The Perfect Holiday Cocktail, According to Science | What's Eating Dan

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I wrote down the recipe so you don’t have to… *Thanksgiving Holiday Spritz - The Perfect Thanksgiving Cocktail* Serves 1 *Key Takeaways* • Dry sparkling white wine works well with Thanksgiving dinner because there are a lot of fatty dishes (e.g. turkey, gravy, stuffing/dressing). The carbonation and acidity of these wines help cut the fattiness. • As a rule, you want the wine to be sweeter than the food. Otherwise, the wine tastes really sour and not very pleasant. Since there are many sweet dishes served with a Thanksgiving meal, we add some sweetness to the wine with the liqueurs. • Mixing your liqueurs separate from the wine will prevent overmixing of the bubbly wine which can flatten its carbonation. *Ingredients:* • 6oz. or ¾ cup dry sparkling white wine (e.g. Cava, Prosecco). • ¾ ounce St. Germain, an elder flower liqueur. • ½ ounce sweet vermouth • ½ ounce Aperol liqueur • orange zest (1/2-inch by 3-inch strip) *Directions:* 1. Add the dry sparkling white wine to your glass along with a large ice cube. 2. In a separate glass, mix your St. Germain, vermouth and Aperol. 3. Pour your liqueur mixture over the top of the wine and ice cube. 4. Fold the orange peel into the glass to expel the oils/flavors into the drink. Rub orange peel on the dry inside and rim of the glass. 5. Drop orange peel in the glass 6. Serve immediately. If you're using the KZbin app on a phone or tablet, you can copy the recipe by opening the video on your phone or tablet's browser (Safari or Chrome), opening comments and copying the text from there. Paste it into your favorite note taking app. I use Google Keep.

[@nate_thealbatross]

Thanks for transcribing this! For metric mixers: White wine 177ml Vermouth 22ml Aperol 15ml St. Germain's 15ml

[@breinich2]

Dan does a great job with everything. Clear, simple, informative, and most of all entertaining.

[@bonniepwtf]

Totally agree with you.

[@faelfeymarch]

Light, refreshing, and tipsy after the first glass. Perfection.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I’m a simple person: I see Dan Souza and I click.

[@bonniepwtf]

Same here.

[@Arisaema55]

Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving, Dan.

[@lindac7146]

Dan, that looks delicious, and satisfying.

[@Astarstruckfan]

That is a lovely cocktail! Happy Thanksgiving, Dan, cheers!

[@chocolatefrenzieya]

Ooh! I can't wait to try this Aperol!

[@cindywilliams3542]

Sounds fabulous, Dan explained everything beautifully. Expensive however with 4 ingredients, anything for those of us that don't keep full bar? Would love to have one thanks!!!

[@kenmore01]

What, you don't have Aperol lying around?

[@michaelworley6431]

Have em again for Christmas!

[@staceykersting705]

I love a Cranberry Moscow mule: about equal parts vodka, cranberry juice and ginger beer. Add a little squeeze of lime. Even works with sugar free cranberry juice and s.f. ginger beer. The lime seems to eliminate any artificial aftertaste

[@ChristinaMayoAR]

I love Dan 😍😍

[@Kuuipo1972]

This is excellent...more "science" cocktails please!

[@rebeccatelgenhoff3540]

Thanks Dan, I love your Thanksgiving Content Viseos

[@danromero]

So adorable, such good ideas!

[@tessat338]

Looks yummy! I may have to buy Aperol and St. Germain.

[@billalbert8990]

I just picked up the St Germain from the liquor store. I have the rest of the ingredients.They said they have never sold it as much as they have today. I suspect I know why.

[@diogolovato3074]

A dry and crisp Hard Cider could be a nice substitute for white wine. Honestly, I prefer ciders because I don't like tanins from grapes and ciders also have lower ABV compared to white wine.

[@ryanschmidt8468]

White wines don't have tannins, which are only found in fruit skins, not pulp. White wine is made without skin contact. Cider, if brewed with apple skin, would also contain tannins. The only white wine that _could_ have tannins would be an oaked chardonnay, which could pick up residual tannins from the barrel if used previously for a red wine or fortified wine.

[@priscillawagner4939]

Please give us more cocktail recipes, thank you

[@preuph]

The combination of St. Germain and Aperol is amazing!

[@nickc259]

One piece of advice. Post a video like this with a little more heads up! Now I have less than 24 hours to get this stuff!

[@letarogers6380]

Campari will stand in for Aperol

[@kevrides5706]

@@letarogers6380 how close is it though?

[@Pandaliciousness]

I saw st germain and Dan… ??!! INSTANT LIKE!!

[@phylliscraine]

An alternative to St.Germain is St.Elder, a domestic US Elderflower cordial. It's half the price of St.Germain. Granted it does not come in a gorgeous Art Nouveau bottle but it's a very very good product.

[@12oshinko]

That's not just any old sweet vermouth, that's Cocchi!!!

[@chriske6795]

Dan, you the man!! Getting supplies ASAP

[@andrew.triggs]

What was that measuring cup? I have an oxo like that, but I like the metal.

[@HiFiInsider]

i like drink recipes. pls do more.

[@chrissewell1608]

Minus the ice cube, which waters down the mix. Just chilled wine. Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

[@MrNickRob]

Little tip: No ice in the wine (it provides nucleation sites for the bubbles and makes it go flat faster). The sparkling wine should be chilled first anyway. Stir the other ingredients over ice. Don't shake, there's no liquor here so that would over-dilute it.

[@AgentIzzy35]

I mean, you just opened yourself to "The Perfect Cannabis Edible, According to Science"

[@LC-le9ew]

I always wanted to try St Germain but was afraid to buy a $35 bottle in case I hated it.

[@phylliscraine]

There is another Elderflower cordial called St.Elder that is half the price of St.Germain. It doesn't come in a gorgeous Art Nouveau bottle but it's very good and it would work fine in this cocktail.

[@stanvalov2944]

French Gimlet: 2 oz gin, 1 1/2 oz St Germain, 1/2 oz lime juice. Shake with ice, serve neat. Revelation.

[@chrisandersen5635]

So basically a Negroni spritz variation. Many possibilities here. Nice. Happy Thanksgiving.

[@Mickey_McD]

Looks good but I don't have any of those spirits in my liquor cabinet. And not sure what I would use them for other than for this one. cocktail. OK, the sweet vermouth has many more applications.

[@zekemanning5617]

This guy could be the real life version of Jerry from rick and Morty

[@swlucas]

Name the cocktail, Dan!! Puhleeeze!

[@markleneker9923]

I just go with a fruit-forward merlot.

[@proudamerican4050]

Cowlick or unruly natural curl? 🤔😄

[@lemmykilmister873]

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[@KL005]

Sek choam laaaaaaaaaaa

[@Fullyautomagic]

But does it get you drunk?

[@LexiSchnapps]

Asking the real questions!

[@Ginger_AIe]

Eventually. Prosecco gets me tipsy fast and I have an iron liver.

[@mayamnis]

Yes, it does. Just take it easy on the ice so you don’t water down the drink.

[@newsnowadirondacksredux360]

Turkey fattening?

[@Ginger_AIe]

I’m not a huge fan of st germain; I wonder how this would be without it…

[@ToxicSpork]

This video has more unnecessary slow motion than an MCU movie

[@TRusheeRush]

This drink is HORRIBLE: I followed the instructions to the letter except I used campari instead of aperol, jagermeister instead of St. Germain, an old, skunky bottle of martini rosso, and barefoot moscato for the wine. And a slice of grapefruit instead of orange because they looked the same. My guests were horrified and my dinner party was ruined, my reputation SOILED!.

[@mayamnis]

Yeah, that’s because you made a whole other drink and not this, which this is simply an aperol spritz. An aperol spritz is simply aperol and cava, and you can add a dash of St. Germain. Anything else will give a completely different drink and the alcohols you used are nothing similar to those used in this drink. Just fyi, because bashing this drink isn’t right when you didn’t even use the proper ingredients.

[@thehappygardener2971]

The OP is being funny, you guys.

[@keetrandling4530]

😅😂🤣

[@sandyalbanese8393]

Duh.

[@thomaslavery7760]

Why don’t you make a drink with elements most people will have in their collection. The three you used are pretty odd . . .

[@jessegpresley]

Half of sexual assaults are alcohol related. Choose something else to peddle to your subscribers this holiday.

[@thehappygardener2971]

??? If sexual assault is a big concern of yours, maybe you should reconsider who you are spending Thanksgiving with.

[@Arisaema55]

Never, ever did I see that coming. Perhaps read the title of the video and click elsewhere if alcohol is a trigger for you.

[@jessegpresley]

@@thehappygardener2971 sounds like victim blaming.

[@jessegpresley]

@@Arisaema55 alcohol will claim 85,000 lives in the US this year, and is a factor in 40% of all violent crimes in the US.

[@thehappygardener2971]

@@jessegpresley And yet 99.9% of us will enjoy this yummy cocktail with our friends and family this holiday season and not be the victim of a violent crime. Correlation is not causation. There have been many cocktail recipes posted on this channel over the years. You may want to consider unsubscribing if that bothers you. I am truly sorry if something bad happened to you that alcohol reminds you of. Stay safe