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Here's a terrible episode idea: Greg has to recreate cocktails from the obscure, uninformative tasting notes from his old episodes, and try to figure out what he made.
Heinz 57 is not just ketchup, and has been on shelves as far back in the 70’s as I remember. Guessing it is “mostly” ketchup-ish and shares a base, but the color and flavor is not the same. Wikipedia says: “By 1940, the term "Heinz 57" had become so synonymous with the company the name was used to market a steak sauce, which had a taste similar to ketchup. Because of this, its advertising campaign in the late 1980s and early 1990s used the slogan "It's like ketchup with a kick"”
I used Heinz 57 sauce on Salisbury steak when I was a kid in the '70s. It's more like ketchup mixed with a touch of Worcester and mustard. For the record, 57 is the "Varieties" of sauces they had at some point historically.
@@gamara85255They never had 57 varieties. One of the marketing guys just thought another company had a good slogan with “21 styles,” so they did the same thing. The significance of 57 is just that 57 was a catchy sounding number and people like having a 7 at the end.
@@gamara85255 it wasn't a varieties of just sauces, but a variety of sauces and pickles, mostly pickles at the time. Heck, they only took off the pickle logo off the ketchup labels, replacing it with a tomato on the vine, in 2009.
According to Gabriel "The Fluffy Guy" Iglesias, there are some alcoholic beverages that make you *say* their names. I think Malort is more of an onamatopoeia, the sound you make when the Malort you drank earlier comes back for an encore performance!
Pro tip: ditch the long Island elements and just do Midori, gin, triple sec, top up with a more mellow lemon lime soda. That's my favorite drink and ditching the long Island elements cleans up and simplifies the drink into its base elements better.
Before becoming maybe the best fantasy author ever, Terry Pratchett worked as press officer for a nuclear power plant. So he had nuclear power on his mind when he accidentally ordered "Three Mile Island dressing" with his salad. The staff brought out Thousand Island dressing...and a bottle of Tabasco.
As the Pepperoni idea took shape, I immediately started thinking it'd make a good Lowball-drinks made like highballs but with a "lowbrow" or "budget" main component…like Dr Pepper or Mountain Dew.
Dr.Pepper is surprisingly good in stuff. I use it as a replacer for coke with rum. It comes out tasting very strongly of cherry. Especially when you use Kraken.
1. Rum and Scope (pretty self explanatory) 2. Gin & Chronic (weed infused gin?) 3. White Mexican (White Russian with tequila instead of vodka) AND NOW ONES THAT JUST SOUND FUNNY 4. Negroni Spaghettiato 5. Piña Coca-colada 6. Long Island Ice Cream 7. Cosmopolitician
I think making a good mould fashioned might include both koji rice and nutritional yeast, both of which have a cool moldiness. Koji is toasty, and nutritional yeast is savoury and cheesy, pair it with a nutty bourbon or rye and you're really cooking with fire.
How about a "Scuba Libre" where you augment a Cuba Libre with something fishy, like fish sauce, oyster sauce, that liquid that tuna fish is packed in, etc...
I like the drinks that rely on cocktail ingredients better than the ones that use random stuff like mayonnaise. Like of course a chunky cocktail is gonna be weird, that's not a drink.
Thank you... Imo those ones are usually just dumb and gross. It's more interesting creating something awful from things you are actually supposed to drink.
Greg, Green Chartreuse is very hard to find now cause the monks scaled back production a bunch. Even curiada is always out of stock, and has an email notification list for when they very periodically get some in. Could you do an episode on Green Chartreuse and approximate substitutions, perhaps modifying something close to get it even closer?
Please include the "Bees Wheeze" in the next episode. I'm envisioning lemoncello (in place of lemon juice), honey mead (in place of honey syrup), and everclear (in place of gin)... I doubt it'll taste too bad, but it'll get you buzzing.
Snowcaps I think would work too, and probably wouldn't be god awful. They're not... Really mould or fungus, but they give that illusion, for someone not wanting an unholy abomination.
My favourite part of these episodes is when Greg tries to make something heinous but ends up making something good. Seeing him blow his own mind on accident is a joy
You have seen the magic of Dr. Pepper, Greg. I have actually made a drink called the Dark Gamemaster which was Captain Morgan Black and Dr. Pepper Dark Berry. The rum actually tempered the sweetness of the Dr. Sadly...neither of those ingredients exist anymore...
@@gamemasteranthony2756 Yeah, that’s why I said you try remastering it. Try to find some combination of Dr. Pepper and some liquor that mimics the taste.
Yeah, Heinz 57 sauce has been around since 1940, lol. Between thinking Heinz 57 is a recent product *and* thinking that people born in 1997 are still children, I’m really not sure what interdimensional bizarro decade Greg’s currently living in, but it’d be nice if he came and joined us in 2023 sometime soon, lol.
Love these, but I do like The Customer is Always Wrong, or tasting pre-mixed things be they canned, boxed, or others a bit more since those are things people order intentionally that might be terrible. Edit: Also on the note of drinks that might be bad ideas as a fan of the Battletech universe I've been planning to try and drink a House Steiner PPC which is 4 parts grain alcohol 2 parts peppermint schnapps. Think this is a bad idea HTD fans?
I feel like 🤌The Pepperoni 🤌 works because of the aromatic spice profile that's present in dr pepper is similar to that in sweet vermouth or even bitters. Definitely going to try this out at my bar 😂
For the mold fashioned: Several types of baijiu use mold-based fermentation rather than the more traditional yeast. And while they have a pretty strong flavor, it's not as outright _weird_ as some of the yeast-based ones where umami dominates the flavor profile.
Sake uses a mold to break up the starch into its monosaccharid components, which are then fermented into alcohol by yeast. So that might have worked too as an ingredient, but Sake has a pretty subtle flavor and isn't particularly strong either so it wouldn't do much to a cocktail other than dilute it a bit.
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My suggestion for this is a "Tabasco spritz". It's an Aperol Spritz with Tabasco instead of Aperol Also, a Dutch and Stormy, Dark and Stormy but with Jenever instead of rum (this will likely not actually ruin the drink lol)
If you use good jenever many cocktails are fine or even better the Dutch way. Oude jenever or korenwijn old fashioned has become one of my signature drinks when I have friends over (especially friends from abroad)
I dont mind this idea except for the fact that 2oz of tabasco will overpower anything and everything, making all the other ingredients pointless. you're just chugging tabasco at that point. perhaps a lighter hot sauce?
@@swchwrm020 Yeah, I actually thought of it separately from the video prompt, but it fits the idea of replacing one word. Ginger and jenever probably work very well together if I had to guess.
I like the surprise ones like the Dr Pepper and the Mile Island iced tea. Those were my favourites. I love seeing you expect the worst and come out mildly convinced.
I'll toss an idea here, "The Red Squirrel." A Pink Squirrel but sub Crème de Noyaux with Red Cream Soda. A take on a personal favorite of mine and my obvious favorite from your 70s Episode. Plus if it turns out either good enough or horrifying enough, I can legit take it to the Pink Squirrel's place of origin.
@@soulknife20 What about using fruity or cocoa pebbles in it? You know Flint-stones? Maybe something in a glass rimmed with crushed up Flintstones Vitamins?
Y'know, its wild. I can't even drink alcohol... yet I always find myself coming back to watch the content here. Greg has some kinna charisma, that's for sure.
As funny as it is watching Greg's reaction to drinking something that tastes exactly as terrible as it sounds, my favourites are when he discovers something that really shouldn't work, but does. You'd think that mixology is such a well-explored field by now that pretty much all the flavour combinations that actually work would have been discovered already, so it's really cool to find out about new combinations I might actually want to try no matter how god-awful they may sound on paper.
Dr Pepper has the flavor of the smell of a specific turn of the century soda fountain store located in Waco, TX. The creator wanted mimic the feeling of that smell as a taste in a soda.
I use Dr pepper as my go to soda, and I've made many a pepperoni! (Unfortunately without ever coining the term!) I use lemon peel, and usually add a barspoon of lemon juice.
Cold Fashioned (an old fashion using peppermint extract for a cool refreshing feel (alternatively you could use mint flavored mouthwash for its alchohol content))
i think it could be nice to experiment more on gins' compatibility with all sorts of herbs and fruits. like i would never think about combining anything other than vodka with tomato anything, but thinking about it more, that french 57 seemed less and less cursed than it had any right of being
Dr. Pepper is a very intresting flavor that i am suprised doesn't show up in more cocktails, or like high end like Fever Dream don't do something with. you could really make a dr pepper cocktail episode.
If we ever get a part 3, could we get a Tuba Libre pls? Basically a rum and coke shaken up/served in a brass instrument finally removed from somebodys loft for the 1st time since the mid 90s. 10/10 episode greg, Pepperoni™️ was a winner lol
As a Long time tuba player, i immediately had that brassy taste in my mouth and ...kinda want to have a Tuba Libre now. Not out of a used instrument, i still shudder to this day at the amount of spit that came out of that little valve thingy, but the brassy taste could be interesting in a drink.
I have wanted to try some of these weirder drinks, but I don't have a lot of money and can't usually justify buying a bunch of weird liquors for a drink that will probably be terrible. But i have all the ingredients for a Pepperoni! The verdict: Yeah, that's not bad at all actually. Not quite as good as a Negroni, and the campari stands out a lot more, with the Dr. Pepper sort of providing harmony in the background. I think maybe it needs a little tinkering to be good enough to be worth making, but it's definitely not bad and has totally sold me on the combination of Campari and Dr. Pepper. I feel like maybe it just needs one more ingredient to go from "not bad" up to "good" but it is actually a surprisingly solid foundation.
I’ve got 3 ideas: 1. Beastside- an east side with mr beast chocolate or cookies muddled in 2. Manfattan- a manhattan with melted butter potentially replacing the sweet vermouth 3. Kumflower- a sunflower with kombucha to top it
Alternate name for the second one: Man Fatten - make a Manhattan as ridiculously sweet as possible, and serve with (or over) ice cream. One serving changes your blood type to Rocky Road. 😁
I’ve got two ideas A Bloody Dairy and a Why Tai For the why tai why not make your tropical drink truly taste like the tropics with some tuna juice for that ocean taste. A Bloody dairy could be in many ways but I think subbing vodka with baileys would do the trick
I am once again asking for you to try Planter's Mr Peanut Punch, contains smooth peanut butter heated up to mix with evaporated milk, demorara simple syrup, Jamaican rum and angostura bitters lengthened with soda over hella crushed ice.
Gonna stand by the opinion that "Heinz 57" means Heinz 57 Sauce, not ketchup. However, I feel like using actual 57 would have been far too overpowering for that drink.
Heinz 57 sauce is like 90yrs old, Greg.... Even older, if you include the first 20ish years it was sold under its original name, Heinz Beefsteak Sauce, from 1911.
12:11 " '97... I hope that's the year you fraduated High School and not the year you were born." Greg, I don't know how to tell you this, but '97 kids can legally drink.
How about a delicious Detroit sling? A Singapore Sling but you sub the pineapple juice for either Diet Coke or Moxie Cola (it’s a thing. Many people claim it tastes like rusty nails.) All the charm of the rust belt in a glass.
Hey, Greg, I see where some TikTok types are claiming that if you mix Corona beer with Disaronno liqueur, it tastes just like Dr Pepper. There’s no sane reason to do this, since Dr Pepper is cheaper than either Corona or Disaronno, but I thought it’s an experiment you might want to do on your channel.
If you ever do another one of these i want to see "T-rex on the beach". Mainly because i dont know what that would mean. Prehistoric flavors? Blood from the beachgoers getting attacked?
We happened to have the ingredients on hand for the Pepperoni, so I gave it a try. I found it more palatable with two parts Pepper. I'm not a huge Negroni fan, hard to say whether this is an improvement, but I could see myself acquiring a taste for it. Part of me thinks it needs a pepperoni stick garnish, for the memes if not for the flavor.
On the Dark & Wormy i think it should've been split with dark rum and malort, not sure how much that would've helped but at least it would've tinted the drink some.
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Malort.
Johnnie Walker Poo on the Rocks.
Maker's Mark and Stormy?
Here's a terrible episode idea: Greg has to recreate cocktails from the obscure, uninformative tasting notes from his old episodes, and try to figure out what he made.
This is gold.
Hell yeah! Lol that would definitely be interesting
Yes!!!
Hire this commenter! Great idea
this is genius lol
Greg, I hate to inform you that 97 would mean they're 26. That is a perfectly acceptable age to be drinking XD
Leave.
Yeah, the older end of gen Z is allowed to drink lol
@@pennyforyourthots 97 is not zoomers but yea, oldest zoomers are 21-23, they can drink even in the usa
Dec. 97 here, and legal.
@@therewasoldcringe Gen Z starts in '96 so '97 is indeed Zoomer. The oldest Zoomer is 26.
The name "Bloody Larry" keeps coming into my head, but I've got no idea what it's supposed to look like.
Well a cup of jow is coffee so...
Something to do with cucumbers, referencing a certain cartoon vegetable?
i get a brown color in my head, maybe a coffe bloody marry?
This is sinful and I adore it.
My first thought was to incorporate cheap beer.
The best part of this is Greg going in to torture himself and, while that does happen, he actually finds ideas that work and aren't terrible.
Heinz 57 is not just ketchup, and has been on shelves as far back in the 70’s as I remember. Guessing it is “mostly” ketchup-ish and shares a base, but the color and flavor is not the same. Wikipedia says: “By 1940, the term "Heinz 57" had become so synonymous with the company the name was used to market a steak sauce, which had a taste similar to ketchup. Because of this, its advertising campaign in the late 1980s and early 1990s used the slogan "It's like ketchup with a kick"”
I used Heinz 57 sauce on Salisbury steak when I was a kid in the '70s. It's more like ketchup mixed with a touch of Worcester and mustard.
For the record, 57 is the "Varieties" of sauces they had at some point historically.
@@gamara85255They never had 57 varieties. One of the marketing guys just thought another company had a good slogan with “21 styles,” so they did the same thing. The significance of 57 is just that 57 was a catchy sounding number and people like having a 7 at the end.
@@gamara85255 it wasn't a varieties of just sauces, but a variety of sauces and pickles, mostly pickles at the time. Heck, they only took off the pickle logo off the ketchup labels, replacing it with a tomato on the vine, in 2009.
It’s also not “new”, 57 sauce (not the ketchup) has been around since 1911
Yeah Heinz 57 is different than ketchup. I use it for chops . Been out sne I was a kid and I'm a 90$ kid
I'm absolutely loving the fact that when Greg came up with the pepperoni he just straight-up did a Mark Hamill joker laugh
Favorite part of the episode is Greg desperately avoiding the realization that people born in '97 are in their mid-20s now.
26 to be Precise, just 2 years younger than myself.
Being 30 for five months now has fundamentally broken my ability to grasp time
I'm 34 & yet I feel older, lol.
@@doublevendetta same hat
@@davidparkes7741 Dude I just turned 33 and honestly I feel the same XD
Greg: Why do people keep ruining normal drinks with Sprite?
Also Greg: Hmm. This with Dr. Pepper actually isn't bad. Let's try some more with this.
The worst word isn't a cocktail, it's what you'll be saying to whoever hands you a glass of carbonated malort
According to Gabriel "The Fluffy Guy" Iglesias, there are some alcoholic beverages that make you *say* their names.
I think Malort is more of an onamatopoeia, the sound you make when the Malort you drank earlier comes back for an encore performance!
I love that the Pepperoni was both a hilarious pun and also a surprisingly good ‘bad’ drink
I know Greg hates dirty martinis, so I offer a counter:
Substitute the olive juice with Vienna sausages. A Mar-weenie.
LMAO
Martini-weenie
This must be called the Super Weenie Hut Jr.
Substitute olive juice for pickled poblano juice
See I was thinking a "Dirty Manhattan"
I love how the notes are like a very sarcastic friend watching their friend do something stupid.
I have this mental image of her cackling while she types them up.
They're half the reason I keep coming back, they make me crack up.
I respect the fact that the 3 mile island ice tea isn't just a long island ice tea with Mt Dew.
that doesn't sound awful either
well mountain dew wouldnt really give the colour
Pro tip: ditch the long Island elements and just do Midori, gin, triple sec, top up with a more mellow lemon lime soda. That's my favorite drink and ditching the long Island elements cleans up and simplifies the drink into its base elements better.
Before becoming maybe the best fantasy author ever, Terry Pratchett worked as press officer for a nuclear power plant. So he had nuclear power on his mind when he accidentally ordered "Three Mile Island dressing" with his salad. The staff brought out Thousand Island dressing...and a bottle of Tabasco.
Um, this is The Cannabis Special or Green Tea, no fizz, and you lace the Melon Liqueur. If you want fizz, just add Sprite.
I couldn't help but burst out laughing at almost every new sentence of bewilderment in the 'Mold Fashioned' bit. This was a nice pick-me-up.
Agreed! I loathe blue cheese, and that was both horrifying and downright hilarious!😜🤣
As the Pepperoni idea took shape, I immediately started thinking it'd make a good Lowball-drinks made like highballs but with a "lowbrow" or "budget" main component…like Dr Pepper or Mountain Dew.
Dr.Pepper is surprisingly good in stuff. I use it as a replacer for coke with rum. It comes out tasting very strongly of cherry. Especially when you use Kraken.
@@ratchet1271Dr.Pepper cream soda and Tullamore Dew.
Lengthen an old fashioned with it, and swap the orange peel out for a lemon to keep it balanced.
1. Rum and Scope (pretty self explanatory)
2. Gin & Chronic (weed infused gin?)
3. White Mexican (White Russian with tequila instead of vodka)
AND NOW ONES THAT JUST SOUND FUNNY
4. Negroni Spaghettiato
5. Piña Coca-colada
6. Long Island Ice Cream
7. Cosmopolitician
8. Sweaty Mary
8.5 Teary Mary (to conclude the Blood Sweat & Tears trilogy)
Long Island Ice Cream sounds interesting
Alright. It's time for me to sub. TH-cam recommended this to me within seconds of it going public.
I think making a good mould fashioned might include both koji rice and nutritional yeast, both of which have a cool moldiness. Koji is toasty, and nutritional yeast is savoury and cheesy, pair it with a nutty bourbon or rye and you're really cooking with fire.
Maybe a malt syrup instead of the dressing or simple?
why not kimchi?
@@shinjisan2015 if your kimchi is moldy then it's not safe to eat
@@shinjisan2015LOL kimchi is fermented, not moldy. Different microorganisms
How about a "Scuba Libre" where you augment a Cuba Libre with something fishy, like fish sauce, oyster sauce, that liquid that tuna fish is packed in, etc...
Even better: seaweed. Buy some wakame and kombu and infuse it into the rum for like a week
Garnish with nori and maybe some roe.
I like the drinks that rely on cocktail ingredients better than the ones that use random stuff like mayonnaise. Like of course a chunky cocktail is gonna be weird, that's not a drink.
Thank you... Imo those ones are usually just dumb and gross. It's more interesting creating something awful from things you are actually supposed to drink.
@@hithedragon7842 Or things like the last gourd. Something dreadful sounding but made with real ingredients that ends up working
Greg, Green Chartreuse is very hard to find now cause the monks scaled back production a bunch. Even curiada is always out of stock, and has an email notification list for when they very periodically get some in.
Could you do an episode on Green Chartreuse and approximate substitutions, perhaps modifying something close to get it even closer?
I hate to plug other channels but if he never does this, Anders Erickson already did it
@@dpchiko17 I've seen some of his videos! I'll check it out
2 others did homemade chartreuse. Cocktail time with Kevin Kos and Truffles on the rocks
Please include the "Bees Wheeze" in the next episode.
I'm envisioning lemoncello (in place of lemon juice), honey mead (in place of honey syrup), and everclear (in place of gin)... I doubt it'll taste too bad, but it'll get you buzzing.
you could infuse bourbon with candy cap mushrooms for a maple flavoured mold fasion, or a syrup made with candy caps.
Snowcaps I think would work too, and probably wouldn't be god awful. They're not... Really mould or fungus, but they give that illusion, for someone not wanting an unholy abomination.
or use the liquid from a can of huitlacoche or something. that could be neat, maybe sorta synergizing with the corn in the bourbon.
My first thought was koji mold, it produces sweet, floral flavours, he could have done something with sake or made some kind of koji syrup
My favourite part of these episodes is when Greg tries to make something heinous but ends up making something good. Seeing him blow his own mind on accident is a joy
My suggestion is for a "long island iced coffee." I love watching you "enjoy" these drinks.
holy shit i need that
to pivot from the last one:
Thousand Island Iced Tea
You have seen the magic of Dr. Pepper, Greg. I have actually made a drink called the Dark Gamemaster which was Captain Morgan Black and Dr. Pepper Dark Berry. The rum actually tempered the sweetness of the Dr. Sadly...neither of those ingredients exist anymore...
Maybe you could do a remaster of it? Dark Gamemaster: The next Chapter.
@@peggedyourdad9560 I could, as there are plenty of black rums in existence. But where am I going to find another “dark” Dr. Pepper?
@@gamemasteranthony2756 Yeah, that’s why I said you try remastering it. Try to find some combination of Dr. Pepper and some liquor that mimics the taste.
Replace some of the Dr. Pepper with blackberry syrup?
I like Dr pepper and whiskey, about as much as I like coke and whiskey.
Heinz 57 is a steak sauce that has been around forever. Way different than ketchup. Try it in the drink, you'll either like it or loathe it.💐😁
Yeah, Heinz 57 sauce has been around since 1940, lol.
Between thinking Heinz 57 is a recent product *and* thinking that people born in 1997 are still children, I’m really not sure what interdimensional bizarro decade Greg’s currently living in, but it’d be nice if he came and joined us in 2023 sometime soon, lol.
Love these, but I do like The Customer is Always Wrong, or tasting pre-mixed things be they canned, boxed, or others a bit more since those are things people order intentionally that might be terrible.
Edit: Also on the note of drinks that might be bad ideas as a fan of the Battletech universe I've been planning to try and drink a House Steiner PPC which is 4 parts grain alcohol 2 parts peppermint schnapps. Think this is a bad idea HTD fans?
Might be surprisingly good. Go on, give it a try!
That’s just gonna be mint with a ton of alcohol burn. Basically higher proof rumpelminz
I'd LOVE to see a sponsored collaboration between you ajd Ryan Reynolds using aviation gin for weird cocktails 😂
Watching him make the Mold Fashioned is like watching that proverbial train wreck... I want to look away so very much, but just... can't.
I feel like 🤌The Pepperoni 🤌 works because of the aromatic spice profile that's present in dr pepper is similar to that in sweet vermouth or even bitters. Definitely going to try this out at my bar 😂
For the mold fashioned: Several types of baijiu use mold-based fermentation rather than the more traditional yeast. And while they have a pretty strong flavor, it's not as outright _weird_ as some of the yeast-based ones where umami dominates the flavor profile.
I’ve also heard that sake is also brewed in a similar way but with rice
Sake uses a mold to break up the starch into its monosaccharid components, which are then fermented into alcohol by yeast. So that might have worked too as an ingredient, but Sake has a pretty subtle flavor and isn't particularly strong either so it wouldn't do much to a cocktail other than dilute it a bit.
I love this channel, I'm never going to attempt to make anything like this. But I will always wonder how it actually tastes after the taste notes 😂
I like it better when you and Meredith talk and have your witty repertoire. Please don't stop working together! ❤
She co-owns the show with me, so we ain’t stopping. She just hasn’t been on set in a bit
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“I hope that’s the year you graduated high-school.”
Hate to tell you Greg, but I was born in ‘02 and I’m of legal drinking age.
My suggestion for this is a "Tabasco spritz". It's an Aperol Spritz with Tabasco instead of Aperol
Also, a Dutch and Stormy, Dark and Stormy but with Jenever instead of rum (this will likely not actually ruin the drink lol)
If you use good jenever many cocktails are fine or even better the Dutch way. Oude jenever or korenwijn old fashioned has become one of my signature drinks when I have friends over (especially friends from abroad)
@@swchwrm020 And I was thinking about De Kuyper gin. You must tell us where to find these jenevers in America.
I dont mind this idea except for the fact that 2oz of tabasco will overpower anything and everything, making all the other ingredients pointless. you're just chugging tabasco at that point. perhaps a lighter hot sauce?
@@swchwrm020 Yeah, I actually thought of it separately from the video prompt, but it fits the idea of replacing one word. Ginger and jenever probably work very well together if I had to guess.
@@RisqueBisquet or just less tabasco so it doesn't overpower it. Cholula spritz would be funny too though
A part of me wants to see the 3 Mile Island slushied, almost like a margarita, but I'm not sure if it's just the color drawing that out of me.
Make a Singapore Sting. With Szechuan Peppercorn syrup instead of bitters.
I immediately thought of that booze with the scorpion in the bottle - was that from Vietnam? Or somewhere else in Southeast Asia?
I like the surprise ones like the Dr Pepper and the Mile Island iced tea. Those were my favourites. I love seeing you expect the worst and come out mildly convinced.
I'll toss an idea here,
"The Red Squirrel." A Pink Squirrel but sub Crème de Noyaux with Red Cream Soda.
A take on a personal favorite of mine and my obvious favorite from your 70s Episode. Plus if it turns out either good enough or horrifying enough, I can legit take it to the Pink Squirrel's place of origin.
Would love a breakdown/recipe for the 17x. Would be a useful ingredient to have
me too!!
I till think Flint Julep is hilarious. Don't care what anyone else thinks
Yeah but he can't serve drinks with water from Flint, that's a health hazard
@ExpandDong420 Oof. Funny but sad. I meant like Flint rocks.
@@soulknife20 What about using fruity or cocoa pebbles in it? You know Flint-stones? Maybe something in a glass rimmed with crushed up Flintstones Vitamins?
My personal suggestion for a later episode: Emerald Island Iced Tea. I can only imagine it as a Long Island, but with, like...Bailey's or something.
PUT BOBA IN A DRINK, GREG.
(Bubble tea tapioca pearls. I think it could actually be really good. Cool presentation options, too.)
Y'know, its wild. I can't even drink alcohol... yet I always find myself coming back to watch the content here. Greg has some kinna charisma, that's for sure.
We need a Gold Fashioned, an old fashion but you swap out the whisky with Goldshlager
As funny as it is watching Greg's reaction to drinking something that tastes exactly as terrible as it sounds, my favourites are when he discovers something that really shouldn't work, but does. You'd think that mixology is such a well-explored field by now that pretty much all the flavour combinations that actually work would have been discovered already, so it's really cool to find out about new combinations I might actually want to try no matter how god-awful they may sound on paper.
Heinz 57 Sauce did not just come out, it's been out since I was a kid and I'm in my forties. I found a website stating it first hit shelves in 1911.
Oh wow, you invented a drink specifically to kill me: I'm allergic to mold and have alcohol intolerance!
Dr Pepper has the flavor of the smell of a specific turn of the century soda fountain store located in Waco, TX. The creator wanted mimic the feeling of that smell as a taste in a soda.
We gonna give Greg an existential crisis by telling him some of us were born after 2000?
Welcome to the ultimate truth. Dr. Pepper elevates all. Beverages, Marinades, various food stuffs.
I use Dr pepper as my go to soda, and I've made many a pepperoni! (Unfortunately without ever coining the term!) I use lemon peel, and usually add a barspoon of lemon juice.
I am so excited for the Nuka Cola episode. Definitely gonna remake what he makes there
Cold Fashioned (an old fashion using peppermint extract for a cool refreshing feel (alternatively you could use mint flavored mouthwash for its alchohol content))
it makes sense that adding a sweet soda to a predominantly bitter cocktail would produce a good drink.
Greg... 1997 was 26 years ago. They could very well be drinking right now, and watching your show for advice!
i think it could be nice to experiment more on gins' compatibility with all sorts of herbs and fruits. like i would never think about combining anything other than vodka with tomato anything, but thinking about it more, that french 57 seemed less and less cursed than it had any right of being
Dr. Pepper is a very intresting flavor that i am suprised doesn't show up in more cocktails, or like high end like Fever Dream don't do something with.
you could really make a dr pepper cocktail episode.
If we ever get a part 3, could we get a Tuba Libre pls? Basically a rum and coke shaken up/served in a brass instrument finally removed from somebodys loft for the 1st time since the mid 90s. 10/10 episode greg, Pepperoni™️ was a winner lol
As a Long time tuba player, i immediately had that brassy taste in my mouth and ...kinda want to have a Tuba Libre now.
Not out of a used instrument, i still shudder to this day at the amount of spit that came out of that little valve thingy, but the brassy taste could be interesting in a drink.
Tuna Libre
@@ericazimmerman4110 😭😭
This ist disgusting, and i hope it will be made here!
How strong does the flavor of Malort have to be to overpower a much greater volume of ginger beer? 😂
If I asked for Heinz 57 and you gave me ketchup I would be confused.
I have wanted to try some of these weirder drinks, but I don't have a lot of money and can't usually justify buying a bunch of weird liquors for a drink that will probably be terrible. But i have all the ingredients for a Pepperoni! The verdict: Yeah, that's not bad at all actually. Not quite as good as a Negroni, and the campari stands out a lot more, with the Dr. Pepper sort of providing harmony in the background. I think maybe it needs a little tinkering to be good enough to be worth making, but it's definitely not bad and has totally sold me on the combination of Campari and Dr. Pepper. I feel like maybe it just needs one more ingredient to go from "not bad" up to "good" but it is actually a surprisingly solid foundation.
Greg: the ketchup replaces the simple
Also Greg: we’re gonna add simple
So we have the French 57, 75, and 105.
The next logical step is the French 155.
What a way to wake up on a Sunday! Thanks, Greg!
Im surprised at how many of these actually work. the first one.... no. but i wanna try the Pepperoni now!
I’ve got 3 ideas:
1. Beastside- an east side with mr beast chocolate or cookies muddled in
2. Manfattan- a manhattan with melted butter potentially replacing the sweet vermouth
3. Kumflower- a sunflower with kombucha to top it
Alternate name for the second one: Man Fatten - make a Manhattan as ridiculously sweet as possible, and serve with (or over) ice cream.
One serving changes your blood type to Rocky Road. 😁
Idea: old fascist
Really hoping we get a video on your nuka cola formula when you perfect it.
One can of wheat tea for me
Lol
If you do this again you could do a Gin Giblets. Maybe use giblet gravy instead of limes or something ridiculous like that.
I like that some of these were actually good. We got a few terrible drinks but you didn't torture yourself the entire episode.
I’ve got two ideas
A Bloody Dairy and a Why Tai
For the why tai why not make your tropical drink truly taste like the tropics with some tuna juice for that ocean taste.
A Bloody dairy could be in many ways but I think subbing vodka with baileys would do the trick
I'm going to try ordering a pepperoni the next time I'm out just to see the bartender twitch hahha
I am once again asking for you to try Planter's Mr Peanut Punch, contains smooth peanut butter heated up to mix with evaporated milk, demorara simple syrup, Jamaican rum and angostura bitters lengthened with soda over hella crushed ice.
Gonna stand by the opinion that "Heinz 57" means Heinz 57 Sauce, not ketchup. However, I feel like using actual 57 would have been far too overpowering for that drink.
Heinz 57 sauce is like 90yrs old, Greg.... Even older, if you include the first 20ish years it was sold under its original name, Heinz Beefsteak Sauce, from 1911.
12:11 " '97... I hope that's the year you fraduated High School and not the year you were born."
Greg, I don't know how to tell you this, but '97 kids can legally drink.
How about a delicious Detroit sling? A Singapore Sling but you sub the pineapple juice for either Diet Coke or Moxie Cola (it’s a thing. Many people claim it tastes like rusty nails.) All the charm of the rust belt in a glass.
Hey, Greg, I see where some TikTok types are claiming that if you mix Corona beer with Disaronno liqueur, it tastes just like Dr Pepper.
There’s no sane reason to do this, since Dr Pepper is cheaper than either Corona or Disaronno, but I thought it’s an experiment you might want to do on your channel.
Some ideas of you ever do this again
- Whisky Flower
- Bloody Meredith
- Chewdriver
- Mai Chai
- Moscow Gruel
Try 2: Young Fashioned
An Old Fashioned, but with the type of ingredients that a middle city college student can afford, plus some redbull.
If you ever do another one of these i want to see "T-rex on the beach". Mainly because i dont know what that would mean. Prehistoric flavors? Blood from the beachgoers getting attacked?
I understand it’s past time, but I’d just like to add this suggestion for any future videos of this type: Long Island Ice Tea -> Long Violent Ice Tea
We happened to have the ingredients on hand for the Pepperoni, so I gave it a try. I found it more palatable with two parts Pepper. I'm not a huge Negroni fan, hard to say whether this is an improvement, but I could see myself acquiring a taste for it. Part of me thinks it needs a pepperoni stick garnish, for the memes if not for the flavor.
I always thought Heinz 57 was that sorta orangey barbeque-like sauce with a yellow label. I trust Greg's research, however
I"d definitely try the Pepperoni and the 3 Mile Island Iced Tea
also the 3MIIT as im now lovingly calling it, looks an awful lot like Mt Dew lol
I've had what I call a Blacker Russian; Black Russian but you sub the vodka for Angostura Amaro 🥃
okay so you definitely need to bottle and sell 17-X, or a soda you make with it, 100%.
I wanna make the Three Mile Island Iced Tea
Pitch: A "Jason" Alexander with the the creme de cacao swapped for Bosco Chocolate Syrup.
On the Dark & Wormy i think it should've been split with dark rum and malort, not sure how much that would've helped but at least it would've tinted the drink some.
The 3 Mile Island Iced tea was like two maybe three steps off becoming a Tokyo Iced Tea which normally subs the coca cola for lemonade.
From the tasting notes, it almost sounds like making the Pepper Plane just reinvented Moxie with alcohol.
Three mile Island ice tea should have dash of polonium sprinkled on top... Just to get that radiant vibe of a meltdown.
You probably could've done the Three Miles Island Ice Tea with the original Mountain Dew