Speaker 1: Welcome to Criminalia, a production of Shonda land Audio in
Speaker 1: partnership with I Heart Radio. Welcome to criminal Eat. I'm
Speaker 1: Maria tre Marquis, and in this episode we're saying a
Speaker 1: boy to pirate season and I'm Holly Fry. Let's recap
Speaker 1: for a moment. If you have listened to shows during
Speaker 1: our previous seasons, you have learned a lot about our
Speaker 1: beloved arsenic and stories of the lady poisoners who frequently
Speaker 1: used it. And the next we put a spotlight on
Speaker 1: the different types of stalkers, and then we turned that
Speaker 1: spotlight on impostors. And in this most recent season, we
Speaker 1: told the tales of pirates throughout history. If you have
Speaker 1: not been with us in previous seasons, welcome. And also
Speaker 1: we have a tradition that we are about to enact today.
Speaker 1: At the end of each season, Maria and I pick
Speaker 1: our favorite shows from the season and our rick cocktails
Speaker 1: and mock tails to share during this the final episode.
Speaker 1: As we do. We spent this season looking at whether
Speaker 1: or not the stories of plundering pirates could look different
Speaker 1: through a modern I but I mean, actually, who are
Speaker 1: we kidding when it comes to a typical pirate we
Speaker 1: didn't really expect their crimes to improve just over time.
Speaker 1: It is very easy to get caught up in the
Speaker 1: idea of a pirate's life. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: stories celebrating the romantic notion that sailing those high seas
Speaker 1: was all about excitement and full of adventure. Just look
Speaker 1: at stories like Treasure Island, for instance, written by Robert
Speaker 1: Louis Stevenson. If you're not familiar, that is the tale
Speaker 1: that introduced us to peg legged and part loving pirates
Speaker 1: and their quest for buried treasure. This romanticism of piracy
Speaker 1: reminded us of the episode that highlighted Steed Bonnet. We
Speaker 1: bring him up specifically because Bonnet is a great example
Speaker 1: of someone who was really chasing that dream. He was
Speaker 1: a wealthy landowner who left it all behind to have
Speaker 1: a more adventurous life. As it turns out, though, he
Speaker 1: bought that new life rather than putting in the time
Speaker 1: as pirates actually did. In his new life, we found
Speaker 1: as we learned about him, his crew didn't respect him
Speaker 1: at all, and they defected to Blackbeard's ships. We also
Speaker 1: learned he spent a lot of time hiding in his
Speaker 1: stateroom on his own ship, where he kept a personal library.
Speaker 1: It was certainly different from his former life, but it
Speaker 1: probably was not what he expected. Most men and women
Speaker 1: on the seas did not have a background leg bonnet.
Speaker 1: Some turned to piracy for the money, some for the adventure,
Speaker 1: and some to escape terrible situations. Some pirates were bloodthirsty,
Speaker 1: others greedy, and some, like Jeanne de Clisson, we're in
Speaker 1: it just for revenge. If you remember her story, she
Speaker 1: spent thirteen years seeking revenge for the execution of her husband.
Speaker 1: Third Team, It's a long time. Another prity fact that
Speaker 1: can take away from this season is that many were
Speaker 1: captured and tried and executed by hanging. That was the
Speaker 1: pirate way. But some pirates made enough money to retire
Speaker 1: from piracy and become wealthy merchants. A few became so
Speaker 1: successful or memorable, or even infamously brutal that their names
Speaker 1: carried through the centuries, and they're still recognized after all
Speaker 1: this time. One of the problems, though, with uncovering the
Speaker 1: real stories of pirate legends, is that there isn't always
Speaker 1: much historical evidence about many of them, especially if they
Speaker 1: were never captured or never put on trial. If there
Speaker 1: is evidence of their lives. The stories often but not
Speaker 1: always have been embellished, but embellished or not, though they
Speaker 1: did have interesting stories and among the pirates, we did
Speaker 1: definitely have our favorites, and we're sure you do too,
Speaker 1: So tell us the stories and drinks that you liked
Speaker 1: best on social media with the hashtag Criminalia. We would
Speaker 1: love to know which ones we have in common. But
Speaker 1: let's start now with our top three shows, Maria, who
Speaker 1: did you love this season? It was difficult to narrow
Speaker 1: it down to three. I'm not starting them in any
Speaker 1: particular order. Our final episode was Charles Vane. We weren't
Speaker 1: originally going to talk about Charles Vane, but when he
Speaker 1: started to show up in other people's stories, I thought
Speaker 1: it was really interesting to to do an episode on him. Also,
Speaker 1: I really liked that we learned that even though he
Speaker 1: was a really skilled captain, he was actually pretty much
Speaker 1: a coward who would not take on ships that he
Speaker 1: knew he couldn't fight a coward his execution because apparently
Speaker 1: he really tried to get out of that. He was
Speaker 1: a scally wag. He was a scoundrel, He was an outlaw.
Speaker 1: He was everything that we want from pirates in the
Speaker 1: Golden Age of piracy, but I would say that above
Speaker 1: all it was because his creeping in and out of
Speaker 1: the story of others. Yeah, I mean prolific enough that
Speaker 1: he really does pop up in almost any Golden Age story.
Speaker 1: Did you have any thoughts on Charles Vane in your
Speaker 1: top three or did he not make it to your list? Chassis,
Speaker 1: as I like to call him, did not make my list.
Speaker 1: Cassy is the perfect nickname for him, and I really
Speaker 1: really hope that when he was like partying with black
Speaker 1: Beard off the coast North Carolina, they called him. That
Speaker 1: nobody did, but in my heart they did. My own
Speaker 1: revisionist history. Um, the first one that I will mention
Speaker 1: is one that we already talked about in the intro here,
Speaker 1: which is Steve Bonnet. And here's why. It has very
Speaker 1: little to do with him specifically as a pirate himself,
Speaker 1: but we talk and we even had an episode and
Speaker 1: I almost picked it about fictional pirates, and we have
Speaker 1: talked throughout the season about how romanticized pirates have become,
Speaker 1: you know, how the ifs have really kind of become
Speaker 1: what people accept as pirate lore, even though it's not
Speaker 1: really accurate to what most of these people were like,
Speaker 1: and Steve Bonnet is a good exemplification of the fact
Speaker 1: that that was happening concurrently with the Golden Age of piracy.
Speaker 1: That's not a new problem, that's not a situation where
Speaker 1: history changed our view. There was enough romanticizing of pirates
Speaker 1: in the eighteenth century that he was like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: that sounds dreamy, right. So I actually have on my
Speaker 1: honorable mentions Steve Bonnet, and I also have in my
Speaker 1: honorable mentions fictional pirates who were considered real. And I
Speaker 1: see the connection here. And I picked Steed as my
Speaker 1: honorable mention because he seemed to me to be perhaps
Speaker 1: the most unpiratey pirate that we talked about this season.
Speaker 1: The idea that he didn't actually perform any pirate duties,
Speaker 1: that he purchased everything to get into the world and
Speaker 1: perhaps was having a midlife crisis when he decided to
Speaker 1: do this all landed him on my top five, I
Speaker 1: would say, not my top three. Yeah, I mean he
Speaker 1: really didn't if he had really thought it through, want
Speaker 1: a life of piracy. He wanted all of the luxury
Speaker 1: and the trappings of society that he was fortunate enough
Speaker 1: to have access to. He just wanted them on a boat.
Speaker 1: Could have just booked a cruise the boat. Yeah that's fine,
Speaker 1: you know, just creezing up and down the North Atlantic. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Bless his heart. He was cosplaying piracy thinking it was
Speaker 1: going to work out. Okay. So moving on from Steed,
Speaker 1: I really liked the Halloween episode that we did, which
Speaker 1: was Pirate Hunters. It was mostly be has of our
Speaker 1: exploration of how a pirate becomes a pirate hunter and
Speaker 1: as it turns out, you're a pirate. But I think
Speaker 1: I went into it thinking, well, how much does the
Speaker 1: Navy provide versus how much do pirates provide when they're
Speaker 1: hunting other pirates. My conclusion was, if you're a pirate,
Speaker 1: you would sell out another pirate. And it was just
Speaker 1: a really fun episode to do on Legal And I'm
Speaker 1: going to put that in air quotes versus outlaw piracy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's interesting to think about the ideology, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: this was part of what led Steve Bonnet to think
Speaker 1: it was pretty great, was that there was a certain
Speaker 1: degree where you did not have to feel a responsibility
Speaker 1: to anyone else but yourself. I see the appeal of that. Sure,
Speaker 1: the trappings of life get a little weighty, and exhausting
Speaker 1: at times. But um, who would want that job? I
Speaker 1: don't know a pirate who gets paid to do it.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the job maybe, but only until somebody else turns
Speaker 1: on him. Are you saying it's lawless among pirates? What?
Speaker 1: What was stand up? Guys? My next one, I don't
Speaker 1: know that I would say it's super fun, but I
Speaker 1: really like it as a story. Is Rachel Wall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was not what I thought she was going to be, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's another one that's emblematic of people that
Speaker 1: found themselves in situations where they're like, well, here's what
Speaker 1: we're doing now. I was quite taken by the fact
Speaker 1: that pretty much everything we know about her is based
Speaker 1: on that one document that she put together at the
Speaker 1: end of her life, knowing she was going to be executed,
Speaker 1: So we don't have verification on it. We just have
Speaker 1: to kind of take her at her word on most
Speaker 1: of it. But boy, she sure packed a lot into
Speaker 1: that Doctor, which wasn't that long. It's not a super
Speaker 1: long read, but there are a lot of details craved
Speaker 1: in there. I did not actually have her as one
Speaker 1: of my honorable mentions, So I'm going to move on
Speaker 1: to my third choice. Which was Henry. Every I picked
Speaker 1: him because I thought he was really a great example
Speaker 1: of how pirate legends grow throughout that person's life. And
Speaker 1: afterwards we hear these things about Henry's life that just
Speaker 1: seemed poserus. You know, there was that that whole instance
Speaker 1: after the plundering the treasure ship, where maybe he had
Speaker 1: married this princess or maybe I forget exactly, maybe he
Speaker 1: had started his own nation. All of these things that
Speaker 1: that people had made up about him, when really he
Speaker 1: was a person who managed to escape for what two years?
Speaker 1: So I think he was a pirate. I just felt
Speaker 1: like his legend made him infamous more than his actions do. Right.
Speaker 1: He actually seemed pretty shrewd about handling himself, doing the
Speaker 1: jobs he was doing him, saying jobs very loosely, and
Speaker 1: then getting out and being like, all right, well now
Speaker 1: I I'm going to fall back into one of my
Speaker 1: other names. Exactly he had, like I don't know, ten twelve.
Speaker 1: I remember making a joke about how he also collected names.
Speaker 1: He was quite something. But I like that when he
Speaker 1: made his big treasure heist, he got out. He was
Speaker 1: smart enough to get out at his peak. Yeah, which
Speaker 1: very few I think we've seen very few. I could
Speaker 1: have more. Let's do one more. Yeah, right, So I
Speaker 1: had mentioned Rachel wall already, who I do also love.
Speaker 1: We didn't mention in this ramp up that she's, you know,
Speaker 1: the the North American woman pirates essentially, and my my
Speaker 1: third choice is also a woman. And I bet it
Speaker 1: will not surprise you one bit. It's gun Clisson. I mean,
Speaker 1: she's got the whole story. She's angry, she loved her husband,
Speaker 1: She's got great style. She's like a rocket of just
Speaker 1: fervor and anger and ambition in terms of how much
Speaker 1: she took on and how much she did so I
Speaker 1: I love everything about that story. I obviously don't like
Speaker 1: that she lost her husband. Let me just say, I
Speaker 1: don't think I would want a time travel back and
Speaker 1: really hang with any pirates realistic. I don't have romanticism
Speaker 1: about it. I'm like, that seems, you know, unclean and
Speaker 1: kind of unpleasant. But she might be the one that
Speaker 1: I would be like, I would love to make you
Speaker 1: a cocktail, ma'am. Come on in. I did not have
Speaker 1: her as my top three, but in my honorable mentions,
Speaker 1: I did have Grace O'Malley and one of the reasons
Speaker 1: for that is because she just seemed like such an
Speaker 1: incredible bad as our entire life. Some of the other
Speaker 1: women we talked about may not have started out in
Speaker 1: a pirate family. I felt like Grace was truly her
Speaker 1: entire life a pirate. One little element that stood out
Speaker 1: to me about her in everything that we researched and
Speaker 1: talked about was that when she met Queen Elizabeth, she
Speaker 1: refused to bow because she felt she too was a queen.
Speaker 1: As soon as I learned that, I was like, badass, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, she was kind of pirate royalty and I
Speaker 1: don't blame her for feeling that way at all. She
Speaker 1: didn't pick the Queen of Ireland. She would the Queen
Speaker 1: of Ireland. No, Oh, Grace, Gracy, she'd probably hate me
Speaker 1: for saying that. M let's talk about drinks. What do
Speaker 1: you have first? This mixologist, Well, I'm gonna have some
Speaker 1: duplication here because my first favorite drink of the season
Speaker 1: was also from the Rachel Wall episode. It's the Hanged Woman.
Speaker 1: She is my She's one of my two honorable mentioned drinks.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. I love when we overlap. So for anyone
Speaker 1: that doesn't remember the Hanged Woman is a splash of
Speaker 1: pumpkin syrup and a chilled coupe, and then three ounces
Speaker 1: of hard cider and three ounces of sham pain. If
Speaker 1: you want to do the mocktail, you use non alcoholic
Speaker 1: cider and a ginger ale. I cannot tell you the
Speaker 1: number of times I have made this drink since we
Speaker 1: did that episode, for myself, for my friends. We had
Speaker 1: people over for Halloween brunch and I made a batch
Speaker 1: of it and it was amazing. It's just delicious, and
Speaker 1: it hasn't stopped being delicious for me, you know. I'm
Speaker 1: not like, oh no, Sometimes you try any thing and
Speaker 1: you go, oh this is delicious, and you drink a
Speaker 1: bunch and then you're kind of done. You're over for
Speaker 1: like a good five years. I'm I'm like, we always
Speaker 1: got to have champagne chilled in case I want to
Speaker 1: Hang Woman at all times. Please have it ready. I
Speaker 1: made a note to myself about the Hanged Woman, not
Speaker 1: just how you know, tasty it was, but the pairing
Speaker 1: of the hard cider and champagne get you way drunk.
Speaker 1: So that's also part of that drink quick to drink, right.
Speaker 1: We we talked during the Charles Vain episode about how
Speaker 1: champagne as a v a coal for other spirits. It's
Speaker 1: just a little bit. You've got to be careful with it.
Speaker 1: At least in my experience, it accelerates things for me.
Speaker 1: What was your your first drink? Okay, so my first
Speaker 1: drink was the Horned Helmet from Lagartha. We've already talked.
Speaker 1: I know that I am not a fan of putting
Speaker 1: whiskey and citrus together, which this recipe is whiskey, lemon juice,
Speaker 1: violet syrup, little club soda on the top. I also loved, loved,
Speaker 1: and I think this is because the whiskey and citrus
Speaker 1: issue had been taken out the mocktail version of this drink,
Speaker 1: which is steep black tea, lemons juice, violet syrup, and
Speaker 1: I did use a dash of bitters in mind, but
Speaker 1: the syrup makes it this wonderful, beautiful color. It's so
Speaker 1: refreshing from lavender, which I find pops up a lot.
Speaker 1: Violet does not. Um Lavender often makes me think these days,
Speaker 1: it makes me feel like I'm drinking cleaning products, and
Speaker 1: so it was a very nice change to have a
Speaker 1: different flower. I also live in a place and this
Speaker 1: is important for people who don't live in a city.
Speaker 1: I live in a place where violet syrup will never
Speaker 1: be found a store any aisle, so I looked up
Speaker 1: how to make it. It's super easy. So if you
Speaker 1: are in the same situation as me, trust me do it.
Speaker 1: It is a show stopper in this drink. I very
Speaker 1: much loved it. Most syrups that you would use in
Speaker 1: drink making are so easy to throw together, as it's
Speaker 1: usually like one part sugar, one part water. Add whatever
Speaker 1: the flavoring is, let it simmer till everything dissolves. Strain
Speaker 1: off any herbal bits in your golden You can make
Speaker 1: simple syrup. You can make this, Yes, so easy. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you picked that one. I looked at it for
Speaker 1: a while and then I was like, I gotta make
Speaker 1: cuts because my cocktail list was long this time I
Speaker 1: had to make cuts to This was a great season
Speaker 1: for cocktails. I actually went back and forth as to
Speaker 1: whether or not this one should show up on my
Speaker 1: list because of the whiskey lemon juice issue. But here
Speaker 1: it is the mocktail. My second one again I'm a duplicator.
Speaker 1: It's the powdered wig. Powdered wig. Listen, I'll just say
Speaker 1: up front, I'm going through a flip face. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on there. I want my
Speaker 1: eggie drinks in abundance right now. It's just a thing
Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of. I'll get over it eventually.
Speaker 1: So for anyone that does not recall the powdered wig,
Speaker 1: it is two ounces of vanilla brandy, an ounce of
Speaker 1: simple syrup, one whole egg, and you shake it in
Speaker 1: a shaker until that egg has completely incorporated and become
Speaker 1: really frothy. There's actually a great moment while you're shaking
Speaker 1: where you kind of feel it happened, like it has
Speaker 1: been aerated enough that it has stopped being a slashy
Speaker 1: liquid and it starts to be almost a foam that
Speaker 1: you're just like, am I still shaking a flu it?
Speaker 1: And then you can top it with nutmeg. We always
Speaker 1: have to say, like washer eggs, pregnant women in particular,
Speaker 1: uncooked eggs can be a little tricky, but you probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't be drinking a flip if you're a child. Anyway,
Speaker 1: good point there. Look, I'm not here to judge, but
Speaker 1: I want everyone to be safe. So yeah, I just
Speaker 1: I love a I love a flip if you wanted
Speaker 1: to do the mocktail version instead of that vanilla brandy,
Speaker 1: which again, that's that's part of my problem is that
Speaker 1: I have a vanilla cogniac and vanilla brandy situation also brewing.
Speaker 1: So this is like the perfect drink for me right now.
Speaker 1: But if you're doing non alcoholic, you just use a
Speaker 1: low sugar apple juice in lieu of that brandy or
Speaker 1: cogniac and you're all set. It's a good one, I
Speaker 1: feel like for this time of year, for those of
Speaker 1: us that celebrate any winter holidays, It's kind of like
Speaker 1: a variation on egg nog. It's not as heavy, but
Speaker 1: you still get that frothiness and that velvety mouth field.
Speaker 1: And I just again, I just I love a flip
Speaker 1: right now. I just love I have, not, to be honest,
Speaker 1: tried any drink but has egg in it, because I
Speaker 1: also have an egg in my drink's problem. Maybe this
Speaker 1: is why I only have two things that I like
Speaker 1: to drink, and you're the reverse of me. I'm like,
Speaker 1: put weird things in and like, no, no, weird things, No,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? That nutmeg sprinkle on the top
Speaker 1: is all that I'm gonna like, but if you handed
Speaker 1: me one, I would try it, but I won't make
Speaker 1: it for myself because eggs. So my next one actually
Speaker 1: matches up with one of my favorite shows, The Pirate Hunters.
Speaker 1: So this drink is the Betrayer. I picked it because
Speaker 1: I loved that there were two shri Rasha drinks in
Speaker 1: this season, So it became the choice between the Betrayer
Speaker 1: from the Pirate Hunter show and the King's Pardon. I
Speaker 1: believe was Charles Vains and the Betrayer one out because
Speaker 1: of the red ice hubes that put on the show
Speaker 1: in your glass as they're melting, certainly a plus for me.
Speaker 1: In addition, I do like a good dacree and like
Speaker 1: an old school dacree, And I'm not judging the frozen
Speaker 1: dacories that you drink on beach because I've had plenty
Speaker 1: of those in my life too. The bitters, the red
Speaker 1: food coloring, it all worked together with I think this
Speaker 1: drink had white rum, simple syrup, lime juice perhaps and
Speaker 1: a little club soda on the top. Yes, it is
Speaker 1: white rum, lime juice, simple syrup, right, and kiss a
Speaker 1: club soda on and not very much right, And the
Speaker 1: mock tail switches that out for I believe was almond
Speaker 1: syrup that you did in that that's off the top
Speaker 1: of my head. So yeah, the seeping of the red
Speaker 1: tendrils into the drink, plus the heat that you could
Speaker 1: get up from your seri roga depending on how much
Speaker 1: you put in. I loved. I like that one to you,
Speaker 1: just as you know, who doesn't enjoy a special effect drink?
Speaker 1: Look right, I never get one, So like when that happens,
Speaker 1: that's words great. There's never any like red wine special effect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it um that was because we were doing that
Speaker 1: one also at Halloween times. Um, it kind of fit.
Speaker 1: I wanted something that had that, you know, seeping evil
Speaker 1: blood look to it. But I will say I was
Speaker 1: delighted that it worked as well as it did, because
Speaker 1: you never know. In my head, I usually make a
Speaker 1: plan before I try anything. I'm not like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: just try this in while I'm sitting there, I usually
Speaker 1: like it comes to me pretty clearly what avenue I'm
Speaker 1: going to travel in terms of like, Okay, these are
Speaker 1: the spirits I want to use. This is thematically how
Speaker 1: I want to talk about it and think about it.
Speaker 1: And then this is this is going to be the
Speaker 1: twist on this or whatever. That one, I was like,
Speaker 1: I kind of had it all in my head and
Speaker 1: I made it and it worked really well the first time,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, bravo me, good for you.
Speaker 1: It is a fun one. That one was on my
Speaker 1: honorable mentions list. As you said, I like a I
Speaker 1: like a classic Dack. They're tasty and um very bright,
Speaker 1: and I'm having that heat on it changes completely what
Speaker 1: you think of dakar is, even if you're thinking of
Speaker 1: an old school one. So I'm always down for a
Speaker 1: little mucking about it gave it a little extra which
Speaker 1: was super nice. That transitions nicely to my very favorite
Speaker 1: of the season, which is again I'm the duplicator, It's
Speaker 1: red sales, it's GENII songs. I had her honorable mention
Speaker 1: as well. So yeah, that one was an ounce and
Speaker 1: a half of cinnamon whiskey, a half founds Grandmagnier, a
Speaker 1: half found simple syrup, a half ounce of lemon juice,
Speaker 1: and then that is topped with cranberry juice. All of
Speaker 1: those flavors come together in a way that, like the
Speaker 1: the cinnamon is just sort of this grounding note. I know,
Speaker 1: it's sometimes when you drink cinnamon whiskey it's a little harsh,
Speaker 1: but because of all the other elements, it really smooths
Speaker 1: that out and it just you're like, oh, this feels
Speaker 1: festive yet not assaulted to my palette in any way.
Speaker 1: It's very delicious. I also really liked that it immediately
Speaker 1: conjured her ship, her black ship with her red sails
Speaker 1: and there it was just That's another one that I
Speaker 1: have made many times since we did the episode, So
Speaker 1: I always found that interesting. What becomes on your your
Speaker 1: list of go twos? Oh yeah, that I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: The Hanged Woman has been the most made at our house,
Speaker 1: again because that is an easy one to put together
Speaker 1: for entertaining as well. So that's part of why in
Speaker 1: terms of sheer volume served, the Hangwoman was the one
Speaker 1: that I made the most red sale, because you can
Speaker 1: do it for entertaining purposes. So in terms of sheer volume,
Speaker 1: I have made the most of that red sales. In
Speaker 1: terms of ones I have made just for myself, when
Speaker 1: I'm like I would like to have a cocktail with dinner,
Speaker 1: that's the one that I go to nice my last drink.
Speaker 1: It was actually a little bit surprising to me, and
Speaker 1: it was also again one of my favorite episodes. And
Speaker 1: this again is Henry Avery, the King of Pirates. The
Speaker 1: drink was called I Believe the Vanishing Pirates. It's a
Speaker 1: combination of ginger with strawberry. But it was the the
Speaker 1: elderberry that I found so aromatic and refreshing, and it's
Speaker 1: such a great drink for not this time of the year.
Speaker 1: It's a great summertime cocktail. You had put I Believe
Speaker 1: in your in your recipe strawby vodka, like if available,
Speaker 1: or I would highly recommend the strawberry vodka. It would
Speaker 1: be good without it, but it brings to the table
Speaker 1: with the elderberry, the sweetness and brightness, and it all
Speaker 1: works very well together. Plus I'm a big fan of
Speaker 1: ginger beer. So this recipe had elder flower cordreal strawberry
Speaker 1: vodka or vodka ginger beer mocktail just minus the vodka
Speaker 1: was the the ingredients from Montail minus vodka. You don't
Speaker 1: do the vodka, but you muddle the strawberries and the
Speaker 1: styrup and the strawberries together and then poor ginger beer
Speaker 1: over that, which is all excellent. Both drinks both very yummy.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny is I took this off my
Speaker 1: list and now as you talk about it in a manner,
Speaker 1: the wax is so rap sodic. Gosh, maybe now I
Speaker 1: want to maybe that one should have been on my list.
Speaker 1: I did have a top four which had to do
Speaker 1: with another flowery type of thing, and because it was hybiscus,
Speaker 1: I wanted to put it on my list so badly,
Speaker 1: and it was four women made for Anne Bonnie, Mary Read,
Speaker 1: Martha Barley, and Mary Critchett. But I didn't want to
Speaker 1: put it on the list at the end because I
Speaker 1: didn't want to put it on the list for a
Speaker 1: single ingredient. And that doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy
Speaker 1: the drink, but it just didn't make it into top three.
Speaker 1: I buscus, Oh my gosh, I love it. I have
Speaker 1: two honorable mentions in my cocktail lists, and these are
Speaker 1: also ones that I have made several times since we
Speaker 1: recorded them. The first is Teotis Curse, So that was
Speaker 1: the one that combined Uzo vodka and lemonade um for
Speaker 1: like a strange liquorice lemonade for anyone that thinks those
Speaker 1: two things don't go together to give it a whirl.
Speaker 1: They surprisingly dovetail one another really nicely. Yeah. I have
Speaker 1: made that several times as well, and now I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about schedule another time to make one because it's also
Speaker 1: super easy. That was a quickie to throw together, and
Speaker 1: there's not a lot that comes out well, at least
Speaker 1: that I've noticed with um a liquorice forward labor unless
Speaker 1: you just have uzzo. So adding a lemonade to it
Speaker 1: was was. It's a really nice change. Yeah. I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of all of the liquorice things to you know.
Speaker 1: I love a little Anna set obviously, I love absence,
Speaker 1: I love Uzo. I know that's not for everyone, which
Speaker 1: is why we don't have a lot of liquorice forward. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's for me. Like, if you feel like you are
Speaker 1: adventurous and willing to try a new things and you're
Speaker 1: a little scared of this one, I just would encourage
Speaker 1: you to give it a world because shockingly refreshing could
Speaker 1: be its subtitle. My last honorable mention and this was
Speaker 1: the one that I think when we recorded it, I said, oh,
Speaker 1: this is my favorite right now, and we'll see where
Speaker 1: it lands. And it still is way up there, which
Speaker 1: was the bad tempered woman, which is the said al
Speaker 1: Hera drink, which is a combination of mint and green
Speaker 1: tea with ginger and then muddled orange and mint leaves
Speaker 1: together with a little bit of gin. WHOA, that was delicious.
Speaker 1: I love that you have embraced well. I mean, I
Speaker 1: personally have not embraced the gin yet. I don't dislike
Speaker 1: it anymore, but it is a neutral reference to me now,
Speaker 1: and I like that you also have embraced gin, and
Speaker 1: I'm putting it in more drinks to try. It's helping
Speaker 1: me become more of a drink gin person. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: well for me, and I think probably for you as well. Right,
Speaker 1: the more that I experiment with gin drinks, the more
Speaker 1: I realized that I there are things about gin I
Speaker 1: like for me, if you're just gonna do like a
Speaker 1: gin and tonic or something very similar like that, where
Speaker 1: it's it's only like a two ingredients, Gin is pretty
Speaker 1: much the spirits and the main flavor, I don't I
Speaker 1: still don't really enjoy those that much. But if you
Speaker 1: can add in other ingredients that kind of pluck out
Speaker 1: notes from the gin and highlight them in a way
Speaker 1: that you know, I think for most people that don't
Speaker 1: like gin. It's like, there's that heavy, that juniper flavor.
Speaker 1: It smells very piny. It's a lot if you're not
Speaker 1: into really herbaceous things. Being able to find those other
Speaker 1: notes within a gin and bring those to the forefront,
Speaker 1: it makes the whole thing a lot more fun. It does,
Speaker 1: and it's making me enjoy it more. So, thank you, yea.
Speaker 1: I will say this, I think I probably would have
Speaker 1: made more of those in the interim were it not
Speaker 1: for a time of year situation. Right. That is a
Speaker 1: very good beverage for warmer months, and it's been getting colder,
Speaker 1: so I'm I'm over here with my flips, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like when I when I picked my beverages, I
Speaker 1: actually thought about it, but I intentionally tried to go
Speaker 1: season less, but there were somewhere they were just perfect
Speaker 1: summer drinks. I was very pleased with our selection of
Speaker 1: drink options this season. There were a lot that I
Speaker 1: really labored over cutting and was like, oh, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: my babies as I kissed them goodbye to come off
Speaker 1: the list. But we can't just rehash every single drink.
Speaker 1: So hopefully you, dear listener, found something in our drinks
Speaker 1: and stories that you enjoyed that you will take away
Speaker 1: from the season and keep with you. Thank you for
Speaker 1: joining us this season. We hope you will be here
Speaker 1: with us next season because we are going to talk
Speaker 1: about the fate of those who practiced witchcraft and alchemy,
Speaker 1: or at least were accused of having done so. And
Speaker 1: the good news, as always, you do not have to wait.
Speaker 1: We are going to leave the high seas, put our
Speaker 1: ship and I doc and then go into our season
Speaker 1: of sorcery right away that will come up next week,
Speaker 1: and we're also going to talk about the punishments that
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