Welcome to our new podcast where, each week, we suggest discerning drinks and both compelling and strange reasons to drink them.
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C*cks**king Cowboy
15ml Butterscotch Schnapps
30ml Baileys Irish Cream
Layer the two ingredients in a shot glass by pouring Baileys off the back of a bar spoon so it floats on top of the schnapps
Vodka Martini
60ml Vodka
3tsp Dry Vermouth
Ice cubes.
Olive or lemon zest
Method: Stir the ingredients in a glass with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with an olive or a lemon twist.
For more on The Thinking Drinkers and dates for their “Pub Quiz” shows – click here
For the C**kSuck*ng Cowboy you can buy Baileys Irish Cream here and Bols Butterscotch here
For the Vodka Martini – go for Belvedere Smogory Forest Single Estate Rye here and Cocchi Extra Dry vermouth here
No matter what day of the year it is, there is always a compelling reason to enjoy a discerning drink. Responsibly of course.
This hilarious, eclectic and erudite elbow-bending adventure through the calendar reveals what you should be drinking this week – and a fascinating and compelling reason to drink it.
Hosts Ben McFarland & Tom Sandham, aka The Thinking Drinkers, have deftly decanted 40 years of unwavering dedication to awesome alcohol into a podcast that will broaden your booze horizons and make you seem even more interesting than you already are.
Steeped in eccentric events, fascinating facts and with all the cocktail recipes and recommendations a thirsty gastronome requires, this pod arms people with essential, some would say useless, anecdotal ammunition with which to impress your mates over a drink…or two.