The Sloppy Boys - 130. Clover Club

Episode Date: April 14, 2023

The guys make a pre-Prohibition drink named after the men's social club in Philadelphia.CLOVER CLUB RECIPE1.5oz/45ml Gin.5oz/15ml Raspberry Syrup.5oz/15ml Lemon Juicefew drops Egg WhitePour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with fresh raspberries.Recipe via the International Bartenders Association (https://www.iba-world.com/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As women, our life stages come with unique risk factors, like high blood pressure developed during pregnancy, which can put us two times more at risk of heart disease or stroke. Know your risks. Visit heartandstroke.ca. Hey folks, welcome to the Sloppy Boys, where we take a deep dive into the drinks that you love. I'm Jeff Dutton, along with Mike Hanford. Yo! And Tim Kalbakis.

What is up, Philadelphia stylies? Spring time! Spring has sprung again sprung in Philly. Spring in Philly. Spring in Philly styleys. In Philly specifically. Oh, Philly spring. There's nothing like it. Oh.

That spring air. When that morning sun hits that cheesesteak. Every year I say, I'm going to do a you know i do a new jersey spring of delaware spring i can't re i did a pittsburgh spring no it was all off no no a pittsburgh spring i did a shitsburg thing and oh no have you guys heard about a uh pittsburgh toilet oh i can't say i have to yeah yeah the the they're called the pirates gee the front oh that front office needs to figure out what they're doing very true um also i just googled pittsburgh and then no toilet like i thought like just the word pittsburgh would bring up Pittsburgh toilet.

No guys, this is great. Um, Pittsburgh toilet is, I think this, I saw this on the Instagram. That's like, it's called like the depths of Wikipedia or something like that. Or like they do deep dives. Um, but they do deep dives into the Wikipedia, the Wikipedia pages you love. Damn. Um, I know, and I've since googled around and this is confirmed a pittsburgh toilet is a thing that's popular in pittsburgh where there's a toilet

downstairs in an unfinished basement and it's like no stall or doors but just like dad has a toilet in the basement and it's like concrete floor rock walls gross anything goes alone wow is that is that something like that newer houses no i guess not that's a crazy look i've heard of that so much with like oh a fridge like you know how some some houses have that extra fridge or that extra freezer in the garage just for beers or meats yes but having an extra toilet in the basement specifically unfinished also i like it specifically for dad you know it's like uh it's you know pittsburgh industry town steel town so it's sort of it was like the 20th century you steel workers and miners in their little houses in the suburbs. I don't know.

Having a free toilet. Damn. Have you heard of a Pittsburgh left? That's when you're in your car and you take a left at a light right as it turns. So you cut off the other people coming. That's an LA left, man. LA does like eight cars go when the light turns red. I've heard of that, though, Mike.

Oh, also, hey, I came up with a phrase, or you tell me if I came up with a phrase. Has anyone come up with the term a left-hand grab? Like, oh, somebody made a left-hand grab for that job, or somebody, meaning like sort of of a sneaky underhanded move. Like you wouldn't expect because it's the left hand. Because you wouldn't see it coming. I like that.

I'm not seeing anything online yet. Huh. Jeff, that's yours. I typically call that a Pittsburgh grab. Ooh, you heard it here first, folks. Left-hand grab. Can I go back to toilets for a second? Yes, please.

But then I got to go back to Pittsburgh lefts. And then I want to say something about Pittsburgh blue steak. Okay, great. I'll be fast. I've noticed a lot of basement toilets, they have like an extra apparatus to pump the shit upward. Have you seen these? Into your butt?

I haven't seen many basement toilets. Yeah, they're rare. They're a rare delicacy. And yet you've seen a bunch. Well, my dad put one in the basement and he was like, well, you got to put the extra thing to pump things up because most toilets flush down and out. Right.

But you're below sea level when you're in the basement. If you're below the ground or below the tank or whatever, you got to get a machine to go. You should be putting that shit up and out. The toilet should be on the basement ceiling. Yeah. Strap it upside down. Shit all over yourself.

I was at a friend's sleepover one time and I, we were all sleeping in the basement and I took a shit in the basement thinking I was being quiet. Ooh, was it loud? I was afraid I woke up the mom and the dad i was afraid i woke up uh the mom and the dad the mom and the dad uh going back to the pittsburgh left tim just so you're clear i mean when the light turns green is

when they turn left yeah so you're cutting off you're cutting oncoming traffic going straight yeah not when it turns you're ready for it and you go real fast? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The LA... I know what you're talking about. I gotta be honest with you. I do a lot of Pittsburgh laughs, yeah.

There you go. I don't think it's a bad thing or an illegal thing. It's just you gotta be ready. And you gotta commit. What's Pittsburgh blue steak? Yeah. Raw? Well, I'm lamenting bringing up so yet another pittsburgh

thing in our philadelphia style episode but it's just a steak it's like the rare it's a charred steak it's like you you kind of like burn the outside and leave it raw on the inside so it's like you walk it past the grill damn blue so you see really just the outside but then you have your head center hey it's frozen i've never ordered pittsburgh blue but i have sometimes at a steakhouse i'll say charred and then that's where they they burn the outside for you and i like that sometimes we've talked about this i like the the sound of a char pit when like it's like a burger place coming to the char pit okay hey how about that restaurant the char pit up in sherlock new york when you say you like the sound of a char pit

you mean you don't mean that there's a sound of the char pit makes no no no it's char pit it sounds like that would be good food yes get a burger get some tater slaw the phrase char pit in a pit i like the idea that my food was cooked in a pit go down there and get me my entree damn i'm tapped out yeah i'm tapped out you want to go to booze news please hit it um you know what i just noticed and the head shops we have in la are like a little bit different than other places where they're a little more like uh yeah like a vape shoppy and a little uh like like

it's booze news man snoochy pooches oh shit slop high was sent to us by tommy aka teenage fan sub on the sloppy boys discord which you can get access to if you subscribe to our patreon you can hop on with slop heads and if you have a booze news theme email it to theboyspodcast at gmail.com. I think what Tommy was doing there was my matched with Ringo's. I get high with a little help.

Oh. If you listen close, we kind of hit the same note. Very nice, Tommy. Have we heard of Teenage Fan Sub before? I have. Yeah. I've heard. You've heard? I've heard I've you've heard they've heard i've had

have they brought in booze news before yeah yeah tommy's good tommy is uh i mean he's right up there with ethan cohen kanger the big boys wow dj khaled another one. We should have Khaled Instagram message and be like, hey, if you ever want to send in a booze news theme, here's the address. And if you ever want to come on and defend yourself, that's fine. He should defend himself from me because I believe that

he, I think I told you guys this, I don't think he knows how to read. Can't read. I was working on the MTV Awards with him. Not with him and I'm not with him he wasn't the right partner yeah against him basically we shared an office we were coming up with jokes for Tiffany Haddish uh no he was I'm gonna leave the rest to see you I gotta go um produce some records and go to nice dinners he was in a sketch and we had sort of divvied up like who's gonna go to talk different celebs

to a sketch and i was like hey dj uh so you're in this sketch and uh and he's like what i say and i'm like yeah yeah so here's the script and he's like what do i say i kept showing him the script like thinking he would point his eyes at it uh and sound out the words but never did asked me what he said and then i told him his line it goes when i say it i'm like okay well you say it after that actress says her line you say your line he's like great and he his eyes never hit the page in the way a reader would at least take a peek sure that might be a that might just kind of be like uh hey you do the work for me i'm i'm i'm the i'm a big guy here you do the work here it's a leah michelle a leah michelle situation

yeah i i've lost the thread on that one that's the glee lady funny girl and there's memes that she can't read mike i know but i don't know where we stand on that anymore. Can she read? Yeah, she can. Also, I bet a lot of great people can't read. Yes, some people can't read. But Khaled you can make fun of because he's silly. He's weird.

Yeah, he's a sack of shit. Oh, geez, Tim. Oh, what? Is that wrong to say now in 2023? Well, you can't say sack of shit. I can't say that some jag off is a sack of shit. Wow. Maybe we won't have him on the pod if you're going to act like that.

It is funny that you can say that. Like, that's, you know, there's what people can be like, oh, things, everyone gets so offended. Blah, blah, whatever. You can say it is funny. I could just be like, that guy's a jag off. He's a sack of shit. I don't like him. i don't like his music you can still say that that's pretty that's not assassination of character no it's all true he knows he's a sack of shit damn think of it i just i just think there's a lot of negative and he has turds inside of him we we don't we don't these are other musical artists we're musical artists you don't bring down you don't. We don't. These are other musical artists. We're musical artists. You don't bring down.

You don't put them down. That's true. I'll probably bumping into him at the AMAs. You ask me anything. Reddit awards. Well, is there any actual booze news? Are we just here to. Right.

Right. Right. I wanted to mention that. Okay. It's a Philadelphia episode. We're going to be talking about a philadelphia drink but first i we got big news out of philadelphia and we love philly because we've rocked philomoka we've rocked kung fu oh yeah several times the ruby yes um love the philly pod shows philly

fans philly shows are always fun yeah hard to buy beer sometimes keep going to we we test well our spotify analytics spike in philadelphia more than your average city yes and onto the pod we talk you know we we we when we were watching mayor of east town we're saying stop we were saying are they going to drink yinglings are they going to drink rolling rocks you know we thought we love viva labam uh that's the surrounding areas so we've got our eyeballs on philly and our good friend jackie who is a long time slop head who comes out to our shows in philadelphia she sent me this piece of news which is in la last night she was there right hell yeah dude yeah rita's italian ice you've had no i think so i've at least heard and seen sure there's one there's one up in the valley and all the philly people were very excited about it and on our show the birthday boys we had a

bunch of philly people working on staff because tim and eric went to temple and they're like philly guys so there's a lot of people over at abso that are philadelphia and i i just remember i in my 20s in la i met a lot of philly people being like rita's is the shit man we're gonna hope we get a rita's here soon you could get a italian ice or you could get it like spiraled up with soft serve like custard or something anyway rita's is coming out with their very first alcoholic beverage oh that's right oh they say they're quite psyched to finally share news that they're introducing a new line of fruit forward beers inspired by the flavors of a uh blah blah blah blah blah here's the beer guys blonde ale oh it's a mango block mango blonde

ale beer i don't like that it's mango i like their red cherry italian ice tim doesn't touch mango yeah oh there's too much mango shit we've discussed mango is delicious but mangoes overplayed philly it's played out mango's tough to cut yeah that's true well it's dropping uh right now you can get it in the philadelphia area and um i wish that they made a red one because i like the red italian ice when i go that's true but but this is like true beer beer this This isn't like seltzer. If they did seltzer, I would understand. But mango goes with these blonde ales. I get it.

Yeah, like what mango cart in LA, the Golden Road Mango Cart's pretty good. Ooh, that's a good one. That news is dope as fuck. So that was it. Philadelphia, the pride of Philly has stepped into the beer game, and I'm going to give it a try and I'm going to drink it

and think it. I got news on a global tech scale. Oh. You're widening the scope quite a bit. Yeah. Elon Musk is selling Tesla beers.

What? What do you think of that? They come in a three-pack Tesla beer. It's called Giga Beer, and it costs $98 for a three-pack. Oh, yeah, I'm looking at it. It's very fancy. It's supposed to look like the Tesla the tesla um trucks that they're

yeah they look like a big old crystal yeah but it's it's uh i guess celebrating the um gigafactory that they opened in berlin which was i think opened about a year ago if i'm reading this correctly but uh it's not the first alcohol that tesla's made they made a tesla tequila in 2020 and if you look that up that's got a really cool, it's like a lightning bolt shaped bottle. And that's out of stock now, it says on the website. But yep, Tesla Giga Beer. And it's a, I'm just reading off the website.

Tesla Giga Beer is designed to emulate the form of Cybertruck while honoring the 500-year-old tradition of German Rheinisch Geitbart brewmaking. Beer making. Perfect pronunciation. Guys, it's a three-pack of beer, and we're a three-piece rock band. I could honestly see someone buying this for us and giving it to us.

Oh, someone else. Yeah, crowdsourcing the expenditure. Yes, yes. It's a Pilsner, too, which I like. I like this being just a Pilsner beer in a $30 bottle. I don't see how big they are, though.

Oh, 330 milliliter bottles. Okay. That's pretty big. That's pretty big. Worth it. $30 a pop, bottles. Okay. That's pretty big. That's pretty big. Pretty big. Worth it. 30 bucks a pop, basically.

Yeah. Well, I got a little news. Yes. Who's news? Well, this is Hanford Gets Healthy Dutton Edition. Oh, nice. The gym is going swimmingly. At this rate, I'm happy to report all the projections say jacked by June.

Wow. Jacked by June? Hanford gets healthy, Dutton addition, jacked by June. Wow, I can't even, even Hanford gets healthy can't promise anything like that. This is just what they're saying. I thought you said you were going to jack off in June. This is just what people are saying. Hold on, Jack, did you hear what I said? Yes, I thought

it was funny. Okay, okay. I think it's disgusting. Now, when you say jacked, are we talking about you're going to have maybe a flat tummy and hard buns? Mm-hmm. Ooh. And don't forget curvy hips. What? Oh!

Oh! Flat tummy, Jeff, and curvy buns, but you're not doing the BBL, right? No, I'm saving up for the BBL but um this is more about uh hitting the gym and then we're gonna see about uh you know further augmentation are you lying down on the bench like with the bard like going yes yes that's so funny for some reason if any of us are at a gym doing that I just think that's a funny thing well I don't want any cameras peering in I just want to come out jacked by jew do you do you see people at the gym like doing uh gym selfies and taking pictures of yeah in fact a lot of people are like hey buddy

let me help you like you're doing it all wrong i get a lot of people kind of helping me with the form really the weights for you yeah like one or two of the people who work there like that's great buddy good to see you again uh you gotta straighten your back and then curve your hands in like this nice just regular but it helps the employees are just regular people who work there just civilians that's great people off the street looking in the window no no no it's it's like it's like a trainer dude who just floats oh um i'm impressed jeff i think it takes a lot of as as a guy who uh has never stepped inside of a gym other than to get a gold's membership just to use the parking and then come back six months later and quit um i i still it feels intimidating to just walk up to a machine

and just start doing it and to have all eyes on you wait Wait, you're on the machines, Jeff? I thought you were putting the 45 plates on the bar. I'm doing both, baby. That's a machine. Yeah, I do kind of a lot of machines. Because I don't know the machines, and I was intimidated by them. But I said, hey, let me get to know each one. You got to take the power back. Okay, this is great news.

Our Donatello, the group, is intimidated by the machines. This is not now tell me you're not just going in there get get doing all this work without a good plan as far as a uh a protein for your bro team m drive kind of lifestyle you're right you're right oh shit i forgot did we come up with that or is that something we came up with it and you if if you want to get yoked please don't tell me that you're not having protein jeff are you using the man tim you bring up a good point here i am putting in all this work and i'm walking into the gym unsupplemented unsponsored wow if you were sponsored at one point not getting the results that i need

i've been mixing i think trying i mean you guys heard my downfall of m drive used to sponsor this pod i got hooked on the stuff m drive then m drive stopped sponsoring this pod i kept drinking the stuff then i uh i tried to get some free product and they ghosted me and then i started buying m drive using my own promo code and then I hit rock bottom and my promo code expired and I started paying full price. But I DM'd them the other day and they're looking into my case. Oh yeah. Oh really?

I was tagging them in some Digman posts. Hey you know there's a Digman writer who drinks your protein. Tim when we were pushing M Drive I didn't think that there was going to be an aspect where it was tough to stop doing it. Well I didn't really that there was going to be an aspect where it was tough to stop doing it. Well, I didn't really think I would live long enough to have to deal with whether or not I was going to stop. You know, I thought my little heart would just burst from the testosterone.

Yeah. I always kind of thought I'd be in the 27 Club because I'm a rocker. Oh, right. Well, that's it for Booze News. Should we wrap it up please wrap it up that's it for booze news um well good very good jeff would you guys like to hear about the drink of the day yes yeah i would love that more than anything because we have another wonderful to drink of the day? Yes. Yeah. I would love that. More than anything. Because we have another wonderful spring drink from the IBA cocktail list. Wow.

Entitled, The Clover Club. You've had? No, I've been to, but never had. Never had, never heard. Mike, elaborate, because this is important. I've been to the Clover Bar, okay, in Brooklyn. I thought it was something else. Mike, elaborate because this is important. I've been to the Clover Bar, okay, in Brooklyn. I thought it was something else.

I admit it, okay. Where was the Trinidad Sour made? Yeah, yeah, the Clover Club in Brooklyn. I've been. That's you. That's right. You've been and you didn't drink a Clover Club, but you had a Trinidad Sour.

I had a Trinidad Sour and I went, we drank it outside. It was still kind of COVID-y, was the haps. And I did pop in to use the bathroom. It was a very nice interior, so I do want to go back. But when? I don't know. Was this with Neil Campbell and Fran Gillespie?

They may have had a big part to do. I think Fran, yes, we were out in New York, and Fran said, oh, I got a fun surprise for us to go to. We said, oh, where are we going? And then she took us there and we said, oh, Fran, thanks so much. Now, didn't you also do that with the Garbage Plate restaurant in Brooklyn? Yes. Fran's good at surprises. Ah, yes.

But remember, I had the Trinidad Sour there. First of all, the waitress was like, what's that? I was like, oh, my God, this is what you make it here. And then it wasn't as good as the one we made. Whoa. Don't tell Giuseppe. Yeah. Well, on the topic of Fran and surprises, on her birthday, I recently, she was staying at a hotel and I sent her a bottle of champagne.

And then I asked myself, does Fran drink champagne? Probably not. But it's still nice to receive a bottle of champagne on your birthday, no? Yeah, of course. She'll find something to do with it. Six ounce of Korbel is fine. Well, because she mainly eats pickles. I can't call room services and send some pickles to Fran's room.

Mainly. Okay, back on topic. Mike, yes, that bar is important in this history because there's a famous bartender currently julie reiner iconic famous bartender bar owner if you go if you're a cocktail head and you'll probably know her if you google her she'd look familiar but she's big part of the early 2000s cocktail boom in New York. Look at it up. I always see her in cocktail documentaries and she does events like in New

Orleans. They do tale of the cocktail. She's a fixture there. And most recently she was a judge on the Netflix series drink masters. Sure. And she has a bar in Brooklyn that Michael Hanfordael hanford has been to and i think that this drink she didn't invent it but it's an old forgotten classic pre-prohibition that she sort of repopularized um she made she was making it at her bar in the flatiron district in manhattan and then named when she was open up a place in brooklyn was like clover club that's a good the two c's is a good name and i'll make the flat iron lounge i'm looking this is a cool spot oh yeah um now if

you're thinking that flat out flat iron building is uh square i got another thing coming for you but on a serious note um drink masters there was a segment where julie like made her her signature drink and it was the clover club and she made it for all the contestants um so the backstory though flashback 100 years before that shit late 1800s early 1900s in philly there was a fancy men's social club that met at the bellevue stratford hotel we're talking writers we're talking oh yeah yates yeats yates yates and from yates to yates all the writers were there um they uh and the name of this club was the clover club and their signature drink that they liked to drink in this kind of oak paneled hotel bar was the clover club um and then from there it spread to manhattan became more popular uh then uh of course that history i just told you

was the debunked by davidrich, but that's the story. Let us have some fun, Wondrich. Either way, it kind of fell into obscurity during, you know, in the second half of the 20th century. And then it pops up in a couple of cocktail books. And then Julie says, that's my signature drink. And I just remember I one time saw like a youtube bartender so julie didn't invent she she can say it's her signature drink and have nothing to do with right because she's one of these people that's iconic new york like early 2000s like hey we care about old cocktails again

so she's putting thought into she's one of the people that ended the dark ages you know okay so she's shining a light she's using her platform to shine a light. Exactly. But she didn't, she didn't invent. No, she most certainly didn't invent. So I,

for a second, I'm thinking this is a contemporary classic, but maybe it's a. So wait, and what, and what does Wondrich say? Wondrich says, um,

that, that the dates didn't really add up with the Philadelphia hotel thing. And it's very likely that it was just invented in manhattan at the manhattan hotel um geez it's funny the history of of cocktails is always fuzzy because it's a history of something that affects your memory yeah exactly what i really like about this drink is this is similar to the bramble or something where it's like it's going to be a you know a gin sour with raspberry in it that sounds like i really it's funny to think of these like back room rich guys in a cigar lounge in philadelphia having a raspberry drink

it's yeah yeah yeah it doesn't really add up but but it might pack a wall up tim we don't know we haven't tried it yet yes and the only thing i ever knew about this drink uh was i just feel like i hear bartenders talking about the shaking like i saw one youtube bartender educated barfly i think it was uh he was like oh i shake until the cubes are totally gone and then i saw someone else saying i do a dry shake and someone else saying i do a whip shake but i do a reverse dry whatever people have some shaking opinions but the dry shake no noise he correct them under uh one cube at least well is it about not having one egg in there just one it's just one i think one the whip shake is one big shake wow five half okay it is an iba cocktail uh so we're gonna do what the iba says here julie's recipe varies i think she uses a little dry vermouth and makes

it more fancy and old-timey but iba has a straightforward recipe we're gonna do here which is 45 milliliters of gin that's an ounce and a half of gin reiner says you don't want to get carried away with the juniper here just a nice dry classic gin is perhaps a beef eater julie oh i like that i love that um 15 milliliters of raspberry syrup aka half an ounce raspberry syrup how'd you do on that one good i may have gotten strawberry syrup oh michael mike are you pouring some smuckers in that thing what are you doing no no no it's uh when i when we come back to talk about i'll show you what it is but it's like uh it was in the syrup aisle yeah i was looking for uh i was looking for torani the yeah the bottles that's and um i ended up getting stonewall kitchen you know the sort of

like fake um the fake farmhouse looking brand that you see everywhere oh yeah and it's like a big thick it looks very um it would look at home on a ice cream sundae not so much in a cocktail so i'm interested to see how now would you drizzle on top of a peach melba no sure but it would be i think it would be chunk chunked um what is a peach melba is that a it's like a flambéed peach uh dessert but i know it has raspberry syrup on top i don't know that i've ever eaten it but um i was i went to cap and cork and was surprised by my options there was um like they had small hand foods had a raspberry syrup and uh real that or real that brand we've used they do uh coconut i went with liquid alchemist because

it looked like oh very bartender friendly then i thought it said 7.99 the bottle guy rings me up i pay i'm walking out i was like it was 17.99 that sucks faded tag um but if you don't if you can't find raspberry syrup anywhere make your own google it like they say like uh you know just some fresh raspberries and simple syrup and just mash it up a little bit and let it sit no he's doing that the slop heads aren't doing that to him no yeah but that's kind of easy like simple syrup that you already have made and then a couple of strawberries muddled in i mean raspberries jesus right now all right and i got me doing okay 15 milliliters half an ounce of fresh lemon juice a few drops of egg white

yeah how do we do this i i a few drops we've had trouble with before yeah like do you just get a little bit of the one big glob uh is it a few drops one big glob i've tried to reach my fingers in there and pinch and but you don't want to overdo it because you're going to get an omelet like when you make a whiskey sour that's just fucking egg dime. That's going to be the first thing I put in so I can kind of I can gauge it. Ooh smart that's the Jack Schramm method

you put your less precious ingredients together first. He says you put the cheapest ingredient first but in this case I bet that the egg white probably cooks when it's that lemon juice and you don't want to wait too long to frap it up. Frap it up. That's the reason for all these

dry shakes and reverse whip shakes and all of them. Look, someone who wants to do something good, Google it, but here's our method. Pour all ingredients into cocktail shaker, shake well with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with fresh raspberries.

Razzleberries. Rasp. So we're up. We're not going on ice. See, I was going to maybe put a strawberries garnish, but I know the picture will be out there and people say, oh my God, he put... I know what I'm doing.

I know what I'm doing. I know the right ingredients. I know what I'm doing. He knows he I'm doing. I know the right ingredients. I know what I'm doing. He knows he's doing it wrong. But I'm not going to. I'm not going to. The fans have made any mistake I made. So they've bullied me too much that I can't even be myself anymore.

Well, I hope they're happy. Yeah, I really hope they're having a great time. Cyber bullied by your own fans. I'm starting to think they're not my fans too you detract well why don't we get these drinks started and um for those of you listening who aren't on a patreon listening to the ad free episode uh you can enjoy the ads oh that'll be good for them as women our life stages come with unique risk factors like when our estrogen levels drop during menopause causing the risk of heart disease to go up know your risks visit heartandstroke.ca and we're back with the new spring thing it's the clover club i think this looks great this

looks great yeah pittsburgh style beautiful oh you guys have a good nice big froth on there mine sort of died down yeah i feel like i got some uh cooked eggs happening here yeah i'm afraid i'm in uh denny's right now with my fucking egg i aired on the side of light egg but then i didn't want to throw away the rest i put the rest of the egg in a cup and put it in my fridge like i'll eat that for breakfast um let's do it this already smells like a sundae to me it's a little see how we're coming off the bramble it doesn't doesn't have sugar the raspberry syrup is doing all the heavy lifting yeah but syrup means sugar

I mean yeah yeah or there's no like sweet booze as well I have high hopes yes I think I'm gonna like this just each ingredient I said I love all these ingredients each ingredient better than the last mm-hmm oh I said, I love all these ingredients. Each ingredient better than the last. Sips?

Mm-hmm. Mm. Oh. Ooh. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. Man, I'm so glad we just had the bramble. And I also made like 12 bramble scents.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Because this is close, but different enough. Yeah, man. It's definitely in the same family. It's definitely the slophead's spring fling vibe. Take a bramble for your ramble.

Bring a Pim's cup on your bramble ramble. Yeah. Go on a bramble ramble with a Pim's cup and stop off at a bar for a clover club. Now, here's the thing. I already ate my garnishes because raspberries are so good. The best berry, submit no what straw my problem with blackberry you know i'm drinking a i'm drinking a strawberry over here you know i um meant to say this on bramble blackberry is the

worst for getting stuck in my teeth worse Worse than strawberry. Blackberry and raspberry, they get stuck in the deep little tiny pockets and they pack in and they hurt and I gotta go in and do the work to get them out as soon as possible. What is with that? They don't get stuck between teeth. They get stuck down in the pits. Like in a molar. In the back of a molar. And you think you just run your tongue over

it pops it out and you're it, but you gotta get in there with a flosser. You gotta be on the pointy side of a flosser. Tim? Take it out, you're it but you gotta make it worse you gotta be the pointy side of a flosser tim take it out tim do you not relate i got it happening right now i've got seeds all over the place man got one up my ass we got two gouging out my eyes oh this is a very good drink yeah it's really good and it's very spring-like it feels like you're back out there in the garden yet again it's a gin a gin sour with a little berry twist we're having a really good spring aren't we that's funny we saved all these drinks and we

were like we're saving all these drinks at the end of the iba that like we haven't heard of or seem too difficult and uh they're just lining up so well with the spring. Right. So you mean to tell me this is our third spring of the pod and we have all these great drinks lined up for the listeners? That's exactly what I'm trying to tell you, yeah. I'm already almost done with this thing. It's a gulp for me.

Well, you're a complete drunk. Whoops. Mike, you need help. It is tiny. Yeah, I made it to Specs and I ended up with a pitiful little puddle. Yeah, it was one of those things where I tipped the shaker upside down and it's just that

little stream that's trying to fight through all the... Oh, that's it? You're like spinning it around so it gets the... God, it fucking sucks. It sucks. I was losing my egg. It was kind of falling out of the shell and and I, last second, was like, what? I put through it just in the sink so it didn't hit the floor.

And it went down. I had my stopper out, and it went down the sink drain. Yeah. And it just seemed odd to me. An egg going down a drain seemed funny to me. Yeah. It doesn't seem, it's kind of liquidy so it could fit But it just was like That's weird

Never seen that before Hope to never see it again Now so when I got my egg I had to stop at the grocery store to get 12 eggs Cost me $10 With egg prices these days And I made myself An omelette for

Dinner you know I did breakfast for dinner And I made myself an omelet for dinner. I did breakfast for dinner. And I put on, for those of you who listened to the last blowout we did, we did the hot sauces. I put the Los Calientos Rojo. I think it was the second highest one. Nice. It was really, it was very hot when you just do it kind of by itself,

but mixing it in with something, it was much, much better. Dude, I did the Apolloollo which was the second hottest third and and i put it in some grocery store pad thai that i bought because i wasn't convinced that it had would have the flavor right oh that's good so i put in just like a dash and you better believe it's spread across like a giant uh pot of noodles you know this is like four servings of course you eat it to the dome but uh they listed as four servings one little dash of that apollo eat it to the dome and also folks if you don't know what we're talking about it's because you don't sub to the patreon it's only five bucks and you get to listen to our hot ones episode. Sorry, our warm singulars episode.

Yes, yes. Yes, yes, of course. I'll admit that since we recorded that warm singulars episode, I have busted out my sauces on my own. On the daily? Two different nights eating chicken wings, and I did the whole escalator. I didn't do the hottest sauce, the bomb, because that's the the one that hurt me i can't imagine what i'm gonna do pure punishment

sadism no i it's like a parlor trick you keep it around when you start to like dare somebody but i did the other three sauces and last dab is hot as fuck so it still gives you that the fun of sweating but it's so fun to creep up the steps of heat i imagine if i was very drunk i could probably eat the dab uh in an adult state you know the dab the the of the hottest one yeah the apollo one i bet you i could really munch that thing if i was uh really blotto wait was apollo the hottest one no that's the bomb that's right that's that's basically not enjoyable it's like it's pure punishment i was talking to my brother about those sauces and he knew the bomb from before hot it's been it's been around i've seen that thing to bomb.com

i want to talk more about this versus bramble sure because i am liking it but the bramble you're getting the berry flavor in a liqueur refresh the audience with the brand what's in the bramble it's very similar thing but instead of raspberry syrup it would be creme de more black gin lemon juice creme de more or sham shambord equal parts of all those um no i don't know so maybe equal parts was in the pims cup it was the other one that was right around there angel face angel face uh it was very similar to uh the the look at these measurements in fact but having the berry reside in the syrup instead of a liqueur this is a sweeter uh, wouldn't you say?

It's sweeter, but it's also brighter. It's like ginier. Right. And I heard that Plymouth is commonly used in this, but for the gin. Angel Face was equal parts, but you're right. Yes, okay. What's the Bramble? Gin

50ml, Lemon Juice 25ml Simple Syrup 12.5ml and Creme de Moure 15ml Simple Syrup, I forgot about that part similar thing all around but I think the he's got a...

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Yee-haw. Yee-haw. Yee-haw. Yee-haw. Yee-haw. okay what i was gonna say nice um was that uh this is a brighter more lively drink because some slop heads might make it with fresh raspberries and simple syrup we used syrups we bought but even so that the blackberry liqueur is a very dark morose seductive. So this is even more springy to me. Sure. Look, this is fine, but it tastes

like an ice cream topping. It's wonderful. What I'm going to do for the next run... Oh, sorry. Go ahead. I'm getting ahead of myself. I know what I'm going to do for the next run is I just looked on punchdrink.com, which is a hip cocktail blog that jack shram sometimes writes nice sure they have julie reiner's recipe and it's the same as our

recipe plus a half ounce of dry vermouth and she says that makes it taste very pre prohibition she says use dolan dry vermouth and i have dolan dry vermouth so i'm gonna for round two do that so wait how much are you every month is not the red from just a half ounce okay just a tiny bit i'm gonna do that same still you do the egg you do all the other stuff exactly the same i'm doing everything except the egg i'm not gonna do egg in this one i don't really like i don't like the egg mike you don't want that heft i don't think I was putting enough in there I don't want to put enough in there

I don't think you were put on this earth for that froth I was recently at the drawing room iconically divey bar in LA and I ordered a whiskey sour as I often do and the bartender was a cool guy and he was like whiskey sour

yeah yeah yeah you know it's going to be whiskey and sour mix right and I was like guy and he was like wishy sour yeah yeah yeah um you know it's gonna be whiskey and sour mix right i was like yeah and he's like okay i just didn't want you expecting to i'm gonna i don't have any eggs like uh you know buddy i wouldn't trust an egg at the drawing room anyway it's like fully just like moe's tavern and i was there like in the morning are they back when did the idea that I would expect a fancy drink. When did you go? Like just randomly the other day I was walking by and I said, I'll pop in for a drink in the morning. Damn, because they were shut down for a bit

because somebody found Coke there. Oh yeah, I think, yeah. So the city shut them down for 20 days. And they have a deal with Pepsi, I get that. Hey, can I say a quick thing? Wait, wait, wait. No, I'm not going there. Yeah.

I want to say something about gin. I went to Topline Liquor out here. Glendale? Topline Wine and Spirits or Wine and Liquor. This is a great place. It's a very industrial looking store. You kind of like pull up and they got it like a, you know, roll-up gate and you go in there and then the people they're very helpful and i told her i was i said like i'm looking for a gin she points me to a whole wall of gin and of course i start to feel a little insecure she says what do you normally do and i

go hendrix or tangare and she was like okay cool so like like what's your like normal gin like your normal like cocktail gin and i didn't have an answer so she points me to ford's have you heard of ford's gin no it's like not as junipery perfumey and she said this one is preferred by like bartenders or like developed by bartenders for mixing so i'm glad tim in your intro when you said you know you don't need all the fucking juniper botanical flavor. Oh, interesting bottle on Ford's gin. Yeah. Got kind of like a rib around it.

Oh, for my pleasure. All right. Stop. Proper talk. Mm hmm. All right. Well, why don't we go make a round two? I'm going to add some Dolan.

I'm adding some Dolan as well. How much the dolan a half ounce half ounce just a halfer okay half ounce any any opportunity to get through dry vermouth because i buy it for my martinis and i can't fucking get through a bottle yeah no no i know i i feel like my vermouth is old so it's gonna taint the drink but i'll give it a whirl. Sure. All right, folks. Why don't you go prep around, too, like your host, and we'll see you right after this. Nice. Rock and roll. And we're back with Prohibition Era Clover Clubs.

I did a little better on the egg this time. I did like a teaspoon and I got the nice froth. Damn, yours looks dark red. A distinct froth. Can I tell you guys I added a little something that I just realized I had in my fridge? What? A couple of these guys.

Basil? Mint? Mint. A little slapped, slapped three things of mint. A hand for test kitchen. I think it's going to be good because a berry and a mint is not so bad.

Here I go. Tim, you're not sipping. I'm sipping. Ooh, that's very good. Yeah. This is, I think okay the dolan did make it taste fancy like honestly i never would never would have thought i'd be like i prefer the one with a little vermouth in it i know vermouth is like i i always say you know verboten stay away no no it makes it a little more balanced it separates it from differentiates it from the bram no no it makes it a little more balanced it separates it from differentiates it from the bramble and just makes a little more pre-prohibition

pre-pro not pre-production those are all the tv heads in the listeners oh pre-pro oh pre-pro we're in pre-pro no no i can't taste the mint. Maybe I should have shaken. Do people, when we use mint, put it in there and shake with it? Well, James Bond would definitely enjoy that type of method. James Bond, indeed. We used mint for the Pimms cup last week, right? Yeah, all I did was slap it. I slapped it and I put it right up top.

I perched it just so. You give it a little spank and it activates it. In a drink without ice, it kind of just floats on the top and gets in the way of your sips. In a drink without ice. I like this. I'm surprised by this fancy twang. Very good.

Very good. The initial taste, they do hit you with the gin, huh? Yeah. There's a gin lemon initial. This is more complex, more balanced. Really good. Damn.

Very good. Fancy. And the egg and the vermouth make me feel like I'm really taking a trip here. That feels old timey. I could imagine these old rich guys in Philly hidden back in a mahogany room saying, no. Hey, do you want a clover club? No. No. No. No. room saying no hey do you want a clover club no no no no no so instead of watch the flyers game i was gonna say instead of instead of easter wine you could have a clover club instead of

communion one but that's already that you gotta that's already passed you gotta do it next year yeah you gotta do it we gotta wait for next year this is a funny drink thinking of people and you know drinking this with like cigars and stuff this doesn't seem to mix well with a cigar. You know what I mean? What does? I mean, we're cigar guys. We know. We smoked cigars that one time.

Stogies, and we became stogie guys. Stogie. In preparation for this pod, I listened to an interview with Julie Reiner on Cocktail College. Enough about you and Julie Reiner. get a fucking room dude stop i'm not gonna get a room with her i won't yes you will she made an interesting point what she said clover clubs all these fancy cocktails they're very fun to make at a bar order at a bar but when it came time to talk about what she makes for herself at home sure when the chips are down yeah three classic cocktails all very simple you got any guesses what they were old

fashion very good guess but nope fuck wait what do you mean when the chips are down like when she's feeling down no no no just when she's at home by herself, here's what she makes for herself. Oh, okay. She's not making a Clover Club. That's your only hint. I got you. Boosh. But I'm going to say a Tom Collins. Martini?

Okay. She said spring, summer, she has a martini. Then fall, winter, she has a Manhattan. Ah. And then she also has a Negroni, which I would imagine is more of an afternoon eat. Those are good home cocktails, and I make those for myself.

And they're straightforward. You're not going to be muddling raspberries when you're at home alone. No. No. When you're home alone? No. When you're home alone, you're going to be tying paint cans to the stairwell ceiling. Yeah, because the wet bandits are coming. That's the way you do it.

That's how you do. A good host Jeff would know that's where you go out. That's our show. Follow us on social media. Wait, wait, wait. I know. We'll not go out, but get out of this segment. You led me astray. No, I didn't.

You're the host of this show. Mike, you know I've been drinking. Yeah, you had too many of these brambles. No, clover. You've been drinking? You think it's a bramble. These brambles are good. Alright, final thoughts. Wind it down. Let's land this motherfucker. Or again, this is great.

Order again, this is great. And make again at home. Oh. I'll say I'll order again this is great and make again at home oh yeah um i'll say i'll order it i'll order again but it's no bramble folks come on it's no bramble i like a bramble better i made a i made a bramble for probably uh everybody within earshot after we did the bramble episode my shambord is gone you there i seriously i made i made brambles for about 12 or 14 people wow and did they like them there it's a hit i love this it's great okay maybe i like the bramble better because i like that creme de more but i also love

this and folks do it with a little half ounce of dolan yeah i would have thought never would have thought that that would um plus it up a little bit it does the old vermouth goose yeah yeah dude that's our show follow us on social media at the sloppy boys where we release these recipes ahead of time and like like we say, you gotta go to patreon.com slash the sloppy boys. You're not getting the full experience, folks. You want us to finish you off, don't you? Nasty man.

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We thrive on your energy we love what you do and we love to do it for you so let's keep on doing it same time same place next week rise and grind m drive hashtag m drive keep it alive m drive reach out to me i'm trying to get more ripped and jeff's going to the gym i'm sitting around drinking protein let's see who gets more ripped yeah jack by june all right bye boys