No Garnish

Atomic cocktails, Fallout, bomb parties, Miss Atomic Blast and surprisingly affordable bunker options.

 

90 Seconds to Midnight (The Atomic Cocktail revisited)

3/4 oz Aged Jamaican Rum

3/4 oz Cognac

1 Teaspoon Oolong Demerara Syrup**

Shake above ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass and top with Champagne or Prosecco. No Garnish. 

 

**Oolong Demerara Syrup: Combine 1 cup demerara sugar and 1/2 cup water in a pan on a low heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Once sugar has dissolved, add 1 Oolong teabag, steep over low heat for 5 minutes to infuse. Do not boil. Remove teabag, bottle syrup and keep in fridge. Lasts a couple of weeks, if not longer. 

 

Thermal Shadow

1 oz Spiced Rum

1 oz Chinotto Liqueur

1/2 oz Blanco Tequila

5 oz Chinotto Soda

1/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

Add ingredients to an ice filled highball glass, top with Ginger Ale and stir to combine. Garnish with a Maraschino Cherry and a distressed cocktail umbrella

Listener requests, Aunt Roberta, the only cocktails you need to know and every story ever told...

Mango Chutney Rum Sidecar

1 Barspoon Premium Mango Chutney

2 oz Aged Rum

3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

3/4 oz Grand Marnier

1 Barspoon Simple Syrup (optional)

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass rimmed with Cinnamon Sugar.

We drink the Dirty Weekend and the Last Vacation and talk summer holidays, crabbing and baby chainsaws...

Dirty Weekend

3/4 oz Gin

3/4 oz Blanco Vermouth

3/4 oz Luxardo Bitter Bianco

2 Barspoons Olive Brine

2 Dashes Olive Bitters

2 oz Fever Tree Mediterranean Tonic Water

Top with Soda Water

Build in highball glass with ice, garnish with expressed Lemon Zest and Olives

Last Vacation

1 oz Gold Rum

1 oz White Rum

1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice

1/2 oz White Grapefruit Juice

3/4 oz Cinnamon Syrup

1 Barspoon Maraschino Liqueur

2 oz Brewdog Elvis Juice or other Grapefruit IPA

Add all ingredients except the IPA to a shaker with ice and shake briefly to chill and combine. Add the IPA to a highball glass and then add the contents of the shaker including the ice. Stir to combine, top with more ice and garnish with a Cinnamon Stick and Grapefruit Wedge.

Episode artwork by Lawrence Elwick - https://www.lawrenceelwick.com

Big Things (they're a thing), pineapples, stardom and leather pants...

Gilda

2 oz Blanco Tequila 

1/2 oz Fresh Pineapple Juice

1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice

1/2 oz Cinnamon Syrup

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass. No garnish.

Pineapple Freight

1 1/2 oz Pineapple Rum

3/4 oz Velvet Falernum

3/4 oz Benedictine

3/4 oz Fresh Lime Juice

Whip shake all ingredients with a little pebble ice, strain into a highball glass filed with pebble ice, float 2 dashes of Angostura butter and garnish with a Pineapple wedge and sprig of Mint.

The world's best Amaretto Sour, the Arsenic and Old Lace, poisoners, quackery, public dissection, taxidermy, Nigella's nutmeg euphoria and the genetics of psychopathy...

Amaretto Sour by Jeffrey Morgenthaler

1 1/2 oz Amaretto*

3/4 oz Cask-Proof Bourbon

1 oz Lemon Juice

1 tsp 2:1 Simple Syrup

1/2 oz Egg White

Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake without ice or (even better) use an immersion blender to combine and froth. Add ice and shake. Strain over fresh ice into a large rocks glass, garnish with a twist of lemon and maraschino cherries.

*Use Frangelico instead of Amaretto for a Frangelico Sour

Arsenic and Old Lace

2 oz Gin

3/4 oz Dry Vermouth

1/4 oz Creme de Violette

1 Barspoon of Absinthe

Add ingredients to a mixing glass and stir well with ice to chill and dilute. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with an expressed twist of lemon or orange peel.

We drink cocktails inspired by Final Fantasy VII and

Baldur's Gate III and talk some of our other all-time favourite video games...

7th Floor Tango (Orchestral version) by Look Up Sounds https://lookupsounds.bandcamp.com

 

Chultan Fireswill (Baldur's Gate III)

1 1/2 oz Overproof Jamaican Rum

1/2 oz Mezcal

3/4 oz  POG Juice

(equal parts Pomegranate, Orange and Guava juice)

3 dashes Chocolate Bitters

1/2 oz Cinnamon Simple Syrup

1/2 oz Lime

Shake with ice and open pour into a Tiki Mug or highball

glass. Top with more ice, garnish with a Mint Sprig and Pomegranate Seeds.

https://youtu.be/YJBje2_sZx0?si=WWfnf1uFOiSQPkEI

 

Cosmo Canyon (Final Fantasy VII)

1 1/2 oz Absolut Citron

1/2 oz Amaro Nonino

1/2 oz Curaçao

1/2 oz  Campari

1/4 oz Simple Syrup

 

Stir ingredients with ice in a mixing glass, strain into a

rocks glass over ice, express a Lime Peel over the drink and either add or

discard.

 

https://youtu.be/ozUeltE_LEA?si=cmWNSn14c6tridNq

From burning bishops to pink palaces, we take a walk on the weird side of Valentine Street...

Juliet and Romeo

2 oz London Dry Gin

3/4 oz Lime Juice

3/4 oz Simple Syrup

3 slices Cucumber

1 Mint Sprig

A Dash of Rosewater

A Pinch of Salt

Muddle the cucumber and salt in a shaker tin, then add the Gin, Lime Juice, Simple Syrup and Rosewater and shake with ice. Double strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a mint leaf and 3 drops of Angostura Bitters.

Pink Lady

1 1/2 oz London Dry gin

1/2 oz Apple Brandy

3/4 oz Lemon Juice

1/4 oz Grenadine

1/2 oz Egg White

Shake all ingredients and double strain into a chilled cocktail glass. No garnish.

Smouldering Rose 

1 oz Mezcal

2 oz Rosé Vermouth

1/4 oz Velvet Falernum

A Dash of Rosewater

Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. No garnish.

From dial-up to OnlyFans, King Cobra to Blac Chyna, we take on the Porn Star Martini...

Porn Star Martini (original recipe) 

1 1/2 oz Vanilla Vodka

2 oz Funkin Passion Fruit Puree

1/2 oz Passoa Passion Fruit Liqueur

2 Barspoons of Vanilla Sugar (Blend 1 Vanilla Pod with 500g Fine Sugar)

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled coupe glass, garnish with half a fresh Passion Fruit and serve with a shot of Champagne or sparkling wine.

Blushing Porn Star

1 1/2 oz Vanilla Vodka

2 oz Passion Fruit Puree

1/2 oz Hibiscus Liqueur

2 Barspoons of Vanilla Sugar

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled coupe glass, garnish with a Hibiscus flower.

A cocktail inspired by Antarctic hallucinations and a guide to the cult of Rhysism...

Referenced in this episode: A Ballad about Drinking by Yevgeny Yevtushenko - https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/ballad-about-drinking

The Third Man Factor by John Geiger

Johnny Cash sings Barbie Girl by There I Ruined It

500 Miles Isolated Backing Vocals by PearadoxX

Walk This Way by Macy Gray

You'll Never Walk Alone by the Toy Dolls

Curious Imaginings 

1 1/4 oz Shackleton Scotch

3/4 oz Creme de Cassis

3/4 oz Acqua Bianca

1/4 oz Lemon Juice

1 Dash Lemon Bitters

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a rocks glass filled with crushed ice, garnish with a mint sprig and - if you can find one - a whistle adorned glittery stirrer. 

South Pole Swizzle

1 1/4 oz Gin

3/4 oz Kummel

3/4 oz Passion Fruit Syrup

1/2 oz Honey Syrup

3/4 oz Lemon Juice

1 dash Angostura Bitters

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a highball glass or Tiki mug filled with crushed/pebble ice, garnish with an orange twist.

Breakfast in America, lunch in Italy and dinner in South Korea. Three continent crossing cocktails in the company of Nellie Bly...

Seoul Train

1 1/2 oz Soju

3/4 oz Choya Plum Wine

Yuzu Soda

Add the Soju and Plum Wine to a highball glass, add ice to halfway and stir, add Yuzu soda and more ice, stir again to combine, garnish with Kiwi Pearls and Dragon Fruit.

Breakfast in America

1 oz Bourbon

1/4 oz Coffee Liqueur

1/4 oz Maple Syrup

1 oz Buttermilk

1 Whole Egg 

Add all ingredients to a shaker and dry shake (without ice), add ice and shake again, strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with Candied Bacon.

Pomodoro Negroni

2 Cherry Tomatoes

1 oz Gin

3/4 oz Italicus

1/4 oz Suze

1 oz Dry Vermouth

Muddle the cherry tomatoes in a mixing glass, add the remaining ingredients and ice, stir to chill and dilute, double strain into a rocks glass and garnish with Cherry Tomatoes, Mozzarella Pearls and Basil Leaves.