Tonight we experiment with a couple of seasonal Halloween inspired drinks.    Poison Apple Martini Found online at Half Baked Harvest INGREDIENTS Black lava salt, or coarse black sugar, for rim (optional) 1/2 cup apple cider 2 tablespoons pomegranate juice 1 tablespoon lemon juice 2 ounces vodka or apple vodka 1/8 teaspoon activated charcoal for coloring (could also use black food dye) (optional) Dry ice (optional) INSTRUCTIONS 1. If desired, rim your martini glass with black lava salt or coarse black sugar. 2. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the cider, pomegranate juice, lemon, vodka, and activated charcoal, if using. Shake to combine. 3. Strain into prepared martini glass. Add a very, very small amount of dry ice, if desired and be sure to wait until the ice fully dissolves to drink or serve as dry ice can be dangerous if it has yet to melt. Pumpkin Kentucky Mule with Ginger and Spice A Pumpkin Kentucky Mule with Ginger and Spice is "autumn in a glass"... Pumpkin butter (homemade or purchased), bourbon, ginger beer, and cardamom bitters get garnished with a cinnamon stick and candied ginger. This simple cocktail may become your new fall favorite ingredients 2 tbsp pumpkin butter 3 ounces bourbon 4 shakes cardamom bitters ginger beer candied ginger , garnish cinnamon sticks, garnish Found online at Beyond Mere Sustenance #cocktails #Mixology #HalloweenCocktails #Pumplincocktail

Mixology Lab: cocktails and friends

Mixology Lab: Were on again with a Pumpkin Cocktail, Poison Apple Martini - a dry Ice inspired drink

Sangria 1/2 medium apple (cored, skin on, chopped into small pieces) 1/2 medium orange (rind on, sliced into small pieces, large seeds removed // plus more for garnish) 3-4 Tbsp organic brown sugar (or 3 Tbsp (37.5 g) organic cane sugar as original recipe is written) 3/4 cup orange juice (plus more to taste) 1/3 Disarano Amoretto (used in podcast) or a cup brandy (plus more to taste) 750 ml bottle dry Spanish red wine* ~1 cup Ice to chill Amber Road 1 1/2 oz Bourbon 1 oz Aperol 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice 1/4 oz maple syrup Shake with ice Strain into a tall glass with Ice Add 1 dash of Angostura bitters Add 2 oz soda Garnish with a lemon wheel and a fresh sprig of mint

Mixology Lab: Sangria and the Amber Rose... and we might need a new sound engineer :)

Another Zoom session while we all continue to shelter in place.   Today we are trying some lighter drinks as. we prepare for Easter.   Strawberry Champagne Mojito 1 cup diced strawberry’s 12-14 mint leaves 4 teaspoons superfine sugar or simple syrup 4 oz of fresh lime juices 4 oz of white rum 1 bottle of champagne Place 1/4 cup of strawberries, 3-4 mint leaves, 1 teaspoon sugar (or simple syrup) and 1 ounce of lime juice in the bottom of a champagne glass. Using a muddler, crush the strawberries and mint to release the oils. Stir in 1 ounce of rum. Top with champagne until the glass is filled. Garnish with strawberries and fresh mint leaves, if desired. Found online at The Suburban Soapbox Lemon-Lime Drop 6 mint leaves 6-7 small cubes 1/2 oz Simple syrup 2 oz kettle one 1 full lime squeezed 2 oz lemonade The second drink was shaken, strained and served straight up Bloody Good - Killer Bloody Mary Mix We’ve never found a better tasting Bloody Mary mix. During a decade of serving locals and tourists alike, a master mixologist in Sausalito, California developed this flavorful blend. Handcrafted in small batches using only the finest ingredients. Bloody Mary Mix - Bloody Good 2 oz Vodka

Mixology Lab - Strawberry Champagne, Lemon-Lime Drop and a Bloody Mary by Bloody Good

Tonight we try doing a Zoom podcast for the first time.   Trying some of the touted cocktails on the internet and making up a few of our own.   Our effort to stay close as friends during this challenging time.   Be well all and don't take this podcast to seriously as you join us for a drink.  Cheers  Mixology Lab

QUARANTINI? Cocktails Cures? Probably not but we will give them a shot

The Search & Rescue INGREDIENTS 1.25 OZ RYE .75 OZ RUBY PORT .75 OZ LEMON JUICE .5 OZ SIMPLE SYRUP .5 OZ CYNAR METHOD Steps Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.  Shake and double strain into a rocks glass. Created by Blake Pope, beverage director at Kindred Restaurant in Davidson, North Carolina, this ruby port-enhanced Whiskey Sour transcends trends and seasons. “I use Quinta de Novol’s ruby port—a younger style that’s jammy and rich—which gives this cocktail loads of body,” Pope says. “The port also softens and sweetens a bracing combination of overproof rye whiskey, lemon juice and the bitter Italian digestif Cynar.” Shaken together, the cocktail is downright addictive and amazingly good with Southern food like fried chicken and country ham biscuits. Boulevardier Ingredients 1 1/4 ounce bourbon or rye 1 ounce Campari 1 ounce sweet vermouth Garnish: orange peel Steps Add all ingredients into a mixing glass with ice and stir until chilled. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice. Garnish with an orange peel. Loosely translated, a boulevardier is a man-about-town. The cocktail by the same name was created by Erskine Gwynne, the publisher of “Boulevardier,” a magazine for expats living in Paris in the 1920s. It’s a tidy story, just like the drink it inspired. Equal parts whiskey, vermouth and Campari, the Boulevardier is both adaptable and adored for its balance of bitter, boozy and sweet. Choose your ingredients wisely. The best Boulevardier, like the best Negroni, hinges on a happy marriage between base spirit and vermouth. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixology-lab/support

Mixology Lab: Artichokie? The Search & Rescue and The Boulevardier

Back for the first episode of the year as we explore Green Chartreuse in a drink.    Green Point Cocktail 2 oz bullet Rye 1/2 sweet vermouth  1/2 Whiskey 1 dash saffron bitters  Garnished with Lemon peel and 2 luxardo cherries   Luexardo Cheryl   #Green Point Cocktail, #mixolotylab, #coctails,  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixology-lab/support

Mixology Lab: Is it Scope or Alcohol? = Green Chartreuse Cocktail

Don't take this one serious.    We are finishing up the year talking about random things but, goals for next year and just chatting for this short episode.  Have a great Holiday and a Happy New Year! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixology-lab/support

Mixology Lab: 2020 goals for the Podcast - No recipes and just messing around

Holly Jolly Holiday Drink - Made by Mike "the Fact Checker"  2 oz Vodka  1/2 oz Saint Germain elderflower liquor Blood Orange Juice 2 tablespoons pomegranate seeds Garnished with Mint leaf's Ginger beer splash on top Instagram  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixology-lab/support

Mixology Lab: Holly Jolly Holiday Cocktail

Tonight we embark on our first Tequila tasting but first, start out with a tasty cocktail.   It's Greek to Me Mixed By "Mike, the fact-checker" 4 Slices of Ginger 1 oz Casamigos Anejo  Tequila  1/2 oz Mavrakis Tsipouro 1 oz Lime juice 3/4 oz Chambord 1/2 oz agave 1 dash of angostura bitters  Muddle the ginger in the shaker and add all ingredients and shake.  pour over ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a sage leaf. found at Avra Madison in NYC #cocktail #tequila #mixologylab #mixologylab.sc  Facebook  Instagram  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixology-lab/support

Mixology Lab: Tequila Tasting and "Its Greek to Me"

Join us this week as we try another Gin Based salad drink  Autumn Apple Gin   2oz Venus Gin  2oz Apple Cider  1/2oz lime juice  1 oz homemade honey simple syrup dash of cinnamon sprig tree = thyme 5-6 cubes of ice chopped apples  Then it goes downhill as we do some blind whiskey tasting.   Instagram #mixologylab.sc #mixology --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixology-lab/support

Mixology Lab: Whiskey is Frisky

Stories from Russa, Vodka, Gin, Whisky... Lots to do tonight Great Drink - It  has no name  3/4 ox Hine Conac 3./4 oz of High West Campfire 3/4 oz Vermuth 1/4 oz Benedictine Liquor #mixology, #mixologylab, #bourbon #burbonmonth #mixologysc Instagram --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixology-lab/support

Mixology Lab - Dutch Gin Houses, A Great Cocktail, What is Vermouth? and a Pumpkin Mule

Tonight We make are mixing a couple drinks and staying with the Bourbon / Rye theme. Also a quick explanation of where the Aperol Spritz came from.    Whisky Smash - Mixed By Eddie 2 oz Whiskey  2/3 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice  1/2 oz Simple Syrup  1/2 egg white  1 cherry Mix all ingredients into a shaker with ice and pour but don't tell them there is egg, unless they are allergic :) Ryan’s PBS “Peach Bourbon Smash” 1 1/2 - 1 1/3 oz Larceny Bourbon 1/4 oz Peach Shrub 1/4 oz Peach Liquor 1/2 oz Simple Syrup 2 dashes orange bitters  lemon peel garnish  #mixology, #mixologylab, #bourbon #burbonmonth #mixologysc Instagram  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixology-lab/support

Mixology Lab - Ryan's Peach Bourbon Smash and a Whiskey Sour

its 100 Deg in Santa Cruz, so we retry the Aperol Spritz,.  Ryan and Eddie are thumbs up but Justina is still not a fan.    We remake a classic and goof off a bit.    instagram #mixology #mixologylab --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixology-lab/support

Mixology Lab: Aperol Spritz Part 2 with a twist, Lime Blackberry Bourbon

We recap the infamous "Deep Eddie" vodka over trying a French Pear French Pear found at Lalla Grill in Monterey, CA - Mixed by Ryan 1 1/2 oz grey goose pear vodka 1/2 oz Elderflower liqueur  1/2 oz lemon 1/8 oz simple syrup  Shake and pour over rocks garnish with lemon peel Gifts -  Whisky Soap Finally, The Manhattan We had trouble with a mic's this week but the show must go on....    instagram #mixology #mixologylab --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixology-lab/support

Mixology Lab - The Manhattan, French Pear and Soap?

Strawberry Mojitos -  Prepared by Justina 1 cup water 1 cup sugar 6 strawberries handful of mint leaves 1 lime  4 oz rum (we only used 1 1/2) lime flavored club soda  Old Fitzy Girl found at Salthouse in SF - Prepared by Ryan 1 1/2 Oz Larceny Bourbon  1/4 oz Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur 1/4 clear Creek Cherry Liqueur 1/2 oz raspberry shrub 2 dashes of bittercube bitters Blackberry Whisky Smash - Prepared by Eddie 1 1/2 Oz Rye handful of mint leaves 5 blackberries (muddled and strained) 3/4 oz fresh squeezed lemons  1/2 oz agave nectar splash of club soda Instagram  #mixologylab.sc #mixology --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixology-lab/support

Mixology Lab - Strawberry Mojitos, Blackberry Whisky Smash and Old Fitzy Girl

Mixing Drinks with friends. Just a group of long-time friends exploring ways to entertain, mix drinks and share our secrets of how we mix drinks. We take nothing serious so come join our tribe and have a drink with us. Cheers! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixology-lab/support

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