So many versions of this drink! What is your favorite recipe for the white lady? Has anybody tried all of these? Maybe a video in the future on every version? Would that be even more confusing? Does it even matter in the grand scheme of it all? Are you still reading this?
I have a variation of it that i made that I love - "Blueberry Thyme White Lady" which uses a blueberry simple syrup in place of the regular, and adding drops of thyme tincture.
Your natural intuition for video content is terrific; your unique blend of history, booze pairings, spec choices, tasting notes, humor and Az interplay is very engaging. For me, I value discovering the decisions you apply to a cocktail's spec - honed over the years by countless trial and error as well as the best practices from other craftmen/women at Ward 8. There are always a few techniques, spirit options/pairings and spec alternatives you share that I find helpful as I mix cocktails at home for family and friends. Plus, I value learning about your favorite cocktails - after all the drinks you have served you've discovered good cocktails and great cocktails. Thanks for sharing your favorites. Your videos have helped me raise my home game. Keep doing what your doing.
I just tried your version right now while I'm teleworking LOL. OUTSTANDING!!!! Luckily I have the right ingredients. Awesome! Thank you... I'm a fan of Gin so its perfect for me. By the way, as a fellow Chicagoan what can we make with Malort? It's local, no one seems to know it outside Chicago, it originated in Pilsen... How Shh-caw-go can it get? Cheers
Will def try this soon. Probably this weekend. Question unrelated: can you help me understand how to use Amaretto in a way that isn’t too candy/medicine tasting. FYI I hate Dr. Pepper. Should I just avoid amaretto??
My dear friend. You're the kind of bartender who keeps the regulars coming back. I would gladly be a regular at any bar where you work, and I would never sit at the tables but always at the bar.
Back in 1990s San Francisco, we drank the egg-less version of the white lady, the Delilah. Sooooooooo good. I'm going to have to try both recipes now, Anders; they sound fantastic.
Thank you so much for this channel…I’m a new papa and my 11 week old has acid reflux and had the hardest time sleeping without being held…your videos taught me tons and helped me stay awake so I could hold my daughter while my wife slept. I promise someday to tell my kiddos how much you helped her. I’m hoping next time I’m in Chicago I can visit you at the bar and maybe even make you a drink you taught me to say thank you! Thank you
Thank you so much - congratulations on being a new dad! I really appreciate your comment, and happy you find the videos helpful. Cheers to you and your family!
Just made the Classic White Lady for my wife and it was a hit. We have had a “bush lemon” tree in our yard for over a decade and today it’s fruit became juice and then a cocktail - it will definitely happen again. Thanks Anders, my first cocktail with an egg white. Not only am I reading your comments and viewing the videos, I’m following your recipes.
I just made a couple of these, and I think this might be my new favorite summer cocktail. It's simple, refreshing, and luxurious all at the same time thanks to the egg white. Unless you're vegan, I strongly recommend folks add the egg white. It gives body and structure to the cocktail and lends it that special umph. Thanks Anders!
Started watching the channel recently, really loving it. Giving me alot of good options and tips for building up my home bar. Keep up the great content
I was recommended your channel recently, and damn. There is something about your personality, style, and presentation that I really enjoy. Your videos are amazing. I think you're giving me the motivation I need to start making some cocktails.
Started to watch this channel a few weeks ago. I’m working as a barman in Rome and you’re giving me so many great tips ! Love how you work and how you present the story of any cocktail you make ! Great work
Yes, more of these comparisons to old versions please. Really neat to get cocktail history with the current recipe. And congrats to successful channel growth. It was just yesterday when it was less than 4k subscribers. Well done you both. 👍
Just found your channel yesterday and subscribed right away! Keep up the good work! And thank you for including the metric units as well, helps a lot for us folks in Europe :)
The original recipe definitely doesn’t sound like my kind of Sunday in the park. Since you ended up digging it, I wanna try it but I feel like it would probably rock served over crushed ice and a sprig of mint.
Startled the daylights out of people in my house by shouting "YES" when you mentioned Cointreau instead of Triple Sec. This was one of, if not the first, gin cocktails I ever made. We had a very limited selection then, but still managed to have Cointreau as one of the mixers. I still use it as a bit of a gauge for new gins.
Most of the time in cocktails calling for triple sec or Cointreau I’ve been using Solerno… blood orange liqueur… adds a very smooth and classy element to the orange!
Something I've been wanting to comment: I really appreciate that you have a robust "playlist" where you group the different types of cocktails. Really makes it easy for me to find something if I'm looking for a Gin cocktail or something. I would love it if you started a "morning cocktail" playlist and then I would also love it if you had a "clean" cocktail playlist. The clean one would include gin/vodka (or other alcohols not high in sugars) that don't add sugar to them. I'm sure there are an abundant of cocktails like this, and I would love to see you introduce some (maybe you already have?). Anyway, love your videos, thank you.
I’ve been watching your videos for days now and just ordered the complete Anders accoutrements from you links. I’m so excited to start following along with your cocktails. I’ve been an old fashioned guy for some time so time to expand my horizons
For fun try making two identical cocktails wit grocery store egg white and farm fresh organic egg white. It’s amazing the difference that old school cocktails were from what we make now.
Found your ESSENTIAL spirits video just today and have greatly enjoyed the other content I’ve watched including this one! Happy I stumbled on your channel!!
So good! My new favorite cocktail. Thanks! I replaced Plymouth dry gin with the more herbal/floral Barr Hill gin from Vermont, and replaced simple with Maple Syrup for a "Vermont Lady". Delicious!
I think this might have been the first video of yours I saw. I've finally gotten off my bum and made some creme de menthe (because it's not that easy to get it around here). Your description of the "Old" white lady is spot on. It's really lovely. But exactly what you said: mint on the nose, the orange is really subtle, the lemon is important. Great balance. Nice drink!
I think if, in the classic recipe, you replace the lemon juice with half-and-half lemon and orange you get a cocktail called "the maiden's prayer", which takes the bite off the lemon without the need of simple syrup.
Cointreau is a great middle of the road orange liqueur for people or bars that want to cut down on their number of bottles or confusion for new bartenders. Great video, great drink.
Loving the classic! This is my go to! Also....love your videos. I'm now stocking up my bar and trying many of your recipes, trying my hand at the twirly lemon rind string (no idea what it's called - like a telephone cord). But seriously, I do appreciate your videos and all of the information you impart. Love learning new things! Thanks again!!
Hey Anders, found your channel a couple of months ago and i really enjoy your content. A little history of the drink with a very likeable presentation of the ingredients (booze) and how to build the desired cocktail. Keep it up! The recent growth of your channel is well deserved! Cheers from Germany
This drink is INCREDIBLE!!! I made two for myself and it has made this dreary, cold, Sunday night in Michigan just delightful! Thank you for making my night and I'm sure some of my friends nights as well! Cheers, Anders!
Your channel is so underrated man. It is pretty cool. I don't really drink, maybe once or twice a year, but I love watching these videos. Keep up the good work. The production is pretty good as well.
I was literally just about to search for some good "egg white" cocktails (besides the classic whiskey sour) and I wanted something light and refreshing for summer. This video could not have come out at a better time! Keep going an amazing job on your channel!
I do find it interesting that in the uk a cocktail bar is seen as a higher class bar with most others only having one or 2 different cocktails, while it seems that in the us every bar does cocktails
I tried my 1st white lady tonight - hahhaaaa. Funny I watched this, then after I had a gin n tonic the bartender suggested a white lady. I was pleasantly surprised. Obviously it was the newer version - gin forward. Thanks for expanding my horizons.
Just made the modern version... it is wonderful! I had an open bottle of Tanqueray, but I also have an "Old Sport" gin from Greece, which has hints of mastic (an aromatic resin from mastic trees, which only grow on the island of Chios - pronounced "Hee-os")... I cannot wait to try it, it should fit really well in the mix.
You’re channel has exploded since I last looked - congratulations from NZ! My first batch of your Orgeat Syrup recipe has finally gone mouldy, so I need to watch that video again. And make more Mai Tai...
I don't appreciate only finding out about you yesterday! Beautiful inside and out. I've learned so much from you! Can't do eggs any way but fully cooked so I will try the aquafaba one if I'm feeling more frisky than usual.
Sara, I hate eggs (exception for some egg white cocktails), but some companies make great foamers like "Ms Betters Miraculous Foamer" is an excellent egg white/aquafaba substitute
Hey Anders love your channel. Original recipe kind of reminds me of a kamikaze. Love trying new recipes and enjoy listening to your experiences. Cheers!
I recently commented about not having any place around me that make cocktails, now a bartender at the place I go to often has gotten interested in cocktails after I ordered the Artist's Special (I may have brought my own groseille)!
I've never had a channel that I've looked forward to their weekly upload before but here we are! I'm not sure if it would be too tedious or cumbersome, but I thought it would be nice if you made playlists of your videos for each base spirit, that way in case anyone's ever like "Hmm, I'm in a mood for something with whiskey, (or gin or rum, etc.)" then they could just head straight to that playlist. Great content and videography as always! 🥂
Always looking for new gin cocktails. Love this one. I used lime juice and Grand Marnier because that was what I had at home. Great on a snowmageddon day.
I'd tried a couple of variations now on the White Lady (1930 version), and was about ready to give up on it. (Vague, flavours didn't really pop) your blend for it is the first one we have liked. The 1919 cocktail is weird as all get out....but oddly tasty. 🤷 Thanks!
Är du svensk? Your name is so swedish. Happy I found your channel, I am a new subscriber. Liking the "elegant" style of the video. It is elegant without being snotty
Stopped the video immediately after you tasted the first one (classic) to go make it... YUM! Never had one before and this was awesome!! I'll try the original as soon as I can get my hands on some high quality creme de menthe! Thanks so much for the great and entertaining videos!!
I missed this video. I just made it and this is amazing, velvety and smooth. Made with Cointreau. I'll have to get some triple sec and give it a shot. Thank you again for these videos.
You have awesome energy dude! I try to picture myself trying to exude a fraction of that and it makes me tired. 😆 Your passion is contagious. It makes us viewers passionate about something we love too. You deserve every sub you get. 😉
Mr Anders! I wanted to tell you that I love your channel! It is full of flair, class and it is light and fun. I want to create a bar that has a spin on whisky recipes here in my city with touches of brazillian flavours, like rapadura and pitanga, and you are a big inspiration to me. Thank you for your videos!
Just started watching your videos. Love the way you educate without looking like a snoody bartender lol....we've all been there. I subscribed - thanks for the vids!
The original cocktail was a miss for me, but your version was absolutely outstanding! My wife loved the original, however. I'm a huge fan of Whisky Sours, so I expected to like last week's cocktail (Artist's Special), but I hated it. I couldn't find currant to make groseille, so I had to use homemade grenadine. Maybe that's why? It had sort of a tomato juice vibe, which is probably why I didn't care for it. Still the best cocktail channel on RU-vid! Congrats on all the new subs, Anders-well deserved! When you hit 5 million, I can say I "knew" you when you only had 3k. Keep the great videos coming!
Thank you so much! I'm happy you were able to try both recipes - a version for each of you. I'm very curious about the Artist's Special you made though - maybe it could've been the sherry? I'm sorry to hear you had a "tomato juice" experience!
@@AndersErickson I picked up a bottle of Lustau Amontillado Los Arcos Sherry just for this cocktail, so the sherry was on point. I'm going to keep my eyes open for currant or groseille, and I promise to give it another try when I do! Thanks so much to you and Az for these awesome videos-I'm learning a ton from y'all.
Anders, greetings from Brazil! Make a recipe with Cachaça or Pinga! Do you know Caipirinha or Rabo de Galo (literally Cocktail lol)? You inspire me and I love your channel! Keep up the great content. Cheers!
Thank you, Lucas! I love both of those cocktails very much - they're definitely on my list of drinks to cover. I appreciate the comment. Cheers to you! 🇧🇷
I love your videos man! I found you recently and have loved your content, and it seems like a lot more people have done the same. Hopefully a lot more people hear about your channel, because you deserve it man!
Thanks, Andy! The small bottles I use were repurposed - I don't remember what was in them initially. There are similar bottles online if you search "woozy bottles" or "mini wine bottles." Good luck!
I wouldn't normally drink cocktails but I have been binge reading Agatha Christie where everyone seems to drink a lot so I thought I'd give it a try. I surprised myself by really liking the white lady! Cheers!
