Bottoms Up: The Tailspin

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We took the classic Lion’s Tail, gave it orange juice, rye, and a little chaos, and called it the Tailspin. Sweet, sharp, and just a little dangerous—this one will twist your happy hour in all the right ways.

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00:00we're in the kitchen it's my Hamilton Beach air fryer that cost $25 that's

00:12spaghetti squash that will go bad because I'm ready so what we are making

00:27today in on this beautiful fall day because it's autumn it is autumn it's

00:32it was a little bit warm today but it's going to be very cold and this is a

00:37perfect drink for the cold derived from the lion's tail a cup which is a

00:42classic prohibition period cocktail look it up and so yeah right yeah yeah it is

00:50and then whenever anyone asks me hey Dave what's a good drink for like you know

00:55for the fall it's getting cold I always say the lion's what is the key to that

00:58so the lion's the key to the lion's tail is something called St. Elizabeth's Allspice

01:04Dram impossible to find no I was just about to say it's pretty readily available

01:10it's not impossible to find it's pretty readily available it's recognizable label

01:18and bottle it's called St. Elizabeth's Allspice Dram it's a liquor that we got

01:22married St. Elizabeth's and Milton just so you know it's why we drink this it's not

01:27at all why we drink this

01:29spicy but spicy baby spicy it's a liquor that it's made with rum and berries and

01:36spices it tastes like it tastes like fall it tastes like fall it's almost like if

01:41pumpkin spice wanted to be really fancy this is all spice it's not pumpkin spice

01:45it's like a ginger all spice yeah it's all spice season yeah right it's the fall

01:50all right keep going we want to like and then I think that there's oh we want to

01:54do this and so and so the lion's tail is a classic but the lion's tail was made with

02:00bourbon and lime juice and simple syrup and and the St. Elizabeth's so because we're

02:08always sort of putting a spin putting our own tail spin on it spin on it we decided to

02:16up the ante on the spice and so we're going to use rye whiskey which is a little drier

02:22and spicier than bourbon because rye is made with rye oh and bourbon is is mostly corn by

02:30well 51% corn so bourbon and uh this Sazerac rye which is not so readily available but you can

02:37find it is a really great sort of um mixing rye standard rye can't go wrong with Sazerac

02:45rye and so we're going to use the rye and the allspice and we're going to use lemon juice instead

02:51of the lime juice and we're totally leaving out the simple syrup because the whole time you've been

02:56talking i've been thinking i don't think the mic is working but that's okay and then i was thinking

03:01i should have done a test i don't know i don't think the blue on that thing is but it's fine it's fine

03:06well how will we know was that going to pick it up i don't know yes it'll pick it up i hope so

03:11so we're going to make this cocktail and because it's a spin on the classic lion's tail lauren came up with

03:18the name tailspin tailspin okay i'm glad you're talking loud because initially i was like why are you

03:25talking so loud but if this is picking us up i think and you want to know something i tend to

03:30talk loudly and i think it's a real turn off to people sometimes well it's great because i'm in radio

03:37and i can't hear i thought we're a match made i think it makes people uncomfortable they're like

03:41they're like they're thinking to themselves why is this guy talking so freaking loud but maybe i'm

03:47just comment if he's talking too loud all of me uh so so we came up with our own version of the

03:53lion's tail lauren came up with the great name tailspin because it's the spin of the lion's tail ta-da and

03:59uh this is the recipe we came up with so we're again we're going to use two ounces of the rye whiskey

04:05uh we're going to use um this stuff is pretty potent the allspice dram so we're going to use a

04:17half ounce of the allspice dram dram dram dram dram dram and then i'm sorry i'm still thinking about the

04:27microphone and then we're going to do uh and the allspice dram and the lemon juice will really balance

04:33each other out really really well we're going to do three quarters ounce of the that's just about

04:39half half a lemon half a lemon just about depending on the size of your lemon but also keep your lemons

04:45outside of the fridge if you're going to make drinks because a cold fruit is a stingy fruit

04:49hope you learn something new every day moving on and we're going to use chocolate bitters

04:59because chocolate well initially the we did the orange but chocolate so any chocolate and citrus is

05:05always good says lbf it's true uh normally in the in the lion cell you use your standard uh angostura bitters

05:13but we're going to do that and i'll be right back because i'm getting some ice hope it didn't happen

05:19i just don't see that blue light and maybe i put it in one of them you know this is why this is why

05:29this is why professionals i'm probably blocking this mic they do mic checks they do all these things i

05:35don't know how to live my life and by the way i've been thinking i think every drink we've made so far has

05:41rye in it has been shaken has been shaken we're gonna do we're gonna have to get to some stirred drinks soon

05:47yeah maybe we'll do a martini okay hold your ears

05:51trust me my ears are stuck because of you

05:55because you talk so goddamn loud

05:59okay and i broke my own rule

06:07because i didn't put the we're gonna serve this on a big ice cube which we like to do

06:13one of the things that i find that um if you serve it on a big ice cube people like me tend to drink it

06:21very quickly like when i put on this it's more like a bowling drink and we will strain

06:29we will strain

06:33well all my stuff is missing so i'm missing

06:37oh my god here's your strainer you psychopath

06:43it's never in the same place

06:47and we're gonna pour that in there that looks pretty

06:51it's pretty

06:53and uh and just for giggles we're going to uh take a little swath of orange

06:59and uh the nice thing is you ever see bartenders take take a this and squeeze it like that

07:09because what's happening is sometimes you can actually see it there's oil in the skin of the fruit

07:15and when you squeeze it like that it sprays out sprays across it's like biore for your drink

07:21yeah it sprays across the top watch your fingers there honey

07:25and i'm cutting i'm cutting i don't want to

07:27i didn't know you were doing that

07:29yes of course you gotta make it look nice

07:31oh you gotta make it pretty so i made it nice

07:33who are you dorinda

07:35oh look there you go

07:37and you give it a little and anyway it gets the nice uh aroma and the oils from the on on the glass and then the drink

07:43and show it to them

07:45oh yeah look at that that's pretty

07:47that's nice i hope it's recording

07:49so tailspin go ahead lbf

07:51oh wait

07:53bottoms up

07:55but let me try this guy

07:57it's better with the orange

08:01and you know what

08:03it's better with the orange you guys

08:05and the orange and the chocolate

08:07orange and the chocolate

08:09and if you you know what you know what the deal is

08:11allspice

08:13and orange and the freshly squeezed orange or lemon

08:17okay

08:18it's a beautiful drink

08:19it is

08:20it's a great autumn drink

08:21cheers

08:23cheers

08:24is that too far away?

08:28yeah

08:29it's too far away?

08:30yeah don't you think we look tiny

08:32well that's my point

08:34i don't want to zoom in on me

08:36alright tell me when you feel good

08:38that's good

08:41yeah i mean that's much better

08:43you guys should see his face

08:45okay

08:47who are you talking to?

08:49i'm talking

08:50oh you're recording?

08:51well you gotta get all the stuff in the beginning

08:53i didn't even know how long's i've been recording

08:55thirty forty one seconds

08:57get the stuff

08:59all right

09:00wait

09:01okay

09:02this is his practice run

09:05because he hasn't given you a dissertation on

09:07oh the dissertation

09:10good stram

09:16we have an ice maker

09:18oh my gosh

09:20yeah

09:21yeah

09:23shit

09:24it

09:25it

09:26it

09:27it

09:29it

09:31I

09:32got

09:43guys

09:45oh

09:46he

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