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I said basically the same thing to my husband! We were watching together and I literally paused the video and yelled at the screen "YOU CAN'T JUST DROP A LINE LIKE THAT AND NOT TELL US THE STORY, GREG"
I had an experience in my childhood that was very similar to Greg's cheesecake story. One winter during high school, before leaving home to walk the half mile to my bus stop, my mum would make me a travel mug full of hot chocolate. One morning I reflexively almost spit out my drink, because I was expecting hot chocolate and got hot apple cider instead. My brain thought something had curdled until I realized what I was actually drinking... then it was fine.
I was viciously hungover on vacation this past summer in VT and went to the cider mill down the road for breakfast (cold hollow if you're in the neighborhood). They had hot cider which I, hungover and unable to read basic signage, mistakenly got instead of coffee but then felt bad to ask for another cup. Drank it and it was REVIVING. Like how I imagine those hangover IV's to be.
"I mean if you're drinking long island Iced Teas you've already given up, you don't care" Excuse me sir I did not come here to be personally attacked like this how dare you
Thanks again for including us, Greg! You must have gotten one of our very last "Hemingway" daiquiris. We recently renamed to the "No. Four Daiquiri" - because you're right, a Hemingway should 100% include grapefruit. Unfortunately, real grapefruit juice turns too quickly - and we weren't about to put "grapefruit with natural flavors" into this cocktail! We'd love to see your thoughts on our 1944 Mai Tai and our Lemongrass Vodka Gimlet - but after all the canned cocktails you've tasted, you've earned an indefinite break!
Your reactions to Greg are so legit. I want to buy your stuff just for being a genuine and transparent company. Are your products available in Southern California?
@@pokysharpy Thanks! At the end of the day we're all just people, right? We worked really hard to be transparent about what goes into our cocktails, and try to bring that same energy to every interaction possible. While we aren't available locally in SoCal yet, we do ship there! The best way to support Greg & HTD is to order through his collection on Curiada. We do also have some shipping options via our website. Hope you give us a try!
Hi, Post Meridiem! It's lovely to see how you all try to be honest, makes it all the more great! I do have a question, however: Aside from the U.S., do you ship overseas as well? I'm honestly interested to try your stuff, and hey, nothing wrong with supporting a new brand. :)
I love this concept! You should do a twist where instead of canned cocktails, the mystery cocktails are all fresh, made using Greg's formulas, but without him knowing which cocktails are in the mix.
Re: the "I don't think anyone is buying this"... When my partner and I moved into our current apartment, we found that the previous tenants had left a single On the Rocks bottled Cosmo on top of a random laundry cabinet, unopened. We chilled it and drank it immediately. So while I have had that drink, you're totally right, I didn't buy it.
So, was it intended as a welcoming present for whoever came after, or as a booby trap? Rather like GIs in Vietnam leaving cans of C-Ration ham & lima beans next to trails the VC were known to use...without wiring them up to anything explosive.
Fun fact about the cut water Long Island iced tea. I drank a 3 cans to mourn because I thought I failed my national emt test. Turns out I passed, but couldn’t celebrate that next morning due to the searingly painful hangover. Cannot look at that can now with out physically gagging.
I feel like a Moscow Mule is an extremely safe bet cause its primary flavor already comes in a can, and it's not hard to shove some vodka in there and call it good
The comparison of the negroni to gothy teen energy is so amusing to me because I just bought cheap amaro to try and it tastes exactly like the smell of my witchy stuff drawers like the EXACT dead on smell of the incense and herbs and etc, is the flavor. I kinda dunno if I like it but it is very funny.
Friend of mine had the same exact experience. Grabbed a carton of Orange juice from the freeze and drank some and said to his gf at the time "bleh this is disgusting, it has gone bad" she looked at the carton and said "that's grapefruit juice".. then he was "ah ok, then it's delicious" xD
I freaking love these canned cocktail, weird drink orders, and cocktail machine videos. You've made more amazing drinks than I will ever get to try myself in a lifetime, but these funny videos are a thing I can go back and enjoy many times over.
Unsurprisingly, quite a large number of herbs and botanicals used to flavour different types of alcohol is slightly toxic. The trick is to keep the levels low enough that the alcohol is still the most toxic substance in the glass ^^
Yeah that expectations phenomenon is amusingly accurate and it gets me all the time when I'm trying vegan alternatives to meat. If someone tells me that it "tastes just like -insert meat here-" chances are my expectations causes me to absolutely hate the product when I probably wouldn't have minded it to begin with.
Greg, you are the only RU-vidr I watch that I don't skip ahead when they do a sponsorship ad. Yours are always hilarious and a joy to watch, every bit as good as the rest of the video.
Even if you feel like you've been doing this for a weird amount of time, it's been enough time to inspire me to start bartending school (and have an amazing time with it). A couple of folks there have also watched your videos and have said they've been super helpful. So you've definitely hit on something good over the years!
It's interesting how much better Greg seems to be able to process things once he knows what they're trying to do. I'd love a video where people send in weird cocktails they've made with an explanation to see the before-and-after review of him knowing the intention.
Okay, your videos are usually funny. But this one was especially hilarious! I had abdominal surgery last week and am healing nicely but this one almost literally made me bust a gut 😂 Thanks for the laughs and the service of trying these so we don’t have to.
That dark and stormy looked so sad. it looks so much cooler when you float the Black strap rum on the top for a dark top and a clear bottom from ginger beer. Thanks Greg! Appreciate you doing these so I don't have to! 🤣🤣 Also an alternate title to this episode "Showing off Greg's cup collection"
I'm still goth at almost 40 and some exes have taken me into the sorts of Ritual Magick shops you're describing. none in Philly but one in Bethlehem. that was a very evocative description
Oh, I had far, *far* too much fun watching the gradual descent into tipsy antics. Wonderful episode. Incidentally, I actually also really dig these looks at “Ready-to-Drink” cocktails like this; while I have this show to thank for an improvement in my own mixological skills, getting a look at what’s good to pick up when putting the time and effort in to making something yourself isn’t viable is quite nice. Also, that tasting note of confused Goth kid vibe is one of the funniest things Ive heard in a long while.
Now I want to see Greg doing a real Bahama Mama and compare it again with the canned Baccardi version. Btw, the side notes are on point like all the time. Makes so much fun to read them alongside ;)
I feel like a great deal of why these aren't all that appealing to you and to us, your audience, is that we're a part of the craft cocktail scene. A "normie" would find these very convenient and probably pretty tasty, whereas we would like a more personal flair and more personal control over its contents. A more reasonable middle ground is pre-batching and pre-diluting cocktails so they can sit in your fridge and stay ready to go at a moment's notice. In fact, in quite a few pre-prohibition cookbooks, there's often sections for pre-batching literal barrels of cockails to keep in the cellar, and apparently, Manhattans and Martinis benefit greatly from long-term storage. Also, now that you mention it, I wanna see pictures of Papa Greg's goth phase.
I had a Cayman Jack canned mojito last weekend. I honestly liked it. It wasn't horrible as a drink. But I also threw up the next morning so I don't think I'll ever have one again.
"My bar is made of walnut, it's never occurred to me to go down there and start chewing on it." Well I know one Rodney Marino that went down there and sure did lick it.
You're so fun! I've enjoyed the heck put of the few episodes I've watched back to back, so I'll be returning for more. I was so busy in my teens and 20s working all the jobs that I hardly had time to sleep much less learn what kind of drinks I liked. 30s were busy with raising kids and too broke (due to all their activities) to enjoy many nights out. Here I am now 40 and still have no idea what I really like. Watching you pick out the flavors in different drinks helps me figure out what cocktails I'd like. I'd love to go out with my husband and do the town, we live just outside of Austin, but I hate ordering drinks and ending up not drinking them because they're not what I like. This is funny and surprisingly helpful!
Would be fun to see you try a blindfold type challenge with you or some guest where you have them try a can version / Bartesian version / your version and see if people can tell the differences/their thoughts
For various reasons, I can't really drink these days outside of a weak cider once in a while, but I still really enjoy watching Greg being confused and surprised. I hope we get even more surprise and (occasionally) delight in 2022.
My journey into making my own cocktails was largely prompted by wanting to make a Margarita, but recoiling in horror at the chemistry-lab list of ingredients on the bottles of premix I looked at. I *knew* there had to be a better way. And there is. So my initial intention of making my own notes on Greg's tasting notes started at snarky and went rapidly downhill from there. I'll just condense them as follows: Walnut wood. As bar tops...check. For rifle stocks...check. In drinks...hard "Nope". Also, WTF a canned Mimosa? If you can't find fruit juice and Prosecco where you live, MOVE! And don't come back at me with the "We're on a camping trip into the darkest wilderness" shtik. They sell itty bitty pony bottles of Prosecco specifically so that you can pull them out in the middle of the equatorial African jungle and make Mimosas.
Talking about "pony" (spec. 187ml) bottles of Prosecco, I've bought them -- and some of these are SOOO GOOD. LeMarco is decent, and I will try Ruffino pretty soon.
a big part of cocktails (to me) is the preparation, i mean making it or seeing it be made. if i show up at a party and someone hands me a cocktail can...well ok i'll drink it, but there's no magic there. honestly whenever i try a new one i have low expectations, and sometimes i am actually pleasantly surprised. i have a friend that used to own a local bar, then he started a distillery to make canned cocktails. i think they are pretty good for the most part. it's called (503 distilling)...that's our original local area code for all of Oregon.
Two things - 1. Loved this part of the canned drink series would love to watch more! 2. WHAT BURNED DOWN HOUSE DONE CLIFF HANGER ME LIKE THAT MAN. Great vid as always!
0:07 “I hope I don’t spill anything” 0:14 *spills during intro* 20:50 “oh goddamnit, spilling all over my bar that I JUST resurfaced!” today we learned that Greg is a prophet
I'm kinda glad at all the years you sunk into the channel I don't really drink and you help me find tasty drinks for special occasion that I can enjoy plus you're very entertaining 😊
Back in my time in my hometown, we called the gothy shop with all the incense and shit a "curio shop." I realize that we may have been misuising the word, but it helped distinguish it from the secondary shop that sold more spell supplies and less goth clothes lmao (come to think of it, we referred to that other shop by name and didn't have a secondary term for it XD) Not gonna lie, it was kind of nice that the incense smell was strong enough to permeate the clothes section; even PVC clothing bought there came home with a hint of that musky, old witchy smell.
This is probably the best inebriated Greg, the Bright Seller's Comercial was great, "I'll give you talking points" "don't give me anything, I wrote this script!"
Bar Eastern, Bar Eastern, my beloved~ Obligatory -annoying as all hell- request for a Bar Eastern cocktail episode! Edit: For Greg, should he ever read this, I mean the collection of Touhou cocktails. Some are translated, a small fraction are not. But the vast majority are really pretty.
I can’t wait till I’m 21 and I can do all this. I’ve been watching and studying for 2 years. I turn 21 in early April and I’m going to start mixing and making
Hey Greg, it’s pronounced “HewBline”. The first syllable rhymes with “blue”, the second syllable rhymes with “spine”. Back in college I worked at their corporate HQ in Hartford, CT. What a cool job! They had tasting rooms, and on Christmas Eve they gave us a gift pack with all kinds of canned cocktail goodies!
You make jokes about no one buying these products, but I like to unwind after a long day with a cocktail. My job has me traveling a lot and I dislike traveling with open bottles. Swinging by a liquor store in whatever state I'm in and picking up these sorts of products just makes sense for me.
I can't speak to the accuracy of their canned cocktails, but those Cutwater guys sure do know how to make a tasty drink without busting the bank. The Pina Colada is also great, so their creme liqueur drinks are ones to look for
Artificial pear flavor (isoamyl acetate) is also the chemical responsible for the smell of banana (and is found in other fruits). It’s also the honey bee anger pheromone.
Here in the UK because drinking in public is legal, tinned cocktails are popular with people travelling on trains. Often its groups going on a night out or to a sports event but a lot of people associate tinned cocktails with trains or people on public transport. It even has a name, Train Tinnies.
