and add a shot of extra brandy. 15ml = 3 teaspoons. Water can be weighed 10 ml = 10 gms. My latest Edenbridge purchase is stuck in An Post's Christmas backlog, Customs cleared and IE VAT/Customs clearance fee paid just stuck in Dublin. Hopefully your Christmas card arrives before next summer, posted on the 12th. Merry Christmas Alanna and to the 'Butler'. P.s. think I'll stick to a Bucks Fizz for Christmas Breakfast.

[@grantparman4705]

This is true entertainment right here!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

you're too kind! 🙏

[@grantparman4705]

@@AdventuresAndNaps 🫡

[@jno5]

Nothing can beat watching Alanna getting slowly pissed…..

[@PeleRana-pp6zc]

Another excuse to get drunk eh Alanna 😂😂😂. I don’t drink alcohol but was still fascinated by these recipes. Absolutely love the taste tests❤

[@lloroshastar6347]

I didn't know there were Christmas cocktails we did in the UK. At Christmas I'm usually likely to drink beer, and personally I like to drink Sangria but that's just personal. I also occasionally drink mulled wine which is traditional at Christmas, I know people in North America usually drink eggnog, I don't but I think more people in the UK are doing this now, probably because they saw American's doing it. Also we usually have bucks fizz in my family, which is basically just a mimosa. I'm not familiar with any other drinks people usually have at Christmas in the UK, maybe cider. I genuinely didn't know there were traditional Christmas cocktails until I saw this video.

[@hognaut]

Sooo funny. I was getting hammered just watching this, hic. Hey Alanna what you like with instruction manuels 😂😂

[@robertcreighton4635]

And that's just breakfast 😂 The real drinking begins after Christmas Dinner 🍽

[@PHDarren]

01:33 use the handle end of the spoon.

[@johnhickey4289]

PHDarren I couldn’t agree more, I’d so love to have a drink session with her and her partner, she’s an adorable drunk, my face hurts with the big smile I have

[@richardberndt8103]

This video was both ridiculous and hilarious, loved it. Merry Christmas Alanna!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Merry Christmas!!

[@adcatman]

Looks like you had fun with the taste test 🙂

[@eustaquiozambrano2974]

Thank you so much. Have a good Night from Madrid spain ☺👍

[@exeterjedi6730]

Brandy and Lovage is my go to Xmas thing. One finger of each.

[@SteveGouldinSpain]

Hoping your neighbours won't hear you popping a cork at ten in the morning is the most British thing you've said. You're being assimilated!! Merry Christmas!!

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😂

[@laratheplanespotter]

Were you already banjaxed before you shot the intro to this? 😂

[@davidpierce3217]

Nice video! Enjoyed it. Loved the moment at 19:23 where we saw the fruits of your day-long cocktail harvesting LOL

[@matthew4107]

british christmas cocktails sounds to me like 'british people ruined this perfectly good cocktail for christmas'

[@lilly6766]

I think the trick to mulled wine is soaking the raisin i alkohol. And adding a splash of alkohol. Last time i had added rom. Delish. It was in tivoli gardens copenhagen.

[@Bluedex2011]

How awesome was seeing you make eggnog, I never knew it was invented in the UK though, wow, you live and learn. You looked like you were ready for Adventures & Naps after all that alcohol 😂

[@julianbarber4708]

That was great....really made me laugh! Merry Xmas!

[@nicolad8822]

You can get measuring spoons for jars.

[@andy2950]

You are a very, very funny drunk.❤❤❤❤❤🎉

[@trampslikeus3575]

Alanna the kitchen is the Best! How about trying to make Christmas fruit cake?

[@tiggerwood8899]

Alana and booze, what's not to like 😂

[@anthonystevens8683]

This one was brilliant Allana. I love the 'we don't have that but we do have..' bit as I've had to do this so many times over the years but not making a cocktail. I've had to 'substitute' stuff when making from scratch a curry when I'm away from home. Anyway a top video with brilliant improvisation and like you I also find I have to wash up every single item in the kitchen plus maybe some borrowed bits. Surly this should not happen just to boil an egg (joking.... or am I?). Many thanks for sharing.

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Ah, Alannah. Sainsbury's, look for De Kuiper. You should find some cherry brandy. It is Divine!

[@B-A-L]

Alanna was already drunk before she started making the cocktails! Must have been the breakfast sherry!

[@AndyKing1963]

Smoking Bishop is the best mulled wine recipe

[@hognaut]

Thanks

[@Bostonjude]

Ohh... Try 1:1 milk to condensed for the eggnog. A bit of nutmeg grated on top is a nice touch, if you like nutmeg. Latah, Boston Jude PS.. you need a a fine grater

[@karenashworth5743]

Add some lemonade and a dash of lime to the eggnog and make a Snowball . Yummy and not as thick x

[@MarcusTDM]

The martini looked the nicest although I’m not a massive fan of whiskey so my drink of choice for Christmas is Baileys. Wouldn’t mind trying a proper egg nog though. Merry Christmas!

[@Sidistic_Atheist]

You should add lemonade to your eggnog and a touch of lime juice. *Hey presto !!* You have a *Snowball*

[@nigelmacbug6678]

yay a squiffy vid

[@chrisives2152]

Really make me smile, thanks 😊

[@kawaljeet8252]

Alanna smile so cute😍😍😘😘

[@RubbishGimpy]

Did you already get drunk in the rehersal. This was a funny video.

[@stephenheathfield6057]

Happy Christmas🎄

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Same to you!

[@user-vs6qt4mg8g]

The only thing we have with whisky is more whisky 😜

[@neilchilds7555]

Hope you and your partner had a joyful Christmas love from Cambridge

[@michaeldillon3113]

Rapidly becoming a National Treasure 🍸🍹💃🤢

[@jonkerr7667]

Buy and enjoy a bottle of buckfast 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 . Have Irn Bru and salt n' vinegar crisps ready next morning , as a hangover cure .

[@robertwatford7425]

It's a long time since we've seen Alanna slarmied :-) Happy Christmas!

[@alanstrachan6760]

Everyone Christmas drinks are on Alanna this year 😂

[@isaacplaysbass8568]

I'm loving demo/instructional Alana. You have a nice style, address the viewer/camera in such a natural way. Lots of fun.