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You know I always thought an Old fashioned would be a nice formal introduction to the actual flavor of "alcohol", but I guess that might be too much of a rush through the door I suppose
I ran a bar near a pricey private liberal arts university. A young guy came in and asked what my best scotch was. I told him, and he proceeded to order a pint of my best offing with mountain dew. I refused to make the aforementioned drink and asked him for his ID. 21 years old. I went through an exhaustive process of what he was looking for in tonight's drinking experience. We settled on a proper single malt with a couple of cubes. He thoroughly enjoyed a night at a bar, talking to the usual suspects, did not make a mess of hims4lf. He would come in once a week and ask me what to drink. Three years later, he rolled in on graduation weekend and announced me to his parents as his "drinking professor." One of the proudest moments in my bartender career was when dad slipped me a c note, and thanked me.
Great guide here! Something for cocktail newbies to note: Unless you're going to a cocktail bar that serves quality drinks (which is not what most new 21 year olds tend to do) just be aware that a disappointingly high number of bartenders have no idea how to make a classic daiquiri. I've asked for a daiquiri at so many places and been answered with "we don't do frozen drinks" only to tell them I want a plain lime daiquiri, straight up or on the rocks, not frozen. They just stare back at me like I'm insane. I've had to tell too many bartenders how to make one of the simplest drinks of all time. So if you go out and ask for a daiquiri, don't be surprised if you get a strawberry slurpee with rum instead of what you see here.
This is an all-too-familiar experience. I went to Key West for work a couple months back, and I thought to myself "Surely the home of Earnest Hemmingway will have some quality Daiquiris." No. I'd ask for a Daiquiri, they ask if I want strawberry or mango, then when I tell them the specs, I get a blank stare and then they try to gaslight me into thinking I don't know what a Daiquiri is. Really gets under my skin, and made me wish I had my bar back home lol
They'd often think I was building a straight-up bad drink too, becuase they couldn't fathom a drink with that much lime and Rum for the volume. Of course, that'd change if I managed to convince them to try it.
I asked for an Old Fashioned at one place and the waitress asked if I wanted Coke in it 🤯 Apparantly people have asked for that... They had a whole Old Fashioned variation menu too, I was just confused how that could even be a question.
Same. I went to my local comedy club a couple weeks ago. They have a good waitress and a bad waitress, and we got the bad waitress that day. Ordered a daiquiri. She said they don't make frozen drinks. I told her I wanted it on the rocks, not frozen. She said, "I'll see if he can make it, but I don't think he can." She came back and said they didn't have the ingredients to make a daiquiri on the rocks. I told her, "It's lime, rum, and simple syrup. Which of those ingredients do you not have?" She laughed and said, "I don't know what to tell you. I can have him make something like a daiquiri, but it won't taste like a daiquiri." I said, "Okay, let me get a margarita with rum instead of tequila." She said they could do that. So, considering that a rum margarita is rum, lime, and triple sec, I'm guessing that they were out of simple syrup, of all things. Or she was lying to me, lol. Hey, you don't think...!?
I’m 23, so still a relative newbie to the cocktail world. My first cocktail was the Moscow Mule. Wasn’t all that wowed, but the summer after I turned 21 I got into rum. Started making Mojitos out of my backpack under a bridge in the Keys. I did not take Greg’s advice on tiki drinks, and that fall I started my tiki journey with the Zombie! To all the almost 21 year olds out there, do some research on spirits and cocktails, then experiment! Go to a good cocktail bar and try some things that interest you, then buy the bottles you enjoy, make the drinks, and share them with friends. Happy mixing!
As a 20 something year cocktail veteran, almost every drink on this video is still near the top of my “favorites” list. They’re accessible but still very drinkable no matter how long you’ve been drinking
I agree with the Whiskey sour as a first cocktail. However, I would say to make sure you are at a bar that will use fresh ingredients. The drink Greg made is vastly different from a sports bar whiskey sour that is sour mix, well whiskey and ice.
It was the third legal drink i had at a bar last November when i turned 21. First was an Long Island at midnight then a bloody mary with breakfast then whiskey sour when we started the night.
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This is perfect! My son turns 21 in three weeks and has been asking me what to drink. Lol. He is absolutely hooked on your vids and introduced me to your channel a while back. Thanks for this one especially.
@@JohnJonesBillyfor me I’ve looked up a lot of bourbon recommendations for beginners and what makes something a bourbon and what makes something rum. I’m not surprised TH-cam showed me this lol
Before I even knew I wanted to be a Bartender, whiskey sour was the first drink I ever made at home. First one I made the day I turned 21. It’s a fantastic introduction to cocktails, it’s got a little bit of everything you can expect from the cocktail world.
My first cocktail at 21 was a Mai Tai after hearing you sing its praises years ago. Did not disappoint. Normally its too much effort for me, so I just stick to making daiquiris. It amazes me how varied they can be depending on the rum.
The rum makes ALL the difference. Use Bacardi and you'll taste that "rubbing alcohol" flavor. Absolutely disgusting. Use a quality rum for this cocktail and you'll LOVE IT.
My first drink at 21 was a bottle of grocery store Chianti because I thought it was fancy and also I saw Anthony Hopkins talk about it in the Silence of the Lambs 🤷♀️
As a longterm HTD viewer that recently turned 21, I can TOTALLY recommend a tom collins. The local bar my older buddies used to work at had relatively cheap liquor and limited mixers but anyone can do a tom collins and it'll always be good
As someone who recently finished college, my go-to cheapo cocktail is the lunchbox, which is made with a shot of (boxed, from concentrate) orange juice, a shot of amaretto, and about a half a can of light beer. I know the ingredients sound somewhat insane but it all goes together surprisingly well to make a pretty well-balanced easy sipper that I think lands somewhere between pretty and very good.
My first drink was accidentally drinking some of my mom's budweiser at dinner when I was 15. My cup of milk was right next to her cup of beer and the shock of expecting milk but getting beer put me off it for a long while. Still prefer a nice sour cider though. First cocktail was a moscow mule, still love them, just a great cocktail, especially when it's ginger heavy.
Greg-- I recently started on a journey to lower my weight and eat healthier, which is long overdue. However, I still want to be able to enjoy a nice cocktail from time to time. Would you consider doing an episode on the best low-calorie cocktails? I don't know if any of the "skinny" spirits are any good, but whatever makes the most sense :)
GREG! This is such great timing. I turn 21 in less than a month and I've been learning from you for years now. I live the variety in content and crossovers. Keep it up man! Thanks you so much!
Love this. I always struggle with what to serve my friends who don't appreciate alcohol like I do. I also have adopted a rule for drinking outside of my home and that is either: drink beer, or visit a tiki bar. Anything else I can make better for cheaper at my house. But I'm never going to invest in tiki.
Great list. You hit the big spirit categories: whiskey, gin, rum, agave. Sours definitely the way to start. If I had to add just *one* more I think it would have to be a Paper Plane. It takes that Last Word formula, brings in the flavours of the Whiskey Sour, and importantly, introduces the interesting and surprising world of Amaro. Plus it's fun for adding a modern classic to your line-up of really classic cocktails.
My first real drink was straight whiskey. And I still drink it to this day, offcourse the first sip was intense, as I wasn't used to the alcohol strength but it was still the kind of flavour I enjoy. For anyone reading this, if you've heard a certain cocktail or even pure spirit described and it sounds like something you'd enjoy, don't let the strength fear you away. Diving into the deep end is the quickest way to acclimate after all
this episode is actually the whole reason i subbed to this channel forever ago, was looking for some entty-level cocktails to get my tastebuds adjusted to alcohol, but i ended up subbing for gregs giddy/insane personality
My first cocktail when I turned 21 was a drink that the bar I was at called the "Dangerous Summer". It looked and tasted every bit like a daiquiri (rum-based, very tart and lime-forward), and to this day I have no idea what kind of rocket fuel they put in that, but it *SENT* me. Through means I will not disclose, I was able to get my hands on alcohol prior to that point, so I was accustomed to doing shots of stuff like vodka. This was on another level. I was halfway into that drink and already leaning against the bar for balance. My friends there were concerned. I then went on to order two more drinks, drunkenly staggered to a card shop with my friends, tried to play a round of Weiss Scharz (super weeb anime card game), failed miserably because I literally couldn't read the card text on my own cards and forgot what they did, and then blacked out and woke up at my dorm. Apparently I played two more rounds, won both somehow, and had to be escorted home by one of my friends. It was exactly everything I expected from my 21st birthday, and my only regret is not getting the ingredients for the "Dangerous Summer".
I am a 21-year-old newbie to the cocktail world I really liked tonic water by itself so gin and tonic was a great first cocktail. another tip is simply to mix a bit of a spirit with your favorite soda or juice so you can see the taste of spirits while drinking something you like.
When I'm introducing people to cocktail culture, I usually recommend a Sidecar with a half sugar rim. It's classy, and the option of the sugar rim allows them to change the flavor and experience. Also, most of the people I know already have a bottle of Hennessey.
All of these are great options, but as someone whose first cocktail was a gin martini (up, with a twist) that I absolutely loved, I’d say don’t be afraid to try a spirit forward cocktail for your first.
The problem with that theory is that most "young drinkers" will be put off by spirit forward drinks, when there is no need for it. A gin martini might disgust a new drinker but if you start them with a Bramble or a French 75, they KNOW that gin doesn't necessarily have to taste like a gin martini....and it can be DELICIOUS.
Hi, Greg! I don’t think this is one I’ve seen yet, but I would love to see ya test out different egg white substitutes in various drinks to see what the best one is or if there’s different answers for different types of drinks!
@@notafangirl At the bar, we use "Aquafaba". It's from chickpeas. If you dry shake the egg white first, you won't smell it at all. Aquafaba is really a vegan substitute.
seconding the chickpea water/aquafaba substitute. Not a vegan, but I like chickpeas and don't like to waste things so if I open a can of chickpeas I like to save the liquid for sours. Doesn't taste like beans at all and the texture/foaminess is surprisingly bang-on
@@TricksterModeEngaged okay cool! Yeah I’m not vegan either but I can’t have raw eggs for health reasons and I didn’t want to start buying chickpeas just for the sake of making drinks when I don’t eat them 😆
This comes at a perfect time for me, I'm just turning 21 in 2 days on the 30th and I've been prepping my bar tools and whatnot. Hoping to get into bartending as a career in general, so seeing this on the homepage was like a "ooh, nice" moment for sure. Thanks man!
Its interesting hearing what you consider a dangerous drink, I've always used that term to refer to any drink that masks the flavour of the alcohol to the point a person may forget it's alcoholic especially a drink that has a higher alcohol percentage in the first place which makes it easier for a person to get drunk pretty fast
My first "adult" cocktail that I really enjoyed, one that wasn't just a bunch of sugar, was a gin & tonic. Still one of my favorites. Your Paloma almost became a Cantaritos. The Cantaritos is my go to at Mexican restaurants. It's a paloma, but leveled up. You should cover that one sometime. Also a Chuvi Duvi, its delicious when its 100°. Not sophisticated, but it hits the spot.
Gin & Tonic is definitely a bunch of sugar though. Tonic water has basically the same amount of sugar as most soft drinks. It's basically like saying a Jack & Coke doesn't have a bunch of sugar.
@@AerowindYou’re exaggerating. For example, coca-cola has more than twice as much sugar as Canada Dry tonic water. And there’s always traditional (i.e. “real”) tonic water without all the added sugar.
Collinses are such a perfect base recipe for experimenting, too. Works with pretty much every high proof spirit. Even done it with Jägermeister, fruit brandies, it really is a great base
1:05 Funny, I was taught that sweet alcoholic drinks were called "dangerous drinks" because you could easily end up drinking a bunch of them back to back because you don't really taste any alcohol (or very little). And you could easily drink enough to get plastered before your body had absorbed all of the alcohol, which would end up with it hitting you all at once.
My touch will get numb if I let crown apple sit in my mouth, but if I add in ginger ale I literally can’t taste any of the alcohol. First sip literally made me say “fuck, that’s dangerous” lol
Overall, this is a really good list of intro drinks. There are some great intros to various templates (e.g. a sour) and almost all of them only require a single spirit per drink, which is important because it removes the barrier of having to acquire a ton of bottles. The Last Word is the obvious exception, but it's definitely a fun drink for the more adventurous cocktail beginner. They just need to have the willingness to buy more bottles that will take a while to use (takes me a year to get through maraschino).
My hack for Palomas to keep them easy using the grapefruit soda is to splash a little no-pulp orange juice in there (pulp gets texturally wonky real quick), so just grapefruit soda, tequila, and a splash of OJ. I'm sure it's not as good as your fresh grapefruit version but I tend to have OJ around more often than fresh grapefruit, and it really lifts it versus the plain soda-and-tequila version. Found you a couple months ago, have gone back and watched a lot of the episodes going back and really enjoy the show, cheers!
@@johndoese7en408 in the UK its legal to drink before you're 18 if you're on private property and have permission from a parent or guardian so it's not even illegal
This is the video I needed when I started watching HTD! I was a newly minted 21 y.o. when the panini happened, and your channel helped teach me SOOOO MUCH about cocktails and what I liked outside of the usual bar experiences of a college kid
I'm Mormon, I don't drink, I've never had alcohol, but even I watch this dudes videos, they're that good. They're literally therapeutic... the music, the liquids pouring, the sounds of shaking fluids or cracking ice... I've even started ordering 0abv/reverse distilled spirits to make my own mocktails with. I got bit by the bug, and its this guys' fault haha.
I really thought this show would conflict with my relatively recent decision to stop drinking, for really personal reasons. Started watching again recently and im proud to say im still having fun and I don't have the urge to go and try these drinks anymore!
I'm 22 and i havent really been drinking a lot, but I'm really glad you made this video! I really like minty flavors in general so I'll be sure to try out that last drink 😊
I think a daiquiri is a perfect first cocktail! Whenever I have someone over who isn’t an experienced cocktail drinker or doesn’t know what they like, I ask a couple of questions to get a sense of their taste, but I generally end up making a daiquiri anyway 😂
Happy Birthday HTD! I remember the day I turned 21 I went to your stream and asked the question that this video answers. You recommended the Whiskey Sour, and I tried it the same day. I kinda screwed it up, but it came out great anyway. It was also pretty cool to find out that we share a birthday. Thanks for being my go to channel for anything alcohol, and again happy birthday.
The Last Word is my favorite cocktail! I highly recommend substituting Genepy (another alpine liquor) for Green Chartreuse. It tastes very similar (especially in a cocktail like this), but it's much easier to find a heck of a lot more affordable. It's not going to be 100% the same taste, but as someone who has had both it's undeniably the same cocktail.
I'm turning 21 within 2 months so this is definitely really well timed. haven't been really into the idea of drinking but you can't knock it till you try it, right?
Listen to your body is all I'm gonna say. It calls the shots, and if you disobey it it'll promptly fuck you up in return. Also make sure to eat before you do it, lol.
If you don't really want to...don't. If you want to "dabble"? Start with some of the "lower alcohol" drinks he mentioned. A White Russian. A Chocolate Martini. You don't need to START with Old Fashioned's and Manhattans. Start with the sweeter options. A Butterfinger Martini is one I ALWAYS recommend.
There's the typical 21-year-old idiot type of drinking, and then there's actually enjoying drinks and cocktails the way Greg does. Slowly, with good ingredients, not getting wasted on cheap tequila shots or crappy beer. Be like Greg.
I love the Tom Collins because you can do so much with it. I usually put a couple of fresh raspberries in the shaker and shake the drink. Then ofc double strain it. 👌🏻
I kind of want to see you do sipping vinegars. I don't like most alcohol (most of it all tastes like paint-thinner and no amount of mixing can hide it), but I very definitely do feel left out when I don't drink at gatherings. So I learned how to make shrubs- or sipping vinegars. They look a lot like fruity cocktails, but are nonalcoholic. They're also (in my opinion) pretty fun to make.
Fantastic episode, I really appreciated all the side tips as you were making the cocktails for someone like me who is more new to cocktail making and has a limited budget so drinks without a lot of liquors are helpful. Thanks Greg!
When I turned 21, I had no idea what I liked, so I started going through the IBA official cocktail list. Lots of great tasting well known drinks that most bar tenders will be familiar with (so you don't look like a dweeb ordering something weird).
I just turned 21 last month, and have loved your channel for a while now, so thank you for making this video! My first cocktail was a passion fruit Caipiroska from an amazing cocktail club in Sardinia, Italy when I was 19, visiting my girlfriend at the time. But my first cocktail after I turned 21 here in the states, was a cobbler made using the bar's house-made jam, and it was delightful. And I kept Greg, the Tiki aficionado, in mind with my 2nd being a Blue Hawaii from an amazing Tiki Bar where I live.
Greg almost made my chosen paloma 1 oz simple 1 oz lime 2 oz tequila or mezcal for a upgrade. 3 oz grapefruit juice ice and topped of with either LaCroix grapefruit or topo chico
Been getting into the channel a ton lately, even been keeping up with the podcast. Then you throw this is RIGHT as I turn 21?? How am I supposed to NOT watch your videos now!
Not yet 21 (turning this year), but I'm european, so I'm plenty familiar with alcohol by now lol. Love the video though! I find it interesting to see your recommendations, especially since I'm used to drinking the local basics and don't tend to see them in these alcohol videos. Ps. would love to see you try alcohol from other countries someday! For example, as a Finn what comes to mind is Salmari, salmiakki-flavoured alcohol (Finnish salty liquorice), and Lonkero/Long drink, which I've always seen people drink more often than beer. :)
On my 21st birthday I got a long island at a pub here in MN. I was hooked. Now I am very fond of many other vodka drinks, and mead, and rum mixed with..whatever, and especially absinthe.
Kids these days (she said unironically, oy) are still drinking before 21 just like the rest of us always did, but man are they doing it smarter than we ever did. Borgs are such a great idea, lots of sugar from koolaid and such, electrolytes and a water base to keep you hydrated, and bringing and using only your own vessel to keep yourself safe? I think these kids are going to be alright, and I hope they try some of these cocktails!
Greg, thank you for the perfect timing. One of my staff is about to turn 21 and has been asking his old, grizzled, drunken boss (me) what should be his first drink. I knew not to steer him down the same questionable path that I took, but was at a loss of how to guide him as I am old...and grizzled...and too often drunk. I will forward this and hope he follows your sage advice. Cheers!
THANK Y O U. As someone who just got into cocktail making as I just turned 21 my self I really need this video. I thank you for making something for us beginners.
I really enjoyed this episode. Im the only one in my family that drinks, and I don’t drink too frequently. It would be cool if you did and episode on cocktails using ingredients that have a longer shelf lives, and explain what some of the standard shelf life is for more common ingredients. Fresh citrus is fine and expected since I can use that in anything outside of drinking too. Thanks!
Gin and Tonic is my go to. I don't like most of the tonic waters so I just use San Pellegrino mineral water and Jack Rudy tonic syrup. Makes for a very nice G&T. :) You don't need fancy gin either. Bombay London Dry is fine, though if you spend a little more for the Bombay East, that makes for a really nice drink. :)
I also love my Paloma made with fresh fruit! It's a household favorite! I will say that your daiquiri looked amazing and I'm going to have to try that one🙌
I rarely if ever drink alcohol because I’m put off by the taste, but I appreciate Greg’s enthusiasm for the process so much that it makes me interested in trying more. Just out of curiosity, if you order a whiskey sour at most bars, would they actually have eggs on hand to get their egg whites from, or is there some kind of common shelf-stable substitution?
90% of the time you aren’t getting an egg or a substitute for all the reasons you can imagine. In a more upscale cocktail speciality bar you usually get an egg white.
Whiskey sour was my first mixed drink! Followed by the amaretto stone sour. Followed by a Jack'n'Coke. Followed by the old fashioned. And now I mostly drink neat whiskey.
I had my first proper cocktail at 20 (I'm British, for context) and it was a mojito. Really nice drink and good for the beginner IMO. I'd had done experience with martinis and margaritas previously but not made properly, so I was always put off cocktails. A Tom Collins or old fashioned is next on my list to try.
in case you haven't gotten to it yet, the classic daiquiri is an absolute delight. You can even go for what I'm assuming is usually called a rum sour, essentially a daiquiri but with 1/2oz egg white (dry shaken) and optionally swapping lime for lemon, orange/citrus peel to mask the slight eggy smell if it bothers you
First cocktail for me was last year when I was 17 (in the UK countryside so no one cares if you're relatively close to 18) and it was a pina colada my brother made, best thing Id ever had and have recently discovered coffee liqeurs which are now my current favourite for cocktails :)
You’ve definitely piqued my interest in trying a Queen’s Park Swizzle one of these days. It looks and sounds great and would not have otherwise heard of it. Great episode!
No way you posted this a day after my 21st!!! I've been binging your videos for a while now, definitely going to try these as I collect my spirits for my home bar! Thank you!!!
Ha! Yeah, my first cocktail was a whisky sour as well! Fun Paloma variation: char the grapefruit. Total game changer. (also, just quarter the grapefruit to put into your hand-juicer).
I'm 37 and hated gin til last year had my first last word. My grandfather drank 3 shots of Gilbeys an hour during my childhood I despised the smell. Now ive experienced good gin! I love it. Gin on the rocks, gin and soda, Tom Collins, last word, and more ive been exposed to. I love love gin and my family still hates me for loving it. Thank you for showing gin based drinks
I love a whiskey sour, but the vast majority of bars use a sour mix and don't use an egg white and the drink is just not the same. My paloma is a can of squirt, 2 oz of tequila and 1oz of lime juice. It's marvelous on a hot summer day.
My go to cocktails are Whiskey Highballs (ginger ale, not club soda), fruity Margaritas, and Tequila Sunrises. And I keep revisiting the French 75 when I can. Oh, and Mojitos with coconut rum instead of plain white.
A real margarita is a good suggestion too. Lime, Agave syrup, a quality top shelf no additivos tequila, cointreau (or triple sec). It's strange how many times I've been told that the tequila doesn't matter. It does. Most people like blanco. Reposado will add some depth. My favorite day to day tequila is Tepozan. Fortaleza is good too.
My first cocktail was an Old Fashioned and I absolutely loved it, mind I took to Whiskey almost immediately lol. Same thing with Gin. I love an Aviation or a Corpse Reviver no. 2
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You know I always thought an Old fashioned would be a nice formal introduction to the actual flavor of "alcohol", but I guess that might be too much of a rush through the door I suppose
I ran a bar near a pricey private liberal arts university. A young guy came in and asked what my best scotch was. I told him, and he proceeded to order a pint of my best offing with mountain dew. I refused to make the aforementioned drink and asked him for his ID. 21 years old. I went through an exhaustive process of what he was looking for in tonight's drinking experience. We settled on a proper single malt with a couple of cubes. He thoroughly enjoyed a night at a bar, talking to the usual suspects, did not make a mess of hims4lf. He would come in once a week and ask me what to drink. Three years later, he rolled in on graduation weekend and announced me to his parents as his "drinking professor." One of the proudest moments in my bartender career was when dad slipped me a c note, and thanked me.
Great guide here! Something for cocktail newbies to note: Unless you're going to a cocktail bar that serves quality drinks (which is not what most new 21 year olds tend to do) just be aware that a disappointingly high number of bartenders have no idea how to make a classic daiquiri. I've asked for a daiquiri at so many places and been answered with "we don't do frozen drinks" only to tell them I want a plain lime daiquiri, straight up or on the rocks, not frozen. They just stare back at me like I'm insane. I've had to tell too many bartenders how to make one of the simplest drinks of all time. So if you go out and ask for a daiquiri, don't be surprised if you get a strawberry slurpee with rum instead of what you see here.
yeahhhhhhhhhhh, but those strawberry slurpees are great, too! (Technically, that's called a "Frozen daiquiri," which I didn't learn til my 30s.)
This is an all-too-familiar experience. I went to Key West for work a couple months back, and I thought to myself "Surely the home of Earnest Hemmingway will have some quality Daiquiris." No. I'd ask for a Daiquiri, they ask if I want strawberry or mango, then when I tell them the specs, I get a blank stare and then they try to gaslight me into thinking I don't know what a Daiquiri is. Really gets under my skin, and made me wish I had my bar back home lol
They'd often think I was building a straight-up bad drink too, becuase they couldn't fathom a drink with that much lime and Rum for the volume. Of course, that'd change if I managed to convince them to try it.
I asked for an Old Fashioned at one place and the waitress asked if I wanted Coke in it 🤯
Apparantly people have asked for that... They had a whole Old Fashioned variation menu too, I was just confused how that could even be a question.
Same. I went to my local comedy club a couple weeks ago. They have a good waitress and a bad waitress, and we got the bad waitress that day. Ordered a daiquiri. She said they don't make frozen drinks. I told her I wanted it on the rocks, not frozen. She said, "I'll see if he can make it, but I don't think he can." She came back and said they didn't have the ingredients to make a daiquiri on the rocks. I told her, "It's lime, rum, and simple syrup. Which of those ingredients do you not have?" She laughed and said, "I don't know what to tell you. I can have him make something like a daiquiri, but it won't taste like a daiquiri." I said, "Okay, let me get a margarita with rum instead of tequila." She said they could do that. So, considering that a rum margarita is rum, lime, and triple sec, I'm guessing that they were out of simple syrup, of all things. Or she was lying to me, lol. Hey, you don't think...!?
I’m 23, so still a relative newbie to the cocktail world. My first cocktail was the Moscow Mule. Wasn’t all that wowed, but the summer after I turned 21 I got into rum. Started making Mojitos out of my backpack under a bridge in the Keys. I did not take Greg’s advice on tiki drinks, and that fall I started my tiki journey with the Zombie! To all the almost 21 year olds out there, do some research on spirits and cocktails, then experiment! Go to a good cocktail bar and try some things that interest you, then buy the bottles you enjoy, make the drinks, and share them with friends. Happy mixing!
A Moscow Mule is an ok drink. Just ok. I highly recommend trying a Kentucky Mule, though. Same recipe; swap the vodka out for bourbon.
As a 20 something year cocktail veteran, almost every drink on this video is still near the top of my “favorites” list. They’re accessible but still very drinkable no matter how long you’ve been drinking
I agree with the Whiskey sour as a first cocktail. However, I would say to make sure you are at a bar that will use fresh ingredients. The drink Greg made is vastly different from a sports bar whiskey sour that is sour mix, well whiskey and ice.
lol yep. You just described by first ever drink at the bar. The most discount bare bones half assed whiskey sour possible!
It was the third legal drink i had at a bar last November when i turned 21. First was an Long Island at midnight then a bloody mary with breakfast then whiskey sour when we started the night.
Here's a tip I learned from the guest. For umbrellas the top band is to keep the umbrella closed for shipment. The bottom band that is on the pick that we think has no use is actually there so that when you open the umbrella you push the bottom band up the pick to the umbrella base so that the umbrella doesn't slide back down and stays open.
This is perfect! My son turns 21 in three weeks and has been asking me what to drink. Lol. He is absolutely hooked on your vids and introduced me to your channel a while back. Thanks for this one especially.
I also turn 21 in 3 weeks lol, I feel like the youtube algorithm just knows haha
@@JohnJonesBillyfor me I’ve looked up a lot of bourbon recommendations for beginners and what makes something a bourbon and what makes something rum. I’m not surprised TH-cam showed me this lol
Before I even knew I wanted to be a Bartender, whiskey sour was the first drink I ever made at home. First one I made the day I turned 21.
It’s a fantastic introduction to cocktails, it’s got a little bit of everything you can expect from the cocktail world.
I like to make mine with a good rye. With the right one I kind of feel like I'm drinking a lemon meringue pie complete with a good crust.
@@JeepWranglerIslandernow I’m hungry lol
My first cocktail at 21 was a Mai Tai after hearing you sing its praises years ago. Did not disappoint. Normally its too much effort for me, so I just stick to making daiquiris. It amazes me how varied they can be depending on the rum.
The rum makes ALL the difference. Use Bacardi and you'll taste that "rubbing alcohol" flavor. Absolutely disgusting. Use a quality rum for this cocktail and you'll LOVE IT.
Perfect timing, I’m turning 18 tomorrow! Love the content Greg and can’t wait to have my first (legal) cocktail!!
Happy Birthday! Hope you enjoy your first (legal) drink :)
Enjoy and drink responsibly mate 👍
Hoppy Birdday £♡◇》☆
My first drink at 21 was a bottle of grocery store Chianti because I thought it was fancy and also I saw Anthony Hopkins talk about it in the Silence of the Lambs 🤷♀️
Fava beans and Chiaaaanti
Torturing Hannibal by making him drink 4€ bottom shelf wine.
@@MrCmon113 “I ate his leftover Doritos Locos tacos with some jelly beans and a Boones Farm Sangria”
As a longterm HTD viewer that recently turned 21, I can TOTALLY recommend a tom collins. The local bar my older buddies used to work at had relatively cheap liquor and limited mixers but anyone can do a tom collins and it'll always be good
As someone who recently finished college, my go-to cheapo cocktail is the lunchbox, which is made with a shot of (boxed, from concentrate) orange juice, a shot of amaretto, and about a half a can of light beer. I know the ingredients sound somewhat insane but it all goes together surprisingly well to make a pretty well-balanced easy sipper that I think lands somewhere between pretty and very good.
My first drink was accidentally drinking some of my mom's budweiser at dinner when I was 15. My cup of milk was right next to her cup of beer and the shock of expecting milk but getting beer put me off it for a long while. Still prefer a nice sour cider though.
First cocktail was a moscow mule, still love them, just a great cocktail, especially when it's ginger heavy.
HE DID IT!!! HE READ MY SUGGESTION!!! I HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO SOCIETY!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH GREG!!!
Ok Google remind me of this video in 1.5 years.
I turned 21 on the 20th this month, and I started mixing drinks at 17. My dude if you have someone to buy you alcohol why not start now?
@@thatonepsyconaute622i wish I had someone in my family that drank lol. Even when I could get my hands on alcohol no one wanted to drink my drinks
As an Italian I must say you should quit at 21 not start.. best years are 15-25, then it becomes headache time
@@mrsnezbit2219 I believe mixology is an art. Don't get wasted just because. mastering presentation and taste is a really cool path to follow.
@thatonepsyconaute622 thats what i do lol, my fav is a whiskey soda.
Greg-- I recently started on a journey to lower my weight and eat healthier, which is long overdue. However, I still want to be able to enjoy a nice cocktail from time to time. Would you consider doing an episode on the best low-calorie cocktails? I don't know if any of the "skinny" spirits are any good, but whatever makes the most sense :)
GREG! This is such great timing. I turn 21 in less than a month and I've been learning from you for years now. I live the variety in content and crossovers. Keep it up man! Thanks you so much!
It's great to see a back to basics episode every once in a while.
Love this. I always struggle with what to serve my friends who don't appreciate alcohol like I do.
I also have adopted a rule for drinking outside of my home and that is either: drink beer, or visit a tiki bar. Anything else I can make better for cheaper at my house. But I'm never going to invest in tiki.
Great list. You hit the big spirit categories: whiskey, gin, rum, agave. Sours definitely the way to start. If I had to add just *one* more I think it would have to be a Paper Plane. It takes that Last Word formula, brings in the flavours of the Whiskey Sour, and importantly, introduces the interesting and surprising world of Amaro. Plus it's fun for adding a modern classic to your line-up of really classic cocktails.
My first real drink was straight whiskey.
And I still drink it to this day, offcourse the first sip was intense, as I wasn't used to the alcohol strength but it was still the kind of flavour I enjoy.
For anyone reading this, if you've heard a certain cocktail or even pure spirit described and it sounds like something you'd enjoy, don't let the strength fear you away.
Diving into the deep end is the quickest way to acclimate after all
Your never too old to learn to grow up. I got out of the beer and Jack&coke routine when I was 33.
I’m from Ireland so I find it so crazy that it’s 21 in America. Probably healthier but the culture here is so ingrained I couldn’t imagine it !
this episode is actually the whole reason i subbed to this channel forever ago, was looking for some entty-level cocktails to get my tastebuds adjusted to alcohol, but i ended up subbing for gregs giddy/insane personality
been watching you since i turned 21 greg. im 26 now and i still love your content! your drinks and episodes of the show have been an inspiration
My first cocktail when I turned 21 was a drink that the bar I was at called the "Dangerous Summer". It looked and tasted every bit like a daiquiri (rum-based, very tart and lime-forward), and to this day I have no idea what kind of rocket fuel they put in that, but it *SENT* me. Through means I will not disclose, I was able to get my hands on alcohol prior to that point, so I was accustomed to doing shots of stuff like vodka. This was on another level. I was halfway into that drink and already leaning against the bar for balance. My friends there were concerned. I then went on to order two more drinks, drunkenly staggered to a card shop with my friends, tried to play a round of Weiss Scharz (super weeb anime card game), failed miserably because I literally couldn't read the card text on my own cards and forgot what they did, and then blacked out and woke up at my dorm. Apparently I played two more rounds, won both somehow, and had to be escorted home by one of my friends. It was exactly everything I expected from my 21st birthday, and my only regret is not getting the ingredients for the "Dangerous Summer".
I am a 21-year-old newbie to the cocktail world I really liked tonic water by itself so gin and tonic was a great first cocktail. another tip is simply to mix a bit of a spirit with your favorite soda or juice so you can see the taste of spirits while drinking something you like.
My first post-21 drink was an absinthe rosemary sparkling lemonade and it explains a lot
You are either now an alcoholic or the exact opposite and hate drinking. Lol
That sounds delightful.
When I'm introducing people to cocktail culture, I usually recommend a Sidecar with a half sugar rim. It's classy, and the option of the sugar rim allows them to change the flavor and experience. Also, most of the people I know already have a bottle of Hennessey.
All of these are great options, but as someone whose first cocktail was a gin martini (up, with a twist) that I absolutely loved, I’d say don’t be afraid to try a spirit forward cocktail for your first.
The problem with that theory is that most "young drinkers" will be put off by spirit forward drinks, when there is no need for it. A gin martini might disgust a new drinker but if you start them with a Bramble or a French 75, they KNOW that gin doesn't necessarily have to taste like a gin martini....and it can be DELICIOUS.
My first was a margarita. I loved it.
Hi, Greg! I don’t think this is one I’ve seen yet, but I would love to see ya test out different egg white substitutes in various drinks to see what the best one is or if there’s different answers for different types of drinks!
The name of the episode escapes me at the moment but there is one where he does about 2 or 3 different egg white substitutions.
he has done that! iirc it was unsalted fava bean water that did the best?
@@notafangirl At the bar, we use "Aquafaba". It's from chickpeas. If you dry shake the egg white first, you won't smell it at all. Aquafaba is really a vegan substitute.
seconding the chickpea water/aquafaba substitute. Not a vegan, but I like chickpeas and don't like to waste things so if I open a can of chickpeas I like to save the liquid for sours. Doesn't taste like beans at all and the texture/foaminess is surprisingly bang-on
@@TricksterModeEngaged okay cool! Yeah I’m not vegan either but I can’t have raw eggs for health reasons and I didn’t want to start buying chickpeas just for the sake of making drinks when I don’t eat them 😆
This comes at a perfect time for me, I'm just turning 21 in 2 days on the 30th and I've been prepping my bar tools and whatnot. Hoping to get into bartending as a career in general, so seeing this on the homepage was like a "ooh, nice" moment for sure. Thanks man!
Its interesting hearing what you consider a dangerous drink, I've always used that term to refer to any drink that masks the flavour of the alcohol to the point a person may forget it's alcoholic especially a drink that has a higher alcohol percentage in the first place which makes it easier for a person to get drunk pretty fast
Sangria, never again
There are liquor hangovers and then there are those hangovers. So good going down though
My first "adult" cocktail that I really enjoyed, one that wasn't just a bunch of sugar, was a gin & tonic. Still one of my favorites.
Your Paloma almost became a Cantaritos. The Cantaritos is my go to at Mexican restaurants. It's a paloma, but leveled up. You should cover that one sometime. Also a Chuvi Duvi, its delicious when its 100°. Not sophisticated, but it hits the spot.
Gin & Tonic is definitely a bunch of sugar though. Tonic water has basically the same amount of sugar as most soft drinks. It's basically like saying a Jack & Coke doesn't have a bunch of sugar.
@@AerowindYou’re exaggerating. For example, coca-cola has more than twice as much sugar as Canada Dry tonic water. And there’s always traditional (i.e. “real”) tonic water without all the added sugar.
Collinses are such a perfect base recipe for experimenting, too. Works with pretty much every high proof spirit. Even done it with Jägermeister, fruit brandies, it really is a great base
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Funny, I was taught that sweet alcoholic drinks were called "dangerous drinks" because you could easily end up drinking a bunch of them back to back because you don't really taste any alcohol (or very little). And you could easily drink enough to get plastered before your body had absorbed all of the alcohol, which would end up with it hitting you all at once.
Oof I did that once with Prosecco and it definitely was not fun the day after
My touch will get numb if I let crown apple sit in my mouth, but if I add in ginger ale I literally can’t taste any of the alcohol. First sip literally made me say “fuck, that’s dangerous” lol
My first cocktail was a mezcal aviation. It was absolutely great, and got me loving mezcal, and aviation’s
Overall, this is a really good list of intro drinks. There are some great intros to various templates (e.g. a sour) and almost all of them only require a single spirit per drink, which is important because it removes the barrier of having to acquire a ton of bottles. The Last Word is the obvious exception, but it's definitely a fun drink for the more adventurous cocktail beginner. They just need to have the willingness to buy more bottles that will take a while to use (takes me a year to get through maraschino).
My hack for Palomas to keep them easy using the grapefruit soda is to splash a little no-pulp orange juice in there (pulp gets texturally wonky real quick), so just grapefruit soda, tequila, and a splash of OJ. I'm sure it's not as good as your fresh grapefruit version but I tend to have OJ around more often than fresh grapefruit, and it really lifts it versus the plain soda-and-tequila version. Found you a couple months ago, have gone back and watched a lot of the episodes going back and really enjoy the show, cheers!
As a European having your first ever cocktail at 21 is a mind-boggling concept
First ever *legal* cocktail. No teenager waits till legal age to drink alcohol anywhere in the world
As a latin American having your first cocktail at a legal age is a mind-boggling concept.
@@erickmorais1354 Never had a drink before legal age (18 in Poland), there are some people who respects the law.
@@johndoese7en408 in the UK its legal to drink before you're 18 if you're on private property and have permission from a parent or guardian so it's not even illegal
@@johndoese7en408LMAO
This is the video I needed when I started watching HTD! I was a newly minted 21 y.o. when the panini happened, and your channel helped teach me SOOOO MUCH about cocktails and what I liked outside of the usual bar experiences of a college kid
I'm Mormon, I don't drink, I've never had alcohol, but even I watch this dudes videos, they're that good. They're literally therapeutic... the music, the liquids pouring, the sounds of shaking fluids or cracking ice... I've even started ordering 0abv/reverse distilled spirits to make my own mocktails with. I got bit by the bug, and its this guys' fault haha.
I drink very little, maybe one or two drinks a year on holidays. But this is a good resource for a general understanding of how flavors complement.
Watch out for that mormonism though, I've heard bad things
@@starlight4649 lol
@@reedehinger2636 like the whole racism against black people and native americans
@@wizzerd229 But let's not kid ourselves here, racism and exclusivity is baked into most modern religions these days...
Never hd a whisky sour. I realized I had all the ingredients in my kitchen as I watched this and immediately made one. I dig it
I really thought this show would conflict with my relatively recent decision to stop drinking, for really personal reasons. Started watching again recently and im proud to say im still having fun and I don't have the urge to go and try these drinks anymore!
I happy for you, Mr./Ms. Mischievous
@@_Sloppyham Thank you!
I'm 22 and i havent really been drinking a lot, but I'm really glad you made this video! I really like minty flavors in general so I'll be sure to try out that last drink 😊
I think a daiquiri is a perfect first cocktail! Whenever I have someone over who isn’t an experienced cocktail drinker or doesn’t know what they like, I ask a couple of questions to get a sense of their taste, but I generally end up making a daiquiri anyway 😂
Happy Birthday HTD! I remember the day I turned 21 I went to your stream and asked the question that this video answers. You recommended the Whiskey Sour, and I tried it the same day. I kinda screwed it up, but it came out great anyway. It was also pretty cool to find out that we share a birthday. Thanks for being my go to channel for anything alcohol, and again happy birthday.
The Last Word is my favorite cocktail!
I highly recommend substituting Genepy (another alpine liquor) for Green Chartreuse.
It tastes very similar (especially in a cocktail like this), but it's much easier to find a heck of a lot more affordable.
It's not going to be 100% the same taste, but as someone who has had both it's undeniably the same cocktail.
I'm turning 21 within 2 months so this is definitely really well timed. haven't been really into the idea of drinking but you can't knock it till you try it, right?
Listen to your body is all I'm gonna say. It calls the shots, and if you disobey it it'll promptly fuck you up in return. Also make sure to eat before you do it, lol.
If you don't really want to...don't. If you want to "dabble"? Start with some of the "lower alcohol" drinks he mentioned. A White Russian. A Chocolate Martini. You don't need to START with Old Fashioned's and Manhattans. Start with the sweeter options. A Butterfinger Martini is one I ALWAYS recommend.
There's the typical 21-year-old idiot type of drinking, and then there's actually enjoying drinks and cocktails the way Greg does. Slowly, with good ingredients, not getting wasted on cheap tequila shots or crappy beer.
Be like Greg.
I love the Tom Collins because you can do so much with it. I usually put a couple of fresh raspberries in the shaker and shake the drink. Then ofc double strain it. 👌🏻
I kind of want to see you do sipping vinegars. I don't like most alcohol (most of it all tastes like paint-thinner and no amount of mixing can hide it), but I very definitely do feel left out when I don't drink at gatherings. So I learned how to make shrubs- or sipping vinegars. They look a lot like fruity cocktails, but are nonalcoholic. They're also (in my opinion) pretty fun to make.
Fantastic episode, I really appreciated all the side tips as you were making the cocktails for someone like me who is more new to cocktail making and has a limited budget so drinks without a lot of liquors are helpful. Thanks Greg!
My first real drink was Morgenthaler's amaretto sour, and mixing it up is what got me interested in mixology in the first place!
Moscow Mules were my beginner drinks and then all the variations helped me learn the difference in base spirits (Kentucky mule, Jamaican mule, etc)
I love me a Dublin mule
When I turned 21, I had no idea what I liked, so I started going through the IBA official cocktail list. Lots of great tasting well known drinks that most bar tenders will be familiar with (so you don't look like a dweeb ordering something weird).
I just turned 21 last month, and have loved your channel for a while now, so thank you for making this video!
My first cocktail was a passion fruit Caipiroska from an amazing cocktail club in Sardinia, Italy when I was 19, visiting my girlfriend at the time.
But my first cocktail after I turned 21 here in the states, was a cobbler made using the bar's house-made jam, and it was delightful. And I kept Greg, the Tiki aficionado, in mind with my 2nd being a Blue Hawaii from an amazing Tiki Bar where I live.
You walk up to the bartender with purpose and conviction and say "one beer please," just like they do in the movies
And they always grab the one you want somehow
Greg almost made my chosen paloma
1 oz simple 1 oz lime 2 oz tequila or mezcal for a upgrade. 3 oz grapefruit juice ice and topped of with either LaCroix grapefruit or topo chico
I need a full episode of Diablo inspired drinks and you voicing it as Deckard Cain. This would be amazing.
honestly surprised he hasn’t
Been getting into the channel a ton lately, even been keeping up with the podcast. Then you throw this is RIGHT as I turn 21?? How am I supposed to NOT watch your videos now!
Not yet 21 (turning this year), but I'm european, so I'm plenty familiar with alcohol by now lol. Love the video though! I find it interesting to see your recommendations, especially since I'm used to drinking the local basics and don't tend to see them in these alcohol videos.
Ps. would love to see you try alcohol from other countries someday! For example, as a Finn what comes to mind is Salmari, salmiakki-flavoured alcohol (Finnish salty liquorice), and Lonkero/Long drink, which I've always seen people drink more often than beer. :)
That's a great idea
As a Pole currently scraping up a pile of Long Drink cans from the floor, I can vouch for this. The Finns know their booze.
On my 21st birthday I got a long island at a pub here in MN. I was hooked. Now I am very fond of many other vodka drinks, and mead, and rum mixed with..whatever, and especially absinthe.
Kids these days (she said unironically, oy) are still drinking before 21 just like the rest of us always did, but man are they doing it smarter than we ever did.
Borgs are such a great idea, lots of sugar from koolaid and such, electrolytes and a water base to keep you hydrated, and bringing and using only your own vessel to keep yourself safe?
I think these kids are going to be alright, and I hope they try some of these cocktails!
Greg, thank you for the perfect timing. One of my staff is about to turn 21 and has been asking his old, grizzled, drunken boss (me) what should be his first drink. I knew not to steer him down the same questionable path that I took, but was at a loss of how to guide him as I am old...and grizzled...and too often drunk. I will forward this and hope he follows your sage advice. Cheers!
You should make a Barbenheimmer cocktail episode!
That could be construed as crossing a picket line. I wonder how Greg feels about that.
My first cocktail at 21 was an aviation; one of the most hated cocktails, but I absolutely loved it.
THANK Y O U. As someone who just got into cocktail making as I just turned 21 my self I really need this video. I thank you for making something for us beginners.
My first drink was an old fashioned with Woodford reserve up in WI with my dad, good times
I really enjoyed this episode. Im the only one in my family that drinks, and I don’t drink too frequently. It would be cool if you did and episode on cocktails using ingredients that have a longer shelf lives, and explain what some of the standard shelf life is for more common ingredients. Fresh citrus is fine and expected since I can use that in anything outside of drinking too. Thanks!
My first coctail was a gin and tonic with a grapefruit supreme garnish. I've been in love with gin ever since
Just made the Whiskey Sour. I love this, thank you!
My first drink after turning 21 was a whisky sour with my dad and I agree it is definitely the best first drink to have.
Gin and Tonic is my go to. I don't like most of the tonic waters so I just use San Pellegrino mineral water and Jack Rudy tonic syrup. Makes for a very nice G&T. :)
You don't need fancy gin either. Bombay London Dry is fine, though if you spend a little more for the Bombay East, that makes for a really nice drink. :)
I also love my Paloma made with fresh fruit! It's a household favorite! I will say that your daiquiri looked amazing and I'm going to have to try that one🙌
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂
I'm 26 and live in Canada but it's my birthday today! Definitely trying one of these
this seems a very apt upload, both mine and my bf's 21st's are this year, this will be a good reference point
Talk about a well timed video considering I actually turn 21 in about a week, thanks Greg!
Whiskey sours are some of my favorites. I love all sours honestly. Amaretto and melons.
You got me with the beans & cornbread description for the daiquiri.
I rarely if ever drink alcohol because I’m put off by the taste, but I appreciate Greg’s enthusiasm for the process so much that it makes me interested in trying more.
Just out of curiosity, if you order a whiskey sour at most bars, would they actually have eggs on hand to get their egg whites from, or is there some kind of common shelf-stable substitution?
90% of the time you aren’t getting an egg or a substitute for all the reasons you can imagine. In a more upscale cocktail speciality bar you usually get an egg white.
Whiskey Sour was my first drink and DID change my life and relationship with alcohol. 🎉❤🎉
Thank you for posting this on my 21st birthday....even though I'm Australian and have been a bartender for years
Whiskey sour was my first mixed drink! Followed by the amaretto stone sour. Followed by a Jack'n'Coke. Followed by the old fashioned. And now I mostly drink neat whiskey.
My first selfmade homebar cocktail was the Tom Collins and yes it was a "awakening expierence".
I had my first proper cocktail at 20 (I'm British, for context) and it was a mojito. Really nice drink and good for the beginner IMO. I'd had done experience with martinis and margaritas previously but not made properly, so I was always put off cocktails. A Tom Collins or old fashioned is next on my list to try.
in case you haven't gotten to it yet, the classic daiquiri is an absolute delight. You can even go for what I'm assuming is usually called a rum sour, essentially a daiquiri but with 1/2oz egg white (dry shaken) and optionally swapping lime for lemon, orange/citrus peel to mask the slight eggy smell if it bothers you
First cocktail for me was last year when I was 17 (in the UK countryside so no one cares if you're relatively close to 18) and it was a pina colada my brother made, best thing Id ever had and have recently discovered coffee liqeurs which are now my current favourite for cocktails :)
So fun to watch as a German, average first beer for us with 13, first spirits with 14/15... Just another world
Trust me, as an American you baffle us just as much as the other way around lol
You’ve definitely piqued my interest in trying a Queen’s Park Swizzle one of these days. It looks and sounds great and would not have otherwise heard of it. Great episode!
No way you posted this a day after my 21st!!! I've been binging your videos for a while now, definitely going to try these as I collect my spirits for my home bar! Thank you!!!
I was genuinely thinking of asking you for this on the latest video because I’m turning 21 soon. Thank you very much Greg.
Ha! Yeah, my first cocktail was a whisky sour as well! Fun Paloma variation: char the grapefruit. Total game changer. (also, just quarter the grapefruit to put into your hand-juicer).
I'm 37 and hated gin til last year had my first last word. My grandfather drank 3 shots of Gilbeys an hour during my childhood I despised the smell. Now ive experienced good gin! I love it. Gin on the rocks, gin and soda, Tom Collins, last word, and more ive been exposed to. I love love gin and my family still hates me for loving it. Thank you for showing gin based drinks
I love a whiskey sour, but the vast majority of bars use a sour mix and don't use an egg white and the drink is just not the same.
My paloma is a can of squirt, 2 oz of tequila and 1oz of lime juice. It's marvelous on a hot summer day.
Funny that this was posted on my birthday! I'm 25, but I was watching your channel when I turned 21!
My go to cocktails are Whiskey Highballs (ginger ale, not club soda), fruity Margaritas, and Tequila Sunrises. And I keep revisiting the French 75 when I can. Oh, and Mojitos with coconut rum instead of plain white.
A real margarita is a good suggestion too. Lime, Agave syrup, a quality top shelf no additivos tequila, cointreau (or triple sec).
It's strange how many times I've been told that the tequila doesn't matter. It does.
Most people like blanco. Reposado will add some depth.
My favorite day to day tequila is Tepozan. Fortaleza is good too.
My first cocktail was an Old Fashioned and I absolutely loved it, mind I took to Whiskey almost immediately lol. Same thing with Gin. I love an Aviation or a Corpse Reviver no. 2