Feature tags: Cocktails

Cocktail Drafting is a classic American pastime that I just thought of. Tryers will be paired up, and each pair will be presented with 6 bottles of liquid: 4 are alcoholic, 2 are not. Without opening them, they will take turns picking until they each have 3. Those 3 liquids will be combined to make a cocktail that tryer must drink. Or, for a twist – they swap drinks first. This feature requires Martin.

Grains from America’s heartland distilled on the mighty Mississippi River. Try the local samplings of whiskey, vodka and gin. For dessert, Iowish Cream.

Try four cocktails and show how they are made. The common ingredient is cyder. Use Irish cyder. Explain to your American audience that before they banned alcohol in 1919 cyder was something that people on the farm would make to drink. Get M.C. To say this, as she is a farm girl. If you wanted a road trip then go to an orchard and film there getting some samples.

Let’s have the cast members try their hands at layered cocktails, sometimes called pousse-café. They can work together in pairs to make and taste cocktails with increasing difficulty.

Start with something simple like a Black and Tan (two layers):
https://www.thespruceeats.com/black-and-tan-cocktail-recipe-759593

Next is the ever popular B-52 Shot (three layers):
https://www.thespruceeats.com/b-52-triple-layered-shot-759583

Add a four layered cocktail if you dare.

And for the final cocktail, let’s invite Giovanni Viscardi in to make a classic Pousse-
-café:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/the-pousse-cafe-no-1-51167400

Have lots of paper towels ready for this episode.