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So why don't you share some of that California wine today? And don't forget to drink responsibly go to drinkaway.co. uk for more info . Bottoms up . Hello and welcome to Bottoms Up with Alan Carr and Lee Piot. This is our weekly wine podcast, not just wine, cocktails as well. We solve your dilemmas. If you've got any questions, any queries, we're all talking bottles, spirits , and we're having a good old laugh along the way. We are. If you haven't seen this already, let me explain the show. We always start with a bit of a welcome drink. Yes. And we have a little catch up, what have we been doing? Where have we been? Well, guess where I've been? Where? Iceland The supermarket? No . It's so obvious. I know. You're better. I wouldn't say you're not better than that. Is that what we call low hanging fruit? Yes, yes, yes. No , I went to the actual place, home of Buk. I would love to go to Iceland. It's a top of my list. It's amazing. This woman stopped me in the street and went Alan, do you mind me asking , did you win celebrity trad ish? And what might like meeting, Sher? And Ronan Keating and Jodie Foster in Salads and the lambs . I said now it' tos see you, Clarouche . She said 'cause they're behind. She didn't know I'd won Traitors. Oh God, why she must be the only person in the world? I know that was wish when don't tell me if you win. That's all over the internet. Can I just ask for it? And I know you don't want to go on about racism, you know, the civilian version has. I did win it, but how'd you feel about it? If you let it go, is it in the Really? I didn't like seeing the civilian one. Were you like was it? Because you know what he took the emphasis off of me old news ? And you know, a new gay has won it as a traitor. Yeah, you not happy about that? I am happy for him. I liked his outfit and you the jumpsuit. Yes, yeah, and he had the flares. The thing is though I'm setting myself up to fail here, but I think he's quite tall and I can't pull off a flare. No, no, you can't. By the time the flare starts, it's down to the ankle Such short legs are okay. Let's go on. Okay, back to Iceland. So like one of your legs, isn't it ? Well, this is flocky. I went to Iceland and I got an Icelandic whiskey , which is malted for forty eight hour s over sheep dung . Sheep dung. Sheep dung. No, Pete , sheep dung. And you bought that. And I bought it. Well, what 's the sheep dung? Like why does that make any difference? It gives it a smoky taste. I have one of these sours. All right, we've got whiskey sour here as our welcome drink. Cheers, bottoms up. And thank you Broadcaster for having us. You do make the best cocktail s. They're so good. And I like this. They've got a little cherry garnish for those that are listening who can't see. It's a whisky sour. Now, ingredients of a whisky sour, whisky, of course . You okay? It's got a kick to it. Yeah. It's whiskey.is Whk y's a big drink said . I thought it was quite a bold move, you bring back whisky. Really? Yeah, yeah, whiskey's like, oh, I'm getting dung. He stung in. You weren't dumb when you went past it when you paid for this . You got whiskey, whiskey sour, whiskey, lemon , a bit of sugar syrup, and then you've got egg white. Now , I have a little , I wouldn't say life hack a cocktail hack for you. Yeah, for vegans, vegetarians, and sometimes even just if you're not veggie, sometimes egg white can have a bit of a weird taste to it. So I quite like something called I think it's called Ms. Better's miraculous bitters. And it's basically a few drops in that and it's a foaming agent. So if you want to use that instead of egg white, you can make vegan replacement ones. Oh, so you've got like a vegan friend coming around. Get out, that was it called Magic World. Yeah, Mesbetter s, and it's like a little foaming agent that you drop into the mix and you shake it. And what they say is do you know the difference between a wet shake and a dry shake? No. Oh, but let me tell you, sometimes a dry shake is no ice. You don't shake it with ice and a wet shake, you shake with ice put this in . And also what I will say is very good for espresso martinis if you want to get that nice foam on top. Oh cheese . I do know about my cocktails. I like it because I don't cook really, but I care about cocktails. So do another shot? Well, I'm not tasting the whiskey like the smokiness as much only because obviously it's in a whisky sour. So I've got some shot glasses here. I never normally buy whisky at Duty Free . So I went to Iceland. This is the fifth time I've been. All I went up there was to see the Northern Lsight. You know I've seen the Northern Lights? No, where I used to work in Lapland, didn't I? So they like because five times have been up there and I've got a look at the photos. I'm in this car park with all these people four AM at night looking around. It looked like we were dogging . Well, we used to have guests because for anyone who doesn't know I used to work in Laplanders . No, I was a tour guide to the search for Santa as an elf for three days, but decided it wasn't for me. So I used to survive you were a cute little elf. Thank you . But I hated it because they weren't treated great. The coach guides, that's a lot. I don't ske us Flocky hell . I'm flocked, flock it out . Oh shit. No, don't jingle on just now. I have a little taste of this. So this is so it's got a oh , okay . Oh, I tell you what, wow . Oh, that is failing . Oh , cheers Matt. Whoa. That's why they travel like that Ind on all the whiskies . Oh , that is nice though sm. Theokiness of that is lovely . It's just a weird taste. It's a single malt whisky this one . 'Cause you could add that over ice. Nice. Grained to glass in Iceland. No, I've seen it loads and I, used to get , oh this I know sounds bad. I've seen the Northern Lights probably like thirty, forty times. Are you sure it was the Northern Lights? Could you remember that stupid? No, that man, he thought he saw the Northern Lights, but it was the glow from the Premier Inn . Did you see that? Please get a good night's sleep. The glow of the purple from the big sign. Oh my god. Yeah, he's like, Oh my god, I've seen them in Leicester. It was a premier in. Well, we used to have people come to Finland and then go to me the guess. Will the Northern Lights be on? I'm like, We don't turn them on like you just have it's really hard to see. And you know what was really nice? Are they disappointing? Be honest. Are they over ? They're amazing. Green is the most common, but the best is when they're like ready pink . And what happens is, I think Aurora Borealis, if I remember rightly means it something like d ancing and when the lights are moving because sometimes it's just green but when they're moving you actually look up and it is like they're dancing in this amazing experience and you know once as a coach guide , they came out quite late and I drove round to all my guests who were staying in cabins and I knocked on their doors and I said, I'm so sorry to wake you up at midnight. I was like, But the Northern Lights are out and they all came out. Oh, you are a good talk. I feel like I'm gonna burst into tears. I've got emotional. I do get emotional . Why are you crying? Some people were like, Oh, it's just always what's wrong with me It's so whisky. People like Oh I've always, wanted to see it. I like doing nice. You're sorry. You're whisky. You're crying at yourself doing something nice . I know I don't know you in shock . Yeah , yeah. I'm trying to pull all this podcast back from being a weep test . You know what? I don't know if I should say this, but I was a bit pissed off this week. Why? Be honest with me, is my house dirty ? No , well, that means yes . Which house? . No, no, it's what would you mean dirty? Because my friend said sort of an intervention because I like to clean my own house. I don't have a cleaner. I like to clean the house because I think it's therapeutic, yeah . So he said, Allan, I've had enough. He's employed a deep clean cleaning service to come and clean my house. He said 'cause it's filthy. I don't think do you think it's filthy? Well, I went in, when did this happen? Because I was there last night and I thought it looked spotless. Well, yeah, that's after they came. Do you know how many people came? Six , six people and one was wearing a hazmat suit . And I think that's rude. I think it's not for him to get employed people to come. He said, Allen, I've taken it like an intervention . Yeah, like he said your house who know this. Ross. Oh yeah, well you said your house is listened. Ross has your best interests at heart. Okay, you can trust Ross. But six cleaners I, think six is a bit much. I mean, it's not that dirty. People are thinking they'll live in a hole. Yeah, no, yeah, it's weird, isn't it? My mum used to be like I remember getting a cleaner one. My mum, it was like I betrayed all my working classrooms. Who do you you think are having a cleaner and all that? But I didn't have six. Say I mean that's pretty bad, and it's You'll need those six cleaners when because I've seen in the news , you're buying a castle. It's been announced. I'm castle hunting. You're hunting . Sorry. I've seen a nice one . Can I just say and I do know about this, I think you need to clear up you are actually looking to buy this castle because people think you're just doing up a castle. No, you're so this is yeah, a midlife crisis, right? No, it's not it's not a midlife crisis . I'll say my life's a bit like , you know, when you watch a Netflix series , yeah , my life now is episode four five. You know, when you're going, why did I start this? What's the point when will it end? Right, but you want to renew it for a second seeing. Yeah, I want a renewal. So you're looking for cast. So how does it work? So I went up to Scotland and I saw a load of castles and there's one, you know, I love a ghost story. One of the castles they, took the villagers , is it haunted? They went, they took the villagers into the castle and set it on fire. In fourteen fifty, the whole village was murdered , burnt alive in the castle. Tell you and I'll take it . No, so it's really yeah. And how does that work? Do you go on like write move and put in like well, I went on write move and then it says how many turrets and you push the thing you could click mote. Yeah, you know, advanced does it have a mot? Advanced search. One of them's got a mote. Advanced search, I put in that. I said, Drawbridge, yes . I want a cast, I know. I feel like I know. I love the room. It's been a dream to have a castle and like castles are lucky. Look at traitors. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But so how is it going? Have you got one or you stop? I've got my eye on one, but I'm just worried about getting gazumped. Yeah, castle wars. Yeah, and then I'm 'cause you know , I can be a bit dizzy. They rang up and said, Alan, Alan, do you want some Hoiland cows? Like that? So I said, Yes. John cows. How many cows? Oh dude no, I just said yes. Great. Well, that's fine. It's not like you jump to into things without any preparation . So listen, if I do get this castle because it's quite north up there being Scotland, would you come and maybe knock on some of the people's doors if there's northern lights or would, it be too emotional? But they say you can see the Northern Lights in now I'm looking forward. I want to see 'em. I'm sick of not seeing them. I've gone up there loads. I've been to Trumpheim , Trumso , Oslo , Stockholm, never seen them. What did you see then? What did you do in Iceland other than buy the sheep ship whiskey? They didn't bill it as that. I'm doing a show and they're doing things on bucket list and what like things that people want to do before bucket list and they said, do I want to do a bungee jump ? I don't know how I feel about that. I would not. Are you scared of heights? Yeah. Yeah, ye.ah, no way But the show's called Bucket List. I mean, I am the host of it. I can't do it. Yeah, you've got to get involved. You don't have to get involved. Anton Deck never do a Bush took a trial. Yeah. . Yeah , they don't have to get involved. So why do you? You should just watch people doing it. I put your foot down . I think you need to be more assertive in life. But then I went on TikTok and you see that woman who bounced down, bounced back up and hit her red on the platform. I think that was AI . No, it was true. Joking. Yeah . And then did you see the one ? He was trying to do the husband like this. And then she just walked off. She thought she'd been hooked and then fell down. Well, what about that woman who ye,ah, the guy when it's not Bungee jump, but he cut the parachute . The woman . You remember the husband trying to kill her? Yeah. Because that's what I'm worried about because I'm doing a skydive as well. I mean , fuck . I know I know I know daredevil. I was sold this show about bucket list. I thought I would be on the Orange Express and swimming with dolphins. I'm skydiving, bungee dubbing a stroke in a tarantula. This is just a Oh my god, I hate spiders . So I've got all these things today . All right, well good luck. Bottoms up. I mean, yeah, it sounds like a midlife crisis if you ask me skydiving bungee jump by a castle. Well, say the skydiving man's homophobic and doesn't like me. Or say he's a bit cute. You strapped to him. I will be strapped to him. Yeah Quickly, you lucky. 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There's a lot of ugly babies that you need . So it's not really much to write home about . So she's so she's getting married. Because we've actually been to a wedding together . Have we? Yeah . Which one? Do you remember? South Africa ? Oh yes. We went hotel there and then we saw people on the people on the lawn and there was someone playing when we saw finger food. We said, Oh yeah, let's go half. We went down there and then people walking around with champagne. Oh no, drinking it, drinking it. God, this is good. This old yellen as I'm just shoveling a load of finger food in my face . So who were you here with? Bride or groom . What? We went . Oh man, I put it back on the plate. She just regurgitated . There's been a terrible mistake . So we have been to a wedding. She let us stay as well, but you could tell one of them was really pissed. Yeah, yeah. Thank you for letting us stay. It was weird as well. There should have been a little sign or like a barrier. Yeah. Well, it was weird because it wasn't that woman playing the violin in a giant bubble. Yeah, that's and you know, yeah, maybe that is going to attract people. If you don't want attention, well don't have that is a bit wedding now I think about it. They're not just gonna pay for someone to be in a bubble. But I thought it was such a good hotel. They were like, This is what we do every evening. So we trotted on down yeah, crashed the wedding. Free food, free wine, we're there. Anyway, so tell us about this. Verdell . Okay, so this is a Spanish Verdejo. Verdeo, Verde Verde. Verdeo, yeah, yeah, who would get that one? So this is a Spanish V ideo, crisp and crowd pleasing, apparently. Award win, and it says, Ear. Now, we've got to say this . Again, it's for a wedding. She's doing all this herself. So she's got about one hundred fifty odd people there, all right? So you're going to be buying a lot of bottles of wine. So we want something cheap and cheerful. We don't say cheap, do we? Apparently that's not a good marketing term. You say affordable. Affordable and yeah . So Video is bright, fresh and very drinkable. It's ideal apparently for a sunny summer wedding. It tends to be affordable , but has enough character that guests won't feel short changed . Fresh and zingy with a bit of personality . I like it. It's nice expensive. I know it's affordable, but just tastes expensive . Okay , so Oh yeah, oh that's very drinkable as well. Yeah, yeah. That's what you want with a wedding. You just want to lie. It goes down easily. It's all fine. That is usually priced. I'll just say this in supermarkets , seven to twelve pounds. So the top end, this is a beronia one and that's at the top end at twelve pound a bottle . So how many bottles are you thinking for a wedding of one hundred and fifty people? You're thinking about seventy eighty bottles, really, aren't you? People only have like half a bottle of wine at a wedding . God you need a big drink at a wedding. They're so boring . And that bit in the middle, watch that bit in the middle. I just end up drinking for you know the bit in the middle the boring bit in the middle. What's the bit in the middle of the vows? No . , don't know that bit where the dog is on it . And then you'll tell you where they get town. Yeah, and they go and get their photographs , don't they? They do the whole photo shoot . That's where you want to I think bring out the cocktails if you can, Katherine . 'Cause you want the wine with the dinner, I'm guessing. Yeah, yeah. And don't you drink through that bit as well and then you're a hot mess for the Oh I know and there's always drama at weddings isn't it? I love it. Always someone always gets it wrong with the best man's speech doesn't they? There's always one who doesn't read the room Yeah yeah there was one said about how he'd shot himself and then smeared the pool all over the patio doors. People don't want to hear that. No , oh god. Who was that? John Smith. No , no, yes , I mean, and also my thing with weddings is in the good old days you had a hen and stag and it was one night. Now you have to book a week off work. I mean, you've got rollerblading , go cart in. Yeah p,aintball ing. And I've got a rule, right? If you're having an abroad wedding, do not have your hen or stag abroad. Yes. I think it gets a deer do. It really does. All right . Do not do that. I've actually MCA wedding before and I've done the I didn't get ordained, but I did the I did the speech I married two people. Have you ever done that? No. But you know who married me, don't you? Yes And you can't win with that. That is it. It's amazing. And then of course, then we had to go to the sheriff's office and hand in the certificate marriage certificate. Who married you? And I said, Adele, you Brits are crazy . I said, It's Adell . She believe it. You wouldn't, though, would you? Brits are crazy. Did she dress up? Did she dress as like? Because I always imagine great Catherine O'Hara from Shitz Creek. Was it she did dress a little bit like that? Did she? Yeah. Okay , we're now moving on to a Sauvignon Blanc . It's a classic choice for crowd pleasing white wine, especially in summer. It's lively. It's aromatic and it goes well with a variety of wedding foods. Now for those watching, if you just have a look at these two glasses here, as you can see on this one with the Vide o, little bit more oaky, isn't it in color? Like you can tell, this is going to be light . This is gonna be we did the taste at the texture test, didn't we? So this goes well with a variety of wedding foods, salad, chicken, seafood. It's from New Zealand, nice and punchy with crisp c,itrus and fresh herbs or as the Americans would say herbs. I love how they say herb. They go herbs, don't they? You got any herbs with that? Some herb ? No herby? No, never, never. Not important . The go to wedding white for putting a spring in every guest's step. I think this is overpowering . I knew you wouldn't like this 'cause you don't like you're more okay. It's too floral. You're like an oak . This would split the room. Where ? This is people say, get a divorce . You see up, this is where I'm differing with you because I think that is guaranteed you're safe. Now it's weird, isn't it? No, don't I would say that. I don't like it. So this Sovibe is a common saying Sovibee? I love I love saying it. I actually don't baby. I don't love ay h beobeb but that's actually quite nice. That's eight to the fifteen pound range Catherine . This Marlborough by the Ned is also twelve pounds, so we've got the same twelve pound there. So you probably yeah, how to do a bit of it. That's a good thing about weddings as well you do go and do a bit of a taste test yourself, don't you? Yes, yeah. And have like you see what food you want, you fly out there, if it's abroad or you go up there and you go, right, this is what we're doing. It is a lot of money there to get people abroad, though. Can you see you ever getting married? You're in like a loving relationship? Do we see ? I don't know. Like I always use I do love a party . Yeah. I quite like to have like a marriage in like a big English country . Maybe at your castle if you ever find one. Yes. I could get married out. Give you a good rate . I will. Double the prize. You can hear the pit of pattern of tiny little legs and feet as you run out of as I walk up the aisle . I'm just going to the insules are so predictable now. I know them before you say . Right. Tell us about this. What is it? Pinot Grugio. Now I don't think you can go wrong with a pinog io as far as I'm concerned, Catherine No, it's not. Oh it,'s' nsice nice. It . It's nice. It's just a relief from that one. That's so flawless. Well, actually you've got three different kind of levels of colour here. So you got the first one, the vedeo, which quite oaky in terms of the color there . On the other end, the Sauvignon Blanc very, pale , almost kind of you've got a bit in the middle I'd say that's a little bit more . Yeah, here we go. Pinot Grisho, it's safe. It's crowd friendly, white wine that almost everyone enjoys, light, refreshing and pairs beautifully with light as summer wedding menus. Classic bottles from regions like Venito or Frioli are typically dried with gentle fruit and clean acidity priced around the seven to twelve pound marb. Now before, I drink this, yeah, can you remember when she said if it's acidic, what do you get? You get that kind of ting yeah yeah are you getting that 's have a taste . That's it for me. I don't even need to carry on. That pinot grucio perfect, I would say. For me, it's that one. Oh really nice. I feel that one feels a bit special, a bit more special than that. That is no . But the thing is, Alan, I will say this , it's a wedding and it has to be safe . That's what I'm saying with the dilemma. This one, the Video is nice, but I don't know if it would be everyone 's taste if they don't love the oakiness of it, whereas you've got the nice kind of and also it's around the nine pound mark. All right then . So if you are buying a few bottles , all right then,. So that's the best one, right? Pinot Grigio, yeah. But it's saying here for a good rule of thumb is to plan on about half a bottle of wine per guest during the meal. Okay. This usually means that people will enjoy two to three glasses each while eating. For one hundred fifty and guests that work s out roughly seventy five bottles of wine . But if you're I love our producers, but if you're inviting me and Alan, then that should just about cover us. So you may want a few more. dare you ruse ruse . So I think basically , if you want to go a little bit bougie , go for maybe the Video, but I think the safe option is the Pinot Grishio. Yeah , I concur and of course always drink responsibly. Visit drinkaware.co. UK for more inform ation , inform ation. Cheers, Katherine, Swan. Oh, I wonder what her new name will be. Maybe she'll keep it. Swan, yes. Swan. That's quite nice yeah, I wonder if she's got a long name swan Swan by name. Swan by nature. Does she like bread . Will she break your arm if you go near your children ? Happy buddy buttons to the swans . Now when it comes to drinks we like to think we know what we're doing. Well, thank God for our next guest because she really knows what she's doing. Model turn mix ologist who regularly wakes me up from Sunday brunch with something stiff . It's P ors Fcheanreem . And oh my, I feel like moving around we're at a bar. How are we Hey, Tutz, how are you? I feel like Peggy Mitchell and I'm living in my best life. I'm loving there. Or would we be in East Enders? Epheline a little, Willie. We could be the Mitchell brother. Mitchell, Mitchell . Brandon Phil. You're my boys. You're my boy. Yeah. What would you call 'cause me and my friends used to have this thing where we'd like if we had a pub, what would we call it? I was sort of a good name for a pub is the drunken leprechaun. Oh, so that like you call your eyes? What would you call? I'm gonna have to have a think about that and come back to you because that's a really good question. And I thought for a cocktail bar, Kelsuprees. Oh that's good. Yeah, Kelsufree. You're going down Kel tonight. What would be your signature cocktail? Ooh, a blood orange margarita. Love a blood orange margarita, Bobs. Yeah. Speaking of names, Porsche's a lovely name. Thanks both. Yeah, I love the name Porsche. What's it mean? I think I actually drew the short card with my name because everyone's always like, that's a really glamorous name. How'd you spell it? How'd you say it, all this? And then when someone says, What does it mean? I'm like pig in Latin. It's Latin pig. No, not a pig. I'm like, thanks, Mum. Cheers, but yeah, pig you were born did she go she's a portion. She reminds me of a pig, bless her like rocking me. 'Cause you know Allen in Greek means handsome. Does it? Yeah . Well, there we go babe sweet. I mean in English . Listen, we have something in common already because I love cocktails and so many people, you know, this we've been focusing on wine, but we wanted to like slightly branch out and we're going a little bit further afield, not fully are we, but how did you get into cocktails? Now people have said to me, you're a mixologist. I'm not. I call myself a cocktail enthusiast. Are you the same? I agree. I fully and I think a mixologist is a big name and I think it is very I don't know, I think it's overused for the wrong people. Isn't it like you know, some people say chef or the safe home . This, this, this . And I think also it's like, well, I'm self titled home cocktail queen. Okay. Because I don't work behind a bar and I've been doing it for six years. Yeah . And I think a mixologist is like it's a skill, right? People have worked on it. It's like chemistry. It's chemistry. It's science, it's actual , it's wizardry babes. So I'm just like, if I hear that, I'm like squirm a little bit if I'm honest. Yeah, 'cause I'm just a bit like, that's a big title. And this podcast is all about being accessible and that's what I want where you can go or can make a nice cocktail You couldn't have been like, that's literally what I always say, like whenever I make my cocktail s at home because if I'm honest, I don't stand behind a professional bar often. It will be if I'm like doing master classes or whatever, but it's all about accessibility, relatability and just everyone being included. It's not about it's not about separation or anything like that. It's about everyone joining in. Whether it's with booze or not , everyone can be included. So what are we doing? So we've got cocktail. I'm told, is it with a bit of wine though? So we're still we've got a little bit of wine. We've got a Frisante wine, which actually I've recently learned is just a lightly fizzy wine . It's an Italian wine. It's really nice. Let me get out of the fridge. But also it's a fail safe wine that I use for cocktails. It's sweet, it's demisec, and it just, if you're gonna put it into a cocktail, it just sort of almost adds the sweetness instead of a syrup. And with this cocktail I'm going to make for you guys, I'm actually really excited to see your reaction. Yeah. Oh my god . But I don't know, I don't like it could flop. Like you guys not gonna flop. Well no, so basically it's I'm going to make it for you while we talk about it. It's a white brine spritz . A white brine brine . Now I know, I know, okay. No. That's all we got time for on bottoms. We'll see you in the next video. Signal . No, basically, right. 'Cause everything I do is all at home all the, cocktail creation, it's all about what we can find in our kitchen cupboards, our fridge, freezer, whatever . And brine of olives, capers, pickles , it's everywhere. That's sort of savory. Do you hate the savory vibe? Oh, I love pickle. You're into a pickle . He's in a pickle. Yeah, it's not my favorite, but yeah, I'm going to give it a go because I'm sure you're the best. Well it's kind of sweet weirdly. It's like a I'm a little bit like I'm just yeah anyway I'm gonna so we've got some ginger going in this is a nice London dry. I think having a London dry is just nice and easy. It's like you know you can just pop it into a cocktail and it'll still you'll still get the undertone of a gin , but it still lets the cocktail do the talking. So how much of that are we doing? So we're doing forty mil of gin . Like I said, you don't want it to be like overpowering. No , sort of liquid salt with nice. I get asked to do these things where they say can you actually explain what that means? And then I'm like describing it in flavor and I'm just like it's working now do not worry, it's working. This is a piece, right? Ah, yes, is that like a burgamotty type liqueur is it? It's so good. It's an apparatif and it's literally with your blood orange margaritas, take out the quantre if you use it. Add a bit of that. Oh my days. This in a margarita is one of my favorites . Yeah. It's a triple sack quite I love it's a different flavor. This is more herbaceous, it's got bergmot, it's got like that sort of citrusy feel. And I think it just sort of brings back the flav or a little bit. You do the ice always last as late as possible. To avoid dilution. To avoid dilution because honestly yes , anything, ice is your best friend with a cocktail. It's the most important ingredient for a cocktail , but it can ruin a cocktail so quickly if it's not looked after, if you've got water, I can talk about ice? I can too. Big ice and also if the ice cubes are so small , they'll just dilute straight away Please, that's true. It's also easy. Honestly, clear ice faves. Clear ice clear ice. What? Tell you. Hello crazy. Hey you too crazy kids. What have you been talking about? Wild times over here. Where's my brine? Right. Get a whiff on that. Both of you . This is my Brian. Ooh . What do you thinking? I'm thinking great . This is a bit of me. I'm about anything pickled . Right. So have a sniffin there, Allen, see if that's helping your senses. Stop thinking about that. It's quite strong. Can you smell the bergamot in there? Yeah , yeah, is that the herb? That herbaceous feel a little bit of an orangey kind of yes. Is that with your London dry is gonna be literally just like pairing beautifully. And then we're going to add the brine fifteen mil and basically also because the demon get the brine from Baby Pickle Jar in the fridge. So this is nice, big eyes. too Big eyes. You know what I know is when people go they go, not loads of eyes. I don't want it diluting eyes. The more eyes, the less dilution you'll have. Babe, I can't when they say like, well no, I can't. And also with the ice, if it's like only half filled . And then you can see it melted and it's all like sad. No, I can't. I can sometimes tell by looking at it. Oh, babe, you can tell the minute you look at it, it is literally awful Five hours later chat please. Can I be included in this conversation? Right. So listen, what we're going to do next year is fill the glasses up and then you're going to swizzle, just technically stir, right? You're going to stir it. So basically we are going to dilute the spirits because we don't want them to be you're going to have a straw in a minute. I don't want you to have a massive mouthful of really strong spirit that's warm or you know it hasn't been diluted because we do want the ice to do its job. That will be topped up in a minute with more ice. The ice is really important, Alan. Yeah, I know it is. It is a surface area . Yeah, also this as well. So can you see like the little where you see the water coming out on the side that's just surface level ice like what you were just saying? And you do want that in the cocktail with this sort of cocktail in there. Right. Next up, we're gonna top up with our Demisk. Now how do you fill that screw tops? Well, I asked this. Did you? Yes on a previous episode and a lot of people have sent this in and they've said apparently it's fine, it's absolutely fine screw top and actually you're safer with a screw top because it might not cork. Right in here we're going to do eighty so a hundred mil again it's your pallet. I'm going to go with eighty to start because I think you can add if you wanted a little bit more . I'm topping up with a bit of soda water. Now this cocktail guys well, I say spritz, it's a spritz . It's one of those, which I genuinely think is going to be really coolable in the summer because it's actually, I mean it's got quite a bit of booze in it but it doesn't feel like it. It doesn't taste like it . I don't know. We'll see. I want to see your reactions anyway. Now what I will say about this is I think a garnish. Oh I've already got that. Oh my gosh. Jacob Garnish. Okay, so this rose is a pickled rose . How'd you make that? Is that a pickle? It is basically a little sliced pickles and then into an ice cube mold and bishbash bosh. Brilliant. You know what I mean? Also you can because I'm all about right. I can't stand garnishes that are wasted . Either incorporate it where you can eat it maybe or I didn't know, I just think there's so much waste around. I've never seen a pickle being used as garnish of you. No, but I love this because you know what? Before you put that in , it didn't even look like a cocktail necessarily. A garnish is it's like the icing on the cake yes it definitely is. I think it steals a deal and I think also it's like you can go I mean I'm all about like having a nice garnish that can be incorporated it can complement the cocktail all of this and I think garnishes can go a little bit crazy overboard. However, that's edible. It's only going to contribute to a cocktail and it looks bloody cute. Yeah And it's different as well. We live in a world now where people play safe food cocktails. This is different in this people are so intrigued by it. I mean, it's like it's I can't wait to sip it, can I? Yeah . So what do you call this? The picture? This is my white brine spritz. White brine spritz. Cheers. Cheers. Bottoms up . Thank you so much. Okay, let's go. Let's see . Talk to me, Alan , tell me what's going through your brain right now? Is it pickley? Mm . Okay, I'm getting a whiff of pickle and that's fine. That's brine. I'm brine with that . Right. You know what I like about that? Oh my God, I'm dead. When you drink it and I love pickle, you get the pickle hit straight away . Then the flavor, the pickle just, you know, develops well you then get that burgergamot coming through. Yeah. I love this, are you? Are you? Yeah, I absolutely love this and Oh my god, yeah, Porsche. Yes, pig . Very quickly, if you were gonna be a cocktail, what would you be? Classic cocktail. I think I'd have been a grony. Nice. I like goni. I love my gin. Love it. Well, thank you so much and thank you for watching. Miss Corps. Shows how easy it is to make it home. So easy. Well, we'll give the recipe on the episode description if people want to make it and try it. I love it. 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