No Garnish

New Year's Eve, secret clubs, vikings and marine chronometers...

The French 75

2 oz Gin

1/2 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

1/2 oz Simple Syrup

Champagne or Prosecco

Add the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup to a shaker with ice and shake. Strain into a chilled Champagne flute and top with cold Champagne or sparkling wine. Garnish with a twist of lemon.

A two-man version of the classic musical? No problem. It's Christmas!

Musicals and the real life Johnny Appleseed...

The Flannel Shirt

1 3/4 oz Scotch

1 1/2 oz Apple Juice/Cider (Fresh Pressed)

1/2 oz Averna

1/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

1 Tspn 2:1 Demerara Syrup

1/2 Tspn Allspice Dram

2 dashes Angostura bitters

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a large rocks glass over ice, garnish with a twist of orange.

Serious cocktails, French gay porn and terrible mistakes...

Dirty Martini

2 oz Gin

1 oz Dry Vermouth

A Splash of Olive Brine

Add ingredients to a mixing glass, fill with ice and stir well to chill and dilute. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a skewered olive or three.

Honey and Marmite Old Fashioneds, cutty bangs, first date etiquette, identity theft and cargo cults...

For any of the the recipes discussed in this episodes visit https://www.timeout.com/london/blog/honey-and-marmite-old-fashioned-anyone-we-asked-the-worlds-best-barman-to-make-cocktails-from-cornershop-ingredients-100615

Bowie's riposte to Sinatra, Japanese television, Percival Lowell, homo erotic art, pretentious coffee shops and the kindness of strangers...

The Life on Mars

1 oz Gin or Vodka

3/4 oz Pama Pomegranate Liqueur

1/2 oz Aperol

1/4 oz Campari

1/4 oz Lime

1 dash Angostura Bitters

1 dash Orange Bitters

1 dash Rhubarb bitters

Stor all ingredients with ice to chill and dilute, strain into a chilled coupe, garnish with a sprinkle of edible glitter

Hogo, Horace Andy, the colour purple and a Kiss From a Rose...

The Kingston Sound System

1 oz Aged Jamaican Rum

1/2 oz Overproof Jamaican Rum

3/4 oz Fresh Lime Juice

3/4 oz Soursop Nectar

1/2 oz Suze

Optional: 1/4-1/2 oz of Simple Syrup

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a large rocks glass over ice, garnish with lime wedge and pineapple leaves.

Sidecars, liondromes and camp heraldry...

Sidecar

2 oz Brandy or Cognac

3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

3/4 oz Cointreau

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a coupe glass with a sugared rim, garnish with a twist of orange.

We drink Cosmopolitans, get all CSI about the drink's origins, discover the secret of Madonna's eternal youth and float the theory that Sex And The City is essentially a feminist Power Rangers...

Cosmopolitan

2 oz Citron Vodka*

3/4 oz Cointreau

3/4 oz Fresh Lime Juice

1 1/2 oz Cranberry Juice. 

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with flamed orange peel. *Normal vodka will do just as well.

Cosmopolitan (1934)

2 oz Gin

1/2 oz Cointreau

3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

1/4 oz Raspberry Syrup

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with an orange twist.

Folks, whilst this was our first published episode it was actually the second recording we made. We were still testing out the idea of No Garnish. Our first try was simply unlistenable for multiple reasons. So imagine how bad that was! If you're a first time listener we'd rather you didn't judge us by this first published episode but here it is, for historical purposes only... Rhys and Paul drink Shanghai Bucks and talk J.G. Ballard, the longest bar in the world, Van Halen, urban myths and trauma...whilst also managing to ruin Jurassic Park for everybody.

The Shanghai Buck

2 oz Cuban rum

1/2 oz Lime Juice

1/4 oz Grenadine

3-4 oz Ginger Beer

Build in glass, stirring all ingredients with ice, garnish with a wedge of lime.

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