What are the 7 cocktails every drink is based on? 🍹 Dive into tiki, bitters, fire tricks & cocktail history w/ bartender legend Dr. Cush! 🎙️@ThirstyThursdaysat3PMEST
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/azJZrXe5R2Q
💡 What happens when a comedian turns into LA’s best bartender? You get Dr. Cush’s Exotic Drinks — a one-man show mixing cocktail science, bar wisdom & some hilarious fire tricks 🔥🍊
✨ Highlights from the episode:
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0:00 Intro to Dr. Cush 🍸
1:00 From comedy to cocktails
5:00 The 7 cocktails theory explained
12:00 Punch vs daiquiri: tiki breakdown
17:00 Cocktail vs experience: why it matters
25:00 Building an online bar community
31:00 Hemingway Daiquiri tutorial 🍹
41:00 The Dr. Cush Exotic Old Fashioned (🔥)
50:00 Shelf-stable lime juice recipe
1:03:00 State of the booze industry
1:10:00 Signature drink + fire tricks
1:20:00 Cocktail nerd history tour
1:30:00 Outro & cocktail class invite
Mentors in Drinks and Tiki
Steve the Bartender
Created Drinks Website: Kindred Cocktails Discovered: Pseudo Juice Calculator
Dave Arnold - Technique Liquid Intelligence
Jeffrey Beachbum Berry Owns Latitude 29 in New Orleans
Martin & Rebecca Cate own Smuggler's Cove in San Francisco
Wrote James Beard Award-winning “Smuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki
David Wondrich Drinks Historian and author, Link to his Books and awards
Sammy Ross Best Bar Dudes of All Time
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