No Garnish No Garnish

From Milton Keynes to Honalulu, we drink the Dirty Weekend and the Last Vacation and talk summer holidays, Elvis, crabbing and baby chainsaws...



Dirty Weekend

3/4 oz Gin
3/4 oz Blanco Vermouth
3/4 oz Luxardo Bitter Bianco
2 Barspoons Olive Brine
2 Dashes Olive Bitters
2 oz Fever Tree Mediterranean Tonic Water
Top with Soda Water

Build in highball glass with ice, garnish with expressed Lemon Zest and Olives



Last Vacation

1 oz Gold Rum
1 oz White Rum
1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice
1/2 oz White Grapefruit Juice
3/4 oz Cinnamon Syrup
1 Barspoon Maraschino Liqueur
2 oz Brewdog Elvis Juice or other Grapefruit IPA

Add all ingredients except the IPA to a shaker with ice and shake briefly to chill and combine. Add the IPA to a highball glass and then add the contents of the shaker including the ice. Stir to combine, top with more ice and garnish with a Cinnamon Stick and Grapefruit Wedge.



Episode artwork by Lawrence Elwick - https://www.lawrenceelwick.com

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We drink the Lounge Lizard and the Harvey Wallbanger, talk lounge music and Changing Rooms, and play 'Is it a cocktail or a pillow and duvet set designed by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen?'

7th Floor Tango (Lounge version) by Look.Up
https://lookupsounds.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1UA4zUYx00m824vDi5j5og?si=BwbO9VRaS46opk00jeoPUQ



Lounge Lizard

1 1/2 oz Dark Rum
1/2 oz Amaretto
Cola

Build in an ice filled large rocks or highball glass, garnish with a wedge of Lime and a Maraschino Cherry

For a Sophisticated Lounge Lizard try 1oz Stambecco and 1oz Dark Rum as the base.



Harvey Wallbanger

1 oz Vodka
1/2 oz Galliano or other Vanilla Liqueur
6 oz Fresh Orange Juice

Build in tall ice filled glass, garnish with a slice of Orange and a Maraschino Cherry

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We love the Gilda, hate the Basquiat, break glass for an emergency cocktail and talk Australia's Big Things, pineapples, stardom and leather pants...


Gilda

2 oz Blanco Tequila 
1/2 oz Fresh Pineapple Juice
1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice
1/2 oz Cinnamon Syrup

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass. No garnish.


Pineapple Freight

1 1/2 oz Pineapple Rum
3/4 oz Velvet Falernum
3/4 oz Benedictine
3/4 oz Fresh Lime Juice

Whip shake all ingredients with a little pebble ice, strain into a highball glass filed with pebble ice, float 2 dashes of Angostura butter and garnish with a Pineapple wedge and sprig of Mint.


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The world's best Amaretto Sour, the Arsenic and Old Lace, poisoners, quackery, public dissection, taxidermy, Nigella's nutmeg euphoria and the genetics of psychopathy...



Amaretto Sour by Jeffrey Morgenthaler

1 1/2 oz Amaretto*
3/4 oz Cask-Proof Bourbon
1 oz Lemon Juice
1 tsp 2:1 Simple Syrup
1/2 oz Egg White

Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake without ice or (even better) use an immersion blender to combine and froth. Add ice and shake. Strain over fresh ice into a large rocks glass, garnish with a twist of lemon and maraschino cherries.
*Use Frangelico instead of Amaretto for a Frangelico Sour



Arsenic and Old Lace

2 oz Gin
3/4 oz Dry Vermouth
1/4 oz Creme de Violette
1 Barspoon of Absinthe

Add ingredients to a mixing glass and stir well with ice to chill and dilute. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with an expressed twist of lemon or orange peel.


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We drink cocktails inspired by Final Fantasy VII and
Baldur's Gate III and talk some of our other all-time favourite video games...

7th Floor Tango (Orchestral version) by Look Up Sounds https://lookupsounds.bandcamp.com
 


Chultan Fireswill (Baldur's Gate III)

1 1/2 oz Overproof Jamaican Rum
1/2 oz Mezcal
3/4 oz  POG Juice
(equal parts Pomegranate, Orange and Guava juice)
3 dashes Chocolate Bitters
1/2 oz Cinnamon Simple Syrup
1/2 oz Lime

Shake with ice and open pour into a Tiki Mug or highball
glass. Top with more ice, garnish with a Mint Sprig and Pomegranate Seeds.
https://youtu.be/YJBje2_sZx0?si=WWfnf1uFOiSQPkEI
 
Cosmo Canyon (Final Fantasy VII)

1 1/2 oz Absolut Citron
1/2 oz Amaro Nonino
1/2 oz Curaçao
1/2 oz  Campari
1/4 oz Simple Syrup

 
Stir ingredients with ice in a mixing glass, strain into a
rocks glass over ice, express a Lime Peel over the drink and either add or
discard.
 
https://youtu.be/ozUeltE_LEA?si=cmWNSn14c6tridNq


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From burning bishops to pink palaces, we take a walk on the weird side of Valentine Street...


Juliet and Romeo

2 oz London Dry Gin
3/4 oz Lime Juice
3/4 oz Simple Syrup
3 slices Cucumber
1 Mint Sprig
A Dash of Rosewater
A Pinch of Salt

Muddle the cucumber and salt in a shaker tin, then add the Gin, Lime Juice, Simple Syrup and Rosewater and shake with ice. Double strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a mint leaf and 3 drops of Angostura Bitters.



Pink Lady

1 1/2 oz London Dry gin
1/2 oz Apple Brandy
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1/4 oz Grenadine
1/2 oz Egg White

Shake all ingredients and double strain into a chilled cocktail glass. No garnish.



Smouldering Rose 

1 oz Mezcal
2 oz Rosé Vermouth
1/4 oz Velvet Falernum
A Dash of Rosewater

Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. No garnish.


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