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Lots of cocktails I like are heavy on bitterness so they utterly need some sort of sugar. Things like Last Words and Negronis. Gin and tonic I love but it need that lime juice (which I know is also bitter and mainly acidic but yeah, a tiny bit of sugar goes a long way).
@@krusher181 Thats why its absolutely crutial for a Negroni to be a sweet vermouth, that bit of sweetness is needed. Still a bitter cocktail, but ballanced. Ive seen too many people try to substitute that with the famous brand whatever-they-had-on-hand vermouth, often dry vermouths, and create undrinkable cough medicine.
Just the phrase "Cilantro Julep" made me crack up before staring in fascinated horror, before you even started making it. That's one sick puppy right there.
I dont know how the death on the beach doesnt have some sort of fermented fish sauce in it. When i imagine the flavors that the words "death on the beach" conjures up, salty, fishy and fermented come to mind immediately
Interestingly, his thoughts went "Sex on the beach + Death in the Afternoon", which is why he went with the absinthe; he was combining two drinks since their names were mixed for the drink, rather than going literal (he responded to me saying that I thought to replace the vodka with Fireball instead, though "Sunburn on the Beach" might be a better name for that, hah).
Tarragon is used in a Soviet drink called "Tarkhun". Not sure if it is used in julep quantities, but "tasting moderately of tarragon" was listed in the Soviet datasheet for the drink
Idea: take tasting notes from previously made drinks & try to reverse engineer a drink based on the bizarre descriptors used in the final edits of videos! This would of course favor drinks that have fallen on the more hellatious side
I am just waiting for one of these drinks that he makes ending up so bad that Greg just, after the first sip just yells No multiple times and throws whatever glass the drink is at the wall behind him.
@@austinpoznoski3083 He hasn't actually done that yet. If you read my comment it says "I am just waiting for..." signifying that it hasn't happened yet but I am looking forward to when it does.
@@howtodrinkI know another name for the "Harvey Grandma Banger." Call it the "Lex Luthor." If you've ever watched the movie "Superman Returns", you'll get that reference. 😏
I would actually love an episode (either HTD or Midnight Local tbh) where you talked on the more theoretical side about what makes a drink bad and how you could academically approach making truly THE definite worst cocktail The merdegarita
This episode freaking broke me 🤣 The only thing I'd be more-into is if Greg partnered with another TH-cam cocktail person, and they used this list to make drinks for each other 🥊
Immediately what I thought. Used to serve this guy at my old bartop who exclusively ordered malibu rum and amaretto on the rocks. Hot garbage, and totally a college student creation.
@@Nanook128 malibu is barely rum. It’s basically a sweet coconut liquer with the amount of sugar in there. It’s sugary nonsense for the inexperienced drinker who just wants something sweet.
Drained from the neck 1 measure of Chambord royal 1 measure of red raspberry cordial 2 measures of red wine Merlot A few drops of Tabasco sauce Served warm to hot.
All I could come up with was Mint Tulip 😂 Edit: Don't do that. Tulips are poisonous, all you could maybe do is put a tulip petal on the side for garnish. EditEdit: Oh GOD cilantro julep sounds horrific. I have the soapy gene, that would be awful!!!
Some friends and I have had two of these knocking around for years. The Old Fishioned. Replace the bitters with Thai or Vietnamese fish sauce. The Brown Russian. Milk. Vodka. Bovril (or gravy browning or some such).
I think an interesting take on a whisky salty is to incorporate like soy sauce or pickle juice. Some sort of salty or savory element. Either that or make a flavored saline solution, using like smoked salts or pine fir salt. Using straight salt is just gonna be understandably unpleasant.
This is actually the first video of yours that was recommended on my feed and I'm glad You're hilarious man! Love the content 🤙 If I were to ruin a drink, Id have to go with a "Mold Fashioned"
I accidentally made 1:1 simple syrup with salt instead of sugar before... Wondered why it dissolved so slowly and then used it for a Gin Basil Smash. That was undrinkable lol
@aaronmueller1560 you could maybe use it in a beer/beer cocktail I know some people use salt to get beer to foam up briefly Alternatively something maybe awful but drinkable would be a poweradey sports drink gin fizz???? Mineral water, fruit juice and... salt syrup? Salt water? Is basically a sports drink and the gin egg and citrus would make it drinkable as an alcoholic beverage? Maybe?
Some pretty good ideas that came to mind: - Long Island Hot Tea (yum, piping hot cola!) - Sex on Normandy Beach (you can almost taste the gunfire) - Cheap Blowjob (Couldn’t afford the amaretto…) - Mo*Hell-no* (a worse Mojito) - Ramos’ Gin [male cream] (maybe some pineapple would make it sweeter…?) - Beermosa! (My dad makes these often. Mimosa with cheap beer) - Bloody Jerry (Its like a Bloody Mary but, minus all of the delicate charm of Mary, but instead… uh… Jerry!)
I actually wonder if you dropped the sour from the whiskey salty, cut back on the saline solution, and swapped for a demmarra or brown sugar syrup. Or even did a whiskey sour with the demmarra or brown sugar syrup with a salted rim. Especially with a whiskey with caramel notes.
Personally, I think if he swapped the ratios of lemon juice and saline solution, it might be at least closer to drinkable. When I saw the .75 ounce saline pour I winced physically. Though seeing Greg do his 'Salty' face was certainly worth it. Then again, 'Whiskey salty' where the 'salt' is ammonium chloride, aka salmiakki, might be an _interesting_ variation.
My mind immediately jumped to gose when he said whiskey salty, go harder on the lemon, use some kind of coriander syrup. The maximum amount of salt used in a gose is generally 250ppm of sodium so this is just insane.
Now I'm thinking how fun it would be to see Greg and Meredith do like, dueling cocktails or something. Replace one ingredient in a classic cocktail and the other person has to figure out what you swapped out and what you replaced it with. Could be fun!
i like the idea of more tiki drinks like this. like a city bird, a sponge diver, a dark n steamy, a frog cutter, a bulbasaur sling, or a butterfly bowl.
Hey, something to consider for the Whiskey Salty if it ever comes up again (or if you ever need/want to mess around with salty flavors in a cocktail again. Salted Caramel perhaps?) there is a liqueur from scandinavia/Finland called salmiakki. It's a licorice liqueur flavored with Ammonium Chloride, and apparently has a salty flavors, as well as being dry/tannin-y. I can't think of many other salty liqueurs, so maybe it's something to have in the liquor cabinet just in case you're feeling weird? I've never had it, but it can't possibly be worse than Campari or Malort.
Licorice liqueur is not uncommon in Scandinavia, there is one made from a pepper and salty licorice candy, basically that candy put in a bottle of vodka to dissolve or an extract from them mixed with vodka. If you like salty peppery candy, which many of us do, it is really nice. I think a lot of other parts of the world would consider it cursed though.
Honestly I wanna try the Harvey grandma banger with a bar spoon of rose simple and cut the cherry liquor in half for more of the grandmas perfume vibe so the st Germain doesn't get too overpowering but the grandma perfume isn't lost
Love the video, i don't know if this is already a thing that people have tried, but my friend once put a dash of Jägermeister into my Corona and it made it taste like a less sweet Root beer for some reason.
Dunno if you know but there's a DnD play show called tales from the leaky dragon were their opening bit for every episode is a tavern keeper telling about their different fantasy drinks. Might be fun to recreate some of them.
Fun video! Thankyou for entertaining us with your pain! Two thoughts: 1) While not a spin on a sour, the Whiskey Salty could be a dirty whiskey martini. No doubt olive juice and whiskey would be terrible (probably?), but since picklebacks are a thing, maybe sub the olive juice for a salty pickle brine? 2) I would gone to Brennivín for the Death on the Beach: "Black Death," the Icelandic angelica schnapps. Like nasty, nasty gin. Probably not an improvement, though.
Would love to see you create one (or a few) cocktail for each century (1st century cocktail, 2nd century etc.), maybe each highlighting some part of the world or culture that was prominent during that century...
I think that the best chance you could have given the whiskey salty was to use something like pickle juice instead of saline. that way it's still acidic and salty and surely someone would drink it, one of those freaks (affectionate) that likes pickle juice
So, I know the "London Fog" is not exactly a cocktail, but I'd like to see your take on a "London Frog". Failing that, maybe try turning a "Ceasar" into a "Caligula" (Or a "Nero", or "Commodus" if they inspire you more).
White russian - Yellow Russian. Like a normal White Russian but with cognac instead of vodka, blueberry liqueur instead of kalua and low fat milk instead of cream. The milk proteins will beautifully coagulate leaving a viscous, grainy dirty yellow/ gray liquid to be enjoyed plain or on the rocks.
There are times when it is just too obvious, that this has not been the only episode Greg recorded that day 😅 Sometimes I am a tad worried about your health man, don't go out young and beautiful on us 😘
3:43 Appropriate. Just ask mom what Goldschlager does. Cause one of my earliest memories is her coming home after being out all night and yacking up a pint of goldschlager. Yeah, mom did some screwed up things when I was a kid. She got better, and it’s not like we were a dysfunctional family or anything.
Aaccttuuuaallyyyy this could be good! Koji is the race mold that is used to ferment/flavor sake, miso, and soy sauce. Using some shio koji in an old fashioned could be tasty!
In case you're interested when you're trying viewer drinks next; my 2 favorite drinks I've had are green tea with honey and baileys (it sounds weird but it's sweet and really good) and vanilla mint shake baileys with hot chocolate, I'm not sure if there's anything I can do to make either better, but both are great as is imo.
I dont even drink anymore (meds) and I love watching these!! Hope to see more of these cursed ones 😆 When i was in college i used to often get greatful deads.. what if ungrateful dead
Back when Bacardi still made the pink label 151 proof rum (1990s), I accidentally grabbed a bottle for making Long Islands. (I was in a rush at the store and didn't notice what I grabbed.) I only realized it when my dad asked me to pour him a rum and coke. (The wire flame arrestor gave it away. It was all down bottle after that.) Needless to say, I didn't have a long island ice tea. I had a five mile island iced tea. I also had a ride to my parent's house and would be picking up my truck from my aunt's house the next day. There is more to the story and events later that night, but that's a tale for another video.
This inspired me to try to mix a new cocktail - hopefully good though. Here’s the “Fall Harvest”: 1.5oz rye, 0.5 oz Laird’s apple jack, 1 oz cloudy apple cider, 0.75oz lemon juice. 0.5oz homemade grenadine, 2 dashes Angostura. Shake with ice, strain over a large rock. I’m enjoying it, but am not sure it’s exactly balanced.
I love the ones where they’re not totally horrible and they actually take you through a couple of flavors before giving you the weird stuff. Because they’re just so much more interesting to hear you talk about.
Here's an idea; The Old Car As opposed to an Old Fashioned, or a Side Car... You just make both drinks, then mix them together and serve in a used beer can.
The salty whiskey - instead, try bourbon or rum, half the simple syrup, and a single barspoon of your choice of either pickle brine, worchestershire, or soy sauce. The salt is powerful, you can't overdo it, treat it like bitters. Also, what can you do with a basil or fennel julepp? Beet julep? Try a dandelion root julep.
i learned coffee and lemon go well together on accident when i was eating random jelly beans and happened to get those two together. i dont drink coffee but im always trying to sell it to my friends who do
I can actually see potential for a Cilantro Cocktail. If you used a White Rum, some Lime Juice, a bit of Simple Syrup, then add some Cilantro. That might be good.
Drink suggestion! Black Bean Margarita 3 OZ reposado Tequila 3/4 OZ black bean can juice 1 OZ Cointreau orange liqueur Half OZ agave syrup Half a tablespoon chopped cilantro Pinch cumin Pinch chili powder Pinch cayenne pepper 4 muddled lime wedges or juice of half a lime Shake in cocktail shaker with ice Pour over ice, sprinkle with salt (black salt if you have it) and enjoy!
Golden sour makes me think of this old ish book that had a cocktail called "Golden friendship". Always thought the name didn't age too well lol. Old bartending books hit different for that reason.
The important question. What does Cilantro taste like to him? Can he apreciate the soap and dirt flavours it has, or is he one of the people without the correct nerve endings in his nose to smell, and taste, such wonderful flavours?
I missed this request, so maybe y'all can help me with the joke drink my friends and I have been trying to perfect: the Tom Cummings. I'm a huge fan of Tom Collins. One evening, while making myself one, a friend misspoke and called it a "Tom Cummings". Everyone got a laugh out of it, but then started debating what would make a Tom Collins become such a thing. The only thing we agreed on was that the final product should be white or semi-translucent white, so that it imitated the look of... well, y'know. Potentially, if it ended up getting thicker or slimier, that would be acceptable too. Some ideas people came up with were: 1. Mix something into the club soda to make it foggy, such as sugar or potentially cornstarch. 2. Modify the recipe so that it has an egg white, making it closer to a White Lady. 3. Use Calpico, either in place of the club soda or in place of the lemon juice/simple syrup. 4. Convert it to a pudding or Jello shot, just accepting that it is no longer obviously connected to the original Tom Collins. I've been experimenting with these options to create the ideal Tom Cummings, but I haven't quite found the flavor profile that satisfies me. It is my white whale. Help would be appreciated.
@@caspianm4745 Huh, I've never heard of flax seed gel, does it have a flavor? Slimy is fine with me, as long as it's white-ish and has most of the flavors of a Tom Collins.
I got a video idea for you, class-ish cocktails made with the cheapest possible ingredients. Got this idea while I was in Vegas, I wanted a dark and stormy and all the bartender had was Bacardi, Schweps gingerale and the little squeeze bottle of lime juice.
I bought cilantro lime bitters on a whim and I make a bitters and soda with it. I just do a bit of simple syrup, lime juice, bitters. And a slapped up cilantro leaf. It’s amazing. I was surprised. Maybe try a cilantro drink that you think you might like. Also… Golden Shower should have been Golden Shour. Whisky Salty should have contained pickle juice, olive juice, or another type of brine instead of just straight up salt. Of course just my opinion. Great show.
I would love to see what you could do with Dr. Pepper, Dr. Pepper Syrup or making stuff Dr. Pepper flavored. (Might have caught a theme there) Truly enjoy your content as a former bartender. Thanks.
Funny, I posted an idea with Dr. Pepper on the community post: a Pepper Plane, a Paper Plane lengthened with Dr. Pepper. I was taking some inspiration from how bad those "splash of Sprite" drinks ended up being, but I imagine you could actually make something decent with a Dr. Pepper syrup/reduction/taste profile.
This is a great idea. I'm also curious if there's anything interesting to be done with Dr. Pepper alternatives, like Pibb (or my personal favorite, doc, absolutely delicious stuff, like Dr. Pepper with more distance from cough syrup).
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I don't know if this counts but maybe you could try a New Jersey Iced Tea?
Mint liquor Old Fashioned!
The captions were just on fire this episode. 😂😂😂😂
Sandy martini
My vote is for a Three-Mile Island Iced Tea
Glowing green, ash-covered and harmful to anybody in a small radius
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Hmm, Midori for toxic green or Blue Curacao for that Cherenkov glow?
@@matthewcox7985 cherenkov!
Use some liquid riboflavin in that mix and it will glow under a blacklight. A surprisingly fluorescent vitamin.
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My immediate thought is throwing absinthe in a long island lol
On this episode of How to Drink: our hero slowly descends into madness as the viewer suggested drinks become progressively worse
"Unsweetened" is probably the word the ruins the most cocktails while still being a reasonable word.
Another one is "Malort"
Lots of cocktails I like are heavy on bitterness so they utterly need some sort of sugar. Things like Last Words and Negronis. Gin and tonic I love but it need that lime juice (which I know is also bitter and mainly acidic but yeah, a tiny bit of sugar goes a long way).
Or sweetened.
A sweetened gin martini.
@@krusher181 Thats why its absolutely crutial for a Negroni to be a sweet vermouth, that bit of sweetness is needed. Still a bitter cocktail, but ballanced.
Ive seen too many people try to substitute that with the famous brand whatever-they-had-on-hand vermouth, often dry vermouths, and create undrinkable cough medicine.
@@krusher181 Tonic water has a fair amount of sugar in it, for exactly this reason, because quinine flavor would be very bad to drink otherwise.
Just the phrase "Cilantro Julep" made me crack up before staring in fascinated horror, before you even started making it. That's one sick puppy right there.
Yes and to me it would be like he made it with soap.
Love when you can tell Greg's on his third or fourth episode of filming for the day the second the intro starts
Agreed 😂
Bro needs a spit bucket
@@CaptainKrimsonHeart He has one, just doesn't bring it out for any episode with less than 10 drinks in it.
His latest grid of tasting made use of it.
Do you think this came right after star field?
Yeah, the question that occurred to me was, "How drunk were you going into this episode?"
It's hilarious how the worst drinks on this show weren't the obviously cursed ones, but the ones that actually sounded like good ideas.
I dont know how the death on the beach doesnt have some sort of fermented fish sauce in it. When i imagine the flavors that the words "death on the beach" conjures up, salty, fishy and fermented come to mind immediately
You are certainly right with what comes to mind but we gotta at least try to make a success, else where's the suspense?
I thought of coffee.
Garnish with gefilte fish
Interestingly, his thoughts went "Sex on the beach + Death in the Afternoon", which is why he went with the absinthe; he was combining two drinks since their names were mixed for the drink, rather than going literal (he responded to me saying that I thought to replace the vodka with Fireball instead, though "Sunburn on the Beach" might be a better name for that, hah).
Could've had an extra play on words if it was in small glasses - a little death on the beach. Fitting with a French named drink after it too.
PSA: if your actual "golden showers" look like what's in that glass, you may have a kidney infection and should probably consult a doctor.
On the other hand, if it almost looks like cola in coloration, you have liver failure and NEED to consult a doctor.
Yeah it's cause by blood and in full failure other things in the upper UT.
Can we do a whole "Will it Julip" episode
Basil, Sage, Taragon, etc.
There’s a Thai place near me that has a Thai basil julep as one of their signature cocktails
Tarragon is used in a Soviet drink called "Tarkhun". Not sure if it is used in julep quantities, but "tasting moderately of tarragon" was listed in the Soviet datasheet for the drink
I bet Thyme would actually make a decent Julep. Chives would probably be the worst herb for it.
And there’s different varieties of mint I can think of besides spearmint and peppermint like chocolate mint and pineapple mint. Hell even catnip.
Rosemary, bay, dill, chamomile, lavender, the options are endless!
i decided to quit drinking recently and this episode is making it easier haha
Watching Greg suffer becoming an important sub-genre of cocktail youtube
Idea: take tasting notes from previously made drinks & try to reverse engineer a drink based on the bizarre descriptors used in the final edits of videos!
This would of course favor drinks that have fallen on the more hellatious side
That sounds fun. Sort of a pop quiz
I am just waiting for one of these drinks that he makes ending up so bad that Greg just, after the first sip just yells No multiple times and throws whatever glass the drink is at the wall behind him.
That would be neat
a B Dylan Hollis reaction!
which was the episode where greg actually did that?
@@austinpoznoski3083 He hasn't actually done that yet. If you read my comment it says "I am just waiting for..." signifying that it hasn't happened yet but I am looking forward to when it does.
@@kingbunky Now I'd like to see them collab on something. Damn you and your good idea!
I just love how this whole episode feels like the fan who suggested the drink is standing just off stage pointing a gun at Greg
I think the doctor would be pretty ok with the color of the golden sour. Not too dark.
Not sure about the cloudiness though!
Are we not supposed to have dark drinks?
Pee. Talking about pee here.@@jonathonschwendler4644
@@jonathonschwendler4644Your innocence is showing. 😂😂
@@howtodrinkI know another name for the "Harvey Grandma Banger."
Call it the "Lex Luthor."
If you've ever watched the movie "Superman Returns", you'll get that reference. 😏
I would actually love an episode (either HTD or Midnight Local tbh) where you talked on the more theoretical side about what makes a drink bad and how you could academically approach making truly THE definite worst cocktail
The merdegarita
The NOgroni
I am surprised that Greg missed the opportunity to put a perfect garnish on the Harvey Grandma banger. Cherries are out should have done prunes.
I'd have replaced the Galliano with a sherry in a Grandma Banger
This episode freaking broke me 🤣 The only thing I'd be more-into is if Greg partnered with another TH-cam cocktail person, and they used this list to make drinks for each other 🥊
these drinks are just the average drinks College students make when they want to be fancy
-"this needs summ fresh"
-"I have cilantro, that my roommate bought by accident"
-"👀... yeah that will do"
Immediately what I thought. Used to serve this guy at my old bartop who exclusively ordered malibu rum and amaretto on the rocks. Hot garbage, and totally a college student creation.
@@bradkohl99what's wrong with that combination? Amaretto and rum go pretty well together.
@@Nanook128 malibu is barely rum. It’s basically a sweet coconut liquer with the amount of sugar in there. It’s sugary nonsense for the inexperienced drinker who just wants something sweet.
@@bradkohl99 Is it? I guess If that's the case that's probably a fair statement. I thought Malibu was actual rum mixed with coconut liqueur.
Drained from the neck
1 measure of Chambord royal
1 measure of red raspberry cordial
2 measures of red wine Merlot
A few drops of Tabasco sauce
Served warm to hot.
All I could come up with was Mint Tulip 😂
Edit: Don't do that. Tulips are poisonous, all you could maybe do is put a tulip petal on the side for garnish.
EditEdit: Oh GOD cilantro julep sounds horrific. I have the soapy gene, that would be awful!!!
Lint Julep
Dill Julep?
Flint julep. A mint julep, but the ice is made with water from Flint, Michigan.
I thought of pepper julep and cayenne julep
@@pennyforyourthots they already said "don't do that, it's poison." I'd take my chances with the tulip.
Some friends and I have had two of these knocking around for years.
The Old Fishioned. Replace the bitters with Thai or Vietnamese fish sauce.
The Brown Russian. Milk. Vodka. Bovril (or gravy browning or some such).
I think an interesting take on a whisky salty is to incorporate like soy sauce or pickle juice. Some sort of salty or savory element. Either that or make a flavored saline solution, using like smoked salts or pine fir salt. Using straight salt is just gonna be understandably unpleasant.
Just a highball version of a pickleback. I’d drink that.
I like the hilarious idea of him going back and fixing these names.
I was thinking a llLaphroaig sour, the twist is that the whiskey brings the salt!
Olive brine
Onion pickle, or vietnamese fish sauce. Or Kimchi juice.
This is actually the first video of yours that was recommended on my feed and I'm glad
You're hilarious man! Love the content 🤙
If I were to ruin a drink, Id have to go with a "Mold Fashioned"
I accidentally made 1:1 simple syrup with salt instead of sugar before... Wondered why it dissolved so slowly and then used it for a Gin Basil Smash. That was undrinkable lol
Holy shit that would be awful to figure out after using it in a drink
Mmm, simple saline.
Nice, sounds like dehydration in a glass
@aaronmueller1560 you could maybe use it in a beer/beer cocktail
I know some people use salt to get beer to foam up briefly
Alternatively something maybe awful but drinkable would be a poweradey sports drink gin fizz???? Mineral water, fruit juice and... salt syrup? Salt water? Is basically a sports drink and the gin egg and citrus would make it drinkable as an alcoholic beverage? Maybe?
@@frogv2745Gfuel Old Fashioned
Definitely needs a part 2!!
Some pretty good ideas that came to mind:
- Long Island Hot Tea (yum, piping hot cola!)
- Sex on Normandy Beach (you can almost taste the gunfire)
- Cheap Blowjob (Couldn’t afford the amaretto…)
- Mo*Hell-no* (a worse Mojito)
- Ramos’ Gin [male cream] (maybe some pineapple would make it sweeter…?)
- Beermosa! (My dad makes these often. Mimosa with cheap beer)
- Bloody Jerry (Its like a Bloody Mary but, minus all of the delicate charm of Mary, but instead… uh… Jerry!)
Beermosa is already a thing though. You use miller highlife (the champagne of beers)
A Beermosa sounds refreshing on a hot humid summer day
Easy Bloody Jerry: replace the vodka with Sailor Jerry's spiced rum.
oh boy... @@areit99
The bloody Jerry just has about ten hits of acid in it.
If you do it again, I'd love to see a Riker's Island Iced Tea. Go prison themed or Star Trek themed. Or both. Dealer's choice.
Really the intersection of the channel - riffing on classic cocktails according to a theme + Greg drinking very bad drinks. Nice!
I am now thinking of a 'Hay Breeze'. Which is a bay breeze with Southern comfort, the drink that tastes like agriculture.
He’s accidentally made that before when he managed to create the “wet rotting hay” note
I actually wonder if you dropped the sour from the whiskey salty, cut back on the saline solution, and swapped for a demmarra or brown sugar syrup. Or even did a whiskey sour with the demmarra or brown sugar syrup with a salted rim. Especially with a whiskey with caramel notes.
Don't tempt us to try something stupid, that might actually work.
Personally, I think if he swapped the ratios of lemon juice and saline solution, it might be at least closer to drinkable. When I saw the .75 ounce saline pour I winced physically. Though seeing Greg do his 'Salty' face was certainly worth it.
Then again, 'Whiskey salty' where the 'salt' is ammonium chloride, aka salmiakki, might be an _interesting_ variation.
Yeah, maybe a kind of salted caramel vibe. It could be delicious.
Redo time! I have faith in the salted caramel drink!
My mind immediately jumped to gose when he said whiskey salty, go harder on the lemon, use some kind of coriander syrup. The maximum amount of salt used in a gose is generally 250ppm of sodium so this is just insane.
Now I'm thinking how fun it would be to see Greg and Meredith do like, dueling cocktails or something. Replace one ingredient in a classic cocktail and the other person has to figure out what you swapped out and what you replaced it with. Could be fun!
i like the idea of more tiki drinks like this. like a city bird, a sponge diver, a dark n steamy, a frog cutter, a bulbasaur sling, or a butterfly bowl.
The Frog Cutter made me laugh harder than it had any right to
The dark and steamy intrigues me. What's getting replaced though? The ginger beer or the lime? Maybe replace the lime with a chili pepper?
@@omega52390 that or a hot toddy kinda situation somehow
Not the dark n steamy 😭😭😭😭😭
Hey, something to consider for the Whiskey Salty if it ever comes up again (or if you ever need/want to mess around with salty flavors in a cocktail again. Salted Caramel perhaps?) there is a liqueur from scandinavia/Finland called salmiakki. It's a licorice liqueur flavored with Ammonium Chloride, and apparently has a salty flavors, as well as being dry/tannin-y. I can't think of many other salty liqueurs, so maybe it's something to have in the liquor cabinet just in case you're feeling weird? I've never had it, but it can't possibly be worse than Campari or Malort.
Licorice liqueur is not uncommon in Scandinavia, there is one made from a pepper and salty licorice candy, basically that candy put in a bottle of vodka to dissolve or an extract from them mixed with vodka. If you like salty peppery candy, which many of us do, it is really nice. I think a lot of other parts of the world would consider it cursed though.
Dang, I love Proper Licorice, or at least what you can get of it in the states. I kinda wanna try salmiakki now!
Honestly I wanna try the Harvey grandma banger with a bar spoon of rose simple and cut the cherry liquor in half for more of the grandmas perfume vibe so the st Germain doesn't get too overpowering but the grandma perfume isn't lost
Love the video, i don't know if this is already a thing that people have tried, but my friend once put a dash of Jägermeister into my Corona and it made it taste like a less sweet Root beer for some reason.
Preserved Lemon is a really fantastic flavor, you could probably make a salted sour work
I agree. Maybe with Talisker Skye whiskey, which has salt notes in it, and is meant to be drank by the sea.
Howdy! As of today, I'm seven years sober, and TH-cam recommended this video to me. Thank you for reminding me that alcohol is a bad idea!
I think a dill pickle brine would have been better for the Whiskey Salty.
Dunno if you know but there's a DnD play show called tales from the leaky dragon were their opening bit for every episode is a tavern keeper telling about their different fantasy drinks. Might be fun to recreate some of them.
Fun video! Thankyou for entertaining us with your pain!
Two thoughts:
1) While not a spin on a sour, the Whiskey Salty could be a dirty whiskey martini. No doubt olive juice and whiskey would be terrible (probably?), but since picklebacks are a thing, maybe sub the olive juice for a salty pickle brine?
2) I would gone to Brennivín for the Death on the Beach: "Black Death," the Icelandic angelica schnapps. Like nasty, nasty gin. Probably not an improvement, though.
Bless you Greg, for the amount of sheer abuse you go through to deliver us side splitting laughs (and occasionally actually really great cocktails.)
Would love to see you create one (or a few) cocktail for each century (1st century cocktail, 2nd century etc.), maybe each highlighting some part of the world or culture that was prominent during that century...
21 cocktails? Sounds like Manhattan Matrix 2: The Electric Boogaloo
Oh that would be awesome!
Missed opportunity that the Golden Shower wasn't a hot drink.
I think that the best chance you could have given the whiskey salty was to use something like pickle juice instead of saline. that way it's still acidic and salty and surely someone would drink it, one of those freaks (affectionate) that likes pickle juice
I agree make a pickle brine simple syrup and proceed.
thx Greg for introducing me to angostura bitters. I love mixing it in soda for a tasty non alc cocktail that taste close to one.
I know nothing about drinks or mixology but my first thought when watching this episode is a New Fashioned. Love your content.
So, I know the "London Fog" is not exactly a cocktail, but I'd like to see your take on a "London Frog". Failing that, maybe try turning a "Ceasar" into a "Caligula" (Or a "Nero", or "Commodus" if they inspire you more).
"Heliogabalus", with a garnish of lion poop.
My first thought with the Harvey Gmabanger involved Lavender, as one of my grandmas was a huge fan of potpourri (or however you spell that word)
White russian - Yellow Russian.
Like a normal White Russian but with cognac instead of vodka, blueberry liqueur instead of kalua and low fat milk instead of cream.
The milk proteins will beautifully coagulate leaving a viscous, grainy dirty yellow/ gray liquid to be enjoyed plain or on the rocks.
There are times when it is just too obvious, that this has not been the only episode Greg recorded that day 😅 Sometimes I am a tad worried about your health man, don't go out young and beautiful on us 😘
He probably had to film a few to build up the courage to get to this one lol
lol when greg gets pre blitz because he knows its the only way hes gonna be able to handle these drinks XD great job sir! love it!
the only way to survive this episode was absolutely hammered and I respect the hell out of you for it
3:43 Appropriate. Just ask mom what Goldschlager does. Cause one of my earliest memories is her coming home after being out all night and yacking up a pint of goldschlager. Yeah, mom did some screwed up things when I was a kid. She got better, and it’s not like we were a dysfunctional family or anything.
"Mold Fashioned" ?
Queens Pork Swizzle
Dammit I just thought the same thing
With a shot of penicillin for after bringing home a random? 🤣
Blue cheese old fashioned? I'm intrigued.
Aaccttuuuaallyyyy this could be good! Koji is the race mold that is used to ferment/flavor sake, miso, and soy sauce. Using some shio koji in an old fashioned could be tasty!
In case you're interested when you're trying viewer drinks next; my 2 favorite drinks I've had are green tea with honey and baileys (it sounds weird but it's sweet and really good) and vanilla mint shake baileys with hot chocolate, I'm not sure if there's anything I can do to make either better, but both are great as is imo.
It’s always funny when you get tipsy before the camera starts rolling
This was clearly not the first episode of the day.
A whiskey salty is a signature cocktail at the Salty Spittoon
Whiskey Salty should have been made by juicing those salt preserved lemons or using the liquid from the jar that comes out of them.
I dont even drink anymore (meds) and I love watching these!! Hope to see more of these cursed ones 😆
When i was in college i used to often get greatful deads.. what if ungrateful dead
grateful dread?
that 'Harvey Grandma-Banger' should have had the clip from American Pie/American Wedding "focus focus focus"
I love Greg's pronunciations and emphasis in this video. Also, the creation of a brand new verb: Grandma'd.
As taught by Calvin and Hobbes: verbing nouns weirds language.
Back when Bacardi still made the pink label 151 proof rum (1990s), I accidentally grabbed a bottle for making Long Islands. (I was in a rush at the store and didn't notice what I grabbed.) I only realized it when my dad asked me to pour him a rum and coke. (The wire flame arrestor gave it away. It was all down bottle after that.) Needless to say, I didn't have a long island ice tea. I had a five mile island iced tea. I also had a ride to my parent's house and would be picking up my truck from my aunt's house the next day. There is more to the story and events later that night, but that's a tale for another video.
This is a very interesting concept and I think is worthy of a series.
This inspired me to try to mix a new cocktail - hopefully good though. Here’s the “Fall Harvest”: 1.5oz rye, 0.5 oz Laird’s apple jack, 1 oz cloudy apple cider, 0.75oz lemon juice. 0.5oz homemade grenadine, 2 dashes Angostura. Shake with ice, strain over a large rock. I’m enjoying it, but am not sure it’s exactly balanced.
I would love a follow up episode where some of these are refined/redeemed. Theres potential in a few of them that with a little work could be good.
I love the ones where they’re not totally horrible and they actually take you through a couple of flavors before giving you the weird stuff. Because they’re just so much more interesting to hear you talk about.
While Greg's suffering is always a highlight of my week, I do wonder which herbs would make a good julip instead of mint.
something that ends up in herbal teas maybe? Like hibiscus?
Maybe Shiso / Perilla? I'm pretty sure it's been made into a tea before, so it has potential.
Rosemary might work. If you stretch the definition of "herb" I guess vanilla could be good taste wise but not visually.
... I mean, we know what herb is a euphemism for....
Cannabis Julep.
I think sage would be decent! A nice thanksgiving variation.
The whiskey salty just reminds me i want to try a dirty martini with brine from preserved lemons instead of olive brine.
You teach us so much! Thanks😊😊😊❤❤❤
Do I really though? I mean, I don't think you should learn this...
@@howtodrinkLearning what not to do is every bit as important as learning what you should do!
@@thebaldfox711 exactly
@@thebaldfox711 quite honestly, you learn more from the things you do WRONG than the things you do RIGHT.
Here's an idea; The Old Car
As opposed to an Old Fashioned, or a Side Car... You just make both drinks, then mix them together and serve in a used beer can.
I’d love to see one that uses rumple minze and fireball (and chocolate milk).😊
Please, be reasonable! 😂
This was absolutely great. Flabbergasting. Keep the series going, like, FOREVER.
Also, "Stint Julep" i.e. a julep (or something roughly like it) made out of stuff you'd somehow be able to get whilst doing a prison stint.
LOL.Yikes.
You could have done a whiskey salty caramel and save the salt for around the rim
The Drew Carre shouldn't have regular ice; it should require Cleveland Rocks.
The salty whiskey - instead, try bourbon or rum, half the simple syrup, and a single barspoon of your choice of either pickle brine, worchestershire, or soy sauce. The salt is powerful, you can't overdo it, treat it like bitters.
Also, what can you do with a basil or fennel julepp? Beet julep? Try a dandelion root julep.
i learned coffee and lemon go well together on accident when i was eating random jelly beans and happened to get those two together. i dont drink coffee but im always trying to sell it to my friends who do
Espresso with a twist of lemon is an excellent after dinner treat.
The acidity of the lemon helps cut the bitter of the coffee, so not surprised.
I can actually see potential for a Cilantro Cocktail.
If you used a White Rum, some Lime Juice, a bit of Simple Syrup, then add some Cilantro.
That might be good.
Yes, more suffering, please. Also: might I suggest a "Midori-Fashioned".
Very rarely do I part take. But I watch because you are an amazing and captivating personality. love watching your videos.
I was thinking this would be, "ruin by replacing one word IN THE RECIPE" and I really wanted to watch that
Thinking basically, try to sabotage these recipes and Greg tries to save them
Drink suggestion!
Black Bean Margarita
3 OZ reposado Tequila
3/4 OZ black bean can juice
1 OZ Cointreau orange liqueur
Half OZ agave syrup
Half a tablespoon chopped cilantro
Pinch cumin
Pinch chili powder
Pinch cayenne pepper
4 muddled lime wedges or juice of half a lime
Shake in cocktail shaker with ice
Pour over ice, sprinkle with salt (black salt if you have it) and enjoy!
Sunday content? One word, classy.
YT says it’s my strongest day to release so we’re testing it out. I think YT is probably wrong though
I stand my original submission: Long Island Hot Tea.
Feels like the simplest change that will absolutely wreck the experience of the drink.
Golden sour makes me think of this old ish book that had a cocktail called "Golden friendship". Always thought the name didn't age too well lol.
Old bartending books hit different for that reason.
The important question. What does Cilantro taste like to him? Can he apreciate the soap and dirt flavours it has, or is he one of the people without the correct nerve endings in his nose to smell, and taste, such wonderful flavours?
I like cilantro. I don’t like this.
.... sadly, this means you need to inflict that on somebody who can actually taste cilantro, sadly it's a rare recessive genetic condition.
The Golden Shower is traditionally served warm.
There's a double joke to be made with the Drew Carré by turning it into the Drukhari (WH40K space dark elves, who are also weird as hell).
Very funny ep!! Perhaps a Pine Nut Colada? Or, similarly, a Pesto Colada
Wasn't there a song about that? "Bring me two peanut coladas..."
Oh, please make more episodes on this subject! I read some of the other submissions in that post-they’re too good to leave unmade!
Well...the Whiskey Salty was a bust. How about the Whiskey Spicy, Whiskey Bitter, or Whiskey Sweet?
(various Pokémon with different natures perk up)
I think one more like this would be great! Maybe do a Caribbean Island Iced Tea - made with 4 different rums perhaps?
I missed this request, so maybe y'all can help me with the joke drink my friends and I have been trying to perfect: the Tom Cummings.
I'm a huge fan of Tom Collins. One evening, while making myself one, a friend misspoke and called it a "Tom Cummings". Everyone got a laugh out of it, but then started debating what would make a Tom Collins become such a thing. The only thing we agreed on was that the final product should be white or semi-translucent white, so that it imitated the look of... well, y'know. Potentially, if it ended up getting thicker or slimier, that would be acceptable too.
Some ideas people came up with were:
1. Mix something into the club soda to make it foggy, such as sugar or potentially cornstarch.
2. Modify the recipe so that it has an egg white, making it closer to a White Lady.
3. Use Calpico, either in place of the club soda or in place of the lemon juice/simple syrup.
4. Convert it to a pudding or Jello shot, just accepting that it is no longer obviously connected to the original Tom Collins.
I've been experimenting with these options to create the ideal Tom Cummings, but I haven't quite found the flavor profile that satisfies me. It is my white whale. Help would be appreciated.
You could add white mica or flax seed gel if you're looking for slimy
@@caspianm4745 Huh, I've never heard of flax seed gel, does it have a flavor? Slimy is fine with me, as long as it's white-ish and has most of the flavors of a Tom Collins.
I am similarly trying to make themes drinks around an awful French kids show
I got a video idea for you, class-ish cocktails made with the cheapest possible ingredients.
Got this idea while I was in Vegas, I wanted a dark and stormy and all the bartender had was Bacardi, Schweps gingerale and the little squeeze bottle of lime juice.
A “Last Curd”.
Variation on a Last Word but somehow incorporating yogurt/cottage cheese? It sounds awful and I hope you see this!
Rather than yogurt/cottage, grate some parm on top! XD
I bought cilantro lime bitters on a whim and I make a bitters and soda with it. I just do a bit of simple syrup, lime juice, bitters. And a slapped up cilantro leaf. It’s amazing. I was surprised. Maybe try a cilantro drink that you think you might like.
Also…
Golden Shower should have been Golden Shour. Whisky Salty should have contained pickle juice, olive juice, or another type of brine instead of just straight up salt. Of course just my opinion. Great show.
I would love to see what you could do with Dr. Pepper, Dr. Pepper Syrup or making stuff Dr. Pepper flavored. (Might have caught a theme there) Truly enjoy your content as a former bartender. Thanks.
Funny, I posted an idea with Dr. Pepper on the community post: a Pepper Plane, a Paper Plane lengthened with Dr. Pepper. I was taking some inspiration from how bad those "splash of Sprite" drinks ended up being, but I imagine you could actually make something decent with a Dr. Pepper syrup/reduction/taste profile.
What is Dr, pepper's flavor? I genuinely don't know.
@@DoveAlexa It's very complex. Officially it has 23 distinct flavors, but of those it tastes most like vanilla, root beer, cherry, and almond to me.
This is a great idea. I'm also curious if there's anything interesting to be done with Dr. Pepper alternatives, like Pibb (or my personal favorite, doc, absolutely delicious stuff, like Dr. Pepper with more distance from cough syrup).
@@DoveAlexait’s based off prune juice but has a bunch of other flavors added
This episode was wonderfully unhinged. Thanks, Greg, very cool!