How to Cocktail: Sparkling Whiskey Cocktails

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On today's film and whiskey.
We Dive Right Into Summer with

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three cocktails that feature
sparkling water.

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We also give a full review to
Country smooth Bourbon and

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sipping tea ready-to-drink
beverages.

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That's all ahead on film and
whiskey

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Hey everybody, welcome into the
podcast.

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We are back with another special
bonus episode.

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Bonus episode.
Today, we're bringing back our

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how to cocktail Series.
This is Brad at.

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This might be my favorite.
Little series that we do and

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it's probably the one that we've
gotten the best feedback from

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our listeners as well.
I think people, especially

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during the pandemic, they just
wanted to learn how to mix their

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own damn drinks.
They know, they couldn't go out

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to the bar and I've really
really enjoyed breaking down

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some of these super basic
whiskey cocktails Who you

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calling basic Bob your basic.
Well, I'll tell you what, man,

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I'm going to get my basic person
on today because we are going to

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be drinking the whiskey
equivalent of white claws today.

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And I cannot wait my friend but
You get it to all that.

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We're going to be talking today
about whiskey cocktails that use

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sparkling beverages in them.
So no, we're not talking about

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making yourself a whiskey
Ginger, or a Seven and Seven

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like we can we can all do that.
But we're going to be talking

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about whiskey drinks, in
particular, that use seltzer

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water or club soda, or tonic
water, those kind of things

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because, you know, when it's hot
outside, in the middle of July,

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you want something that you can
just sip on for a while that you

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can let an ice cube melt into,
you're not going to take an

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old-fashioned out into the pool
with you.

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And so like this is kind of the
perfect thing to be drinking for

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a summer day.
Dude, down here in Delaware.

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We have like you can walk around
town with drinks and they just

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expanded it and in like a week
or two, you're going to be

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allowed to walk around not just
with beer and wine but liquor as

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well.
Boom.

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So come to downtown Delaware and
you can walk around on a hot

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summer day with an
old-fashioned.

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There it is in your hands.
And so, one thing that I think

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we should clear up right away,
Brad, is this idea of like, what

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sparkling beverage do I need to
be using because I don't know

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about you, but if you've ever
gone to the grocery store and

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you've looked at kind of the
like Lacroix aisle, where they

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have stuff like Seltzer and club
soda and tonic water.

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It's really hard to know the
difference between those

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sometimes.
And then, you know, you look at

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a recipe for something like a
gin and tonic, you know, you got

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to use tonic water but why can't
you use cell?

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At Sur like what is the
difference between those things?

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And I think it's worth talking
about just really briefly like

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what are the differences between
those those varieties of, you

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know, Sparkling Waters well.
More importantly than that.

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I need before we really get
started on this episode, I need

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to get it on.
The record sparkling water is

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crap like most boys just right,
we're dumping Whiskey on it.

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White claws, crap, like, all of
those things are garbage

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Beverages and I They're
disgusting.

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So just just let that be known.
Boom, that has always been my

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opinion on those types of
things.

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Well, I'm glad we got your
opinion on record Brad.

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Now, dammit break down these
four different kinds of

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sparkling water for us.
Yeah, so you got some club soda

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which is artificially, infused
with carbon and mineral.

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Salts Seltzer is kind of the
same, but it doesn't really have

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any extra minerals in it.
So yeah, they're pretty much the

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same when you get into sparkling
mineral.

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Water.
It's literally just naturally

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carbonated water from a spring,
or well and then tonic water is

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carbonated but it contains
quinine and added sugar, so it

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actually has calories.
So if you're looking, if you're

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looking to watch your figure,
stay away from that, their tonic

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that Sonic water.
Yeah, I actually reached out to

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our friends, Scott's our, at the
crafted cocktail company.

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Again, just to kind of make sure
that I understood the difference

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is here because even when you
break down, okay, one has a

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little bit of sugar and quiet.
91 has, you know, minerals

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added, they seem pretty
interchangeable but I'm sure

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that there are some bartenders
out there like clutching their

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pearls when I say that.
So I asked Scott like, are these

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actually are.
He's actually interchange their

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little girl's body.
Yeah, man, it's a hipster

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bartender.
They wear pearls, you know, for

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all of those 90 year old female
party wear them ironically

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bread.
Okay?

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Sorry, sorry, sorry.
So I asked Scott and he

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basically said, look, the big
difference is in the amount of

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carbon and salt sparkling spring
Water has natural minerals in it

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but it usually doesn't have as
much Fizz.

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So it breaks down really
quickly.

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You dump a bunch of ice into
that.

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It's not going to stay fizzy for
very long Seltzer's.

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Don't have added salt, like we
said soda usually does, he says

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they are kind of relatively
interchangeable but the key

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thing to keep in mind is that
temperature matters a lot.

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So when you're building a drink
that has sparkling whatever in

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it tonic or club soda, try to
chill down your liquor

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beforehand because it really
helps keep the beverage cold and

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it helps keep it from diluting
too much.

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Getting rid of those bubbles.
Now, Scott being the genius that

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he is, he says that he actually
prefers to just use like a CO2

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infuser and just charge the
whole drink.

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So he builds the drink first and
then injects carbon into the

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whole thing and that gives him
the best bubbles.

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But for those of us who are
normal, people who don't have

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those kind of machines, in our
homes, just try to chill down,

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your liquor beforehand and
liquor that we are going to be

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using today in our mixed drinks.
Is country smooth, which just it

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just has such such a nice
summery feel to.

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It just like just by the name.
It's just country smooth Bob.

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Yeah, so country smooth is a
relatively new company.

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They taught themselves as being
the first producer in the USA

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that has a female founder and
CEO which is awesome.

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The first of all Brad, really
beautiful packaging here, really

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tall slender bottle.
I like it a lot.

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This is called their small batch
straight bourbon whiskey.

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It's aged for at least two
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This is sourced whiskey.
So it's coming likely from MGP

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because it says Burgundy Anna,
it's bottled in Tennessee and

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they try to give it that kind of
like, you know, down South

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Country Vibe with the packaging
as well.

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This only clocks in at 86 proof,
so it's really mild, really, low

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proof Brad.
I think we should give it a

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brief review before we jump into
using it in our Cocktails.

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So we've both had it poured out
in front of us here.

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What do you think of this Bob,
it honestly has a nice smooth

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kind of knows which is good
because apparently that's the

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the type of whiskey they were
going for with The naming.

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But if I'm being honest, it
smells a little bit young.

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Yeah.
Like that was the first thing

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that stood out to me.
Is that?

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Honestly, if Bob, if we ever
start a Distillery someday and

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we put out a whiskey that's only
aged for two years, please tell

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me that we won't write aged at
least two years because like we

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all know that that means like
two years and like two seconds.

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So I just just say it it's a
two-year whiskey that's okay

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well that's not necessarily true
because like if If let's say

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they got this from MGP and they
got 100 barrels and 99 of them

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were two years and one of them
was 12 years legally, you have

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to label it as the youngest
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So, like, you know, this, this
could be well over two years,

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but as if it has two year
whiskey in it, you have to say

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it's two years old.
Yeah, fun fact, Funtime.

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India maybe it's a two-year with
its beer whiskey.

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Yeah, this definitely does smell
Young on the nose and, you know,

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Brad and I'd say that a lot and
it's one of those things.

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Is where I think you just have
to try some younger Whiskey's to

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know what we're talking about.
But there's a very distinct

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under almost like under ripe but
like under matured grain smell

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to a young whiskey.
Not a lot of developed bourbon

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notes here.
It's not super sweet on the

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nose.
You don't have a lot of caramel

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or vanilla on the nose and then
when you get into the taste

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Brad, I was really surprised by
this because I actually found it

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very kind of saline heavy and
quite multi like was really oily

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though.
I wasn't thin, which Really

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liked for an 86 proof.
I thought it'd be super thin but

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it's a very young tasting
bourbon that lean salty instead

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of sweet and I was not expecting
that.

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Yeah, I actually kind of like
that about it that they didn't

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just try to go for the typical
like overly sweet two-year

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whiskey that is too grainy to
really enjoy the sweetness.

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I think that that multigrain
feel to it hits just right with

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the salt now is this my favorite
Whiskey in the world.

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World.
No, I think it's just okay but

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for a mixer I honestly am like
super pumped to throw this in

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with some Club sparkling soda,
tonic water.

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That's what we should have done
is just mixed all four of those

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together.
Yeah.

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Club sparkling soda topic.
It's our, it's our Infinity

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bombing for sparkling water.
Yeah.

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I'm right there with you Brad.
I thought that the finish on

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this was actually the nicest
thing about it.

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It was very mild, very gentle.
I think it's going to make a

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Fantastic mixer.
So let's go ahead and jump into

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building some Seltzer or club
soda based cocktails here and

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the first one.
When you're talking about

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whiskey and you're talking about
sparkling beverage is a

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highball.
Now, you guys may have heard of

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the term, a highball glass, its
you know, the really tall

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slender glass that you put a
drink that needs a lot of ice

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into and it's called a highball
because there's a cocktail that

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goes perfectly in that kind of
glass, the highball was

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actually, Named the highball way
back in the 19th century.

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It came out of Manhattan.
And from there, I just kind of

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like took off.
It became Loosely kind of

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applied to any drink that had
whiskey that was watered down in

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any way.
So, you know, it could be just

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whiskey.
That's water down with plain

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water, became known as a
highball, but the classic drink

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actually involves club soda.
So honestly, Brad here's how you

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build a highball.
You ready?

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It's I mean, it's really
challenging.

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Hold on a second.
Let me sit back.

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I need I need To be secure for
this.

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You take your highball glass.
Okay, yeah, I got it.

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Two ounces of whiskey, fill the
glass with ice and then you top

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it off with about four ounces of
club soda.

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And that is it it's literally
whiskey and club soda.

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Now again, if you realize you
nice, Bob and ice.

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Now, if you really prefer, you
know, the flavor of tonic water

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like sure go for that classic
high ball club soda brat.

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If I'm being honest with you, I
don't know that, I would

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gravitate towards the high ball
because, you know, it has the

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nice kind of bubbliness to it,
but it's basically just watering

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down a whiskey without really
adding any flavor components to

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it.
This is quite literally, the

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Lacroix of Whiskey's.
Yeah, Bob my introduction to the

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highball and not the classic
eyeball is we've just been

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talking about was at my
brother-in-law's bachelor party.

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We were at the Bar and it was
probably like our third bar.

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And the bartender says, I just
really enjoy them.

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At this bar, we were talking and
chilling and they're really

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cool.
And at one point they came over

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me like, hey here's a whiskey
and water that, you know,

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somebody didn't want.
Do you want, do you want to

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drink it?
Like it was on drinking and I

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was like, maybe you sure.
Hold on, hold on.

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Repeat that word on Drinkin and
drinkin.

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I don't know.
What would you say I'm a drunk?

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I guess I would say hundra.
All I know is UND.

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Rankin is Definitely not
definitely not a word.

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It's like the anti Drake rapper
on the Drinkin drank, so

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actually brought it over and I
started drinking it and was like

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by God.
Why would anyone order this?

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It is one of the most disgusting
things ever.

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Now granted it was literally
just Whiskey and Water so I'm

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sure that a little bit of, you
know, Fizz and Spark would, you

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know, make kick it up a notch
but I'm not Arrested Bob, what's

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next?
Yeah.

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So if you want to kick it up a
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to do would be to add some sort
of flavor component to this.

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And so the next thing you could
try is what's called a bourbon

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Ricky.
Now we're not talking Ricky like

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it was some guy, you know, named
Rick that made this like like

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like Ricky Bobby.
All of the funny thing is the

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person that made this his last
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Y and this really started out as
a gin-based drink and then you

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know people switched to
different Liquors instead the

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bourbon Ricky super, super easy
to build Highball glass, two

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ounces of bourbon, and then you
just cut a lime in half.

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Squeeze half of a lime into the
glass.

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Like, you just want the juice of
half of a lime and then you add

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ice and you top it with
sparkling water or soda.

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Now, this is again, this is not
a sweetened beverage, so you're

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definitely going to have more of
a like a sour heavily citrus

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note on this.
But Brad, I think I actually

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would really dig this because I
don't like overly sweet

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Beverages and I think if you're
just like looking for something,

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It can dilute nicely and still
have some flavor to it.

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This might be the way to go if a
regular high ball, doesn't sound

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like your thing.
So, this is pretty much like the

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corona of the highball world.
You just throw a lime in it.

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Put your thumb on it, turn it
over.

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Take that around a little bit
and you're good to go.

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Bob I'm unimpressed so far,
what's next?

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Oh God Brad.
Come on.

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These are Classics.
Not the funny thing is though,

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I'm actually with you but I
think it really does give you a

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good picture of like how
cocktails have evolved.

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Over time because you know, like
I'm sure when they invented the

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highball, somebody was like, who
would have thought, whoever

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these two ingredients?
Together blowing my mind.

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I just, I just see the old
commercials with the to like

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drawings of old like 1920s
boxers.

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Oh yeah, genius, bro, you're
brilliant.

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All right, so if you want to do
a step up from that, what you're

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going to want to build is called
the whiskey Fizz.

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Now, I have come to find out
again.

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I'm not a bartender.
A Fizz is actually one of like

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six.
Basic categories of cocktails.

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And so the whiskey Fizz is one
of the most basic of that

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category.
What you're going to want to do

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is in the glassware of your
choice.

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I would probably recommend a
highball glass again, you want

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to do like one and a half to two
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So we're going to take our
country smooth.

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We're going to add about 2
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And then we're finally going to
introduce some sweetness into

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this.
We're going to do an ounce of

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simple syrup.
Now, we've talked about simple

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syrup a lot on this show.
Literally you just want to do

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equal parts sugar to water heat,
the water enough to dissolve the

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GE in it and then let it cool
down on your countertop and

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you've got simple sugar that's
all it is.

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Or if you really want to kick it
up a notch, do the exact same

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thing.
But with honey, mmm, I do like a

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good honey syrup.
So two ounces of bourbon one

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ounce of your simple and then
like three quarters of an ounce

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of lemon juice.
Okay.

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So we're going to do like almost
equal simple syrup and lemon

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juice and then you're going to
just top that with ice and with

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club soda.
So what you're essentially

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making is a whiskey sour that
you are then adding the fizz As

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to, which, as we know Brad and I
like, I don't think that there

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is a cocktail on earth that is
more immediately.

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Satisfying than the whiskey
sour.

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Dude, I still to this day.
Probably have a whiskey sour at

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least twice a month in my house,
like it is such a satisfying

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beverage, its velvety and
smooth.

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And honestly, if I was going to
go sit on my front porch on a

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hot summer day with a whiskey
sour.

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I think I would add a little bit
of club soda to it.

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Yeah.
I think it's a great idea.

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Now again, the Fizz is a very
basic cocktail category you can

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make, you know, endless
variations on this if you were

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to swap out the whiskey and add
gin instead, you'd have what's

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called a Tom Collins.
But this is not a gin podcast,

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so we're going to skip over
that.

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But if you Jin but even then you
have like a category of drinks

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called the Collins.
And so if you were to take what

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we just made this whiskey Fizz
and just add a couple dashes of

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bitters to it before you topped
it with your club soda, then

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you'd have what's called a
whiskey Collins.

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Which I also think is a great
idea, you know, a whiskey sours

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great.
But a couple dashes of bitters

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really does add just a layer of
more complexity to it.

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So that might be another option
you want to try.

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I mean, honestly dude, just make
an Old Fashioned and throw a

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little bit of club soda on it.
Yeah, like I'll bet you that

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would be delicious.
Well, a lot of people do make

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old fashions that way because it
helps dissolve that sugar cube

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better.
So, I mean that's an option as

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well.
If you really want to do like a

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knit, my more adventurous, take
on the Fizz, then I would

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suggest trying what we did with
our whiskey sours.

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And use an egg white.
Now, people swear by this, in

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their whiskey Fizz, like you
make a whiskey sour, you add the

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egg, white, as you know, you
shake it vigorously, strain it

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out.
So you get that nice foam and

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then you top it with club soda
and what you essentially have is

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like this creamy like it's the
consistency almost of like a

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root beer float.
You've got like the creamy

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component to it with the egg
white and you still have the

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Fizz to go with it.
Yeah.

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Like I said, it's starting to
get muggy out like that.

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Hot.
Hot summer humidity, and I'm not

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gonna lie.
I could go sit out on the porch

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and throw down a whiskey Fizz,
like, nobody's business.

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Yeah, me too.
And that's why I think we're

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trying to give people like
multiple ideas for the cocktail

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here.
Now again, like, am I going to

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go out and make a highball?
Probably not.

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I want a little bit more flavor
a little bit more complexity to

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it.
But a whiskey Collins or a

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whiskey Fizz that has that egg
white in it.

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I can tell you 100%, I'm going
to be trying that this summer or

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honestly, Bob there's this
Really awesome opportunity.

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If you don't want to, like make
all of that on your own, if you

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want to be lazy, like I often
am, there is a new product on

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the market called Symphony.
Yes, and Brad, and let's be

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honest here.
So, we're looking at these

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products and they are canned,
their ready-to-drink beverages,

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so they're in the vein of the
white claw, you know, I know

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that I've talked about this
drink called The Long drink on

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this podcast before it's a
whiskey based drink, but we have

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received no pronunciation guide.
So I'm going to spell this out.

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It's SI p 0 NE y capital O
capital O you have the oh is the

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biggest thing so I'm like oh is
it sip?

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Oni is it?
Sip 1e?

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Like whatever it's like it's
like in that movie that thing

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you do where they try to be
clever and people call them the

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o-neders instead of the Wonders.
So I think Brad and I are

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deciding that it's supposed to
sound like sip honey because

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there's honey in it.
So it's sipping e because it

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also sounds like Symphony like
it's a symphony in Mouth.

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So yeah, we're going with
sipping tea, right?

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Yep, that's it, man.
Tipene Sapone, e, sip sip Ernie.

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So anyway we have received these
samples of this product called

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sipping e.
Which again, it's a ready to

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drink and beverage there's two
varieties.

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One is called the sipping tea
Royale in, you know Allah Roy,

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how does it come with the second
with cheese on it Royale with

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cheese.
So this one is rye whiskey with

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honey lemon and sparkling water.
R.

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It is essentially for being
honest here.

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It's a whiskey Fizz, it really
is.

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So it's basically you know it's
made with honey instead of

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simple syrup but it's the same
thing.

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And then what they've done is
they've created a second variety

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which is called the sipping tea
Cafe, which is exactly the same

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thing, right?
Whiskey with honey, lemon juice

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sparkling water, but they had
cold brew coffee into it and

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that one I am like really pumped
to try.

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There is a local coffee shop
where Brad and I went to college

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that used to do this in the
summer.

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They would do espresso and Made
mixed together.

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And I was always like, I can't
tell if that sounds gross.

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I can't tell.
That sounds awesome.

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And I never got the like the
courage to try it.

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So now I'm kind of like living
vicariously through that through

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Symphony.
So Brad, we're going to pop

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these up and we got to try the
Royale.

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We're going to try the cafe.
I'm going to open this bad boy

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so we can capture the sound of
the can opening here.

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Oh yeah.
She's a fizzing.

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Hey, Bob, can I tell you a
secret?

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Yeah.
I I drank all four of these

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because we got to dig two men by
the way.

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And, and they were eminently
drinkable and I blasted through

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these four without even thinking
about it.

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Like, we get free, whiskey sent
to us all the time and I always

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liked and very careful to save
it for the episode were drinking

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it on, but these ones I was just
like, oh, it's in a can so I'm

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just going to drink it because
it's so stinkin tasty.

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So yeah.
Listen, my my initial reaction

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to this was just, oh, because I
tried this Royale and it is,

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it's fantastic.
I mean, it's something that's

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that you like about white claw
but it's made out of whiskey and

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the lemonade like it's just a
perfectly refreshing drink and

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Again, Brad, you know, since
covid started and we have like

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our home setups.
I am recording in an

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unventilated closet right now.
It is hot as hell in here.

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I'm sweating through all of my
clothing I just And half this

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can at once this thing is
incredible.

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Yeah, I think that if I had one
tiny drawback, I wish that there

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was a little bit more of a honey
flavor.

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Like I like, I don't feel like
I'm getting enough of the honey

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Sweetness in there, but dude,
this stuff is just off the

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charts.
Delicious.

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And I think that what really
makes it work is the fact that

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they use a rye whiskey.
Yes, there's a little bit of

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that spiciness there you're so
big.

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Second one we have cuz I gotta
try it.

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Ha ha ha.
There's there's just a little

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bit of that Rice spiciness that
mixes with the club soda and the

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the lemon flavor.
That's just it's phenomenal.

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All right, Brad, I'm gonna try
this Cafe.

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What did you think of this one?
You know, I feel like you have

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to be in the right mood for it.
I did not care for the coffee

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flavor, mixed in as well.
And I think, maybe if I had had

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that on its own, Sewn without
ever having had the Royale with

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cheese.
It would have been better, but

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the cold brew coffee.
Just took a little away from it,

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which was like, uber Lee
disappointing, because I was

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really pumped for that.
See, I actually really like this

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a lot Brad because it doesn't
have a super strong coffee

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flavor, but it's just there
enough that it kind of reminds

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you of like, you know, like when
you eat tiramisu or something

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like it just has that like
little wisp of that almost

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Chocolatey, dark espresso taste
to it and it really works well

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with the lemon.
I will say, like, if you handed

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me this and I was like, outside
of the pool and I didn't read

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the label.
I'd be really surprised and kind

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of, like, what is this?
But knowing that it's cold, brew

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coffee.
I actually found this way more

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refreshing and I thought it
balanced out way better than I

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was expecting again.
If you're just going for like I

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can pound eight of these at a
barbecue.

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I say go at the Royale but if
you want something that's like,

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Just a little more complex,
something that you could sip on,

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for, you know, 20 minutes as
opposed to 10 minutes.

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I actually really, really like
this Cafe dude.

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If you're at a barbecue you can
have a Royale with cheese

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burger.
Hey, there it is.

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So I will say this, like Brad
said, we get a lot of product

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sent to us.
This is a unique product, it is

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carving out, you know a corner
of this ready to drink Sparkling

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Market that whiskey is just not
doing a very good job.

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Cornering.
I know Jim Beam is just starting

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to come out with products like
this.

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Now I actually would say if you
have the choice between like the

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Jim Beam products in this
supports Epiphany like this is

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like they're a small operation
or out of New York City.

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Everything they do.
Every can they sell goes back to

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beekeepers and trying to save
honey bees like it's a really

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cool give back program that they
had.

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And aside from that it's just
absolutely delicious product.

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Now, like they have not paid us
to say any of this, we told them

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we were going to give them a
fair and honest review.

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You Brad.
I would give this a wholehearted

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recommendation.
Yeah.

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I mean, I might have come off a
little harsh on the cafe, but if

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I'm giving the Royale, like a
nine and a half out of ten, I'm

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giving the cafe, like, 1/8 to an
eight and a half out of ten.

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Yeah.
Like they're both incredibly

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delicious.
And if you're looking for

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something to just like spice up,
your average summer afternoon on

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the porch, grab some sipping e
if it's pronounced that way.

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Yeah, so once again, we're It's
a penny.

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It's spelled SI p 0, NE y.
You can find out more about them

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at sipping e.com.
Pick some up at a local store

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near you.
We want to say thank you to the

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symphony company.
We want to say thank you to

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Country smooth for sending the
whiskey that built these

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cocktails today, go out and try
some of these cocktails.

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They're really easy to make.
We hope this has been

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informative, we'll 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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Brad G and we'll see you next
time.