I love watching the creative process at work! Please do more of these, I want to understand how different ingredients affect cocktails like you did here. Love this!
Loved the video- really cool to see your thought process in changing the recipe. That is the next level in terms of making cocktails that I one day hope to reach. Cheers!
I appreciate Az being on the show because as a "cocktail newb" she offers a different take on what the cocktails taste like. Her opinion is perfectly valid because she represents the majority of people who aren't cocktail enthusiasts.
“Tastes like a college drink” is a perfect description from Az! She’s a great addition to the tasting notes. Also, canned pineapple juice always tastes “tinny” to me and I can’t get beyond it. Maybe juicing my own is the key🤔
I also think canned pineapple has a metallic taste. Maybe a couple of bar spoons of pineapple liqueur will strengthen the otherwise flat taste of a carton one?
The problem with fresh is one pineapple makes a lot so unless you plan on making a lot of pineapple drinks that week it can be wasted. Those cans are great for like 2-3 drinks. A balance of quality vs waste.
@@Ahglock that’s my struggle! I don’t want to drink 14 pineapple drinks in a row just to use up the fresh juice. Maybe more cocktail parties are in order😏
True but its consistent=/ I understand the fresh pineapple but if you can't recreate the cocktail then where do you stand? I mean I guess the slight variation in ripeness couldn't do too much- but is it enough to try these new variations with the canned juice or maybe a bottled juice ? Also what about pre- juicing and saving the pineapple juice? I haven't done much experimenting with saving fresh juice and how preserve it as long as possible
Judging by pineapple that I've had in HI, the difference between a fresh pineapple in Chicago and a fresh pineapple in Cuba could also make a huge difference in the success of the drink. Great content as always, great to see your development process.
This. I had a fresh pineapple in Central America once. Not only was it better, but the flavor was almost different in some way I can't really describe.
@@gregk8246 you most likely had a different variant. There are many different types of pineapples, some much better than others, but Smooth Cayenn is the variant that typically gets shipped because it fares better than others when shipped and stored.
Right varieties influence the flavor, also being able to harvest the fruit ripe allows for more compounds to develop, usually the fruit is processing compounds while ripening and cutting it early from the plant cuts the sugar supply, taking away the energy for processing. I guess canned pineapple might not be the best, but def the most consistent, as it can be tweaked post juicing
I can really see this. Had a piña colada at some random place in havana that blew every single one I had had previous and since out of the water. It was just so much richer in taste than anything else I've had.
HAHA I love Az’s commentary at the end - definitely what I would say. Sometimes ya gotta let go of being a purist to find the best sip, IMO. Anders definitely do another “drink repair” video, neat process to watch!
Definitely enjoyed seeing the process you go through to make cocktails, and I really liked how you explained why you were adding things. As a very amateur mixologist, that is very helpful
Anders, have an episode where Az gives the most honest brutal thoughts on some mediocre cocktails, Honest Az should be a series, where she doesnt hold back, that would be insanely entertaining.
Anders, i’ve never commented on a TH-cam video before but you’ve drawn me out to say PLEASE continue with this format. I’m a novice in Mixology and seeing your thought process was super helpful!
I am ALWAYS interested in watching an individual bartender's evolution of a cocktail. Crafting a cocktail can be an expensive hobby, so learning how the pros do it can save me a couple bucks.
LOVED seeing the process. As someone who is new to mixing cocktails I really enjoyed in insight and thought process in swapping things out. The whole time I was thinking you were going to go for a dark rum to punch up the flavor. Thanks and would love more of these.
So, I made the “Maranders Pickrickson” tonight (aka 2.0 version). Sometimes, you go to cocktail making with what ya got, not what you wish you got. So, I used canned pineapple. Otherwise, 100% to spec, including homemade grenadine. We liked it as a tiki-ish drink which, even with canned pineapple, would be a success amongst our friends. And because it’s canned, we know it can be a fairly predictable outcome, each time. Coincidentally, had just added the Mary Pickford to our cocktail logbook last week, so this was a timely exploration of something we’d recently tried for the first time. Anyway, breaking down the process is awesome to observe - please do more! I’d suggest a future episode(s) where, ala Chopped, Az provides Anders with a mystery basket of ingredients from which he creates a new cocktail from scratch. I just did something similar at home with Douglas Fir Infused gin, and came up with something shockingly tasty, balanced, etc. Thanks again for the great video.
Hostile Az is my spirit animal. =] Really enjoyed hearing the thought process as the "improved" ("Marie Pickford"?) cocktail was being formulated. Cheers!
I've been binge-watching your content for the last few days having just discovered your channel, I have learned and laughed a LOT! Also, I'm not sure if it's just your naturally exuberant personalities but it seems like half of these episodes you guys have a bit of a buzz going on and things get a bit loose, which is exactly what it's like in my kitchen when I start making cocktails 😂 it just contributes to the feel of sitting across from the bar with an enthusiastic bar-tender mate experimenting his latest creations, I love that.
This made me read about Mary Pickford. She was amazing! She was always looking for ways to improve film. Your drink does her justice. Maybe call it the Mary Pickford Spotlight
I actually really enjoyed watching you build them and talking about the tasting notes and why you’re doing specific things to make your alterations. I’ve been following you for the last year and making just with every drink possible and I love your thought process when you’re building
It's always interesting to see the thought process of a bartender tweaking a drink. If you want to add more acid without using lime juice, you could try "acidulating" (also known as "acid-adjusting") your pineapple juice. Basically, you just add citric acid and malic acid to your juice until it reaches the acidity of lime juice. You can "acid-adjust" any fruit juice for a cocktail to increase the acid without adding lime or lemon flavors.
Five minutes of saying how much you don’t like a drink. One sip of the drink - “I mean it’s not a bad drink…” Love your videos Anders, great work as usual.
I very much enjoy watching the progression on creating or adapting cocktails both my Wife and I enjoy the thought process. So Friday night has become Anders and Oz night for the Wife and I.
There’s only a few channels I make must watch week after week. Out of those there’s only 2 or 3 that get an automatic “like”. Your videos ALWAYS get an immediate like, before you’re even through the intro. Incredibly entertaining, and even more so informational. Your passion makes it engaging and drives me to reignite my own passions, even those non drink related. Thank you
I remade this myself tonight but I have no allspice dram. I tried some other things and we found out that chartreuse is a great way of filling in that blank middle. Delicious! I felt that perhaps acid adjusting the pineapple might elevate this one further
YES to seeing more process; sure, I can get behind trying to track down authenticity, tasting what made a drink a stand-out. What I really enjoy is tuning; finding how my ingredients interact. Having a window into how _you_ do that is invaluable...
Love these “behind the bar” explorations. There are a Slew! A Slew I say, of meh drinks that, with a little fun and a stocked bar can turn into some favorites! This feels like showcasing “soft skills” of bartending. Tweeting drinks and knowing what each ingredient does in a cocktail and what plays well together. Bravo and Cheers!
Loved seeing the progression and the rationale behind the modifications. Totally loved Az’s forthrightness, “mediocre at best”, genius!😂 More of both please!
Like I do at home, doctoring the cocktail to my taste/preference is the goal. Not unlike making a mix tape/CD, the fun is in the journey. Keep up the good work, Mr Host.
I love these types of videos - it really helps me to learn how a cocktail is constructed. I was at a local cocktail bar/Irish pub last week and we were taste testing new cocktails and they were all too flat, too sweet, too.... something and not one of them was good. The bartender is not a mixologist - which was evident - and she really didn't know what to do to improve the drink. Of course, we recommended your channel! But now that I've watched this video and your other one about the Brown Derby, I can provide better feedback when we return for more cocktail testing. Keep up the great work, Anders! We are huge fans!
Enjoyed seeing this process! It is interesting to see what considerations you make to improve or make a cocktail more to your taste. Thank you for sharing!
I love this idea! It makes it so much more personal and also, you do alot of people a favor! Loving it. Am a bartender myself and im taking so much insperation from you. Keep on doing this. Love it! Keep it going
Absolutely loved this video! As an amateur home mixologist, I make a lot of "It's good but missing something" cocktails. As an engineer with a science background, I want to pick apart why but often don't know enough about mixing to know where to start. Then I end up with something too sweet or too sour. The insight of why pineapple doesn't work, how citrus improves (and in what quantity), and how something from left field like Allspice Dram can kick it up a notch is very helpful. Thanks so much!
It is just as entertaining (well, almost as entertaining) to watch you make cocktails that you don't enjoy: It's very helpful to see you work at balancing and improving a cocktail. Great channel. I've sent lots of people your way.
Bring back hostile Az! Haha, she almost just totally opened up and told off the purists. Thing is, she's got a point. Pay homage to the originator and to tradition, but accept the fact that virtually no drink is perfect and mixology is an ever-evolving and ever-improving thing.
I love seeing cocktails improved! Especially when it's just using better ingredients and adjusting ratios, maybe adding something, but still staying true to the original core idea, and not a full reconstruction that's basically a totally new drink.
Love this format where you can kind of see your self improving drinks. I don't try this super often cause I don't want to waste the drink...so I drink it then I start getting drunk and i'm like "Damn this is good" but by that point it is just whiskey in a glass.
You did a great job with this one. I personally don’t really like this cocktail without a tiny bit of citrus added to it. But once I add a barspoon of lime juice then it turns amazing. Enjoy your weekend Anders, cheers 🍹
I love this stuff so much. I love seeing the thought prosses that goes into improving or making a cocktail. I think its interesting and allows new people (Me) an idea of what bartenders think about when making/comparing a cocktail.
Yep, I liked this. It was good seeing you go through the improvement process. I'm not saying I need this for every drink you do, but once in a while is good.
Love this format! I really enjoy the iterative process of making a drink and tweaking it slightly to get it just right. It was really helpful to hear your thought process as you think through how to make adjustments!
Hey brother. I wanted to drop a vibe here for you. I just helped create a drink menu for a new speak easy bar. And I learned a lot from your videos. And out of all the drinks, this cocktail was the favorite. I juiced a fresh pineapple and added a little lime and lemon juice. Used your grenadine recipe as well. I couldn’t find the pomegranate molasses. So I used just a little lemon juice. Thanks again for all the time and love that you put in these videos. Keep the vibes flowing brother!
Thumbs up to this format! I appreciate the experimentation process. As much as I would like to be there with you for the journey, your effort saves me time and expense of producing the “misses” on my dime. Cheers!
That progression was fantastic. I love watching experts work through flavor combinations. I can't quite figure it out myself in these situations and I appreciate the explanations.
This was a great episode; I love watching Oz try the drink. She takes a sip and no reaction. I am waiting for Oz to say she does not like it, but, her eyes get bright and then tells us all this drink is great. You both are great keep it up.
I would love more videos in this format. Developing the thought process to make drinks and improve on them is very interesting compared to following a recipe. If I'm going to throw together a cocktail with what I have in the house, knowing how to pick flavors and adjust will go a long way.
Really liked the format. I would totally dig more of this. I've been dabbling with cocktails for the last few years at home and only just came across your channel a few weeks ago and have been gobbling it up. Keep up the great work!
I really love watching videos where you experiment and build on something like this. As a budding cocktail enthusiast, it really helps me understand how more experienced bartenders analyze flavours and the impact of specific changes, which makes me feel more confident as I experiment on my own.
Long time watcher but 1st time commenter here. I can say for certain this is my favourite of all your contents, watching you build and modify a recipe to improve it is so interesting and gives me so much insight into trying to make my own drinks
I spend a massive amount of time on TH-cam and this might be my first time ever commenting on any video but this video warrants it. Huge fan of this style of video and matrix style to find the best combination and how the different ingredients interact differently with others. HowToDrink’s margarita episode was fantastic and I love that you are experimenting with a similar concept!
I'm blown away by how good this cocktail is now, thanks to your improvements. I'd been struggling with the same issue of not liking it for years, but feeling like there was a good cocktail in there somewhere. You've found it! The addition of Allspice dram is genius. Thanks to your ideas it's still a Mary Pickford but immeasurably better. Thank you, Anders! I also found that throwing your version, rather than shaking it, also helped (it sounds pretentious and unnecessary, but trust me it works).
I always make it a point to watch your new videos. They got me making drinks at home. THIS WAS THE BEST!!! I really like how you showed the progression and the thinking. More please. Also, mo Az, mo betta. :)
Definitely want to see more content like this. Showing the progression, the process, is a great addition to your video. Many thumbs up. Also, I feel better about my home bar stock. If Anders needs more than what has previously been seen at the back bar, it’s perfectly acceptable for me to need to have on hand more bottles than I’m happy to disclose. Thank-you Anders for making me feel better about my choices. 70. 70-ish. And four ice choices. I definitely need at least 10 more bottles that I can think of right now. I need to stop watching these videos. Fresh pineapple is key. I was trying to convince myself I like canned, I can even get Dole in Australia, because of the extra work and waste with fresh pineapple. Fresh still wins hands down.
That was a fun vlog. FYI Mary Pickford- who was Canadian- was Hollywood Royalty and a gigantic star in her time. She was one of the founders of United Artists so she played a major role in Hollywood which unusual for a woman during that time. So she was a real groundbreaker. Cheers from Toronto
Really loved watching the process. Just incorporated a cocktail program at my brewpub… and I wanted to do a lil somethin somethin with my cocktails. It took months to dial the recipes in, but I did it exactly the same way you did. I’m no mixologist but I brew beer, so tweaking recipes came natural to me. The world is spirits is so deep and seemingly never-ending…kind of overwhelming but exciting at the same time. I enjoy all your videos, but ones like this are really interesting to those of us who have patience enough to make 10 versions of the same cocktail to make sure it’s dialed in. Cheers!
Different format today - hope you enjoy the process!🍸
Love this format - so enlightening for us cocktail newbies - please do more!
I love watching the creative process at work! Please do more of these, I want to understand how different ingredients affect cocktails like you did here. Love this!
It was fun to see the process!
Commenting on this thread to say the same, do more of these!!
Loved the video- really cool to see your thought process in changing the recipe. That is the next level in terms of making cocktails that I one day hope to reach. Cheers!
I appreciate Az being on the show because as a "cocktail newb" she offers a different take on what the cocktails taste like. Her opinion is perfectly valid because she represents the majority of people who aren't cocktail enthusiasts.
“Tastes like a college drink” is a perfect description from Az! She’s a great addition to the tasting notes. Also, canned pineapple juice always tastes “tinny” to me and I can’t get beyond it. Maybe juicing my own is the key🤔
I also think canned pineapple has a metallic taste. Maybe a couple of bar spoons of pineapple liqueur will strengthen the otherwise flat taste of a carton one?
The problem with fresh is one pineapple makes a lot so unless you plan on making a lot of pineapple drinks that week it can be wasted. Those cans are great for like 2-3 drinks. A balance of quality vs waste.
@@Ahglock that’s my struggle! I don’t want to drink 14 pineapple drinks in a row just to use up the fresh juice. Maybe more cocktail parties are in order😏
@@Ahglock just eat the rest
True but its consistent=/ I understand the fresh pineapple but if you can't recreate the cocktail then where do you stand? I mean I guess the slight variation in ripeness couldn't do too much- but is it enough to try these new variations with the canned juice or maybe a bottled juice ? Also what about pre- juicing and saving the pineapple juice? I haven't done much experimenting with saving fresh juice and how preserve it as long as possible
Judging by pineapple that I've had in HI, the difference between a fresh pineapple in Chicago and a fresh pineapple in Cuba could also make a huge difference in the success of the drink. Great content as always, great to see your development process.
Excellent point! 🍍 I'd like to have these cocktails in their place of origin. Cheers!
This. I had a fresh pineapple in Central America once. Not only was it better, but the flavor was almost different in some way I can't really describe.
@@gregk8246 you most likely had a different variant. There are many different types of pineapples, some much better than others, but Smooth Cayenn is the variant that typically gets shipped because it fares better than others when shipped and stored.
Right varieties influence the flavor, also being able to harvest the fruit ripe allows for more compounds to develop, usually the fruit is processing compounds while ripening and cutting it early from the plant cuts the sugar supply, taking away the energy for processing.
I guess canned pineapple might not be the best, but def the most consistent, as it can be tweaked post juicing
I can really see this. Had a piña colada at some random place in havana that blew every single one I had had previous and since out of the water. It was just so much richer in taste than anything else I've had.
HAHA I love Az’s commentary at the end - definitely what I would say. Sometimes ya gotta let go of being a purist to find the best sip, IMO. Anders definitely do another “drink repair” video, neat process to watch!
Free Az! I want to hear her unfiltered and on cocktail #3…
@@kevinwallace939 😂 agreed!
Definitely enjoyed seeing the process you go through to make cocktails, and I really liked how you explained why you were adding things. As a very amateur mixologist, that is very helpful
Cheers, Michael! Happy you enjoyed it!
This is my favorite way of viewing these, getting two sides of something you're working on with small adjusments as you go
Anders, have an episode where Az gives the most honest brutal thoughts on some mediocre cocktails, Honest Az should be a series, where she doesnt hold back, that would be insanely entertaining.
Anders, i’ve never commented on a TH-cam video before but you’ve drawn me out to say PLEASE continue with this format. I’m a novice in Mixology and seeing your thought process was super helpful!
I am ALWAYS interested in watching an individual bartender's evolution of a cocktail. Crafting a cocktail can be an expensive hobby, so learning how the pros do it can save me a couple bucks.
LOVED seeing the process. As someone who is new to mixing cocktails I really enjoyed in insight and thought process in swapping things out. The whole time I was thinking you were going to go for a dark rum to punch up the flavor. Thanks and would love more of these.
Came here to post this. I've been doing Pickfords with Zacapa 23 as my rum of choice, and I think it way deepens the flavor.
So, I made the “Maranders Pickrickson” tonight (aka 2.0 version). Sometimes, you go to cocktail making with what ya got, not what you wish you got. So, I used canned pineapple. Otherwise, 100% to spec, including homemade grenadine. We liked it as a tiki-ish drink which, even with canned pineapple, would be a success amongst our friends. And because it’s canned, we know it can be a fairly predictable outcome, each time. Coincidentally, had just added the Mary Pickford to our cocktail logbook last week, so this was a timely exploration of something we’d recently tried for the first time. Anyway, breaking down the process is awesome to observe - please do more! I’d suggest a future episode(s) where, ala Chopped, Az provides Anders with a mystery basket of ingredients from which he creates a new cocktail from scratch. I just did something similar at home with Douglas Fir Infused gin, and came up with something shockingly tasty, balanced, etc. Thanks again for the great video.
1. Love the “workshop” video
2. As always, love Az’s commentary
3. Thank you!
Hostile Az is my spirit animal. =] Really enjoyed hearing the thought process as the "improved" ("Marie Pickford"?) cocktail was being formulated. Cheers!
I've been binge-watching your content for the last few days having just discovered your channel, I have learned and laughed a LOT! Also, I'm not sure if it's just your naturally exuberant personalities but it seems like half of these episodes you guys have a bit of a buzz going on and things get a bit loose, which is exactly what it's like in my kitchen when I start making cocktails 😂 it just contributes to the feel of sitting across from the bar with an enthusiastic bar-tender mate experimenting his latest creations, I love that.
Love this format! More like this to help us learn how to properly balance cocktails
This made me read about Mary Pickford. She was amazing! She was always looking for ways to improve film. Your drink does her justice. Maybe call it the Mary Pickford Spotlight
I actually really enjoyed watching you build them and talking about the tasting notes and why you’re doing specific things to make your alterations. I’ve been following you for the last year and making just with every drink possible and I love your thought process when you’re building
I love this type of video where you experiment and share with us the results. Please do more of this!
Always love to see Az's thoughts on the cocktail! This video format was interesting and I'd for sure like to see it again.
It's always interesting to see the thought process of a bartender tweaking a drink.
If you want to add more acid without using lime juice, you could try "acidulating" (also known as "acid-adjusting") your pineapple juice. Basically, you just add citric acid and malic acid to your juice until it reaches the acidity of lime juice. You can "acid-adjust" any fruit juice for a cocktail to increase the acid without adding lime or lemon flavors.
Five minutes of saying how much you don’t like a drink.
One sip of the drink - “I mean it’s not a bad drink…”
Love your videos Anders, great work as usual.
Watched you for almost two years now Anders and love your and Oz’s work. Love this new format. More please
Love the process, would love more videos like this one! Helps understand the intricacies of coming up with a good cocktail recipe
Dig the workshopping, it really helps with understanding why some cocktails are greater than the sum of their parts.
I was intrigued by the problem solving process. Yes, please. Do this kind of thing again
One of my favorite videos! Love the process and encouragement to tweak the classics to your liking. Also Az I couldn’t have said it better!! ❤️
I very much enjoy watching the progression on creating or adapting cocktails both my Wife and I enjoy the thought process. So Friday night has become Anders and Oz night for the Wife and I.
There’s only a few channels I make must watch week after week. Out of those there’s only 2 or 3 that get an automatic “like”. Your videos ALWAYS get an immediate like, before you’re even through the intro. Incredibly entertaining, and even more so informational. Your passion makes it engaging and drives me to reignite my own passions, even those non drink related. Thank you
I remade this myself tonight but I have no allspice dram. I tried some other things and we found out that chartreuse is a great way of filling in that blank middle. Delicious! I felt that perhaps acid adjusting the pineapple might elevate this one further
YES to seeing more process; sure, I can get behind trying to track down authenticity, tasting what made a drink a stand-out. What I really enjoy is tuning; finding how my ingredients interact. Having a window into how _you_ do that is invaluable...
I have been taught when using pinapple juice in cocktail you always need to use an additional citrus. Great video.
Interesing.... I do find that Pina Colada tastes much better with a little lime juice, but it never occured to me to add it in a Mary Pickford!
Love these “behind the bar” explorations.
There are a Slew! A Slew I say, of meh drinks that, with a little fun and a stocked bar can turn into some favorites!
This feels like showcasing “soft skills” of bartending. Tweeting drinks and knowing what each ingredient does in a cocktail and what plays well together.
Bravo and Cheers!
Loved seeing the progression and the rationale behind the modifications. Totally loved Az’s forthrightness, “mediocre at best”, genius!😂 More of both please!
Like I do at home, doctoring the cocktail to my taste/preference is the goal. Not unlike making a mix tape/CD, the fun is in the journey. Keep up the good work, Mr Host.
I love these types of videos - it really helps me to learn how a cocktail is constructed. I was at a local cocktail bar/Irish pub last week and we were taste testing new cocktails and they were all too flat, too sweet, too.... something and not one of them was good. The bartender is not a mixologist - which was evident - and she really didn't know what to do to improve the drink. Of course, we recommended your channel! But now that I've watched this video and your other one about the Brown Derby, I can provide better feedback when we return for more cocktail testing. Keep up the great work, Anders! We are huge fans!
This is the first of your videos I've watched but I loved seeing the original and the progression to the final product
Enjoyed seeing this process! It is interesting to see what considerations you make to improve or make a cocktail more to your taste. Thank you for sharing!
Cheers!
I love this idea! It makes it so much more personal and also, you do alot of people a favor! Loving it. Am a bartender myself and im taking so much insperation from you. Keep on doing this. Love it! Keep it going
Since I started watching your videos my home cocktail mixing has really gone up a few notches.
Love seeing how the sausage is made, and Az is always charming.
I absolutely love when you fix drinks.
please do it more often.
Absolutely loved this video! As an amateur home mixologist, I make a lot of "It's good but missing something" cocktails. As an engineer with a science background, I want to pick apart why but often don't know enough about mixing to know where to start. Then I end up with something too sweet or too sour. The insight of why pineapple doesn't work, how citrus improves (and in what quantity), and how something from left field like Allspice Dram can kick it up a notch is very helpful. Thanks so much!
I do enjoy seeing the work-shopping process. There's little bits of info that come out, that are really helpful.
I definitely like the workshopping vid. More of these, please!
It is just as entertaining (well, almost as entertaining) to watch you make cocktails that you don't enjoy: It's very helpful to see you work at balancing and improving a cocktail. Great channel. I've sent lots of people your way.
I love this format! Love deconstructing and rebuilding, experimenting with different ingredients……very interesting format
Bring back hostile Az! Haha, she almost just totally opened up and told off the purists. Thing is, she's got a point. Pay homage to the originator and to tradition, but accept the fact that virtually no drink is perfect and mixology is an ever-evolving and ever-improving thing.
I love seeing cocktails improved! Especially when it's just using better ingredients and adjusting ratios, maybe adding something, but still staying true to the original core idea, and not a full reconstruction that's basically a totally new drink.
In this video, I love the journey you took me on to get to the perfect cocktail. Do more videos like this, please.
I did enjoy the development process. I would enjoy seeing more of that.
That was excellent. I liked that you took an original and made it better and showed the process to us.
Love this format where you can kind of see your self improving drinks. I don't try this super often cause I don't want to waste the drink...so I drink it then I start getting drunk and i'm like "Damn this is good" but by that point it is just whiskey in a glass.
Cool to see the evolution of the cocktail
I like the process! Very interesting. I also like Az's purist rant! Totally agree!
I love this channel so much. It's like a comfort for me at this point. Thanks for your hard work👍
Appreciate you saying that - enjoy the weekend!
I love that you show us the process. So nice to get a glimpse into what "mixology" really means! So cool!
Thanks for showing us your process, I always like seeing that, whether from an artist, photographer or cocktailer, cheers.
This was fun to watch! Yes, would love to see you starting including regular to semi-regular workshop type videos.
You did a great job with this one. I personally don’t really like this cocktail without a tiny bit of citrus added to it. But once I add a barspoon of lime juice then it turns amazing. Enjoy your weekend Anders, cheers 🍹
Cheers, David! Amazing what a little citrus can do. Happy Friday, my friend!
I love this stuff so much. I love seeing the thought prosses that goes into improving or making a cocktail. I think its interesting and allows new people (Me) an idea of what bartenders think about when making/comparing a cocktail.
Yep, I liked this. It was good seeing you go through the improvement process. I'm not saying I need this for every drink you do, but once in a while is good.
Ooo very much appreciated the troubleshoot format!! This helps when we’re at home and in a spot where we need to tweak our drinks!
It's my favorite...taking something that's there and improving it. Keep it up!
Loved the extended format. I do hope to see it more often. We NEED more Anders content!
Love this format! I really enjoy the iterative process of making a drink and tweaking it slightly to get it just right. It was really helpful to hear your thought process as you think through how to make adjustments!
Hey brother. I wanted to drop a vibe here for you. I just helped create a drink menu for a new speak easy bar. And I learned a lot from your videos. And out of all the drinks, this cocktail was the favorite. I juiced a fresh pineapple and added a little lime and lemon juice. Used your grenadine recipe as well. I couldn’t find the pomegranate molasses. So I used just a little lemon juice. Thanks again for all the time and love that you put in these videos. Keep the vibes flowing brother!
Thumbs up to this format! I appreciate the experimentation process. As much as I would like to be there with you for the journey, your effort saves me time and expense of producing the “misses” on my dime. Cheers!
That progression was fantastic. I love watching experts work through flavor combinations. I can't quite figure it out myself in these situations and I appreciate the explanations.
Very good video, it's cool to see how bartenders improve the cocktails. Need more videos!
This was a great episode; I love watching Oz try the drink. She takes a sip and no reaction. I am waiting for Oz to say she does not like it, but, her eyes get bright and then tells us all this drink is great. You both are great keep it up.
I would love more videos in this format. Developing the thought process to make drinks and improve on them is very interesting compared to following a recipe. If I'm going to throw together a cocktail with what I have in the house, knowing how to pick flavors and adjust will go a long way.
Mary Pickford's Baby! like the workthrough!
Awesome, as always. I thoroughly enjoyed the behind the scenes look at your creative process. I would love to see more like this. Thank you.
Loved this format! I think any aspiring hobby barfly would love to watch a true professional making the drink his own.
Definitely do more of these videos. Love learning how small adjustments can improve a cocktail.
Would love to see more cocktail development breakdowns like this! Especially for creating a cocktail recipe of your own
Really liked the format. I would totally dig more of this. I've been dabbling with cocktails for the last few years at home and only just came across your channel a few weeks ago and have been gobbling it up. Keep up the great work!
Love the back end of stuff! Let’s see more progressions like this!
Really enjoyed the workshopping. Please more vids like this!
I really liked this format! And also the new camera angles! Please more of that!
Very fun video watching the progression of this cocktail! More like this, please.
Az, tells us with you really think! 😉 Love the honest opinions! It’s why I’m here. Thank you!
I really love watching videos where you experiment and build on something like this. As a budding cocktail enthusiast, it really helps me understand how more experienced bartenders analyze flavours and the impact of specific changes, which makes me feel more confident as I experiment on my own.
Love this. Keep experimenting and building that confident, Patrick - Cheers!
Long time watcher but 1st time commenter here. I can say for certain this is my favourite of all your contents, watching you build and modify a recipe to improve it is so interesting and gives me so much insight into trying to make my own drinks
I spend a massive amount of time on TH-cam and this might be my first time ever commenting on any video but this video warrants it. Huge fan of this style of video and matrix style to find the best combination and how the different ingredients interact differently with others. HowToDrink’s margarita episode was fantastic and I love that you are experimenting with a similar concept!
This was fun. Do another! Love watching the progression.
This was really cool! I like the iterative format - creation instead of just replication is always interesting!
I'm blown away by how good this cocktail is now, thanks to your improvements. I'd been struggling with the same issue of not liking it for years, but feeling like there was a good cocktail in there somewhere. You've found it! The addition of Allspice dram is genius. Thanks to your ideas it's still a Mary Pickford but immeasurably better. Thank you, Anders! I also found that throwing your version, rather than shaking it, also helped (it sounds pretentious and unnecessary, but trust me it works).
Loved seeing this process! MORE PLEASE!
I always make it a point to watch your new videos. They got me making drinks at home. THIS WAS THE BEST!!! I really like how you showed the progression and the thinking. More please. Also, mo Az, mo betta. :)
Definitely want to see more content like this. Showing the progression, the process, is a great addition to your video. Many thumbs up. Also, I feel better about my home bar stock. If Anders needs more than what has previously been seen at the back bar, it’s perfectly acceptable for me to need to have on hand more bottles than I’m happy to disclose. Thank-you Anders for making me feel better about my choices. 70. 70-ish. And four ice choices. I definitely need at least 10 more bottles that I can think of right now. I need to stop watching these videos. Fresh pineapple is key. I was trying to convince myself I like canned, I can even get Dole in Australia, because of the extra work and waste with fresh pineapple. Fresh still wins hands down.
That was a fun vlog. FYI Mary Pickford- who was Canadian- was Hollywood Royalty and a gigantic star in her time. She was one of the founders of United Artists so she played a major role in Hollywood which unusual for a woman during that time. So she was a real groundbreaker. Cheers from Toronto
Omg 🤣 her facial expressions are EVERYTHING!!
Hilarious at the end! I am thrilled to see the process behind improving a recipe to personal taste, thank you both!
Love that format and I would like to see some more. Margaritas would probably be a fun one.
Love this idea for a series! It's helpful to show all these steps for those who want to make their own drinks or improve on a favorite.
Really loved watching the process. Just incorporated a cocktail program at my brewpub… and I wanted to do a lil somethin somethin with my cocktails. It took months to dial the recipes in, but I did it exactly the same way you did. I’m no mixologist but I brew beer, so tweaking recipes came natural to me. The world is spirits is so deep and seemingly never-ending…kind of overwhelming but exciting at the same time. I enjoy all your videos, but ones like this are really interesting to those of us who have patience enough to make 10 versions of the same cocktail to make sure it’s dialed in. Cheers!
Please do more workshopping. Loved this one!
LOVED seeing the progression! An accidental tutorial on how to improve your own cocktails!