How to Cocktail: Amaro Cocktails

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On today's film and whiskey will
be exploring the world of the

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Amaro cocktail.
First by trying the Americano

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from Fast Penny spirits and then
moving over to try extra dry,

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vermouth from via vermouth
that's all ahead on the film and

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whiskey podcast.
Hey everybody.

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Welcome into the film and
whiskey podcast.

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I'm Bob book, I'm Reggie.
And today, we're coming at you

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with another special bonus.
Episode in bonus, episode Brad.

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We're bringing back an old
favorite today.

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Our how-to cocktail series,
which we have now visited in a

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while.
I forgot what a cocktail was,

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listen.
It was a perfect series to do,

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while we were all on lockdown
during covid because, you know,

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you could just order a really
Dirt Cheap bartending kit from

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Amazon.
You can hit the liquor store if

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you, if, you know the spirit.
So moved you and you could mix

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up some cocktails at home, I
gotta say, man over the last

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couple years, I've learned a lot
more about G listening back to

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those first few episodes.
We were like, yeah, just put

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this thing in a Shaker and shake
it up and then I find out, you

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know, actually you were supposed
to stir that drink.

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Not shake it.
It's like, okay.

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I thought you took everything.
You know.

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Yeah.
I'll drinks are shaken, not

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stirred.
Come on.

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Let's go from James Bond.
So, you know, we're going to try

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to give you know, a bit more
refined a bit more accurate

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information, this time around.
But what we're doing today is

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we're going to be drinking for
different cocktails brat.

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That is, that's a A lot of
cocktails.

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No.
No you go big or go home on the

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film and whiskey podcast.
That is correct.

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What we're going to do today is
move into the world of a morrow,

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or a Mari as they're called in
their plural form.

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Because they are from the
Italian Heritage.

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I'm Ari is basically a catch-all
term for a number of bitter

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herbal Liquors and they're made
kind of similarly to what, you

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know, what we call bitters but
they're more of a liquor.

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They're not quite as
concentrated they're made.

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Mixing or sometimes sipping neat
on their own in a way that you

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wouldn't do with like a glass
full of bitters but very similar

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in that they're made from
steeping.

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Botanicals in some sort of
spirit or sometimes wine you

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have like just a huge array of a
Mari and like ranging from

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really really dark super bitter.
Super potent to really really

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light and color and usually made
from mixing with light,

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alcohols, like gin.
I know some people really like

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one that from France, that's
called Sue.

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Zoos that mixes really well with
gin.

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I'm sure you've heard of an
Amaro before whether it's nonino

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or Montenegro or Campari or a
parole or there's one called

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shinar, which has a big
artichoke on the front of it

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because it's made from and
tastes like artichoke.

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So like sounds just amazing up.
It's perfect.

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In my spinach dip cocktail.
You know what this is whiskey

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sour could really use in it and
artichoke spinach and artichoke

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dip.
Today, we are not making a

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spinach and artichoke cocktail,
but we will be making cocktails,

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featuring different kinds of
Amari.

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And there are some really great
ones being made in the United

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States.
And in particular, we're going

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to be featuring one from Fast
Penny Spirits, which is called

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Americano, because it's amazing
because it's, you know, it you

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could use it to make the
Americano drink.

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It's also made in America, it's
also an Amaro.

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So it is like a fantastic pun of
a name and I really, really love

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it.
Brad But this stuff was sent to

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us like over a year ago now and
we're just finally getting

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around to it.
So I want to say thank you to

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fast penny for waiting so long
to get your episode to air.

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I promise, I enjoyed the hell
out of your product and these

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for cocktails.
Yeah, I was going to say at this

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point, I have used it all up
making cocktails for my friends

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because it's absolutely
delicious.

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It's really, really good, fast
Penny.

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You guys are just killing it out
there on the west coast.

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So the first cocktail we're
going to make today will walk

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you through the Build of this
cocktail, it's called the black

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Manhattan.
Now we've made a Manhattan on

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here before you're probably
familiar, it's generally made

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with rye whiskey and then you
use sweet vermouth, we're not

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doing that today.
You swap out the sweet vermouth

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for a dark Amaro.
Usually it's something like a

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Verna but we don't have a Verna
today.

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We have a Marcado.
So if you'd like to build the

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black Manhattan Brad walk us
through the build here.

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Yeah, you're going to grab your
bartending kit.

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You're going to mix in 2 ounces.
Is of your preferably rye

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whiskey.
You can use bourbon if you want

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to.
You throw an ounce of Amaro in

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there, a dark Amaro preferably
and then you'll do a dash of

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angostura Bitters and if you
really want to get fancy, you

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can throw a dash of orange
bitters in their top it off with

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a looks are do cherry and boom,
you are set.

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Now this is a drink that you
would use a mixing glass for to

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stir with.
Now, you know again I know the

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lot of people don't have a
dedicated In glass unless you've

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invested in a pretty high-end
bartending kit.

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But the reason I have found out
from mixologists, why some

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drinks are stirred in some
drinks are shaken, preferably

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comes down to how diluted you
want it to be.

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Obviously, when you're shaking
at, in full of ice, you are like

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enhancing how much water gets
introduced into that and it's

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diluting it further and further
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Whereas with stirring at you can
kind of control it a little

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better.
Also I've learned Brad that you

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shake generally cocktails that
have three things in them.

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If it has dairy in it you shake
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It if it has lemon or any kind
of citrus in it, you shake it.

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Yeah and if it has egg in it you
shake it, you know.

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And that makes a lot of sense,
you want to incorporate those

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things.
A lot more vigorously than you

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would just by stirring it.
But that also means on the, you

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know, on the flip side, if you
don't have those three

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ingredients in it generally,
they want you to stir it.

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And that's what we're doing with
the black Manhattan.

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Hear you stir it.
Until it gets ice cold, you

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serve it up which means no ice
in a chilled Coupe glass and

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Brad, I gotta say man, I loved
me.

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The black Manhattan, it had like
a, you know, it has the same

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kind of General feel as the
sweet vermouth but just a little

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bit darker and it went so well
with my cocktail cherries that

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it was like a little bit nuttier
man.

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I just it's like if you like a
Manhattan and you want to make

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it just a little touch more,
Smoky a touch more of like a

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date or Plum flavor.
Go a little bit darker with it.

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This is the way to go, man.
Yeah, I think that the black

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Manhattan is a really nice.
Twist on the traditional

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Manhattan.
I think for me the the Amaro

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just isn't quite the flavor I'm
looking for on a Manhattan.

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I really still appreciate that.
Classic sweet vermouth.

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So while I would say that this
is a really nice mixed drink.

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Me personally, I think I'm going
to stick with the regular

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Manhattan.
Bob, I've learned over the years

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that I am just not a sweet
vermouth guy.

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Like, I like a lot of drinks
that contain it, but I've had

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enough dirt cheap Vermouth and
I've had enough vermouth that

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wasn't refrigerated to sport
kind of spoil my drink that like

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just the the taste of vermouth
now like throws me back to bad

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memories.
And I think the, the Amaro is

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like just different enough that
it made the Manhattan.

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Something I would want to reach
for again.

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Well guys, that is our black
Manhattan.

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But next, we are going to be
making a drink that is called

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the witty comeback, which is
probably one of the best names

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for cocktails I've ever heard
about.

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I Only like this name.
This is not like a super classic

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cocktail.
It seems like it was invented

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somewhat recently, compared to a
lot of the ones we've done on

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this bonus episode series, but
the witty comeback again is

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using rye as its base.
And you're going to kind of find

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that a lot today.
We have one drink that is an

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on-ride drink, but the other
three are all right.

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I based, which I really liked
making this many drinks with Rye

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Brad, I feel like when I'm just
kind of making a drink for

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myself at home, I always tend to
lean bourbon but it seems like

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Rye is Bartenders choice, just
for adding that extra little bit

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of spice, little bit of punch
that you don't get with bourbon.

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Yeah, I in general, Rye is
becoming my favorite whiskey, I

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think.
But it is 100% my favorite

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cocktail whiskey because it just
constantly stands up well to

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whatever.
I mix it with and I think that a

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lot of times when you're making
a sweet cocktail like a whiskey

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sour or an old-fashioned, you
know, I actually kind of prefer

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having a A little bit of that
spicy flavor you get from a Ryan

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there.
So yeah, I lean towards Rye when

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I make cocktails with whiskey.
Now the witty comeback does

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contain Citrus.
So we are going to shake this

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one.
So if you've got your cocktail

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Tunes ready and one of them is
filled with ice into the other

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one, you're going to put 2
ounces of rye, whiskey, a half

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ounce of your Amaro.
Now in the original recipe, they

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do call for a Verna.
Again, we're using a Marcano, it

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is the great thing about a Mari
in general is that you can swap.

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So, Many of them out.
If you don't, you know, if you

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don't like Campari because it's
a little too bitter, use a

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parole instead, that's why
people love to drink the aperol

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Spritz in summer if you want to
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You know, heck we could have
pulled out the chin.

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Are for this.
Brad, we could have tried the

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artichoke version of the witty
comeback, but you want a half

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ounce of your Amaro in there.
You want a half ounce of fresh

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lemon juice to kind of balance
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And then we're going to do a
half ounce of a simple syrup

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that has ginger in it.
Now this was super easy to make

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I really like I went to the
store Or I grabbed one little

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thing of ginger root.
It cost me 99 Cents.

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You go home, you grate it up and
you get about a teaspoon to a

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tablespoon full, depending on
how spicy you like your Ginger.

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And just in a little saucepan,
you make simple syrup, quarter

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cup of sugar, quarter cup of
water but you add that

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tablespoon full of grated Ginger
into it.

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Let it steep in there for about
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Strain it out and you've got
Ginger.

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Simple syrup Brad.
This was a phenomenal drink like

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I thought I thought everything.
Played so well together in this

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drink.
You shake it up, you serve it

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up.
Just like we did with the black

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Manhattan.
Just the right amount of spice.

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Just the right amount of heat
from the alcohol.

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I really like this a lot dude.
This I'll just spoil it.

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This is the best drink of the
four that we make, like far in a

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way for me.
I just think that ginger as a

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flavor has been growing on me, a
lot the last few years.

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My wife was unable to do dairy
for a while.

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I'll after we had our first
child.

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So I was like, man, what kind of
dairy-free dishes?

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Can I make?
So, I ended up making a lot of

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Asian cuisine at our house.
And ginger has just quickly

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become one of my favorite,
seasonings and man.

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Oh man, when I saw him here, I
was like, ginger in a cocktail

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and it Bob.
It's stunningly.

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Delicious.
Yeah, it's really really good.

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I will say here, this is like
this is the kind of the cool

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thing about making these
cocktails and also I you want to

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get more ingredients than you
think just to make one, right?

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You need to have extras for
playing around with because I

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think that the ride that I've
been using for mixing lately, it

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just doesn't quite stand up in a
cocktail, the way that it

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should.
So I used a higher proof rye as

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a second pass on some of these
and it made a world of

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difference.
You also want to make sure that

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you've got the right amount of
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Simple syrup because for me
again, like I was really antsy

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and I kind of pulled the syrup
too quickly before the ginger

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had really steeped in.
Air, and it was just kind of

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like slightly touched with
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spice to it.
Essence of Ginger.

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Yeah, it was, it was, did you
injure?

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But again, like, find what works
for you.

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Some people don't like a ton of
kick from their alcohol.

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I like the ride to be really
present in my ride based

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cocktails it.
So I had to use a different one,

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but once you find the formula
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that.
Yeah, and I really cannot

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recommend highly enough.
A witty comeback, like the, the

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ginger simple syrup I think is
the scariest part of making it

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because it is a little bit of a
step of Faith, man.

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Oh man, I will tell you, it is a
rewarding experience.

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So it Riley was like, that
guy's.

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It seems like a step of Faith,
but it's not really, because

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it's just like, hey, can you
melt sugar into water?

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And then, can you plop a
spoonful of this stuff in there

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and just forget about it for an
hour?

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Well, then you two can make
ginger simple syrup.

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Syrup like it's yeah it's really
easy.

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Some of this stuff sounds super
labor-intensive to make but it's

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not like I legitimately forgot
about it for an hour, came back

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and it was done.
I had to do no labor to make

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this thing.
Did you did you set an alarm on

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your phone?
Bob, I popped the bottom of

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chair.
Like the ginger.

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All right.
Now you gotta do.

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Yeah, exactly.
That's how you make cocktails

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the right way.
Forget about them.

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Some whiskey Nation.
Do you ever think about Awards

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course he do you drink whiskey
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Which means that, you know, that
nothing is validated until a

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group of random people say, hey
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They have been winning attention
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They've been voted the best
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Awards, as well as the best
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That's doccs whisky.com.
We're going to move into another

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kind of subsection of a Mari
which is vermouth from

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everything that I've read
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count as an amaru.
It's one of those like you know,

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all squares are rectangles, but
not all rectangles or squares

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kind of thing Vermin.
Like all all bourbon is whiskey

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but now it's like Vermouth
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amaro's wouldn't count as
vermouth.

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So we've had vermouth on the
podcast before we talked about

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sweet vermouth, which is what
you normally get in Whiskey,

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based cocktails like the
Manhattan.

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But we are working with a
company today called via

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vermouth which comes from quadi
Winery, in California.

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Once again, they sent us this
product a long time ago, we

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promised them that we would get
around to the Amaro and vermouth

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episode and we finally got here
but what we're doing today is

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we're using dry vermouth with
whiskey, which is Not something

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you typically see usually your
do your dry vermouth, which is,

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you know, comes in the lighter
colored bottle is something that

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you would mix with vodkas or
jinns.

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That's what the classic martini
is made with.

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So, it's interesting to see it
being paired with whiskey, but

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we've got a couple really
interesting cocktails that use

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this dry vermouth via vermouth
was kind enough to send us two

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kinds of their dry vermouth1.
That's called whisper dry, which

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is, you know, kind of like an
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Good for Lighter beverage and
then they've got their extra dry

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and Brad.
I made the mistake.

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I think I'll say of using a
whisper dry at first with both

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of these cocktails, because I
was like, you know, I don't know

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if I should go all the way to
the other end of the spectrum.

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Like, I don't really know how
dry vermouth is going to play

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here, but when I used it with
the whisper dry, the whiskey,

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just swallowed it up and because
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I think you gotta try to counter
balance that with just like a

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big bold swing from the Right.
Yeah, I think that I use the

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extra dry in our affinity and
then I use the whisper and our

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old pal.
So I got a little bit of both

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experience there, but we're
going to walk through how to

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make both of these drinks.
The first one is just a whiskey

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and vermouth the last one which
branch is hinted at is called

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the old pal and that uses
vermouth and Amaro with whiskey.

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So we're going to start with
this one called the affinity and

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Brad.
This is basically what's called

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a perfect Manhattan which Which
is equal parts dry and sweet

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vermouth.
Except instead of using rye

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whiskey you use Scotch.
So it's a, it's kind of like the

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Rob Roy that we made a long time
ago on the podcast because I'm

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still one of my favorite dry
really love the Rob Roy.

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I'm a, it's so good but you're
using equal parts dry and sweet,

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vermouth Brad.
This is a very simple build.

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Can you walk us through it?
Yeah, it is literally two ounces

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of your favorite Scotch.
I get Bob, would you go with?

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It's hard to just say Scotch,
would you go with a pita Or a

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non peated Sky, I would go with
a non peated and then if you

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were feeling like extra frisky,
you could add like a quarter

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ounce.
Maybe of like a really pd-1 just

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to kind of get a little bit of
some argue like 10 maybe.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So two ounces of scotch half

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ounce of dry vermouth I half
ounce of sweet vermouth and then

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throw a few dashes of your
gangster in there.

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Brad.
I like this a lot.

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I think that coming off of the
black Manhattan, this may not

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have been the one to do
immediately afterwards.

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I like, even with that Scotch
base, that I used again, I

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didn't use like a really high
proof Scotch, so it came out a

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little bit, watery tasting for
me, and then it had that note of

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sweet vermouth that I'm like, oh
gosh, too many bad experiences

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with sweet vermouth and the
first pass I took it this, I

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used the whisper dry vermouth
instead of the extra dry.

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Once I swap that out with the
extra dry, this was much much

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better but I do think you need a
scotch that really like stands

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up as a cocktail Scotch.
I I was using like Cutty Sark

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like something 80 proof.
Yeah.

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And that was just way too low
proof at the end of the day.

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Yeah I think I use the Port.
Charlotte Scotch.

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Oh you mentioning extra PD.
Yeah I did and I liked it, I

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liked the peated scotch
experience.

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I think that it mixed well with
the extra dry vermouth.

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It is a drink that I liked but I
don't know if I'd often be like,

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you know what?
I'm gonna drink heavily peated

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driver.
Vermouth just explosion of

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Manliness.
I wonder if you should have

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like, increased the amount of
vermouth like, both the sweet

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and the dry.
Just because with that PDS,

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like, I have a feeling that
would just cover up like

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anything else you add to that
cocktail?

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I definitely noticed the
vermouth, the I think that what

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you said is true going with the
extra dry, vermouth was the

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right choice to stand up to the
penis but you definitely noticed

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the fact that it was a peden
scotch.

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I will say That but honestly I
we haven't really been scoring

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anything.
I think I'd probably give it

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like a 7 out of 10 like it,
like, it was a solid drink one

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that I enjoyed, but like I said
there, you just have to be in a

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certain mood when it comes to
Drinks like that, I think before

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we move into our last beverage
here for the day, I want to give

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a quick shout out to both of
these companies, you know, fast

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penny with their Americano and
Via vermouth from quoddy winery

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because I tried all of these
products just, you know, as a

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sip on their own No, yep.
And usually with things like

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this with look, cures or with
mixers, I don't really like to

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drink them by themselves, but I
was really impressed at the

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complexity of all of these.
Like, you know, so fast Penny

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actually sent us the dark
Americano, then they send us a

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lighter one as well.
That's used kind of how you

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would use something like a sous
with a lighter drink.

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They're both really, really good
man.

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Yeah, the Americano I was blown
away by how delicious their

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drinks were By themselves, and
they're not meant to be trained

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by themselves, but honestly, it
kind of reminds me of when

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Keepers heart, whiskey sent us
each individual whiskey, that

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they make their blend out of.
It's almost like the ability to

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taste each individual part of
your cocktail and go.

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Oh, that's really nice.
I wouldn't drink a bottle of it,

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you know, on its own, but I can
see that this is a high-quality

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ingredient that I am putting
into my cocktail.

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I think that's a Really
important thing to do and a

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Marcano and Via are really doing
that incredibly well.

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Yeah, I was super impressed with
the Via as well.

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The The Whisper dry was almost
it.

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Almost had like an effervescence
to it.

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It was almost like drinking a
champagne but just like with

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this extra layer of herbal, you
know, herbaceousness behind it.

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And then the extra Drive was
like, oh wow, this really is

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extra dry and I'm interested to
see how it works in cocktails

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and it stood up, man, I was
really impressed with it because

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I was super Skeptical about it
going in.

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I'd never tried dry vermouth in
a whiskey cocktail before.

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This was my first time doing it,
and I got to say, like this was

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a great place to start with it.
Yeah.

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Well, let's talk about the old
pal, because that is a drink

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that just has dry vermouth in
it.

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It sure does.
But it also has a different

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Amaro.
Usually it's made with Campari

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again, we used the Americano
here, you start off with one and

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a half ounces of bourbon or rye,
I use dry.

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Did you use Rye?
I sure did 3/4 of an ounce of

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dry vermouth.
Booth.

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I would suggest something on the
extra dry.

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End to stand up to that rye and
three quarters of an ounce of

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Campari or Americano in our
case.

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That is that's it.
There's no extra bitters.

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There's no Citrus in this at
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It's really just these three
ingredients and you can garnish

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it with a Twist.
If you'd like we'd recommend

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stirring this I guess that's the
way the professionals would do

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it Brad I gotta say this was the
one for me.

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That looks the best on paper and
all the pictures I saw that was

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like, oh I'm gonna like that
one.

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And it took me probably three or
four tries to get a version of

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this that I really liked because
again, my ride seemed to low

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proof and I started out with the
whisper dry vermouth and that

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didn't really hold up.
So it took me a while to hit on

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a version of this that I liked.
And I suspect that this is one

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of those drinks that, because
the Amaro is so like, crucial to

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it that you gotta find in a
Morrow that you like and, and,

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and play around with that and
then you'll Have a version of

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this that you really like I was
going to say Bob, I actually

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wasn't, I guess I didn't realize
I was supposed to use the dark

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Amaro for everything and I was
like, wow, I haven't tried the

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the lighter, a Marcano.
So I'm going to throw that in

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this drink and I actually really
enjoyed it.

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It made for a really nice light
refreshing cocktail.

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That was a very close second
behind the witty comeback, for

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my favorite drink that I made
tonight.

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You know, I didn't even think
about doing it.

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With the light Amaro, but I have
a feeling that would be really,

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really good.
Yeah.

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Like I said, Bob I think it
brought a little bit of like a

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fruitiness to it and and almost
like a honeyed, I don't know.

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Some sort of like a honey
candied fruit feel to the drink

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then that made it pretty tasty
and I will say there are

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variations on all of these
drinks that you can keep making

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if you stock your bar a little
bit Fuller of other things.

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Like there's a there's a drink
called The Scofflaw which uses

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rye and dry vermouth.
And lemon juice.

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But you also add a little bit of
grenadine.

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I didn't feel like making fresh
grenadine in my house and it

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would never get drank before it
turned bad.

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So, I didn't make the Scofflaw.
It's a delicious drink though.

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There's one called the Brooklyn,
which is whiskey dry vermouth,

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and then Maris Keno or
Maraschino.

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However, you'd like to say it
lecure, which again, it's like

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30 bucks.
I'm not going to get a bottle

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just to make this one drink.
But if that's your thing, if you

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have a bottle sitting on your
bar at home, go for the Brooklyn

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one, that I would highly
recommend which I've had out at

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Restaurants before is a very
popular one, called the paper

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plane, this is bourbon and a
parole generally, and then also

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mixed with a darker Amaro and
finished off with fresh lemon

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juice.
It's basically just like an

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elevated version of a whiskey
sour.

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It is freaking great.
I cannot recommend the paper

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plane highly enough.
Yeah guys, if you, if you can't

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tell we like drinking alcohol.
And you know, yes, we review

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whiskey constantly on this
podcast.

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And when we do the cocktail,
Episodes, we talked about

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whiskey cocktails but in the end
guys there are some just

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fantastic mixes out there for
you to try and it's really easy.

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Like I think that's the biggest
thing I want to tell you is that

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man, all it takes is like one or
two bottles of liquor that you

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like.
And a few little add-ons that a

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lot of times you can make it
home in a really simple Manner

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and boom, you are making
cocktails for your friends.

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You can learn how to make a
batch of cocktail so that you

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just make one big picture, full
of whatever you're making and

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you don't have to spend an hour
making drinks for everyone, they

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can just pour it themselves like
its it is one of the most fun

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ways to just have a really
enjoyable time with friends so

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jump onto some cocktails.
It's really a blast.

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All right, so that's it for us
today we'd like to know which of

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these for cocktails.
Are you going to try?

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Which of them is your favorite?
You can find us to tell us all

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about it on our social media
accounts, Facebook Twitter.

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Instagram at film whiskey, or
jump onto our Discord.

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We have an entire Channel
dedicated to what we are

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drinking.
So take a picture of your

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cocktail that you made and post
it onto our Discord server.

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You can find a link to it at the
end of every single one of our

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show notes, we will be back on
Monday with another regularly

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scheduled episode.
But until then I'm Bob book, I'm

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Reggie and we'll see you next
time.