00:02oh god bless the americano it's good right
00:10hi everybody you notice i haven't even gotten up to check your work
00:16i'm just going with it okay here full trust mode
00:22okay both both this is it this is it i'm doing something different welcome to bottoms up yeah
00:28welcome to bottoms up um what we're doing us a pretty cool drink lauren yes i'm discombobulated
00:34because that was giving me lots of trouble i gotta lock it up lock it up okay
00:40we are celebrating july 4th and it's the 250th anniversary um i was gonna do something of our
00:48great nation of our great nation yes i'm thinking about the drink what we need to talk can i talk
00:53about the drink yeah come on do i get to tell some stories about this go ahead so we're doing
00:58a drink called the americano now it's not the coffee americano it's the boozy americano right
01:04but very similarly it's a watered down version right yes you know the story goes the american
01:10soldiers in italy the coffee was too strong yes so the italians watered it down for them and called it
01:17the americano and similarly a wink and a smile this drink um so this drink is a an old drink
01:24like goes
01:25back to like the 1800s i think in italy and they just used you know their traditional campari and
01:31they use some uh sweet vermouth yeah and then they topped it off with some soda water that's it and
01:38that's it and it was a sort of a precursor to the drink we all know the negroni yeah all
01:44right so we're
01:44gonna make it so it's not a negroni this preceded the negroni and it was the count of the negroni
01:49who's
01:49like can we just make it can can we can we replace the water with gin please and give it
01:54some punch but
01:55we're not doing that we're doing the americano um there's also a james bond connection and i'm not
02:01getting into that so you just get a nice uh tall glass it's always known as a highball we're gonna
02:07fill it with ice yeah i'm making a mess here doesn't matter but we're gonna fill it with ice
02:16and you again it's one of these uh one of these things you probably can't even hear it i bet
02:21you
02:21can all right whatever okay oh that's a little sticky gotta clean the tops really good so we're
02:26gonna do one and a half i've filled it right in the uh glass one and a half ounces of
02:31the campari right in
02:32the glass some tunes or something and then you're gonna put in your favorite um sweet vermouth i
02:51happen to love dolan yeah but you know there are plenty of brands out there this is martini and rossi
02:56which is actually you know what lbf we're gonna use punta mace which is not a true vermouth sweet
03:04vermouth um but it is but it also has an uh a bitter taste oh great just what i want
03:11so we're
03:12we're gonna up the bitter the bitterness why are we upping the bitter on the birth of our nation
03:16it's good it wakes you up you know just like you woke up the rest of the world yeah uh
03:22-huh
03:22i like how that circular solid woke me up so equal parts we're gonna do
03:31okay so that's it uh one and a half i don't know if i'm gonna like this oh you're gonna
03:35like it
03:36you're gonna like it trust me you're gonna like it i'm telling you right now you're gonna like it
03:41okay can you smell it smell that i wish i should smell it it smells good and then you just
03:47take
03:48some soda water i have club soda here and you're gonna go flat quicker you're gonna fill the rest
03:54of that glass okay this is very simple you're gonna give it a nice stir
04:03not nothing crazy because we want to preserve the bubbles as much as possible
04:15and we're gonna put out but we already have a little garnish here ready to go nice orange right
04:22in there lay it right in there and look at that yeah that's pretty that's your americano yeah right
04:27there and try it see i love it you're gonna try it lbf i made it special for you thank
04:33you so much
04:34happy july for it salud
04:39god bless the americano it's good right yeah it's different it's really refreshing but it's not super
04:46sweet for people who don't like it's right and you can't chug this it's because it's that that
04:50puntimaeus makes it unchuggable by the way don't say chugging in front of the scotsman since when are
04:57we chugging cocktails anyway i don't know maybe it's because the scots were in town don't ask i know the
05:03real meaning of that word in scotland we good oh come on that's delicious i'm highly highly
05:12recommend delicious
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