Sundowners Podcast

Today we are drinking a Bloody Mary. Thank god. Bloody Mary Recipe: 2 OUNCES VODKA 4 OUNCES TOMATO JUICE ½ OUNCE LEMON JUICE ½ TEASPOON WORCESTERSHIRE 2-4 DASHES HOT SAUCE SALT AND PEPPER TO TASTE Add all ingredients to a mixing tin and add ice. Roll back and forth between mixing tins and strain into an ice-filled Collins or highball glass. Garnish with a celery stick, lime wedge, crispy bacon, shrimp, or any other outrageous items you can come up with. Leave us some feedback, and share with your slumber party attending girlfriends and brunch attending boyfriends. Music: The Witch Are Going Magical by Loyalty Freak Music

This week’s adult beverage is a classic for no apparent reason, and is up for some revamping if anyone wants to take a crack at it! Blood And Sand Recipe: 1 OUNCE SCOTCH, PREFERABLY BLENDED 1 OUNCE CHERRY LIQUEUR, PREFERABLY CHERRY HEERING 1 OUNCE SWEET VERMOUTH 1 OUNCE ORANGE JUICE Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake. Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass. Leave us some feedback, and share with your Matadors and . Music: Matadora by Cordero

After fueling the Green Mountain Boys in their capture of Fort Ticonderoga from the British during the Revolutionary War, this cocktail has become a Colonial-era classic. Tune in to learn more! Stone Fence Recipe: 2 OUNCES DARK RUM, BRANDY, BOURBON, OR RYE 1 DASH ANGOSTURA BITTERS 5 OUNCES FRESH PRESSED APPLE CIDER Add all ingredients to a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a mint sprig or freshly grated nutmeg. Leave us some feedback, and share with a Green Mountain Boy. Music: Stone Wall by Blah Blah Blah

Learn about how to make an Americano cocktail even more American – by adding pilsner! Americano Perfecto Recipe: 1 ½ OUNCES CAMPARI ¾ OUNCE DOLIN ROUGE SWEET VERMOUTH ¾ OUNCE CARPANO ANTICA SWEET VERMOUTH 4 OUNCES PILSNER Add ice to a Collins Glass. Add Campari and both vermouths. Top with pilsner and garnish with an orange wheel. Leave us some feedback, and share with your most perfectly American friends. Music: America America by Roy “Chicky” Arad

A wonderful transition into our favorite season, this maple-yet-sour cocktail is a pure delight. Listen to Hailey keep this episode from proceeding by running her own Filibuster. Filibuster Recipe: 2 OUNCES RYE ¾ OUNCE LEMON JUICE ½ OUNCE MAPLE SYRUP 1 SMALL EGG WHITE Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker and dry shake. Add ice and shake well. Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass. To garnish, dash Angostura bitters around the perimeter of the drink and then drag a toothpick through them to create a garland of hearts. Leave us some feedback, and share with your most long-winded friends. Music: Politics 101 by Marwood Williams

Today we are drinking a cocktail called the Mexican Firing Squad. If you like margaritas but want to stop being such a basic bitch, this one’s for you. Mexican Firing Squad Recipe: 2 OUNCES TEQUILA ¾ OUNCE LIME JUICE ¾ OUNCE GRENADINE 5 DASHES ANGOSTURA BITTERS SODA WATER (OPTIONAL) Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with a lime wheel. Leave us some feedback, and share with your friend who likes margaritas but wants to stop being such a basic bitch. Music: A Mexican Love Affair by Squire Tuck

Today we are drinking a Dark ‘n’ Stormy, which is quite relevant as Hannah’s just been pummeled by Hurricane Florence over the weekend , and Hailey’s just getting into the rainy season. A Dark ‘n’ Stormy is a highball cocktail made with dark rum (the “dark”) and ginger beer (the “stormy”) served over ice and garnished with a slice of lime. Dark ‘N’ Stormy Recipe: 2 OUNCES DARK OR BLACKSTRAP RUM 1 OUNCE LIME JUICE 4 OUNCES DRY, SPICY GINGER BEER Add rum and lime juice to a Collins glass. Add ice and top with ginger beer. Garnish with a lime wheel. Leave us some feedback, and share with your friends who made it through Hurricane Florence. Music: hurricane by h.

This cocktail is the cat’s pajamas. Nay, the eel’s ankle. Well it’s the elephant’s instep, the snake’s hip and the capybara’s spats. Regardless, we’ll have a Bee’s Knees, Johnny, and step on it before the bulls show up. Bee’s Knees Recipe: 1 ½ OUNCES GIN ¾ OUNCE LEMON JUICE ¾ OUNCE HONEY SYRUP Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon wheel. Leave us some feedback, and share with your buzzy lil’ friends. Music: Bees In My Blood by Mr Frisby’s Beat Pocket

The Mai Tai is a cocktail based on rum, Curaçao liqueur, orgeat syrup, and lime juice, associated with Polynesian-style settings. We think the Wall Street Journal said it best, “If you think of Tiki as the cocktail world’s sugary cousin with a penchant for bad Hawaiian shirts, then you haven’t had the good stuff.” Bitter Mai Tai Recipe: 1 ½ OUNCES CAMPARI ¾ OUNCE JAMAICAN RUM ½ OUNCE ORANGE CURAÇAO 1 OUNCE LIME JUICE ¾ OUNCE ORGEAT Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Add a small amount of ice and shake. Strain over crushed ice into a rocks glass. Top with more crushed ice and garnish with a mint sprig. Leave us some feedback, and share with your friends to wrap up the summer this Labor Day. Music: Mai Tai Beach by Little Glass Men

The Moscow mule is a cocktail made with vodka, spicy ginger beer, and lime juice, garnished with a slice or wedge of lime. It is popularly served in a copper mug; however, public health advisories recommend the mugs be plated with nickel or stainless steel on the inside and the lip. Moscow Mule Recipe: 2 OUNCES VODKA ¾ OUNCE LIME JUICE 4 OUNCES GINGER BEER Add vodka and lime juice to a copper mule mug or collins or highball glass. Top with crushed or cracked ice. Top with ginger beer and swizzle with a swizzle stick or barspoon gently to mix. Garnish with a lime wheel. Leave us some feedback, and share with your Russian friends. Music: Moscow Window – My Neighbor by Sam Bikov

The mint julep is made primarily using bourbon (or some other spirit), sugar, water, crushed or shaved ice, and fresh mint. As a bourbon-based cocktail, it is associated with the American South and the cuisine of the Southern United States in general, and the Kentucky Derby in particular. Mint Julep Recipe: 1 LARGE MINT SPRIG ½ – ¾ OUNCE SIMPLE SYRUP 2 – 2½ OUNCES BOURBON, PREFERABLY BONDED In a julep tin or rocks glass, muddle mint sprig with simple syrup by gently pressing to release oils. Pack the glass with finely crushed ice. Pour bourbon, and mound more ice into the top of the glass. Spank a mint bouquet by clapping it between your hands to release the oils, and garnish. Leave us some feedback, and share with your Derby boys and girls! Music: Mint Jam by Factory Sounds

Swizzle your way out to the Scottish Caribbean with a Padang Swizzle! Padang Swizzle Recipe: 1 ½ OUNCES AMONTILLADO SHERRY ½ OUNCE AGED RUM ¼ OUNCE ISLAY SINGLE-MALT SCOTCH ¾ OUNCE LIME JUICE ½ OUNCE GRAPEFRUIT JUICE ¾ OUNCE CINNAMON SYRUP Add all ingredients to a Collins or Pilsner glass. Add crushed ice and swizzle using a swizzle stick or bar spoon. Top with more crushed ice, and garnish with a lime wheel speared through with a smoking cinnamon stick (carefully light using a match or lighter). Be sure to extinguish the cinnamon stick before attempting to take a sip of your swizzle! Leave us some feedback, and share with someone who likes to vacation in the colder and more rainy islands. Music: Swizzle Bricks by The Frightingales

Our latest episode explores the conspiracy behind the Paloma Cocktail’s Wiki page, and the mystery surrounding the Paloma’s origin. Paloma Recipe: 2 OUNCE TEQUILA 1 OUNCE GRAPEFRUIT JUICE ½ OUNCE LIME JUICE ¾ OUNCE SIMPLE SYRUP 2 DASHES GRAPEFRUIT BITTERS (OPTIONAL) SODA WATER, TO TOP Add first 4 (or 5 if using bitters) ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a collins glass over ice. Top with soda water. Garnish with a grapefruit wheel. Leave us some feedback, and share with a dove. Music: Stale Tequila by Jacob Haller

According to Brian Petro from alcoholprofessor.com, there are some historians that believe the sour category is a scaled down version of the basic punch. It has the elements of “one sour, two sweet, three strong, four weak” that a classic punch has, but in an individual serving size. The proportions are a bit off, but you get the idea. The base spirit is always the dominant flavor. The sugar needs the juice and water or soda to help dissolve the sugar. The citrus should be just present enough to balance out the sweetness of the sugar. Gum syrup (or simple syrup) was later substituted for the sugar and water in some recipes, which is easier to blend into the cocktail. Whiskey Sour Recipe: 1 OUNCES BOURBON 3/4 OUNCE LEMON JUICE 3/4 OUNCE SIMPLE SYRUP ½ OUNCE OR 1 SMALL EGG WHITE (OPTIONAL) Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker, and dry shake. Add ice to the shaker and shake well. Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass, or over ice into a rocks glass. Leave us some feedback, and share with a friend who has egg on their face! Music: Eggs by Bad Ronald Bar Spoons, courtesy of Urban Bar: European […]

This heady and heavy-handed punch is made for lazy summer afternoons (or—when heated and mulled—lazy, winter weekends), so we’d recommend refraining from following a punch bowl up with any sort of plans, angling or otherwise. An early-known print reference to Fish-House Punch is in “The Cook” (1885): Fish-House Punch There’s a little place just out of town, Where, if you go to lunch, They’ll make you forget your mother-in-law With a drink called Fish-House Punch. Philadelphia Fish House Punch Recipe: ½ CUP SUGAR 2 LEMONS, PEELED AND JUICE RESERVED 2 CUPS BLACK TEA OR WATER, WARM 2 CUPS JAMAICAN RUM 1 CUP COGNAC ¼ CUP PEACH BRANDY In a large bowl, add sugar and lemon peels, and rub together to release the citrus oils into the sugar. Allow to infuse for at least 30 minutes. Add warm tea (or water) and stir to dissolve sugar. Add rum, Cognac, lemon juice and peach brandy and stir to mix. Add a block of ice to chill, and add smaller pieces of ice for desired dilution. Garnish with lemon wheels studded with whole cloves. Ladle into individual glasses. Leave us some feedback, and make a bowl to share with your friends at your 4th […]

This simple “gin and juice” concoction was a hit among the scores of illegal drinkers during the years of Prohibition. While there’s not a lot of history behind the cocktail itself, aside from being named as one of the worst drinks of the decade in 1934 by Esquire magazine (along with the Bronx, the Brandy Alexander and the Clover Club), it has been a part of a number of different historical figures’ lives. Orange Blossom Recipe: 1 OZ GIN 1 OZ SWEET VERMOUTH 1 OZ ORANGE JUICE Add all the ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange wheel. Leave us some feedback, and share with the same friends who you would share a bathtub full of gin, OJ and vermouth! Music: prohibition brew and pork chops by Tha Silent Partner

Today we are celebrating National Martini Day, which is Tuesday this week, with a variation of Hailey‘s go-to, called the Fitty Fitty Martini, aka the 50-50 Martini, aka the Perfect Martini. For the original martini, head back to our first episode, but if you’re gearing up to celebrate with a bit more vermouth, the Fitty Fitty is the way to go! Fitty Fitty Martini Recipe: 1 ½ OUNCES GIN 1 ½ OUNCES DRY VERMOUTH 2 DASHES ORANGE BITTERS Add all ingredients to a mixing glass. Add ice and stir until chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist. Leave us some feedback, and share with your friends who will be celebrating National Martini Day! Music: bathtub gin by Dee Yan-Key

Happy Negroni Week! This week – this entire week – has been devoted to Negronis, so clearly, that is what we are drinking today. While the drink’s origins are unknown, the Negroni is an iconic Italian cocktail, considered an apéritif. Let us know if you participated in Negroni week and we’ll get you a shout out in an upcoming episode! Negroni Recipe: 1 OUNCE GIN 1 OUNCE CAMPARI 1 OUNCE SWEET VERMOUTH Add all ingredients to a mixing glass. Add ice and stir until chilled. If on the rocks, strain over ice into a rocks glass. If up, strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange peel. Leave us some feedback, and share with your friends who participated in Negroni Week. Music: Sad French Accordion by Dana Boulé

Today we are drinking the Rob Roy – not to be confused with Roy Rogers cocktail, or the Roy Rogers burger chain for that matter, the Rob Roy is a cocktail consisting primarily of whisky and vermouth. A Rob Roy cocktail is similar to a Manhattan but is made exclusively with Scotch whisky, while the Manhattan (as we’ve discussed in an earlier episode) is traditionally made with rye, and today commonly made with bourbon or Canadian whisky. Rob Roy Recipe: 2 OUNCES SCOTCH, PREFERABLY BLENDED 1 OUNCE SWEET VERMOUTH 2 DASHES ANGOSTURA BITTERS Add all ingredients to a mixing glass. Add ice and stir until chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass. Garnish with a brandied cherry or a lemon peel. Leave us some feedback, and share with your kilt-wearing kinsmen and kinswomen. Music: Whiskey all night long by The Underscore Orkestra

A Cosmopolitan, or informally a “cosmo,” is a cocktail made with citron vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice, and freshly squeezed, or sweetened, lime juice. Although originally created sometime in the 70s or 80s, it wasn’t until the airing of Sex in the City that the Cosmopolitan really launched into pop culture icon status. In the late ’90s and early 2000s, it topped the lists of bars across the country and became synonymous with working women, the budding cocktail revolution, and men ordering cocktails in rocks glasses because they didn’t want to seem too girly. Cosmo Recipe: 2 OUNCES CITRON VODKA, PREFERABLY ABSOLUT 1 OUNCE COINTREAU 1 OUNCE LIME JUICE ½ OUNCE CRANBERRY JUICE Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass. Leave us some feedback, and share with your Charlottes, Mirandas, and Samanthas, you Carrie, you. Music: Cosmopolitan – Margarita – Bellini by Dee Yan-Key

A margarita is a cocktail consisting of tequila, orange liqueur, and lime juice, often served with salt on the rim of the glass. The drink is served shaken with ice (on the rocks), blended with ice (frozen margarita), or without ice (straight up). While you can serve a margarita in a variety of glass types, ranging from cocktail and wine glasses to pint glasses and even large schooners, the drink is traditionally served in the eponymous margarita glass, a stepped-diameter variant of a cocktail glass or champagne coupe. Margarita Recipe: 1 ½ OUNCES BLANCO TEQUILA ¾ OUNCE ORANGE LIQUEUR, PREFERABLY COINTREAU ¾ OUNCE LIME JUICE 1 TEASPOON AGAVE NECTAR GARNISH: LIME WHEEL Prepare a rocks, coupe, or cocktail glass with a salted rim, if desired. Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until chilled. Strain into prepared glass, over ice if desired. Garnish with a lime wheel. Note: if you’re using an orange liqueur other than Cointreau, adjust the lime juice up according to the liqueur’s sweetness. Leave us some feedback, and share with your Mexican American friends. Feliz Cinco de Mayo. ¡Salud! Music: Big Foot (Cuántos Años) by El Niño del Parking

So, here’s a question for you: why would a posh LA restaurant name a popular cocktail after a competitor? At some point in the mid-1930s, the Vendome Club did just that. The Vendome started serving a version of the whiskey sour named after one of its Hollywood neighbors: the Brown Derby restaurant. Their name for the drink—“Brown Derby”—replaced “De Rigueur” in cocktail manuals over time, and is the name we generally encounter today. Brown Derby Recipe: 1 1/2 OUNCES BOURBON 3/4 OUNCE GRAPEFRUIT JUICE 3/4 OUNCE HONEY SYRUP GARNISH: GRAPEFRUIT WHEEL Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with a grapefruit peel. Leave us some feedback, and share with your friends who are after that Old Hollywood glam1 Music: Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasy in A-flat Major, Op. 61 by Jonathan Biss

The rickey is a highball drink made from gin or bourbon, half of a lime squeezed and dropped in the glass, and carbonated water. Little or no sugar is added to the rickey. Originally created with bourbon in Washington, D.C. at Shoomaker’s bar by bartender George A. Williamson in the 1880s, supposedly in collaboration with Democratic lobbyist Colonel Joe Rickey, it became a worldwide sensation when mixed with gin a decade later. Gin Ricky Recipe: 2 OUNCES GIN 1/2 – 3/4 OUNCE LIME JUICE SODA WATER TO TOP GARNISH: LIME WHEEL Add gin and lime juice to a Collins glass. Add ice and top with soda water. Garnish with a lime wheel. Leave us some feedback, and share with your racetrack friends! Music: Over There by Thomas A. Edison, Inc; The Great Gatsby, Waiting (Harbison) by MIT Symphony Orchestra

A Jack Rose is a cocktail containing applejack, grenadine, and lemon or lime juice, popular in the 1920s and 1930s. It notably appeared in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 classic, The Sun Also Rises, and was a favorite cocktail of American Author John Steinbeck. The drink was also associated with “Baldy Jack Rose,” a key player in the Rosenthal murder case 1912. Jack Rose Recipe: 1 1/2 OUNCES APPLEJACK BRANDY 3/4 OUNCE LIME OR LEMON JUICE 1/2 OUNCE GRENADINE GARNISH: LIME OR LEMON TWIST Add all of the ingredients to a shaker with ice, and shake until chilled. Fine-strain into a coupe glass, and garnish with a lime or lemon twist. Leave us some feedback, and share with your friends who like Robitussin®, below! Music: NotDrunk-stem-Brass by The Joy Drops

While the exact origin of the Sidecar cocktail is unclear; it is widely accepted to have been invented around the end of World War I, but, could have come from either London, or Paris. Regardless of location, we choose to believe that it was named after a bum in a bar who was picked up by his badass mother, who drove a motorcycle and dumped her drunk son in her sidecar. Sidecar Recipe: 2 PARTS COGNAC (VS OR VSOP) 1 PART COINTREAU 1 PART LEMON JUICE GARNISH: ORANGE PEEL Coat the rim of a cocktail glass with sugar and set aside (Do this a few minutes ahead of time so the sugar can dry and adhere well to the glass). Add the remaining ingredients to a shaker and fill with ice. Shake, and strain into the prepared glass. Garnish with a piece of orange peel. Leave us some feedback, and share with your friends who ride a motorcycle, below!

Hemingway Daiquiri Recipe: 2 OUNCES WHITE RUM (Hemingway’s favorite was Bacardi!) 1/2 OUNCE MARASCHINO LIQUEUR, PREFERABLY LUXARDO 3/4 OUNCE LIME JUICE 1/2 OUNCE GRAPEFRUIT JUICE GARNISH: LIME WHEEL Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until chilled. Strain through a Hawthorne strainer from the shaker tin, and then through a julep strainer, into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wheel. Recipe by Megan Krigbaum, The Essential Cocktail Book Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. – Ernest Hemingway

An Old Fashioned is the textbook description of a cocktail – a potent concoction of spirits, bitters, water, and sugar. And we love it! Tune in to learn more about the history of the Old Fashioned, which is essentially the history of cocktails all together! Old Fashioned Recipe: 1 TEASPOON OF GRANULATED SUGAR SPLASH OF WARM WATER 2-3 DASHES ANGOSTURA BITTERS 2 OUNCES OF BOURBON OR RYE GARNISH: ORANGE PEEL Leave us some feedback, and share with your friends who appreciate a good ol’ fashioned cocktail, below!

Unfortunately, we weren’t actually in Manhattan while we explored the Manhattan cocktail, but we were in the same room – maybe one of the last chances we’ll get for a while! As we discuss on this episode, the Manhattan is subject to considerable variation and innovation, and is often a way for the best bartenders to show off their creativity. Traditional views insist that a Manhattan be made with American rye whiskey. However, more often than not, it is made with bourbon or Canadian whisky – we used bourbon in our drinks, along with dry vermouth and a cherry garnish, to create what is called a “half-dry Manhattan.” Listen to learn more! Classic Manhattan Recipe: 2 OUNCES WHISKEY 1 OUNCE SWEET VERMOUTH 2 DASHES ANGOSTURA BITTERS GARNISH: BRANDIED CHERRIES Leave us some feedback, and share with your friends who love whiskey in all forms, below.

Welcome to the Sundowners Podcast. We’re so excited to launch our very first episode, and to get us started, we tackle the classiest of all beverages: the Martini. Although the origin of the martini isn’t known for sure, there are a few speculations, which we cover after a brief introduction to the podcast. For those who don’t know, a “sundowner” is an African safari tradition, in the most romantic sense, in which, at sundown, a picnic blanket is laid, drinks are poured, and company is shared. As we prepare to send Hailey off to Africa, we decided to launch this podcast as a project to keep us connected while she’s overseas – and what better way than to share a happy hour drink over a video chat? We’d likely already be doing this anyway, so we’ve decided to hit record and see where this podcast takes us. Classic Martini Recipe: 2 OUNCES GIN 1 OUNCE DRY VERMOUTH 2 DASHES ORANGE BITTERS GARNISH: LEMON PEEL Leave us some feedback, and share with your friends who love gin and vodka martinis, below.