Feature tags: Drinking

Isla Scotches are the peaty, smokey scotches. I would love to see a countdown of the smokiest scotch wiskeys. The order would be (the last being the smokiest): Highland Park, Lagavulin, Talisker, Caol ila, Laphroaig, and Ardbeg. see www.lifedaily.com/the-6-smokiest-scotch-whiskies-you-can-buy/

I think this would fall in with the most recent Irish people drink and guess if Canadian Cities are real or not.

Similar to the US states but provide city names and they have to guess if they are real locations or not.

Example locations:
Vulcan, AB
Snafu, YK
Climax, SK
Moose Jaw, SK
Flin Flon, MB
Punkeydoodles Corner, ON
Saint-Louis-Du-Ha! Ha!, QC
Sober Island, NS
Dildo, NL
Blow Me Down Provincial Park, NL
Conception Bay, NL

And Many more – Easy to throw in names of cities that aren’t real and provide some interesting background on why these cities even exist.

There is such a wide variety of fortified wines out there from the classic brandies to the low-end MD 20/20. I don’t know how available some of them are in Ireland, or if the Try team has much experience with them, but it would be great to see the team try them from the top to the bottom. Some suggestions – MD 20/20, Gwaha-ju, Night Train, Thunderbird, Wild Irish Rose, Sherry, Port Wine, Marsala, Madeira, Vermouth, etc. Could be a great feature seeing the team try the entire spectrum from the bottom to the top – also the lower level varieties are an American college tradition!

They try different drinks made/established in Texas. Wines, beers, cocktails, hard liquor, etc

You should do a “How well do Irish people speak Irish (Gaeilge)” challenge. Where you give them phrases in English to translate to Irish and for every phrase they get wrong, they have to take a shot of alcohol. The phrases can start off as simple leaving cert stuff and then get increasingly complicated, maybe you can fit some meme phrases in there as well.

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.