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We drink one of the best Tiki cocktails ever and talk the nonsense of Alan Watts, pearl hunting and breatharianism...

Pearl Diver Punch

1 1/2 oz Gold Puerto Rican Rum

3/4 oz Demerara Rum

1 Teaspoon Falernum

3/4 oz Fresh Lime Juice

1 oz Fresh Orange Juice

3/4 oz Gardenia Mix*

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a large ice filled vessel of your choosing, garnish with an orchid.

* Gardenia Mix

2 oz Honey

2 oz Clarified Butter

2 Teaspoons 2:1 Cinnamon Syrup

1 Teaspoon Allspice Dram

1 Teaspoon Vanilla Syrup

Episode art by Lawrence Elwick - Lawrenceelwick.com

The origins of the world's favourite cocktail, Margaritaville and the multiple Jesus hypothesis...

Margarita (IBA specs)

50 ml Tequila (100% agave)

20 ml Triple Sec

15 ml Fresh Lime Juice

Shake ingredients with ice, serve straight up or on the rocks in a glass with a salted rim

Margarita (Paul's Recipe)

2 oz Reposado Tequila (100% agave)

1 oz Fresh Lime Juice

3/4 oz Triple Sec

1 Teaspoon Agave Syrup

Optional: 1 Dash of Grapefruit Bitters, 1 Dash of Celery Bitters

Shake ingredients with ice, serve straight up or on the rocks in a glass with a salted rim

Cachaça, furry dog babies and carnivals...

Batida

2 oz Cachaça

1 oz Fruit Juice and/or Coconut milk

1/4 oz Simple Syrup or Sweetened Condensed Milk

Optional: 1/4 oz fresh Lime Juice

It's American Independence Day! We drink the Stone Fence and the Elmo Cola and trade some of our favourite American exports from the 150 years in-between...

M.I.A, getting shipwrecked, the Myers-Briggs personality test and Atlantis...

Paper Plane

3/4 oz Bourbon

3/4 oz Amaro Nonino

3/4 oz Aperol

3/4 oz Lemon Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled coupe.

High Flyer

1 oz Spirit

1/2 oz Lemon or Lime Juice

1/2 oz Aperol or other bitter red

bitter apéritif

1/2 oz Amaro Montenegro, Suze or similar

Optional: 1 Barspoon Simple Syrup

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled coupe

Cocktail feuds, mythical spirits and stories that should be films...

Mai Tai

2 oz Aged Rum

3/4 oz Lime Juice

1/2 oz Orgeat Syrup

1/2 oz Dry Curacao

1/4 oz Rich Demerara Syrup

Shake all ingredients with ice, pour without straining into a large rocks glass filled with crushed ice, top with more ice and garnish with an upturned lime shell and mint sprig.

Rum to the Jungle by Fanny Chu

1 1/4 oz Eldorado 8 Year Rum

3/4 oz Clairin Casimir Rum

1/4 oz Giffard Banane du Brésil

1 oz Cinnamon Oat Syrup

3/4 oz Lemon Juice

1/4 oz Aged Port

Shake all ingredients other than the Port with ice and pour into a large rocks glass, top with more ice, pour the Port as a float on top and garnish with mint

For full instructions see https://punchdrink.com/recipes/rum-to-the-jungle

Thanks to Paul H for supporting us on https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nogarnish

Moogs, Droogs, Wendy Carlos, coronaphillia and magical nutsacks...

Sloe Gin Switch

1 oz Sloe Gin

1 oz Dry Gin

1/4 oz Cocchi Americano

1 dash Orange Bitters

2 oz Moscato Sparkling Rose

Stir the Gins, Cocchi and Bitters with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, top with 2 oz Moscato Sparkling Rose, Garnish with Black Grapes

The Moloko Plus by Morgan Schick at NoMad, San Fransisco

2 oz Rum (preferably Eldorado 12 year)

1/2 oz Crema de Mezcal (make your own Mezcal liqueur with a ratio of 80% Mezcal: 20% Agave Nectar) 

1/2 oz Bénédictine

3 oz Cardamom-Infused Milk*

1 Barspoon Simple Syrup (Paul suggests 1/4 - 1/2 oz)

2 dashes Orange Bitters

2 oz Sparkling Wine

Add all ingredients except sparkling wine to a cocktail shaker, shake with ice, strain into an ice filled highball glass, top with the Sparkling Wine.

* infuse 1 pint of milk with 1/4 Cup Cracked Cardamom pods - combine ingredients and warm on stove (without bringing to the boil) for 30 mins.

Thanks to Paul H and E. Gareth for Moogifying our theme music

Japanese cocktails, plane travel, Geisha, Dungeons and Dragons, ganguro girls and why you shouldn't take make-up advice from drag queens...

Yukiguni

30 ml Vodka

20 ml Cointreau

10 ml Fresh Lime Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass rimmed with fine sugar and drop a Green Minted Maraschino Cherry to rest in the bottom of the glass. 

Urban Break Lemonade by Keiko Tezuka

40 ml Woodford Reserve Bourbon

60 ml Rose Tea (at room temperature)

10 ml Fresh Lemon Juice

10 ml Agave Syrup

10 drops Cherry Bitters

Combine Rose Tea, Lemon Juice, Agave Syrup and Cherry Bitters in a rocks glass, add ice and stir to chill and dilute. Add bourbon as a float for presentation, garnish with a Dehydrated Lemon Slice and a Dried Rose Bud. Stir lightly to combine before drinking.

Mushroom cocktails and The Last Of Us: Part One (game and series)...

Umami Grog by Brian Evans

• 1 1/2 oz Shitake Mushroom infused Rum

• 1/2 oz Amontillado Sherry

• 1/2 oz Don’s Mix

• 1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice

• 1/2 oz Miso-Honey Syrup

• 1/4 oz Crème de Cacao

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a large glass filled with crushed ice, garnish with a mint sprig, enoki mushrooms and grated nutmeg.

Full instructions at https://www.starchefs.com/recipes/umami-grog

Take a Hike by Ramsey Musk

1 1/2 oz Mezcal

1/2 oz Strega

1/2 oz Fino Sherry

1/2 oz Chipotle Honey Syrup

3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

6 Sage Leaves

1 dash Orange Bitters

4 drops 20% Saline Solution

Tear up the Sage Leaves and add to a shaker along with all other ingredients, shake and strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a Sage leaf. Full instructions at https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/take-a-hike-accomplice-bar/

Thanks to Paul H for supporting us on https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nogarnish

Dorothy Arzner, imaginary numbers, gong baths and mind-bending marathons...

The Bloody Blood and Sand

1 1/2 oz Scotch

3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth

1/2 oz Cherry Heering

1/2 oz Fresh Blood Orange Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a flamed Orange Twist

The Blood and Sand (Original)

3/4 oz Scotch

3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth

3/4 oz Cherry Heering

3/4 oz Fresh Orange Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a flamed Orange Twist

The Perfectly Straight Blood and Sand

1/2 oz Blended Scotch

1/2 oz Peaty Scotch

1/2 oz Sweet Vermouth

1/2 oz Dry Vermouth

1/2 oz Cherry Heering

1/2 oz Kirsch

1/2 oz Fresh Orange Juice

1/2 oz Fresh Blood Orange Juice

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a flamed Orange Twist

Thanks to Paul H for supporting us on https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nogarnish