Happy Friday once again. This week I outsourced my decision on what to make and write about for you all to Mrs. Sharkbait. I was waffling between this drink and another one. After an evening spent hanging blinds and wondering if the pictures we were hanging were straight, she loudly proclaimed she would like a cocktail when we were finished. So I gave her the Vintage Spirits And Forgotten Cocktails book (both drinks were in there) and she choose the Bebbo Cocktail.
The description of the Bebbo compares it to a Bee’s Knees, but with orange juice. Having previously made a Bee’s Knees, and being a fan of it, I thought Mrs. Sharkbait made a good choice and mixed us each one.
Bebbo Cocktail
1.5 oz. Gin
1 oz. Fresh lemon juice
.5 oz. Honey
2 tsp. Orange juice
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker and stir until the honey is dissolved. Add ice, shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
The drink is quite lemony on the nose. I also get a slight orange aroma as well. I used fresh lemon, and store bought orange juice. I wonder if the ratio of lemon to orange would be a bit more even if I had fresh oranges to squeeze. Perhaps next time. Mrs. Sharkbait said her drink reminded her of a lemon drop.
The sip starts off with a pleasant mixture of the gin, lemon and the honey. Neither overshadows the other and they complement each other very well. The orange juice somewhat fills in about midway through and the combination of the four provides the flavor profile the rest of the way through. The orange juice leaves behind a taste after the sip is done, but I don’t hate it. The lemon flavor is the weakest of the main ingredients, but I believe its strength is adding acidity, and a deeper flavor than what the orange juice can provide. Omitting the lemon would be a mistake here.
The cocktail cherry adds a nice bit of flavor towards the end of the drink itself. It also adds a nice color on the bottom of the coupe as the syrup sinks. It’s reminiscent of a tequila sunrise in that regard. As I said earlier in this piece, this is just like a Bee’s Knees, but in my opinion slightly better. It isn’t as sweet as a Bee’s Knees which I appreciate. Which I assume is the result of using straight honey, as opposed to honey syrup.
The Bebbo is not overly boozy. I would definitely order a second one, maybe a third as well. Though this one seems like it would sneak up on you soon if you weren’t careful…
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Here’s what you need to go with your cheap liquor
@Hippo and the other kiithid (not a typo, but a reference to a reaaaally bloody good game called Homeworld) a little standup for yus 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd0UYyxo158
KITH update – I watched some more clips on youtube and frankly, it feels like a shitty copy of the barrenest years of SNL with the same tendency for jokes to overstay their goddamn welcome, coupled with enough “please clap”-style laugh tracks to really drive home how painfully unfunny those clips were….
KITH were a huge deal when I was in college; most of my classmates positively raved about them and quoted endlessly from sketches. I didn’t really get into it. Tried again a few years ago when a streaming service picked them up, and they still aren’t my thing. I think some individual sketches are funny — it’s hard for any sketch comedy show to bat .000 — but they’ve never been my jam.
That’s the problem – I used a couple of “best of” sketch lists and not a single one clicked… and it doesn’t take that much for me to at least chuckle at stand-up set .. and my bloody “taste” ranges from the safest Jimmy Carr set to Frankie Boyle’s black comedy and from from titans of comedy like Murphy, Chappelle, Pryor, Carlin… to Amy Schumer an’ Sara Pascoe (think of her as a blander, less talented and in-your-face vegan version of Amy Schumer)
In other booze news, the tariffs on Scotch are being lifted. Hope this shows up in the retail prices soon…
Uncle Joe justifies my vote.
So…the guy who voices Jimmy Pesto on Bob’s Burgers was in the 1/6 insurrection and is gonna be in big trouble. It’s cool because Jimmy Pesto is always a dick on that show.
Jimmy Pesto would storm the capital
And just as we’re talking about booze, BevMo helpfully reminded me that today is no deliver fee Friday….
Well isnt that convenient
What’s your favorite sort-of-obscure liquor? I’m shopping and figure I might as well throw in something new.
Right now I’m looking at a yuzu liqueur and a grapefruit one
Ancho Reyes Verde Chile Poblano Liqueur
Pairs nicely with Taco Bell
I love that one, and also the ancho one.
Seems awful but I shouldn’t knock it…
Do you just pour it over enchiladas?
Nope, I add it to margaritas, or other cocktails I’ve invented: my favorite so far is mezcal, chile liqueur, blood orange and lime juice and a bit of agave syrup.
The verde (poblano) one is more vegetal without much heat, the ancho has a bit of heat but also sort of a Mexican chocolate/spice note
Welp, better try all of it. More than once.
Oh man. Falernum might be it right now. Used in a lot of tropical drinks
Got about 3/4 of a bottle of that left. I should be using it more often
That, too! St. Patrick’s is coming up, so I think maybe some stouts are in order. They have some decent American stouts, not sure about the non-Guinness Irish options.
Get Slivovitza (or basically any non-grape Rakija) – you’ll thank me in the morning 😉
Only option available is Bistra Slivovitz
Yeah, given the typo on the label literally in every ex-Yugoslavian language (or Slavic language for that matter) it’s called slivovitza (though with variable spelling,lol), because Rakiya is FEMININE (and just like a woman, if you pick wrong – you’ll have your little fun, but feel beyond miserable in the morning),
Hell, Bistra (aka clear/transparent) is in fact right for the correct feminine slivovitza/rakija that it makes me wonder what else is bloody wrong with that liquor 😀
As Hippo’s comment on drinking gin neat (and as a test to see if I’m not now banned for not finding the embedded KITH clip funny at all :D)… I really have to re-ask – what do you lads and lasses consider your limit (in yer prime, because we’ve all grown wiser since we were in our early 20s … I hope) when it comes to actual drinking (no “6 beers in 4 hours” ‘s please) ?
I don’t have any set limits in terms of drinks per night or anything like that. As a practical matter, my “big nights” are probably lower than they used to be, but that’s more a function of socializing than any real change. Left to my own devices, I was always a “slow and steady” drinker; I only ended up going overboard when it was a night of “ok, let’s pound back a few quickly and then head over to Bill’s place to meet with the rest of the crew” followed by “hey, chug that back, the taxi’s here to take us to the bar,” “this bar sucks, finish that quickly so we can go to bar #2,” “hey, I bought us all shots! Drink up!” etc. But that kind of thing mostly ended in my 20s.
The one thing I consciously monitor now is taking days off.
Same for me – my days of chugging a bottle of Bacardi 151 (or equivalents) just to drink people under the table before working through (most) of a second for the taste are happily behind me (half because of the kids and half because… well, I’d rather get a “on-call” bonus in my account at the end of the month than enduring the hateful glares I got by my bleary-eyed colleagues (I swear to Jebus, the only drinks capable of giving me a hangover stronger than a mild headache are champagne and extremely cheap Tesco/Lidl vodka) 😀
Edit: Ah, after a quick reminder from wifey – “And copious amounts of Baileys”
We’ve not had the Gin Warz here yet (never a sandwich, thank fuck). But let me kick it off and say…ah always ask for Bombay Sapphire. I suppose my #2 is Tanqueray? Just because every bar has that. And it’s fine.
Holy cats, found a site called “ginobserver” and man, are there ever a fuckton of fancy-pants gins ourt there…
As a whiskey snob, I’d like to cast the first Molotov and ask… “Does it matter? Gin is still basically a shittier eau de cologne at the best of times 😛 “
You’ve seen Kids In The Hall, right? I am Dave Foley’s “Girl Drink Drunk.”
Gins and tonic taste like lime candy (especially with the Sapphire tier). And they fuck you the fuck up.
Avoid the dirt cheap rotgut stuff, though.
/used my whiskey allotment my freshman year at NC State, no matter how fancy and expensive (people have insisted that I try), they all smell/taste/trigger Jim Beam to me, and I retch
No, I haven’t either it nor Dave Folley (sorry, but I just never could get into wrestling). At any rate, I think I’ve drunk enough gin from the cheapest swill to “supposedly supreme stuff”, but… it’s still shite to me (probably because I stick to my basic core belief that a drink should be drunk neat.. or at worst on the rocks).
In fact, I think I have half a shelf (running the gamut from cheaper shit like Tanqueray and Aviation to theoretically good shit like vintage Gordon’s from the 50s and 60s) of that shit that I’m slowly re-gifting
yeah, if you drink gin “neat” you are in Leaving Las Vegas territory.
and JEEBUS TAPDANCING CHRIST, go binge KITH.
With you on KITH. Mandatory viewing for anyone on this site.
Without exaggeration, it is the sounding board of my sense of humour. That and George Carlin standup. When I first started watching (on HBO, uncut and pre-Comedy Central), it was like “oh yes, I am home here.”
George Carlin? .. I think I know that name… it’s Dan Carlin’s (of Hardcore History) brother? I didn’t realize he was in standup
Edit: After enough time has passed to ensure that the more apoplectic people are well and truly ded… I’m kidding, I have Carlin’s entire standup on DVD and some other appearances “obtained via other means”, plus I think most of his non-cameo films … yes, including Jersey Girl and Scary movie (3.. or 4? … y’know, after the decent ones)
I need a fainting couch if you really don’t know The Gopsel of George Carlin. Transcendent comic genius.
EDIT – misread and skipped over the “kidding” part. Hee hee
I haven’t heard of the Hippie-dippie weatherman, Cardinal Glick, Rufus and sure as goddamn fucking cunt-slapping Christ I don’t think that USC or Bad For Ya sets should be mandatory viewing… unlike that KITH skit you linked to, which overstayed its welcome by about 12 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4TGGtPzBU
I can’t help feeling responsible for your condition, but then I can’t help not caring. It’s who I am, and I refuse to apologize for it!
Judging by the intrusive and annoying laugh track… I was supposed to laugh to this “comedy skit”, right?
For fuck’s sake, just because the US/North America’s settled by bloody lightweights….
Ok, lemme rephrase/restate – what passes for “too much drinking… in your youth” (or now, whichever’s higher) ? In fact the question’s for the whole class here, lol – what passes for “heavy drinking” on yer end,lol?
Can you add “regularly” after neat? Because otherwise i have to go to a meeting.
/also, some contractor gave my Dad a really nice bottle of Crown Royal (or hey, was “nice” to a college student’s palate) every Christmas, and I re-gifted the shit out them for college graduations, etc.
/because, again, I could nae really drink them myself
I’ve always said that bad gin is the hardest spirit to cover up
I got “Beamed Up” on my 15th birthday and I can’t touch brown liquor since then.
My son never liked beer, (shame of the family, etc., etc.), but got into gin once he turned 21. He’s brought home some weird ones, and I’ve bought him some higher-end ones and while I still don’t particularly like it, there is a huge difference in what you see in quality between price points in gin.
My friends and I were drinking pre-Rush concert back in the day, and we found ourselves out of everything…one guy sheepishly said, hey I got rum, and we’re like well shit, break it out, and it turns out it was Osco brand rum. Osco is the store that bought out Sav-on Drugs back in the 80s. We drank drug store rum, which was either the high or low point of my life.
at a football game once, I had to mix my smuggled airport bottles of gin (Seagrams??) with “stadium cup” Sprite (mixed in the loo, of course). That was probably my low. And yes, it was awful. But I drank it b/c am against alcohol abuse smh.
I am surprised you didn’t sell him on e-bay!
My preferred brands are Hendrick’s and St. George. I usually keep a bottle of Bombay or Aviation around for mixed drinks.
Martin Millers for me
Stray observation – when Sharkbait uses good booze for his objectively interesting cocktails of the week articles, I turn into … a “Git off mah lawn” man (Irish farming country pub edition), but when using gin… I don’t get even a pang of disagreement with his drink 😛
This wasnt even particularly “good” gin. It was New Amsterdam I got on sale. I usually stock Gordon sin bulk, and will get Sapphire occasionally too
In law school I dated a girl who loved lemon drops. She also had amazing oral skills, turned out to be quite racist, and once called off a date because another girl had punched her out at a bar and she had a black-eye.
Eventually I stopped seeing her, and while I don’t know for sure what happened to her, I suspect that she eventually found her way south and briefly dated tWBS.
My raycess ex-gf also LOVED candy. She was also uber-Catholic, and not sure if she would ever suck a dick. Certainly didn’t mine.
#TMIFriday
In her case lemon drops were a vodka-based drink. They were actually pretty good.
Twas probably just yours, because “Anal and oral don’t count” (at least according to the 2 datapoints I have in Texas and Ireland).
Edit: Also find yerself a nice little Lutheran girl that shares most of your interests and is just wild enough to be perma-banned from Victoria’s Secret (and British Airlines) 😉
On a second thought – you can also keep an eye out on them rare (but wonderful) roving packs of Icelandic girls 😉
/Finds nice Icelandic girl
//stabbed to death on first date
She’s Norwegian/Swedish, y’know? The whole series was “inspired by/based on” among other things the Icelandic sagas, but the main characters aren’t Icelandic, lol (ie Ragnar was possibly the son of the Swedish king and Lagertha here is from what’s now Norway) 😉
Also, ^ she’s Russian/Ukrainian (just like certain other ethnic groups a tad to the south… aka the “promised land, no we didn’t have a receipt nor we’ve been around here for more than a millenium… but trust us, mkay”, “ethnicity” is a fluid definition).. You’ll still get stabbed on a first date, or at the very least, snapped like a twig, because I think I remember that Kat Wynnick’s side gig/hobby is having her own martial arts dojo 😛
Edit: Quick check later and yeap – Taekwondo and self-defence instructor 😉
I read she was a legitimate kick-your-ass bodyguard before getting into acting.
She’s also bloody charming in real life too, though also not nearly as tall as I assumed (she’s like 1.65/ 5ft 5). She (and Dominique McElligott) are also now my basic go-to for the argument that sometimes that sometimes cameras really can take but the palest imitation of the real person’s beauty/charm 🙂
I’d love an Icelander!
There’s a made for tv movie in here, someone get on it!
From the TMI Department – I am getting ready to shave (not my bollocks) for the first time with my new, old man “progressive” lenses. There Will Be Blood.
Just rub some gunpowder in it an’ walk it off,ya silly git
Solid advice, but nae every client appreciates the Art of Blackface (I have a video call in like 20 minutes).
Plus, I have, like, zero rhythm if asked to do a little softshoe
Just have Dr. Seuss draw a picture of your face for the video call. Problem solved!
Actually, blood-red, because I forgot to mention that you then have to touch it off with a match or something to carterize the wound… or nick.. 😉
Was this named by someone who just drank four of them?
Oh, an’ he FANCY!
/seriously, these are fantastic
The Bebbo seems like a quality panty-dropper. I have a feeling using fresh squeezed Orange juice would make a big difference here.
I agree.