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Drink To Think Ep4: The Gin Fizz

by marc on May 7, 2017 at 2:07 pm

Posted In: Drink to Think, Homepage, Montreal, Other podcasts, Podcast, Podcasting

DtoT Ep 4: Gin Fizz

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What is Drink to Think About?

An Interactive Podcast?

You are encouraged to make the cocktail with us and if possible have a tasting with some friends just as we do on the show.

A bit of thinking with your drinking

Many of the story portions of this show will be excerpts from the manga Bartender written by Araki Joh and illustrated by Kenji Nagatomo. The overarching theme of the podcast is on alcohol and its trappings but the underlying theme is about human hardship and creativity. Hardship because when you need a drink it is often due to you having had a rough day and creativity because it is very impressive that humans can apply a great deal of meaning to anything in their lives. For example, this show will explain how a simple story can make a world of difference around something as simple as a glass of liquor.

Hope you enjoy and here’s to you my friends.

Today’s Cocktail:

The Gin Fizz There are many versions of this cocktail. ranging from a breeze to make to an actual workout for your arms. The standard gin fizz is a mix of lemon, gin, sugar and soda water. While the Ramos gin fizz is a more extravagant concoction (recipe below). We taste both these and a golden fizz to understand why the fizz is one of the most popular ways to serve gin. Joining me will be the lovely Emily, a gin lover and all around great person. Before we get to the tasting there will be talk about gin, its historical importance, variations in the spirit, the diversity of the gin fizz and, as promised, some tips on how to judge a cocktail! It’s gonna be fun!

Classic Gin Fizz:

Gin: 45 ml

Lemon: half

Sugar syrup: 10 ml (heat 1 cup of sugar with 1 cup of water until sugar is dissolved)

Put in a glass with ice and mix

soda water: 80 ml Garnish with lemon slice

Ramos Gin Fizz:

Gin: 45 ml

Lemon and lime: half each

Sugar syrup: 30 ml

Cream: 60 ml

Egg white: 1

Orange flower water: 3 dashes

Vanilla extract: 2 dashes

put all ingredient in a shaker with no ice for 4-6 minutes, then add ice and shake for another 2-6 (this is close to the original recipe, modern recipes ask you to shake for about a minute each (dry and then ice). pour into a glass and add the soda water soda water: 25 ml garnish with orange slice

The intro and outro music of this podcast is “Nuclear Winter” by the by Keep Them Alive featuring Jeffery Malecki. Used under a Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution License.t

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Drink To Think Ep. 2: Old Pal

by marc on January 5, 2017 at 5:54 pm

Posted In: Drink to Think, Homepage, Other podcasts, Podcast, Podcasting

Cocktail: Old Pal

Welcome to Drink to Think,
the show about alcohol, cocktails and how a drink might be able to make us better people. The basic format of the podcast will revolve around one cocktail per episode. We will go into the history of the cocktail or liquors involved, followed by a story of how some form of meaning can be given to the cocktail and finish with a tasting. You are encouraged to make the cocktail with us and if possible have a tasting with some friends just as we do in the show.
Many of the story portions of this show will be excerpts from the manga Bartender written by Araki Joh and illustrated by Kenji Nagatomo. The overarching theme of the podcast is on alcohol and its trappings but the underlying theme is about human hardship and creativity. Hardship because when you need a drink it is often because you have had a rough day and creativity because it is very impressive that humans can apply a great deal of meaning to anything in their lives. For example, this show will explain how a simple story can make a world of difference around something as simple as a glass of liquor.
Hope you enjoy and here’s to you my friends.

Today’s Cocktail: Old Pal
A cocktail of three equal parts rye whiskey (replace with whiskey if you don’t have rye), dry vermouth and Campari. Stirred with ice and strained into a glass. garnish with a lemon twist if so desired. I learned to late that the cocktail is to be stirred not shaken. The reason for this is shaking a cocktail makes it colder and dilutes it a bit. But you don’t want that with a cocktail that is mainly spirits, apparently. I apologize for the misleading information.

I will be joined by my old friend TJ and we will wax philosophical about the meaning of the cocktail in the third section.

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The intro and outro music of this podcast is “Nuclear Winter” by the by Keep Them Alive featuring Jeffery Malecki. Used under a Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution License.

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└ Tags: Bartender Manga, Campari, Cocktail, Drink tasting, history of alcohol, manga, Montreal, Rye Whisky, Vermouth

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Tuesday’s Coming: Cruisin’

by Al on January 19, 2015 at 10:05 am

Posted In: Homepage, Movies, Tuesday's Coming, VAGRANTS

I thought I might be the only one, but I wasn’t. I had some friends over last week to watch a movie, an important film, iconic even, that I felt ashamed of having never watched in its entirety. I didn’t tell my friends what film we’d be watching, for fear of ridicule. They all came over, sat down, and I pressed play. It took about a minute for everyone to clue in, and then the unexpected happened: my friends revealed that they, too, had never watched Top Gun.

Val Kilmer: An actor I constantly forget exists. © Val Kilmer

Sure, it’s some sort of classic, but for some reason, I had never watched the whole thing. And I’m actually glad that I waited this long to take it in, because I got to watch it as a grown man who’s seen a ton of movies. I’ve seen Top Gun references all over the place, and only somewhat gotten them. Hell, I’ve seen Hot Shots about a dozen times, and I still hadn’t seen the movie it was parodying.

I’m not sure exactly why, but there’s something really cool about experiencing one of those big movies for the first time. I guess it’s a form of relief, of finally being in the know, of adding another film to the repertoire of references that’ll make total sense to you from that point on.

It felt really good to scratch one off the list. I’ve been known to give people shit for not seeing certain movies that I simply assume everyone’s seen, like Fight Club, American Psycho, Animal House, Field of Dreams, The Sting, but truthfully there are a ton of classics that I also haven’t seen yet, and I’m ashamed of it. I’ve never even watched The Godfather, and that was my nickname at one point.

The sad reality of it is that there are always going to be classics that you never end up seeing. With the rate at which new movies are released, it becomes easier and easier not to watch fantastic movies just because they’ve aged quite a bit. But those trips into the past are generally worth it. You end up seeing these incredible pieces of work that are slowly being forgotten, and in doing so, you are keeping them alive.

I know I’ve only named blockbusters here, movies that aren’t likely to disappear in the near future, but you get the point: A ton of awesome movies were made in the previous century. Go watch some, it’ll change your appreciation for current films, too.

-Al

P.S.: I’m gonna watch Cocktail and Days of Thunder now. Young Tom Cruise is super fun to watch.

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