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St. Denis Sazerac:
Rinse glass with Absinthe - St. George's Absinthe Verde
Add demerara sugar cube to glass
2 dashes of bitters - Bogarts Bitters from the bitter truth
2 oz. or 60 ml. Cognac - Pierre Ferrand 1840
Add ice to mixing glass and stir
Strain into chilled glass
Garnish with a twist of lemon
Greg's Sazerac:
2 barspoons of simple syrup
2 dashes of Peychaud's Bitters
2 oz. or 60 ml. Old Forester Rye
Crack ice into mixing glass
Rinse glass with Absinthe - St. George's Absinthe Verde
Strain drink into glass
Garnish with a twist of lemon
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Hey Greg this is related to the livestream of the editing of this video and I heard you said you were considering moving to the Maritimes. I'm not saying do or don't but if you do move to the Maritimes (I live in NB) be ready to pay much much more for alcohol, a 750 ml bottle of Wild Turkey for example is like a little over 40 dollars here. Also there's no variety. Most liquor stores in Canada are government regulated or something so every liquor store in a province is basically the same and drawing from the same pool of products and they are definitely not the best, for example I can't find old grand dad Bourbon, four roses, Maraschino Liqueur, I think we have a single bottle of mezcal, the only vermouth we have is Martini basically, etc. Also unless you go through like a bunch of stuff you will not be able to have alcohol delivered or shipped from other countries or even other provinces unless you get a friend to send something (from within Canada) and just as an extra fuck you liquor stores will not do special orders or even have product moved from another store in the province to yours. Just wanted to say that since you are into alcohol haha
next do the moonshine from RDO
Some whiskey drinks were mostly rot gut drinks and quiet deadly
Okay, question. Without consulting a book or the internet, from your memory, what do you know of as a "Gin Blossom?"
Follow-up: Same question, but for "Orange Blossom?"
I feel like I crossed over from a parallel universe, because when I looked up the "Gin Blossom" to double check the proportions, I was looking at a drink I *never* had heard of before. "Orange blossom" was closer, but is still adding some ingredients I never used in it myself. I'm so lost! Do you have the "Bearenstain Bears" in this universe too?
Greg, you have to tell me: *How much did you spend on that outfit for this one video?*
No lying now. Lying is for outlaws and rustlers.
My god Greg. This outfit is both a national treasure and a national emergency.
I'm glad this was the first comment I saw lol
I clicked on this video and the first thing that came to mind was "OMG, 1955 Doc Brown just dressed Greg!"
He borrowed this from elton john
I can't think of many things that can be described as both of those things, but this outfit definitely fits the bill.
@@GaMeRfReAkLIVE Doug Dimmadome
"There's no tequila in the game. Why is there no tequila?"
Because Mexico got cut from the game.
Big sads
Mega sads
Then why is it not in the first game? Although to be fair, it isn't as fleshed out.
Mexico in the first game also kinda felt rushed...
@@markgresch9944 it is. If you go to a bar in Mexico John asks for tequila
The saloon in St Denis has plenty of bottles behind the bar, implying they're making cocktails. I like the theory that Arthur just doesn't know anything other than beer and whiskey.
considering most of what he does is traveling pretty sure most of the alcohol he knows is stuff he can easily carry with him.
@@thesun5275 isn't that a contradiction? A well traveled man should have lots of experience with regional drinks.
@@KerythDraws He's a bandit who would probably spend most of his time in camp. If and when he stops by a saloon, it won't be for long to learn the local cocktails.
@@KerythDraws he's a criminal
@@KerythDraws they find themselves in the wilderness more than cities. Where you couldn't find uptown bars with cocktails. So no, not a contradiction.
The picture of Billy the Kid riding into town with his grizzly band of outlaws and going: "Alright boys, first we'll go straight to the sheriff's office to turn in our guns, get our horses stabled and then I'll treat y'all to a round of daiquiris and ice cream, yeehaaw!" truly gives me life.
He was 16 after all
Ice Cream was something Wild Bill Hickock admitted to loving when he first got a taste of it, and his preferred drink was some variety of sweet punch, when he could get it.
Alternative title: Greg declares war on New Orleans
as a Louisiana resident...this comment broke me
*As he should.*
Or impersonates a Securitron from Fallout New Vegas.
@@AWACS_Snowblind what did New Orleans ever do to you?
Alternative alternative: Greg declared war on westerns
Me 1sec into the vid be like: is That Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome?
Sure feels like Doug Dimmadome owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome
NOT RIGHT
Thats right!
That's Doug Dimmadrunk, owner of the Dimsdale Dimmadrink
Doug Dimmadrink, First DimmaCousin to Doug Dimmadome, Owner of the Doug Dimmadome
The mission where Arthur gets blackout drunk and suddenly everybody looks like Lenny is still among my favourites in that game.
Who doesn't love being able to press X to LENNY?
!YNNEL
@@HollywoodFTW LEMMY!
It was beautiful
LENNY MAH BOY!
"Black cowboys are real; but they ain't myths"
I remember in Bill and Ted when Napoleon knew what modern ice cream was because it was invented over a hundred of years before he was born.
And if we're going to leave Hollywood logic
Ice cream in some variation has been made since the dawn of writing. Even when it was collecting snow and mixing it with milk and honey.
@@allhumansarejusthuman.5776 IIRC Saladin sent a gift of ice cream to Richard the Lionheart when he heard his opponent was ill.
@@allhumansarejusthuman.5776 the Romans used to have ice carted down from the Alps, to make ice cream with
Ice cream was definitely in the states by RDR2's time too, Ben Frenklin was apparently obsessed with the stuff and was known to spend a ridiculous amount of money for the time to get it
@@anevilgoose1034 Thomas Jefferson also loved it, always serving it at parties he hosted
My headcanon is this is the real Greg. Off camera he dresses like that and drives an old Cadillac with bull horns on the hood.
There used to be a fella in my town (in Wisconsin, mind you) who always wore a big ridiculous cowboy hat and had bull horns mounted on the hood of his beat-up rusty POS Honda. *THAT* takes intestinal fortitude. Or style. Or madness, or something... I'm not sure what, exactly.
Have one like that here as well ..... I live in Sweden....
He also verbally berates his officers and deputies because they apparently can't catch two scoundrels in an orange car that have the best morals in the county...
You gotta problem with bull horns on grilles?
Someone in our town does that but its a silverado w long horn horns mounted on the hood
4:02 Imagine how incredibly refreshing an "Ice beer" would have been after a long hot day of ranching before refrigeration became commonplace.
Worth its weight in gold out there I’m sure
InRangeTV did a video on Roy Bean the owner of the bar in the picture. He has a crazy story behind him.
@@LanceSniper001 the hanging judge
@@LanceSniper001 what's the video name? I'd love to hear Ian's smooth and calm voice talk about it
@@qq13563817153 you would be stuck with Karl's satanist voice
11:38 Yes! Ice cream! Whenever I tell people that Mozart (THE Mozart) used to celebrate a good opening night by buying himself an ice cream they stare at me like I've sprouted a second head. We have this vision of the past that's completely divorced from historical fact. Here's another bit of musical trivia, Bach wrote a 30 minute comic opera about a girl with a coffee addiction. The past is weird and different but it's important to remember that it was still populated by humans
wait till you tell them that (european)ice cream dates back to Rome!
@@user-yp3pv7jd5l honestly, there was probably at least one caveman who mixed together snow and crushed berries to make some sort of Frozen sweet treat.
Now I want to watch someone direct a modern take about a Starbucks Girl (TM)
@@user-yp3pv7jd5l The disconnect is that it wasn't "Ice Cream". It was a frosted treat that was more like flavored shaved ice. Soft serve wasn't in Rome, but the treat is older than most people think. Victorian cucumber-flavored ice creams prove that xD
Benjamin Franklin used to party with his friends and French hookers in a cave to do seances and try drugs. Dude even the Founding Fathers got in their Animal House style experimentation phase.
I'm glad you brought up the ice trade because I always thought it was funny how Doc Brown in 1885 has this giant homemade contraption to make 2 little ice cubes when that would be wholly unimpressive with historically accurate ice making technology.
Greg tearing down old West myths and I’m just here like
“Trust! The! Plan!!”
John made it *yacks blood* he's about the only one
of course he is wrong in his over simplification. Claiming "Wild West" is a myth and citing city ordinances ignores why those ordinances were in place in the first place. Vigilantism, wars between factions, and civil disorders were common in those days. Claiming that attempts to keep city life safe and maintain order shows that the Wild West is a myth is silly as shit.
@@MrChickennugget360 There's also the fact that the decision to control guns in a particular town was made because all the residents of the town got together decided that they wanted anyone entering the town to disarm. It was a decision made by the people who lived in the area, not handed down on high by some politician who lived 1000 miles away and who wasn't familiar with the particular situation of the particular town and who would never be effected by negative consequences if that law ended up making things worse for the townspeople.
@@KageMinowara that and i highly doubt that the towns people themselves were disarmed. it was travelers and outsiders who were not allowed weapons not locals.
@@MrChickennugget360 Exactly.
People regularly forget just how much people used to drink, historically.
Prior to the 20s quite literally everyone was plastered almost always
I knew I was born at the wrong time in history
There's wisdom in wine, bravery in whiskey, and bacteria in water
@@therideneverends1697 It's always a good time to reminisce on the fact that almost every single great moment in history was played out with everyone hammered off their ass.
From the conquests of Alexander the Great to the signing of the Declaration of Independence and beyond, they were all completely smashed.
Trying to make up for it. The drinking, not the other part.
The fact we need to accept is that Greg is unironically just pulling this fit off. I feel like I’m about to get swindled out of my oil rich plot of land.
"My name's Doug Dimmadome. Owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome."
Sorry Greg but you look too perfect
Hats not big enough
@@ztmackin We can't see his other ''hat'' ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Exactly what i came to the comments looking for 👌 bless you
Red Dead Online's "Collector" role has a shortlist of "Antique Alcohol" you can collect. You can drink them, or collect the whole set and sell them off to Madam Nazar.
Hope he sees this comment because he'd have a field day with those
also moonshiner recipe.
Which, funny enough, includes both Old Tom, and London Dry Gin.
So you're telling me wake-up juice is the most accurate portrayal of drinks in the early west?
I’m not so sure- honestly I don’t think there’s any hot or spicy drinks from that timeframe
Greg, motioning to pedestal: and here’s where I’d put my list of drinks from RDR2...IF I HAD ANY
While he's dressed as Doug Dimmadome 😆
Loved hearing the actual history of when cocktails were invented! In fairness, the game does have gin, bourbon, 2 types of rum, brandy, and moonshine. But it would've been nice if they had included some mixed drinks as well. Maybe even a famous bartender (with a parody name of course) in Saint Denis
Thomas Jerry instead of Jerry Thomas
@@frederikjuhl7929 Thomas Jerry, ha! And there's a greyish cat and a brown mouse in a room upstairs above his bar.
I work in industrial refrigeration and when I took the Operator 1 course we had a whole day about the history of cooling and how technology displaced the massive ice harvesting industry👌🏻
A thing to note, is that while many towns had strict gun control, much of the frontier wasn't in towns, and people did (as you alluded) a lot of bad shit outside of city limits. In much the same way most lynching happened outside city limits, fighting and heavy gun carrying/use was much more prevalent outside of towns. Posting signs to check guns at your city limits lets you know that lots of people would be showing up to town packing heat, and so they needed to have a law about it.
This is true, but considering the low population density across the frontier, that gun ownership likely wasn't for personal protection, but rather hunting or pest control. Crime rates tend to be fairly low when you can go weeks without human contact. It's a bit like Jim Bob rolling up into town with his squirrel gun rather than telling a bunch of crips to leave their weapons on the table ya know?
Greg, best video so far. You sure didn't go all yelly-belly but served spoonful of sass in all directions. Thank you for the bitters.
Greg is wearing the "Yeah. I have, Doc. Clint Eastwood never wore anything like this." outfit.
This is the best comment.
You get that outfit off a dead Chinee?
@@packardcaribien 😂.
You should make a series debunking stuff called Buzz Kill.
Call it Buzzed-kill and he shoots it after the HTD episodes so he's already tipsy
@@shadowforce96 I need this yesterday!
That is actually a really good idea!
+1
@@shadowforce96 Sounds like Drunk History, but he does it to himself instead of having a host giggle at him and prod him along. I love the concept!
Generally, any Spanish word/name that has three syllables will have the penultimate syllable emphasized. For example: Vaquero is "bah-KEH-ro". Sometimes we get lucky and actually see the accent in the word/name. For example: Rodríguez.
Can confirm thetes an avvent in Rodrìguez, motherbkeeps kickong my ass for forgetting it
@@pablocruz5613 are you okay?
@@positivityboi1232 He lost half the letters on his keyboard...
Yup... but as a quick way to remember is the 3 syllable “rule” (when it works, of course).
I can't see Rodriguez without thinking about Bender.
I'm glad Greg talked about this. I read an article who basically called it "The Mild West, actually". In some time frame only a dozen people died from shootouts. The Alamo, basically.
And The Alamo, and that whole war, was fought to preserve slavery. Texas was afraid of being annexed by Mexico mainly because Mexico had outlawed slavery.
@@howtodrink as a Texan we also mostly did not want to join the union because of that
@@howtodrink
What do you mean Being annexed? Texas was already a part of Mexico and the war of Texas with Mexico broke out after Mexico banned slavery, but they were already a state.
@@ericktellez7632 It is a little more complicated than that. White settlers were allowed to have slaves when Texas was part of Spain (The 2nd of the six flags). A very early thing Mexico did after gaining independence from Spain was to outlaw slavery. They never successfully enforced that in Texas. If you can't enforce a law (or even successfully send out law enforcement) about something as fundamental as slavery, it creates a gray zone whether Texas was ever functionally part of Mexico. A key litmus test for what constitutes state power is a "monopoly on violence". Mexico never was able to exercise that in Texas.
@@Jack-fw4mw
Yes I agree once you added that context. The only thing I would contest is that the fact that Mexico did not had a total control of the law in the state does not mean that the settlers did either. They did after the war with Mexico was over. So calling it an annexation on behalf of Mexico is disingenuous, it was more of a contested territory.
Lemon and lime extracts were really popular in the late 1800's - it would not surprise me if they were used in drinks during the cold months, very potent flavor along with the alcohol in it.
After recently reading Imbibe! (on your recommendation of course), and being decently impressed by the complexity and broad selection of cocktails back in the day, this video more than anything has just demonstrated to me how long ago 1862 actually was and how groundbreakingly innovative the golden age of cockails actually was for it's time.
Deep Rock Galactic drinks: Arkenstout and glyphid slammer!
Ooh cool idea, DRG is awesome
"Ok, this one is slightly political"
That one caption got me 🤣
The Saint Denis Sazerac is just a Sazerac you can get in Saint Denis as during The Jim Boy Calloway stranger mission the bartender in the 1/2 bit saloon (not Smithfields) in Valentine tells you to have a Sazerac in Saint Denis and not his saloon.
Wow, that's a strong start to the video haha
This is the reason I love your channel. Not only do you show us how to make drinks but your passion and knowledge about how certain time periods actually were is extremely interesting.
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The gun thing could really vary by town though. The town I grew up in had no rules whatsoever back then, but there still weren't gunfights every day. Also, guns were actually kind of rare, each family typically had one and it was usually a long gun of some kind because it was for pest control and occasional hunting (which was not a major food source, but if you saw something tasty while you were out working you'd take a shot at it). There weren't enough people out there to really worry about being attacked, because there was no one to attack you, generally speaking. I'm not saying there was no crime or violence (especially not in this town, ha), just it was way more rare than Westerns depict.
Plus a revolver and belt and holster was like $30. Which was a crazy amount of money back then
@@tiredman99 most cowboys just had a rifle to put down cattle if needed
@@tiredman99 Exactly. $30 from 1913 is equal to $810 today. If we say a rifle from the time period of RDR2 cost $20 then, it would be $630 today.
@@tiredman99 That’s why conversions of cap and ball revolvers were popular.
@@tiredman99 It depended on the Revolver too. One thing most westerns do not depict is that the most popular large bore revolvers were cap and ball, even into the late 19th century. And they were VASTLY outnumbered by the many cheaper "pocket" revolvers, made by companies like Smith and Wesson, Forehand, Iver Johnson, H&R, etc. I've started seeing more westerns actually represent these lately and I'm very glad about it.
My favorite internet drinky man!
Love the vid! Btw, Ian on Forgotten Weapons is releasing a book soon on Warlord China pistols and as a stretch goal, is including a section on cocktails appropriate to the period and region. Potential for cooperation?
I would sell several organs to see that
Ian even mentioned that he liked the How To Drink channel, and would enjoy a collab but had no idea what the collab might be, had not even thought about the stretch goal though!
@@austincummins7712 Ian needs to bring Greg some Finnish alcohol and go from there.
Hey, Greg! Lovely vid so far, just felt i had to tell you that your videos got me into my first bartender job about 1,5 years ago in a speedbar, and now im working in a respected cocktailbar in the most wonderful coastal town in Norway. Thanks for the inspiration and drunken wisdom, I owe alot to you!
Oh no, Greg's lost it! Love the hat though!
did he every REALLY have it?
This is probably one of my favorite uploads in a while. Also appreciated the history lesson!
Jesus Christ I'm amazed at how insanely good the production quality of these videos are
Iirc Greg's old day job was a film editor or something so that's why he he knows how to shoot the booze like it's a Superbowl ad.
@@Pxtl makes sense tho, plus the man also has charisma so figures that he has that kinda experience
Plus setting a stationary camera up isn’t hard. If he has certain zoom in spots he can pre set that up as well. Post editing is a nightmare though.
This is one of your best videos to date, Greg. Amazing work!
YES, been waiting for this episode for AGES man! ive always felt that the drinking culture aspect of rdr2 is one of the more lacking ones. also, greg in a full on cowboy outfit is something i didnt know i needed until now.
this is such a fun episode!!! love the history part as always, thank you for another great one :D
As entertaining and informative as all of your content is, THIS one is a gem. Love the history and genuinely didn't know ANYTHING about cocktails in the West.
There’s a lot in RDR2 that seems to indicate there was gonna be a more fleshed out cooking system, with descriptions about the fish especially indicating you might have been able to make meals, maybe you would’ve been able to make drinks too. 😢
Online there are a lot of stew recipes and they did add mixed moonshine recipes if you play that role.
They could add so much more.
3 things where you're wrong
1 concealed carry was extremely common and only open carry was restricted in many areas
2 at the ok corral the cowboys were in compliance with ordinance 9, they were leaving town and had recovered their firearms prior
3 the cowboys had the express approval of the local sheriff, who even went so far as to deputise many of their members
Greg, I'm a student who just took the ap us history exam the day after this video came out and I swear to God it actually helped me in answering a document based question. Some had to do with the mentions of spirits and the sentiments towards alcohol at the time as well as that famous shoot out in tombstone. When I say them I was just like "YO I just saw this wtf" anyways yea idk it just seemed really cool and funny to me. Lmao basically thanks for the video
You are always fun to watch... Thanks!
truly worth his own season as an antagonist on Justified
absolutely, bring it back for season 7 just to have Cowboy Greg be the villain
Rockstar, listen to this video. We need a DLC for this. (Preferably free.)
Rockstar and free in the same sentence lmao
Rockstar ain't ever making DLC as long as they have online money grab bullshit
@@sydalg95 I know. I might be delirious.
@@hayden5639 Never tried any of the Online titles nor do I have in interest in doing so.
I have to check but they never did any DLC or updates on the single player titles?
@@sydalg95 right lol, it goes right along with the word u p d a t e
My guess would be that Beer and Whiskey is all Arthur and John want to drink. Cant speak for the NPC's though
When OutsideXbox made this, they proposed that Beer and whisky were the only drinks Arthur knew and that all the other bottles behind the bar were quote “some kind of sandwich” lmao
I think its just rockstar wanting their semi historical game and their classic western tropes at the same time
Arthur clearly enjoys a good cup of Coffee too, based on cutscenes and dialogue.
@@MikefromTexas1 and there are all the little bottles of gin, rum, and brandy that are consumables in game.
I haven't seen any mention of John ordering all kinds of spirits in the first RDR. Go to buy a drink and he'll ask for a brandy, rum, tequila, whatever he's in the mood for. In Mexico he'll even ask for pulque sometimes.
Loved the energy on this one!
I almost forgot what awesome stories one can hear on this channel. And I have to say, you are an admirable storyteller Greg. Thank you.
Literally just made a Sazerac yesterday to enjoy after a shrimp boil! I tried the recipe from Cocktail Codex and it was sublime. It was 1.5 oz rye and 0.5 oz of Cognac which really brought out the best of both spirits, four dashes of Peychaud's and a single dash of Angostura, a heaping barspoon of demerara syrup, and the rest the same. Probably my favorite Sazerac ever.
Never mind the drinks, Greg showin us the Drip God Status
dripped so hard he drowned
Greg, I have to applaud you! Besides making amazing fun drinking videos, you also make great ads for your sponsors that, IMO, are better than most professional advertising videos you see around. Keep up the great work, my friend! (From a subscriber)
love your intro feel it not getting old any sooner, I have not watch your video for months and the trumpet is classic
I think it's cool that you talked about this. Because, like you said, even the furthest settlements on the frontier. Could get their hands-on stuff to make cocktails Because you had places like judge roy beans saloon that you showed a picture of where they had Ice cold beer And Back then that part of texas wasn't really settled in a whole lot of areas
I watched the whole video and still read the screen shot as saying "What did R2-D2 get wrong?" and I am still wondering when did R2-D2 make a cocktail.
When he was working on Jabba's sail barge
@@JohnKelly2 Right!!!! I forgot that.
Your channel is wonderful and you've dug out a deep hidden passion for cocktails. You are excellent
You're great, bro! Keep doing what you do!
Seeing Greg in that geddup and I immediately thought "He's a rhinestone cooooowwwbooooi!" And I kinda love that.
"Sit a while and let me jaw at you" is just the wild west version of "Stay a while, and listen."
I wouldn't bat an eye at a cowboy named Deckard Cain in a western other than to wonder if the writers intentionally used it or not. And a bandito nemesis with a nickname of El Diablo would be 100% on brand.
The tasting notes are outstanding.
I learned a lot of history I did not know about during this video thanks man. You kept me very interested the entire video. But I guess thats not really new since you manage to do that every video xD
Even Blazing Saddles had an ice cream parlor! C'mon Rockstar!
If 25% of cowboys were dark skinned, than Blazing Saddles is pretty historically acurate ^^
There is an ice cream parlour in Saint Denis, you can’t access it but it is there
can you make a horse reviver because my horse never feels like surviving and 2 foot fall
I dig the camera work. The slow motion poring & ice cracking is sweet.
It's been quite a long time since i haven't watched your vids and i must say i was not ready for this level
Even in the most remote desert towns, it got cold enough in the winter for pads and lakes to freeze. People would often cut the ice and store them in really cold caves in the mountains. 5th or 6th generation Nevadan here, I don't have historical proof, but thats what I was always told my family did. I even know the name of the mountain they stored ice in!
dude hits the ground running imitating festus. love it
Best thumbnail ever! Loved the intro! Loved the drinks! LOVED IT ALL!
this episode was entertaining and enlightening on so many levels. good shit, Greg
Love the little edit of the gunfire in the intro. 🤣
Perfect timing with this upload, I just started playing RDR2.
such a great video greg!
this channel never ceases to amaze me
There was also Howard Johnsons in blazing saddles. They had ice cream.
Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome?
Yes
Turning 21 in a couple weeks and I’m getting all kinds of ideas for my birthday with your channel thanks bro
Nice upload! Love me a bit a learnin' with my drinkin'!
YEE and i can not stress this enough,
HAW
The towns banning the carrying of firearms in town only ment that most people didn't open carry not that they weren't armed. Also the towns were more wild the newer they were so there was a lot of towns you would consider wild at one time in their existence but by the 1890s they were mostly gone in america.
People break rules, that doesn't mean westerns are accurate.
@@xPRODIGYxGAMER to add to that, those who were buddy-buddy with the enforcers of those anti carry laws would often be "overlooked" and get a pass on carrying. Also, IIRC some places were only against the carrying of handguns as those who had them were perceived as looking to start trouble.
Iver-Johnson .32s were everywhere around that time, because of how easily concealable they were.
Kinda not much different from today actually. If you're in an open carry state, for every one person you actually see carrying, you've probably passed 20 people who kept it hidden.
@@vitoscaletta7151 Im carrying most of the time. Greg was trying to take a shot at our 2a. But like every gun grabber, he missed.
@@phillow7749 but he put "NOT POLITICAL" on the screen, so clearly there was no agenda behind those remarks! /s
Amazing episode
Awesome video, and I love the history lessons!
If I may be allowed to nitpick, the game famously does not take place in the West. Let alone the Wild West.
This is an AMAZING Historical deep dive! Please Please do a colab with Max Miller at Tasting History and do some food/drink pairings based on some 1800's culturally misunderstood thing like the wild west or gold rush!
great ep, greg!
New Orleans Sazerac is my favorite cocktail. I love the rye, the sweetness, the zest of the lemon and the hint of anise... Delicious
Our boy lookin’ like a crisp $10 dolla’ bill with that cowboy drip.
Oh god it's the return of the Festus voice from the sarsaparilla episode
The only reason I catch these so late is because it’s become a part of my weekend routine. Can’t help but enjoy it before a few more of my other favorite channels.
you are slowly turning into a history channel and its seriously scratching my drunk history itch!!!!
The moonshine flavors in red dead online might be interesting to look into.
I'd like to say that it'd be so much better if they replaced the health/stamina/deadeye tonics with cocktails and drinks that did the same thing
Saw the twitch editing stream of this. Great work Greg.
Hey Greg, the history shown in this episode was fantastic, this was one of your best! On that note, one mortal sin you committed (that I personally do all the time for preference), you put your lemon twist into the Sazerac!