The Sloppy Boys - 283. Gin Basil Smash

Episode Date: March 20, 2026

The guys pick fresh spring herbs straight from the LLC garden for this refresher created in Hamburg in 2008.GIN BASIL SMASH RECIPE: 2oz/60ml LONDON DRY GIN.33oz/10ml LEMON JUICE .33oz/10ml SIMPLE SYRUP 10 BASIL LEAVES Add ingredients into a shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.Recipe via The International Bartenders AssociationWANT MORE SLOP? Check out:PatreonSHOP the webstore at:The Sloppy Boys WebsiteLISTEN to The Sloppy Boys hit songs on:Apple MusicSpotifyYoutubeTOUR DATES, SOCIALS and more at:LinktreeT H E   S L O P P Y   B O Y S   L L CExpand Ascend Conquer Retain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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What a weird thing for me now that I know there's, like, here I'm living my life in February. everything's great. Yeah. The next month I'm going to live in is a whole bad month for me. It's just life will be a negative. It'll be bad. But it is exciting for me,

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Tickets on sale now. 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. Hello. And Tim Kalpacchis. What is up? Oh, we're your host, The Sloppy Boys. The Sloppy Boys.

Culture starts here. Ooh. Still working. It certainly is. Hey, you know what it is part of the culture that we promote is the study of birds. What would you call that? Anyway. Birding.

Or anthology? A birding. I saw, I was, I was jogging today. Beautiful day outside. 60 degrees. Spring is springing. And I'm walking by and this lady on the sidewalk was like, come, come on this side of the sidewalk. I was like, huh?

And she said, sorry, there's a, there's a hurt hawk right there. And there was on the sidewalk, this hawk that was like, you're a hawk. Yeah. I think she said injured. I said, he's hurt. And there was this hawk. it was huge. And I was like looking at it for a little bit and then I kept going. But like a cop was there. They were trying to figure out like what, who to call to get this thing figured out.

They called you. Huge. This hawk. Well, they called me, but I ran away. They called. Yeah. What did you snap into action or what? I kept running. I said, yeah, yeah, I'll help. I think I have a burden at a couple blocks away. Mike, were you there back when we lived at the Monty? When, when, um, when Pam texted me. help there's a dead duck out front yes a duck yes why is she texting me first of all i'm not animal control no animal expert and uh and i was like uh i'll be right there because it sounded like she needed my help right then so i grabbed a trash bag oh and sure enough like a big piece of dog like a like you would pick up a dog turd i put my whole arm in a hefty bag and i pick up a hefty bag and i picked up a duck that I guess was like bitten or like attacked by a dog

attacked by a coyote or something like droned onto like the front lawn and I threw it in the dumpster I'm not the dead duck guy if you see a dead duck no you didn't oh no you didn't um I get what you're saying I had a dumb idiot bozo neighbor who one time texted like a group chat of neighbors and was like, hey, heads up, watch up for coyotes. They got this cat and texted a picture of a half-eaten dead cat. Oh, that's a thread, man. On the chat, it was a day ruiner.

And it's like, buddy, your text spoke volumes, the text, the text of your text. He's one of these idiots that was like, oh, the picture's pretty nasty too, right? Is that like a next door type thing? Or was it truly just a text chain of neighbors? Text chain of neighbors. But no, if you would know it was next door a citizen because then there would be... Text chain of neighbors. There's something there.

I don't think there is. It's a text chain of neighbors. Yeah, I think Jeff, it's more of a sprawling. We love the world type of... That's good. Text chain of neighbors. Oh, yeah, run on empty. Text chain of neighbors.

You think that's where you got it? Emails with friends. Emails with friends. No, you wouldn't know it's a community app if I had said like, oh, there was a picture of the cat and then a thousand comments saying, it's not the coyote's fault. It's the, our city's fault. Yeah, well, our city would be better if you would have voted this way and that way. This, this, this, this. You chime on.

I think it's that damn mouse who makes himself look so delicious out there. He's running around. I guess it's the cat that got killed Well he looks so delicious to the dog No you mean that that mouse down in Anaheim Mickey Mickey No the mouse gets the dog to attack the cat

Haven't you seen a cartoon That's what I'm thinking Maybe I'm thinking there's a mouse Who's friendly with a dog Um Now you're talking um Well shit Horks and dead ducks and cats

All of these are sort of outdoor activities, Mike, you hit it on the head when you said that spring has sprung. You were going for jog. This is here on the pot, it's bramble ramble season. Bramble ramble season, folks. Is that on the calendar? The splash of crem to war. Wow.

I didn't, is that on our internal calendar? I didn't know it was bramble season. It's bramble ramble season. Go for a walk with an unmarked cup. Po, po, no, no, baby. Oh, I am seeing it on the sheet. Yes, Popo, no, baby. everyone out with their brambles.

Now, I was on a jog, though. So we need to figure out something for a jog ramble, like a joggle-roggle. But it's about something you can be drinking. Well, I guess you shouldn't be drinking alcohol while you're running. Well, we're like a camelback. Rumbleback.

Or is there a drink that starts with J? Something jog. Rambleback. Junglebird jog. Junglebird jog. Jeff, ramble back. You're so preoccupied with jungle bird dog that you're missing. Ramblepack.

Sorry. I blew right past. Ramble. Ramble back. Ramble back. Ramble pack? Ramble back. Bramble.

It's part of the, part of the camelback. Bramble back. Community. Oh yeah. I said it wrong too. Sorry. Bramble back.

I'm going to order myself one of those camel back things in jogging. Bramble back. Bramble back. Okay. Now wait, though. Part of the Avalon. Jeff, I need to follow up with you that, along with spring having sprung.

As everyone knows, the Sloppy Boys Band, our spring concert series starts today in Los Angeles. Oh, nice. And then we're going to be hitting Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Knoxville, Nashville, and one other spring-like activity that's going to accompany us all the way is, Jeff, last pod, you were supposed to give us an update about your deviled ham. Right, well I think we should pivot to a little bit of booze. Oh shit. Oh, do I hit it? Bibbip hit it. I'm Team Heathcliff.

Big giant $60 ham. And team Heathcliff. I get a ham steak and some mashed potato. And team Heathcliff. And I was eaten through a spiral ham. And team Heathcliff. But I was having ham steak. having ham snakes for breakfast every day.

And team Heathcliff. An enormous ham. And team Heathcliff. I was glazing the ham in other ways, but... You made your point, ham. Sad. And team Heathcliff. Some radio head shit.

Heathcliff ham was sent to us by Dan Padley, aka Paddles. And if you have a booze news theme email to the sloppy boys podcast at gmail.com. Paddles. That's great. Paddles. We can't wait to see on the road, we hope. Paddle. Paddle. Paddle.

That was good. That was a nice vapor wave sound. You're right. It was a radio headish. Radio headish. Kiddish. All right. Well, folks, this is Booz News.

And now here's a segment we like to call Dutton's Delights. It's time for Dutton's Delights. Hey folks, welcome to Dutton's Delights. Last week, I expressed dismay that I didn't follow up on the devil to ham versus ham salad debacle. And I'd like to rectify it this week. This is the ham report. Hey, folks, welcome to the Ham Time Ham Report, where we pick up the pig. Damn.

Okay, so we are within Dutton's Delights and it's Ham Time within. This is a special. We're going to have a lot of wrapping up to do at the end of this with all this says. It's a thread within a segment. You see? You see. Deviled ham. Ham salad.

Which of these did I enjoy as a kid, if any? I needed to do some digging. So I texted my mom. Which hams do I like? I forget how deep I went into this last time we talked about it. So I'm just giving you the whole hog. Lay it out for us all. We have an hour to kill.

Ooh, this is, we should do extended versions of the, what's this called? The ham round, or the ham talk? The ham report. The ham report. You should do an extended ham report for the paypigs. Oh, that's good. Brought to you by paypigs. All right.

I texted my mom. When grandma made deviled ham sandwiches, was it just this stuff on bread or did she do something to it? And I sent her, you know, the picture, the white can of, deviled ham that you see with a devil on it. Yeah, I've never bought that before, but they always look so cool like that the can that's just like half, it's like a third of a size of a can. It's cool looking. I've never even seen that can.

It's not looking hard enough. It's right there next to the... It's a lesson. It's like to the tuna. Marmufflies. I ate deviled ham growing up with mustard, but you're talking about her ham salad sandwiches. It was ground up ham with celery and mayonnaise, similar

to chicken salad sandwiches, but she made them with ground up ham. Every 10 years, I buy a can of the deviled ham. Mustard cuts the saltiness. It's a memory lane thing, not a health food thing. It's a memory lane thing. It's a memory lane thing. So you hadn't had deviled ham. You'd only had ham salad.

This is what I'm trying to determine. Yeah, I've probably had both, but I need to refresh, right? So I go to the grocery store. I didn't know, Tim, when he mentioned, you know, deviled ham just off the back of, you know, tossed it off. I didn't realize what was happening in his head and his heart with all this. This is big. He's going way back.

You guys were only seeing the tip of the iceberg. Yeah, we were just like, ha ha, ha, at Teffled Ham, we'll never think of this again. So I go to the grocery store. And right next to that tuna and other canned meats, chicken, did you know you can get chicken in a tuna can? It's chicken of the sea tuna. No, no. Chicken. Chicken of the land.

Tuna of the land. Tuna of the land. Chicken. I picked one up, and here's how it went. All right, folks, I have in my hand here, Underwood Premium Quality Deviled Ham Spread. It's the one you're thinking. It's the white little tuna can with a red devil logo on. The one you're thinking.

I've cracked the lid, and I will say it looks fairly disgusting. There's a fat spot on top. I'm probably going to scrape off. I'm not a cat owner, but I would think this looks somewhat like pink cat food. First bite, gotta say it's pretty good. I was all thrown off by

how tough it was to get it all out of the jar. Very crumbly for pink goo. Here I am on sourdough. With just a yellow mustard, I'm chomping it. I'm gonna make it through here just fine. If you haven't had it, it's the pink goo that's new to you.

Double-hand. I give it a six out of ten. That wraps up the hand report, Tim, back to you. Well, thanks, Jeff. I have some follow-up questions. Is that allowed? Yeah, sure. We could open back up the ham report.

We're back in? We're in. We're in. I wanted to ask my questions outside of the report. Who was that at the end? That's my first question. You went, hey. I don't know.

Was that little sniz? or for those two guys. It might have been a pig saying like, hey, oh, I think it was that. I'll talk about it. We'll talk about that. You know, you're closer to the song that we are probably. Tim, your question, please.

I wanted to ask you a question when I was on my turf in boo's news, but now that we're back inside the ham report, I'm like kind of thrown off a little bit, I feel like a guest in your house, you know? I'll ask you this. You said it was a goo, and then you say it was surprisingly crumbly. can't really, uh, this is, is it tuna fit canned tuna fish type? Because when you said canned ham,

I'm thinking spam, salty, spam like spam, but no. Yeah, what's like holding it together and there's a water or oil or what? What's giving it to wetness? It's a sticky, coarse sand. A sticky coarse sand. Uh, see, sand. I think I'm going to stick with my ham salads. That's good. I know it. You've had ham salad? You, you know, you know, you. You know, you had it? I grew up with ham salad and it's the same thing. It's just like ground up and or your mom described ground up with mayonnaise. Now I don't have a grinder. I just cut it up chop it up real fine. Yeah it's the same thing. Muddle. Muddle it. Dan, well stay tuned next week folks for

ham salad sandwich. I'm like joining you on that one. I'm due for a ham salad sandwich. I'm a I'm due for a ham salad sandwich If you know Samu salad sandwiches all around That'd be great Hey shit Maybe we all come in with our own reports

Next time fuck Fuck Let me talk It's gonna be one of these weird Kind of changes of course Where it's like You know that cocktail podcast It's all about ham

Like the three guys Bring in their three different hams every week Yeah Well there was this one episode You know boo's news Of course we know booze news Well one part of boo's news Was the ham report

They went off in the ham From here on now Now was the ham report part of Dutton's Delights or was it just out there in the middle of Boo's News? No, it was within Dunstallights, yeah. Yes, which I guess we're still involved in now. Technically right now, yeah.

We're incepted in here, Jeff. Get us out. No, no, we're out. We can pivot now to Booz News. I said back to you, Tim, that sort of covers it. Jeff, that was wonderful booze news. That I think that I've caught up to date and I feel as I've said ham to me is sort of an Easter food. So it has

you've quenched my thirst for some the tastes of spring. Oh wow. Okay great. These are coming up. Oh, listen to this. You know those Tony's Chocolonies chocolate bars? Yes. They got the big, they're big, and they have

like the paper wrapper and they just have a big chunky looking. They're really cool looking. I bought myself some Tony's Chocolonies assorted chocolate Easter eggs. Oh, they're getting into eggs. They're getting into eggs. They've gotten in the eggs. They're probably going to get out of eggs. They're doing so well.

They're going to do a pump and dump with the eggs into those things. But it's great because it's these good chocolates, but you know, the milk chocolate, then they got the salty one and then they got the one with the little crunches in it. It's very, very good. I'm going to have one after the pod. I got them in the freezer right now.

Speaking of chocolates and chocolatey treats, here's an interesting thing that happened to me recently was, you know, I'm kind of famous around this podcast for having never bought a candy bar. Right. Well, yes, you've never purchased a candy bar in your life. I can't believe it. Well, you had to do it for work. Right. For work, sure. And this is not about me not liking them. I'm

absolutely a little piggy and I absolutely gorge myself on candy. It's not about that. I'm just saying that an adult is a self-respect thing. Yeah. When you're checking out at the drug store, you don't buy a candy bar. You're grown up. You don't drink Sprite. You don't buy candy bars. are the rules of adulthood. I'm writing like a Jordan Peterson type of book about being a man, you know? Yeah, okay. Well, you need to rewrite that chapter about the Sprite. If Sprite came out with a hard sprite or a caffeinated spright or a hydrating sprite,

then we'll talk. Fine. He's got you. All right. I don't need to. You know what? We don't need to talk. I don't need to have this conversation.

Can we have the conversation I wanted to have? Yes, but once I find a hard sprite, I'm not going to look for water. That's just, I'm not going to fucking deal with that. I'm done. I'm done with the Sprite. I'm starting trying to convince you that Sprite rules the school. That would be weird if you found there was a heart spread and you found it and you didn't tell me about it. I don't want to give Tim the status. I never would.

No. So it's made a lot of the listeners mad me kind of showboating about the fact that I've never bought a candy bar. And I love them and I eat bite size one around, ones around Halloween. If I work on a job and there's candy bars in the break room, if I'm at somebody's house, absolutely. but I have never bought one. Then. Ooh. Okay, I have a follow-up question, but continue.

Recently on the pod, we were talking about Dubai chocolate with the pistachio filling. And I said, yeah, you know, I saw one in Albertsons. I bought it. I ate it and I kind of, yeah, it tastes like chocolate with a pistachio inside. I didn't even do the math on that I had bought that is a candy bar that I bought. And then somebody in the comment said, sounds like Tim bought a candy bar. I said, what the fuck? My first big candy bar I ever bought in my life at 42 years old.

about a Dubai pistachio chocolate bar. Oh, Tim, you, Tim likes to be part of a cultural moment. I guess. I think there's other stuff. The bigger stuff happening in the cultures these days, I think, but sure.

And that was sort of six months ago, anyway. I wasn't really impressed with it, said I'm probably not going to have another one. Ooh, another thing, another, another sweetie. This is not a candy bar,

but how do you guys feel about about Girl Scout cookies? Very positive. I was bragging that I recently bought one of every flavor brought them to a little kids party on pod. Did we talk about this on pod? You know the lines of off pod on pod? They're all blurred at this point. It's tough because we have so many hangouts like with our on here, but also with the band. I talk to Jeff all the time on Fortnite. It's just who knows where it stops and ends. But I think I, yeah.

Maybe we stop the band or, mm-mm. Stop one of them. It's either the band or the podcast. Folks, hashtag Vegas. Yes or no? We either stop our band that has a tour booked or we stop playing Fortnite. Which should it be? Which should it be? No, no, no. I don't think Fortnite's getting the way of anything. I wish I didn't say that. Oh.

Now I feel like I got a target on my back, Tim. I got a target on my back, which is something which in Fortnite I would also hate. You'd think we're used to it by now, but no. Not just yet. Going back to the candy thing and the Dubai, I want to go to this place. I think it's in Glendale. It's the, um, it's the, the, the really hot, it's the coffee that's made in the really hot sand. They like heat up that, uh, that little cup thing,

that little copper. It's not a cova. Hmm, I don't know what the name of the place is, but it's, it's like one of these places where you take the little, uh, copper kettle thing, and they move it around in the sand and all of a sudden it starts heating up. Mike, you've been making yourself French press coffee. Now you're talking about this clay pot thing. You're a Java junkie, man. I'm a Java junkie. I'm back, baby. I'm down.

That sounds great. Let's go. Yeah, let me look into it. I thought just saying the hot sand thing you guys would have known, but I'll look into it. I'm not really plugged into the coffee. I mean, I'm an espresso guy. Sure. That's for, and I get espresso's at all of all the finest shops in L.A.,

but I've never gotten to that sand. Whether it's sandy ham or sandy cafe. What about Sandy Kofax? Hey, he was a hell of a ball player. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. All right, is that it for booze news? Wrap it up.

Rub it up. You know what? That just talking about Sandy Kofok, cofax made me think, when does the MLB season start? End of March. Oh, God. Oh, it's in spring training, Jeff.

March 25th. I don't think Slopheads are into that. They're into X-Men, man. X month. All the blowout all March long. I don't care about Sandy Kofax. We had some good things to say about the latest X-Men first class. It's all I'll admit.

It's been an interesting month over there. I'm learning a lot at patreon.com slash the sloppy boys. Subscribe to the blowout for X month. Sneaked. X. All right. Who's got the drink of the day? Me.

The main event here on Pod. Um, well, there's a lot of drinks here on the pot here on the show. Uh, but today we're talking about the gin basil smash, aka the gin pesto you've had. Never. No. You've heard. Never. No.

Well, this is a really, really good one, uh, that fits right in with our springtime vibe just perfectly. Very interesting drink, quite notable indeed. Uh, now, we know what a sour is, right? sour when it comes to cocktails is liquor, something sweet, and citrus. A smash is liquor, something sweet, citrus, and an herb.

Oh! Historically that herb would be mint. A bitter herb. It doesn't always have to be mint. Oftentimes it is. But anyway, the tale of

the gin-basis smash begins in the mid 2000s. The mid-a-t. So we're new to L.A. Computer noise. Yes, we're new to L.A. The Birthday Boys

Sketch Comedy Group is revolutionizing the alt comedy scene out on the West Coast. Indy Sleez is at the top of the charts. Everyone's talking about that new Timmy St. Rock album, a night flight fantastic. Ooh, yeah.

But, you know, similar to Indy in all comedy, there's also a craft cocktail boom going on. Is there not? Yes. Oh, yeah, because I'm madman, right? Yeah. Now, it's centered mainly in lower Manhattan, but spreading everywhere, aided by much like music and comedy. You guys just said the same thing four times in a row.

Hold on it's my second turn to say it. it's just so funny with the lag for you to stop Tim and just so we can be like he but it's because it's let it's just a second later it's like oh my shit I he should have stopped for that well it's too late now well it's also I mean I like I like is it a joke is that is that voice a reference is it is that an impression of someone no is it a reference something oh no it's just they're just saying it again there they go just say it again and now I'm talking about the thinking about the thing I'm supposed to be talking

about it. I'm stopping now. Now I'm forcing them to listen to the drink that they don't give a fuck. No, we do. We should have this. It should be, oh, yeah, pod. And then for 90 minutes a week, we say, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We also a whole song called Oh, yeah.

We've got it out of our system. Tim, we want to hear about the gin basil smash. Should we end this episode with, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I like that idea. That's pretty good. So the cocktail boom was mainly in lower Manhattan, but it spreads everywhere.

And it's similar to what I'm saying, the indie rock and the alt comedy stuff is that there's hipster scenes going on, but there's also a brand new blogosphere that's spreading it all around the club. Wow, yeah. So out in Hamburg, Germany, there's a young guy

named Jorg Meyer who opens up a hip little windowless cocktail bar called Leone. And when he first opens the bar, it's like a hip new opening, so it makes a big splash. It's winter like 2007 going in 2008.

It's like, hey, there's a hot new spot. Everybody loves it. But then as the months go on, that kind of, it levels, business levels off a little bit. They're no longer the new kid in town. And then the warm weather is coming. And Yorg says, I don't need to come up with a new drink. A nice spring, summery, botanical taste.

A Yorg drink. Your also, by the way, York is all over YouTube. If you want to watch Yorg make this thing, you've got plenty of options. How do you spell in Yorg? J-O-R-J. Ah, Y-R-G.

J-O-R-G. Meyer. But so he wants to make a new drink and he thinks back to his time. He was recently on, it took some trips to New York to drink at these hip other bars and he was like at places like the Pagu club and that type of thing. And he's like, all those New York guys are making

smashes. Now they make it the whiskey smash, which is whiskey sugar lemon mint. A lot like a mint julep, but a little juicier with the proportion. Okay. And as you may know, the whiskey smash was an old drink from the 1800s, and it was in the Jerry Thomas guy and stuff way back then, but it was sort of revived by our good friend legendary bartender Dale DeGroff. And after he started re-popularizing in New York City, all the little hipster bartenders around Brooklyn and the East Village were making smashes.

So much so did it even influence York to have a gin smash? on his menu when he opened Luleon in Hamburg. Anyway, cut two. Springs coming. He needs a new drink. He says, okay, I just made a French girl who uses basil in some of her drinks. That's interesting.

My friend's restaurant has a bunch of leftover extra surplus basil in their cooler. I already have a gin smash on my menu that uses mint, but how about I make a gin basil smash? Hmm.

So, one, One day at the bar, he shakes them up. They turn bright green and the local, the regulars are like, hey, love the color. They drink it, but they love the taste. But they don't like his name, the gin pesto. So he. They don't like his name, George. He changed his name to George.

Basil is used to make pesto. So that's the taste we're talking about here. Yeah, right. So he calls it the gin basil smash. it becomes a hit at the bar. Then that summer, he puts it on a cocktail blog and it blows up, comes to America, and everybody's making it.

That year they go to Tales of the Cocktail, the bartenders convention in New Orleans, win the big award for Best New Opening, his bar. So now it's really big, but here's the real picker with this drink. After all the buzz, York is friends with a couple of guys who are brand ambassadors for like Hendricks and Tangeray gin.

and because his new drink is buzzy but it's really easy these guys are like hey we travel the world doing like tutorials where we're like teaching bartenders out of make drinks with our gin we're going to add your easy new drink to our repertoire um so they start doing that these guys like do like are in like traveling like 200 days a year just like spreading the word of the gin basil smash and then it's now it's a global hit but a year after the sloppy bowl podcast finishes making all the drinks on the international bartenders association cocktail list. Oh, no, no. The gym smash is finally added to the IBA list. So we're back on the list. We're back on the list. We said that we never go back. And the website is beautiful.

And they've got a bunch of new drinks that we have not made ever since we ditched them. I just, I was just looking at it. And I just clicked on to the nice, very nice, uh, IBA YouTube. page. They got a video of the gin basil being made. Yeah. That's pretty easy.

That's pretty sick. And also, when we go back to the IBA, it's like local boy done good, big man on campus coming back, strutting his stuff. You know what I mean? Like we're just sort of taking a look around. Oh, they changed this. Oh, yeah. Oh, they put a Starbucks in over here.

Oh, the I looks a little different around here. Cool. Is Tom Collins still around? Is Colin still around? He's still doing this year. Oh, he got canceled. Oh, he. Isn't it weird?

This website seemed so dinky when we were using it. But now, like, now that they have YouTube videos embedded, this video has 100,000 views. What the fuck? Is this a very popular? They're inflating those views. They probably, you know, heard or got wind of us talking shit.

We're like, you know what? Yeah, we should take a look at our website and fix it. It was really, Jackie. I forgot about that. Yeah, it sucked. also a handful of good drinks. We were talking about drinks to cover this week and to cover this year. And Tim,

you passed along a good five different exciting teaky drinks. Yes. Yeah, they got some good ones. But then there was a weird one that was called like the IBA Tiki or something. Like they came up there. Oh, God. The funny thing about their website,

remember it was that thing of like things you would think would be clickable weren't. So you'd be scrolling down. It would be like big word like cocktails. Then you click on it. And it's like, no. Okay. It's like, why they make it blue and underline it if I can't click on it? And why did we need the word cocktails there if it's not a button?

It's just adorning the same. I seem to remember like they also had very specific, like the click area was very small too. You have to really get right in there. You've got to be really precise. And the dot of the eye and cocktails. That's good because bartenders have to be very precise with their measurements. The measurements, right. Ooh.

How do you make this thing? Speaking of measurement. Okay, so I've watched Yorke Meyer make a million of them on YouTube, but we're going to do what the IBA said, because we're returning to our old high school here and making the IBA version. So 60 milliliters gin. That's two ounces, folks. Whoa.

22 and a half milliliters freshly squeezed a lemon juice. What's the lemon? That's a lot of lemon. But that's three quarter ounce. also 22 and a half milliliters 8K and 3 quarter ounce sugar syrup Simple syrup

Probably one to 1 Yeah As I'm thinking 10 pieces Italian basil leaves Mm-hmm Or if you're British Basel

Basel Lurman Basel Exposition Who's Basil Lermin Add all ingredients Into a shaker with ice Shake vigorously And pour into a chilled Cocktail glass

Weird We're straining this. We're serving it up in a cocktail glass. This is the only place I've seen that, but we're doing it. I like that it's not going to look like the mojito. It's not going to look like the Dagaba system in my glass. I'm going to get that basil flavor, but I'm not going to have flakes in my teeth. I got a bunch of green.

I don't know, man. You might have to double strain this one because I did read that like this basil will like, is famous for like ruining the drainage system in kitchens. Like plumbers have to come because of the muck. caused by the basil leaves when you don't out here. There's a few green bits here in the picture, but it's, yeah, I can imagine this getting nasty over here. Oh, Yorg.

Now, how are you guys doing the basil? I watched the video, and the guy kind of like took the leaves and twisted them kind of a little bit in his hands and then put him in. He wasn't, he did it, kind of like clapping it, I guess. Yeah, I heard spank. You give it a nice. Yeah. IBA is not saying any muddle or spank.

They're just saying throw it in there and shake. I guess the ice cubes would spank. It. Oh, cold spank. There's a lot of, round two, I'm going to try other methods that I saw online, but I'm going to just throw it in there and shake, I guess. I'm going to smack it, pinch it, twist it. Rub it, smack it, pitch it, twist it.

All right, folks, we're going to go gather our ingredients, pluck some basil leaves fresh from the garden. Yeah. And when we come back, first sips of the gin basil smash. Only on the sloppy boys. Culture starts here. Spring has sprung and the sloppy boys band is coming to your town. L.A. Zebulon, March 20th.

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the Jords Fest, May 23rd. Got to check us out and check us out online. Tickets on sale now. Ginn Basil Smash in hand. Beautiful. Look at the grease. And there's a little bit of flake in there, but I'll allow it. Yeah, a little bit.

Mine didn't get as green as I, here we go. As green as I. You just look crazy green. Mine's like ecto cooler. I shook pretty vigorously and then I double strained. Jeff, yours is looking closer to the thing. Mine's very light. Yeah.

Mine's to the letter of the law, chilled cocktail glass, 10 basil leaves. Ready? There you go. Sips? Mm-hmm. Oh, it's very aromatic. Swayed by the smell already. Erbaceous.

Ooh. Wow. Hmm. Oh. Oh, dome on that. This is very, it's a much, we put a lot of simple syrup in, but I, I, it's pretty sweet. I wasn't thinking of how sweet it was going to be when I put that in. But yeah, I was, this is a, this is a.

It's almost like a punch. It's like a basil budge. It's nice because it's, I thought it was going to be really herb forward, but it's kind of like a nice little lemonade and then there's a pesteraste. Yeah, it is a little lemonade-y. That's good. It's funny that we have so many drinks that have like the licorice taste or we're just a citrus taste. I'm stunned we haven't come across basil in this strength in a drink before.

or have used it at all. Are you getting a lot of basil taste? I only slapped it and then kind of. Maybe if I really roughed it up a little more. Did you shake it in your shaker? Mm-hmm. But I'm not getting that huge. I'll really rough it up next time.

I'll say I'm getting, when I lean in for a sip, I'm getting quite a sniff of basil. And then I sip and I don't taste it right away. And then afterwards I got Pesto Breath. Yeah. Hey, Pesto Breath. God. I got enough of that in high school. Now it's coming back. Now, I was at Saturday night, I went out to Balthazar. You remember that place is where James Corden got, he had to leave and blacklisted, but then he got back on the list somehow.

Right. We went there. Have you ever been before? It's cool. It's like, it's very much an institution, but the look and the people there are all very New York. Very New Yorkie. We covered the cordon debacle in a drink. in an episode at one point. I forget what. In a drink history. It's funny that we've been going that long that we covered that.

I can't remember. It was like Balthazar is very like Sex in the City meets Wall Street guys. So I think it may it maybe came up in like either a like espresso martini or a Dick Bradsell type of thing. Jeff, I feel like you were talking about it. I did. I did talk about it.

But I'm not the memory man. You're the one who was talking about it. the way I was thinking of it, it looked like if like the, the, the, um, uh, housewives,

the real housewives of New York, like those types of people, like that age of person and that like level of, uh, income, let's say. Yeah. Seemed like that.

But anyway, while I was there, the drink I had was the blackberry smash. And I said, uh, I didn't realize smash meant it had an urban. Now that I'm thinking of, I'm trying to remember what the spirit was,

the spirit was a tequila. And I think the herb of it may have been a ginger, kind of a ginger splash of something, like a ginger bitters. Did you like it? Ginger's an herb. Yeah, I did like it. It was good.

Dinger is a root. Ginger is a root. What herb would have been? Well, maybe they're getting a little loose with the herb. Something from ground. All right. The French martini, which with shamboard in it? Yeah.

Must have been that. Yeah. And that's one of the ones that. It's canonized. That's on martini lists and is legit. A Dale de Groff that then was popularized that Balthazar, isn't that as thing. That's a DeGraff too before we knew the man.

Yeah, I know. It's kind of hard to think back to the time before we were good friends with legendary bartender, Dale DeGroff. I know. Balvizor reminds me of another trend that I think we should be looking out for when we are on tour. There's this, have you guys seen like... It was mint, by the way, which that was... was the herb. It was mint. I'm just looking

up what a blackberry smash is. That's the one that's in a, in a whiskey smash for Christ's sake. It's very commonly mint. Rarely, you know, it could be something like early baysal. Well, now, now I feel like I got to bring up the Bahamas Gumbay smash.

You have to. You should have done it already. This is one you've had in the Bahamas? I haven't had it. I'm not seeing. They don't have an herb. Dark rum coconut rum, brandy, pineapple, orange lime, grenadine, and then garnish pineapple, orange cherry. I'm going to keep digging because I think that the proper Goombay smash has an herb in it.

They don't got an herb. Were they smashing up berries? No, no, they weren't doing much smashing at all. It was a rather slice-filled night. Well, confront them next time you're in the Bahamas. I will. We'll do. What was it called, Jeff?

Bahamas Gumba smash. Oh, I thought it was Gumba and I said, man, I can't believe you haven't told us about this with your, you love Gumbas and all the, and, yeah, Gumbas are little mushrooms guys, right, that scoot by the, the lowest level infantrymen of the, yes, Bowser's Brigade, go ahead. Then they work their way up to become quite important indeed. Yeah, they just have to do, do it, do it, work their way up. it's Mario Brothers Month here on the main oh my God

it's me Mario Brothers month oh shit it's it's X men month on the on the Patreon show and now here I got to hear about Mario

oh did you guys did you see my email I had an idea for another month to do it would be a bar movie may bar movie so we would do

we've been talking about road house we would do row house Roadhouse. And then we would do you know, other things. You got a lot of other ones you could do.

Both road houses. Both road houses, which I want to see. I haven't seen. Me neither. I'm going to. I'm down. This is good.

This is good, Mike. I especially like the name. Bar movie May. May and movie, yes. Bar is kind of left in the cold out there. Let's see. Yes.

Bar movie. Yeah, okay. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good. It's something to think about.

that something like we started off with a great bar movie we start our first blowout ever was cocktail tom cruise cocktail yeah yeah yeah we could do oh st almos fire and swingers were the other ones i was like good ones st almos i think is the bar that they go to in the oh i always forget about that yeah i'm like i think about it constantly but i always forget about where they are for it hell of those law school kids hmm hmm um this is very refreshing I'm going to bring it back to the drink real quick. I like it. It's too sweet. Is it not too sweet for you guys? Did I fuck up?

Am I not doing it to spec? It's not too sweet, but I went, I accidentally did a shot and a half or an ounce and a half rather than two ounces. So I'm going to go up to the two ounces for the next one. For the gin. For the gin. Yes. Yes, yes, yes.

Well, as I think, you know, Jay, in a sour, you know, we know the golden ratio, So 2-1-1, and the one is the citrus and the other one is the simple syrup. But lots of times you kind of, someone will err on one side. People that know they like there's a little sour, more sour will dial back to sweet. People that like the sweet will dial back to sour. So you are free to monkey with that. So in this case, we did equal parts, lemon juice and simple syrup. Correct.

And that's standard? 211. 21- Yeah. Okay, great. Yeah, I got to go lighter. and then I'm going rocks for round two. Rocks for round two. I'm going to do rocks for round two

because that's what Bjorn... York? Meyer. York. What about York? He also, though, instead of... Initially, before, instead of just pouring a squeezed lemon juice,

he would throw a half of a lemon in there and muddle the whole thing because he liked kind of getting some of the raunch from the lemon. So I might try that this time. He likes that rindy. oil, yeah. Like a Rhinestone York. You know what it makes

me want to do is put a little garnish of a cherry tomato and a little blob of mutts. Ooh. Make it out. What is that? What does that call the caprizy sound? A caprice sound. Caprice. Is it caprice or caprici?

I always thought caprize. Caprizy. Capraise? Capraise. Capraise. Capraise. Capraise. No. A fourth. Catapacini The place is called Capri Right?

Yeah Caprici That's what I say Caprici Tim are you going to Are you going to Greek To Greek? Are you going to Greece?

You are Greek Since you're Greek Am I going to Greek? Are you going to get them to the Greek? Are you going to get yourself to the Greek? We should watch Get him to the Greek on the blowout I've got to revisit it

Hmm If there's a bar in the movie It could be part of bar May Part month of May Yeah Our movie May. Jonah Hill Diddy and Russell Brand. And Russell Brand.

Triple canceled. Wow. Three for three on that day. Shush. Any tweaks from you, Mike? Should we do these again? I want to do, I'm almost done. That's why I'm going to get a little.

Oh, yeah. And you're turning up the gin. Turning up to gin. Tim, plans for, any big plans for round two? I am going to do it your style. which is I'm going to do a half a lemon and muddle it with my thing. I'm going to muddle my stuff in my shaker before I start shaking. But then also he says sometimes he bumps the gin up to 70 mils just to make sure it's got a nice thing to it.

Whoa. And gin is already, I didn't know this. Gin is of the of the main liquors ranks a little higher ABV in general. Yeah. A lot of times, a lot of times you'll see 90 proof gins. normally it's like 80 for your whiskeys, rums and vodkas and stuff. Gin will get up there.

Well, I know about that like, that like navy proof like navy strength gin I've heard of. It's like, that sounds tough. Some other variations I've seen on this when people are making it, and again, usually on the rocks,

lots of people will use like a celery gin and then if they don't have that, they'll put a little dash of celery bitters, which I have. Ooh, I might have. Some people will put with a lot of herbicide, cocktails or sour as people will put a couple drops of saline solution salt water just to bring out the taste i'm using my contact solution yes i might use the earth's tiniest pinch of celery salt in here

oh very nice celery and celery all in one i wonder if i have that how did i do or stick to the bitters maybe i'll do the bitters now that's pretty good all right folks we're going to go make round two and we come back smash or pass we give our final adjudication on the gin basil smash after this we're back with the gin

basil smash round two uh I did rocks a little less uh little less um oh shit

I forgot I need to go to look for my celery bitters less syrup less syrup okay you guys talk

you guys talk okay I'll share by mine is a little more green this time I really went ham smashing those basals. But I got a lot of you can't see. Oh yeah, I got a lot of basil chunks. And Tim, I also found the celery salt. So I'm excited. I was about to put in, um, I have ginger

bitters and I was going to do that. But then I found the celery salt. And I didn't want to do both of them because it's too much, too much. Smart. But I can see ginger working with this too. I, uh, I found my bitters. So I went the celery bitters, not celery salt. But I, I threw in half the lemon, quartered up, it up. And then I smashed. it. So this is, I'm drinking it right now and it is fan. Oh, I also goost up the gin. But this is fantastic. A, I like it better on the rocks right away. And, uh, I put a giant handful of basil like York does and that worked and, uh, fucking a little hint of the, uh, celery bitters is coming through. And I also like the stankiness of the lemon rind in there. This is springtime stuff. Oh,

I did that too, the muddle. It's springy and gardening all at once. Yep. Do you think the Olmstead brothers would be pleased with this? Yes, I think so. I think quite so. Were they brothers? Well, their dad wasn't brothers, but the sons were brothers.

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. This is the celery salt in mind. It adds a little bit, but I got to say, having smashed the basil, much much more. Now I'm getting a lot of the basil taste and I don't like that as much. So I like just a hint. Just a hint of the basil. What you don't like about the drink, I do like about the drink. Isn't that fascinating? Now what did you do, Jeff? Oh, I thought I had celery bitters, but I didn't. So I just did a while I'm in my bitter station.

I was going through my odd weird ones and I just did a little plop of orange bitters. I'm in my bitter phase. I'm in my bitter phase. Ooh, you know what I had today? You guys know Vita Koka, right? We've all had Vita Koka before. It's coconut water. Coconut water, yeah. It's, I'm back.

I used to not really like coconut water so much, but now I'm kind of back on and I enjoy it. If it's nice and nice and nice and ice cold. You really go through phases, lots of ups and downs in the world of Mike's drinking. But it's usually pretty innocuous stuff that doesn't really bother anyone. But today I saw Vita Koka and I bought it. It was great.

It was the coconut water. with orange and cream taste. Oh, really? Yeah. They're doing flavors of that stuff. Yeah, and there was another flavor. It was like lemonade flavor, too, which I didn't want. But, uh, oh, it was like a, it's like a Vita Coco commercial.

It's like, they're doing flavors though? Nice. Nice. Also in the, the commercial was like, yeah, they had a, I think lemonade. I forget. It's pretty, pretty shitty commercial. Pretty shitty commercial, man. Well, I think in the Sunny D commercial, they didn't know what the purple stuff was.

But that's their competitor. True. Purple stuff. It's not like they went purple stuff, soda, orange stuff. Oh, orange stuff. All the different stuff. Sunny D. Pepsi, Sprite, Coke, orange stuff.

Oh, orange stuff. Now does the orange stuff sting my throat? Oh, yeah. I can do that. It's like orange juice, but it's also like a milk. I didn't like Sunny D What is Sunny D? It's got like high fructose corn syrup and stuff, right?

It's like a OJ, it's like a sweetened up OJ that doesn't perish. Right. With a milky mouth feel. It's funny how cheap like the jug that that stuff was in like just felt like cheaper as well. You know, it kind of came in that oddly shaped thing. Sunny D. They, no, not for me. They tried.

It's funny. They used to call it Sunny Delight, longhand. Sunny Delight. And then at one point, they were just like, it's Sunny D. And it makes you think like, Kentucky Fried Chicken, they don't call a chicken anymore. It's called KFC. Right. Legally, they can't call chicken or something.

Yeah, well, that's the rumor anyway. That's why it's called KFC, man. They can't legally call it chicken, man. Because they're making them mutants, man. They're making mutant man, man. With Sunny D, that doesn't make sense. It's like, now it's not. longer made with a delight.

It's just sunny D. It's still sunny, though. The FDA was like, this is actually only 49% delightful, so we can't call it that. What your final thoughts, dudes? This is order again. What a nice little surprise this is.

Yeah. It's an order again. I'll say mine's still a little too sweet. It could go even drier. And I wish I had some celery, celery bitters to use once in this one drink and then passed down to my grandchild.

He was one cent for all. Along with their deviled ham sandwiches. I'm still trying to get through that grapefruit juice I bought for last weeks. I bought a big grapefruit juice. Still not through it. That's a bitter bottle. Tim, your thoughts. Mike, you got to make, make a gray.

Paloma? Basil in the windpipe. No, you got to make a greyhound or a salty dog or a Greyhound is salt, aka a salty dog. Greyhound is vodka, right? Yeah, I think vodka grapefruit. I think you're right. I think he's right.

Even your own hand slammer uses grapefruit juice, if I'm not mistaken. Hey, I got to take a look at what the hand slammer is made of again. I forget. I made so many of those. I've made like 20 of those in my place since you invented it. I haven't. It's killing me.

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you make me watch this shit. I thought you'd like it. I ought to kill you. That's all happening over there. It's over at the Patreon. Mike, I thought we were wearing him down. Oh, we're wearing them down. You want to glimpse into my life.

On one hand, I'm over there at the blowout. I got to watch the X-Men movies. Now here on the main pod where I think I could let my guard down, I didn't even get to give my review of the dreams. Oh shit. Yeah, I asked you to. Did I say it? No.

This is one of those ones. You guys were joking. You were joking around. It's like the whole time we've been saying, this is great, this is great. We all know what's going to be, what's going to happen at the end. We love it.

Yeah, well, this will shock you, Mike. Tim, give you a review. They want to hear it. Obviously, it's an order again. I love it. I'm going to keep making, I'm adding smashes to my toolkit. And this particular, this one is going to be great.

But Mike, as we're thinking about, springtime drinks. This just reminded to add to there's the bramble of where everybody knows. Now there's the gin, basil smash, everybody knows. You recently said you were going to invite. The berry pie. The berry pie.

What was the berry pie? Let's do that together when we're out there. We'll kind of build it together. We can do it with like a... No, don't pawn it off on us. No, no, this is your thing, Mike. See, this is what I don't get. What, we can help each other not just go off in our labs by ourselves. We could work as a team. Anyway, it's, uh, it had a crem de cassis sort of, uh, vibe to it with, um,

vanilla vodka or something like that. We had vanilla vodka and then, and then we were tossing around the idea of putting like a gram cracker crusty something around the edge, the rim. No, Jeff said, flour rim. Yeah, flower rim is nothing. We can't do that. But then somebody said, maybe I said graham cracker. Ooh, cinnamon toast crunch.

Oh, oh. Like a donut friend. They're always putting cereal around the donut. Yes, but this time it'll finally be appropriate. Can I say one thing on this very herbal episode? I don't think I'll have another chance to say it. Yes, yes, please. You have the floor.

I made a sandwich today. God. Not the ham one. Oh. Normal sliced turkey. She put sprouts on it. I got from the grocery store a bin of super greens You're thinking

You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna pinch these apart and throw them on my sandwich Yeah But in that super greens A thick leaf a thicky A bunch of them Chard You ever have chard? Not on a sandwich Jeff, no

And I'm pulling it apart and throwing it on there thinking like This is going to be like a thick fucking Mat of green to get through To get to my beloved turkey and mayo. I eat it. It tastes great. And my teeth feel like they've been stripped

of their enamel. Have you ever had this feeling when you have like certain greens? And I looked it up and it's like, yeah, there's a certain enzyme or a certain something about charred and other and other rough greens.

Does it kind of have a spice like a licoricey taste to it? I don't think so. I mean, kale's a bit spicy. Okay, I'm thinking of something. Arugula. Arugula is a bit spicy.

It's just string. stringent, you know? Strangent, but, like, it felt like I'd, like, gotten, like, sourpatch citric acid all of my teeth or something like that. It's like your teeth feel like, like very dry. Like, polish dry. Like, if I accidentally grind my teeth, they're just going to sand away. Ew. Nasty.

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