this episode's sponsored by ladyfootlocker.com you have a lot going on work school friends kids cocktail parties go prepared and look good while you're doing it head to everydaydriggers.tv to save 10 off orders 50 or more at ladyfootlocker.com welcome to common man cocktails i'm your host derek summer today we're going to start the week off with the monkey gland yes this recipe was picked by me actually i found it on garnishbar.com um they follow the show too they being him one at least one person um and nice very well designed site by the way um for recipes and this recipe i picked specifically because it has a gin and i felt we haven't done gin in a long time do you feel that way that we haven't done gym in a long time jim jim i've never done gym but thanks for asking i have gin yeah i don't think we have done gin recipes no and that's why i chose our stand in i don't really know what that means but like that the one we use the most this is like a lot for us uh new amsterdam gin didn't your mother ever tell you not to use words that you don't know what they mean what we're doing stand in that was true i would be able to say anything um so this recipe is gonna have two we're ounces two ounces of gin one ounce of orange juice oj you need orange juice this week there's another episode that has one ounce of orange juice just prepare yourself for one extra ounce splash of grenadine right there and a splash of absinthe right here we're using a splash one's blocked just one volcare absent superior this is i think from the french quarter or it means french quarter i don't really whatever this is a good one so i'm gonna go with a good one this time as opposed to i guess other times anyway that's what we're going to do it's going to be a shaken strained in a cocktail glass while we're here dump this big old icy in there to chill it off a little bit and we'll get the show on the road two ounces of gin i got one of those we're gonna do that one first because it's the easiest heaviest you know it's really hard on your carpal tunnel at least to my carpal tunnel i don't want yours nope didn't bother it at all no this is like the seven up of gins don't you agree it's got that what it's it's got that s like like citrus it doesn't kick the gin it's light it's refreshing i just got this negative connotation in my head when you said the seven up of jeans you know so did i for some reason but i it it is it's like a it's very easy all right splash just one splash in my face splash of the oh it looks like uh okay the sunrise that was a big splash big fan i think we've done a an absinthe in gin before but could be wrong oh yeah smell the potency power of awesome shake this up people have also sent a message saying have i ever broken a glass with one of these boss and shakers i don't it's been a pretty busy week so i haven't got comments for everything that's come in yet even the back episodes like way back but no never broken one it's really not that hard to not break one double negative there um so people are worried the only way you're gonna break it is if you hit it way too hard or you do something foolish i guess that's how things typically break don't you're trying to break it on purpose no if that was the case then why did you buy it in the first place true just a little tap done it comes right off unlike the three piece this what do you think i'm getting like this sense of like a i don't want to say mango because it's not yellow enough almost like a mango grapefruit yeah it's a weird color it is definitely weird i don't know what a monkey's gland looks like but maybe that it is a very off crazy like color different i like different i get the absinthe to be honest i don't know what my own gland looks like this is true squeezing them out that's pretty nasty it's like it's like a washing machine of flavors like it's just swirling really you just had to try and pick something up no no i'm just because that's what i'm getting i'm getting like a a weird it's not like the roller coaster the roller coaster is like woo june way absinthe right this is like gin absinthe orange juice gin absinthe orange like it's it's almost like a rolling of flavors it's not one flavor predominating through the drink predominating the word it's not one over here and one over here it's they're really struggling together if you don't like absinthe you probably want to make a smaller splash the color from the grenadine i think is all you're getting you're not getting any real super sweetness here just the the citrus although new amsterdam with the orange juice i think works well because it's not too overgenified or um no that's the juniper's so subtle in that this tastes like a gin and absinthe drink i'm trying to figure out where to categorize it's not really sweet it's not really sour i'm going strange it's definitely goes down the road if you have one of those categories i don't have a strange category but you're getting sort of the the juniper and herb with the citrus if that makes any sense with this like black licorice type undertone and a funky color that's it that my friends is the monkey gland thank you uh garnishbar.com for that one we're teaching oh wait our site is everydaydrivers.tv so after you visit them you go visit us because uh we just know how to drink keep you