podcast – Simple Cocktails: recipes & reviews for home bartenders

A cocktail guy with The Best Beard in Town….James and Jenny join us for drinks! We taste Slow and Low Rock & Rye. Lisa’s thinks about Journey’s “Faithfully.” The story of Applejack. How to cut citrus for garnishes. We make an Applejack Cocktail. “Women are better shakers.” Bad men.

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Matthew from Monte’s talks cigars with us. Douche liqueur? We taste Underground Herbal Liqueur. Energy and baby-making. Four Lokos? Greg’s “sticky” game. Morning cocktails (not brunch). We make the Mark Twain Cocktail. Cutting though extension cords. Brian’s got a good Shake Face. Tarty cigars.

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Homemade Valentine’s gifts. Peaky Blinders. More friends! We taste Jacob’s Ghost. The boys vs the girls. We make an Our Stanley Cocktail with fruit jelly garnishes. Freak fruits?

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…with friends again! Making simple syrup with a Keurig. We taste 3 flavors of Vodka 360: Huckleberry, Double Chocolate and Sorrento Lemon. White people toothpaste. Sticky head to toe. Little Cesar Chavez. Drinking snake blood in Thailand? We make a Kingston Cocktail. “I make a lot of drinks you don’t like, dear.”

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To feed our Simple Cocktails philosophy, we introduce “podcasting with friends.” Hanging out is part of our job. Because more tongues. We taste iichiko Kurobin Shochu. Kampai! We make the Fox River Cocktail. Shaking and stirring a drink and what happens to it. How Greg responded to a shaken Martini. Where chocolate comes from. Fox River is real.

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We taste Cinco Vodka and talk about San Antonio Cocktail Conference 2016. Featuring awesome interviews with Pamela Wiznitzer of Seamstress and Lynnette Marrero of Speed Rack!

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James Bond VHS library. The easiest way to start a home bar. The Simple Cocktails Buyers Guides. We make a Sweet Pink Gin Cocktail.  Guilty for emptying bottles? Pay attention to your children. Steel drums, no umbrellas. We taste Twenty Boat Spiced Rum. Cape Cod knows….noodle salad.

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Enough of the holidays! Eating less and drinking more. A 10-minute detox. we taste Trader Joe’s new tonic water. We are going to Texas this week! Tired of snow. We make a Lawhill cocktail. Old cocktails and their names.

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Little Apple Watch. Christmas is here. Swamp Thing. Electrocution and fear. We taste Tullamore DEW. “The story matters.” We make an It’s Chila Outside. The bitterest of nuts. Try it with brandy! “Happy birthday Jesus!”

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​Hearing from listeners. We screwed it up: #FAIL. What a Commodore really should be? Here’s the photo. We taste Maraska maraschino liqueur. Greg does things the way Marilyn does things. We refer to a White Martinez. We make a Green Dragon cocktail. Talking about ice. “Valuable” liquor.

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