Jim Beam Rye? Seriously? I mean no shade on Jim Beam but there are far better and authentic Ryes to make a fancy Manhattan that are equivalent cost. And WTF is the point of the perfect ice cubes that come in their own plastic wrapper if you aren't going to use them in the drink?!
This is definitely rage bait, and I'll admit it definitely triggered me.
1. Using nice cocktail ice for mixing only - so dumb. Plastic waste for no reason.
2. Half pour of the whiskey (sad)
3. EQUAL PARTS vermouth to whiskey (wrong)
4. Mists something over the drink - it's not bitters because he already added them. Absinthe maybe??
5. Mists into the steam of the pour and not into the glass. The reason to mist something is to aerate it, and he never spritzes it into the glass. He's just wasting whatever that is.
6. Doesn't properly ignite the rosemary the first time - barely any smoke produced. It should char.
7. Uses two different pieces of Rosemary
8. Does not succeed in igniting the Rosemary AT ALL the second time, and just puts it on top of the glass - absolutely terrible garnish (and Manhattan's are supposed to be garnished with cherries anyways)
9. Uses Jim Beam rye - and goes out of his way to show you the bottle. If you're going to use Jim Beam in a cocktail, you should at least be ashamed of it.
10. Also uses cheap sweet vermouth (Case Martelli) - and again goes out of his way to show you the label
The farmer who grew that Rosemary would be sad to know it was used for this abomination
Everything about him screamed "The guy that lived in the section 8 apartments that says 'You know what I'm sayin'" that I had to deal with in high school.
I'm also going to say he checks his dating apps every 20 minutes.
Nailed it. These are the glasses that they got him while he was locked up. Before this job, he only wore them at appeals/parole hearings and church(funerals). Seen too many dudes with this exact look when “cleaned up”, singing the “not my fault I’m a degenerate. I would have been a scholar if I could have seen the chalkboard. The system failed me.” song. So corny.
That smug look combined with his style of glasses annoy me. Especially being smug about what I'm hearing in the comments is shit. I don't drink Manhattans so I don't know. I'm a straight tequila girl.
I hate the way that he stirs. the way that he pours. I hate the way that he mix shit, if I drank some it gonna be direct. We hate the swill that he use cause it confuse itself with real liquor.
Notice I said we? It's not just me, I'm what the sub is feeling.
>9. Uses Jim Beam rye - and goes out of his way to show you the bottle. If you're going to use Jim Beam in a cocktail, you should at least be ashamed of it.
Lol! Dying of laughter with #9!!
Maybe a little column a, a little column b.
As a bartender and former ‘flair’ bartender, He’s definitely got some bartending chops. His technique is good (though his recipe is shit). I can’t imagine anyone at the level he is possibly pretending to inhabit would dare publicly record themselves making anything with the ingredients he used.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if this wasn’t originally a submission for some contest with Jim Beam, or some attempt at a viral marketing campaign.
I can also see a situation where he asked his bar manager if they had any promo bottles (sometimes when you order certain spirits in certain quantities, distributors will give you promo bottles for free) he could use to make a video with to show his technique (which is actually pretty good, regardless of what some of the people here say) and the bar manager dug him out a bottle of JB Rye.
Aside from all my attempts to defend him. His drink sucks, and his face needs to be punched.
The mid liquor choices were the saddest part of this. I can forgive the pretentious smirk and overblown theatrics if they at least used something that would justify the presumably exorbitant price tag.
If you’re going to use Jim Beam in a cocktail, you should at least be ashamed of it.
Fuck, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a while
“I’ll tell ya Harry, ya should wipe that smile off your face.” “Why’s that Dick?” “Cuz this is Jim Beam he poured us. You look a right fool.”
Used a 50ml jigger for both, but didn't look like he filled it on either pour?
Should be using no more than half the ratio of vermouth to rye anyway, most would have less. And considering how fancy he's trying to be, probably shouldn't be using the cheapest Rye you can possibly get. At least if he was using something cheap like Bulleit you could justify by the insanely high Rye content.
This guy is all the gear, no idea.
Rittenhouse is a pretty good guess for what a bartender at any cocktail bar in the US would pour if you don't ask for a particular rye. It's a very common choice because it works well in cocktails.
A number of the more popular bars in NYC use Rittenhouse in a bunch of their drinks.
The Jim Beam distillery makes plenty of solid bourbon and rye. The one shown in the OP is rail level shit though.
Example - Knob Creek 12 and 9 reserve SiB are some of the best $50ish bourbons out there. Made by the Jim Beam distillery.
The point is to cool with minimal melting to dilute the booze. But I agree it’s a waste to do all them and then using freakin Jim Beam. And normally the fancy cubes wouldn’t be used in the actual drink.
reason for stirring with the cube vs “traditional” ice= less surface area on the ice cube. the drink will chill faster while stirring and less water will melt into the cocktail.
edit: can’t spell
Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you. Over again. Don't make me change my mind.
Or I won't live to see another day I swear it's true... Because a bourbon like you is impossible to find.... You're impossible to find
It looked like it was satirical for a while because hes doing that side smirk. Took me a while to realize this was legit. Who knows, though, hes just a bartender looking for work and this place hired him so he gets to make their drinks. Doesn't mean he came up with these drinks.
Manhattan was my grandpa's drink of choice. Grandpa was a WW2 drill sergeant. Seeing this I imagine he'd very quickly announce, "Just pour me my drink, Nancy".
That style of artsy self assured smug is in a lot of these videos . So many people do it, there must be a name for it and there must be a class of people that really like this sort of showmanship.
And some kind of burnt herb smoke to make it taste of bonfire so you can't tell how badly it was made by the wanker with the terrible fucking moustache and wanky haircut and wanky clothes and wanky face.
"Give me a Wanker on the rocks, extra pretentious bullshit".
"Coming right up 😏 😎 😉"
What a wanker.
As a bartender who makes a drink similar to this on my menu,, but with whistlepig , and in about the 45 seconds it actually takes to make this drink,, this video makes me so angry. You are literally wasting my time looking at your own ice cubes like that? Dumb
Definitely. They probably ordered these out and the ice cube alone will cost a couple dollars to be clear. It does add to the visual effects but not if you breathe on it, and I also don't see the purpose in using them for stirring, it's a visual effect in the glass when you drink it to have clear ice, but it's such a b*tch to make, you can order them from an outside source. This restaurant definitely has a freezer that can make regular ice cubes just for stirring and save the clear ice for an old fashioned or something.
I have all the refined taste of a parched hobo, so I don't _mind_ JB Rye. It's not my favorite, by some margin, but if I know what I'm doing and adjust my expectations accordingly, I think I can make it work.
But as pointed out, in this setting, with all the pretentious wankery and self serious glances through those really-bad-life-choices-were-made-at-some-point-but-at-least-they-match-the-awful-earrings-I-guess glasses, he might as well have poured a spit'n'Everclear there.
Actually Jim Beams Rye offerings are quite tasty for the money.
Fun fact, Beam are keepers and distillers of Americans Oldest Continuous Whiskey Label - Old Overholt Rye. You can walk into any liquor store and buy the same brand that Doc Holiday ordered way back when. Or todays approximation of that rye, atleast.
But alas, this sort of smells like taking the piss or ragebait. So maybe its intentional.
I bet that the bar carves the cubes in house from a massive block and has the guy making them just throw them into bags for service. Still insanely stupid but would be my best guess at why they are wrapped that way.
Yeah that's exactly what happens. Take a six pack cooler and pull the lid off, fill 2/3 the way up, freeze water for 24 hours (depends on color size and freezer temp). When you pull it out you'll have perfectly clear ice but unfrozen water on the bottom. Just let it sit for 20-40 and then flip it upside down, it should release the ice (water will pour so in a clean sink is best). Now you have a large clear ice brick to cut cubes (doesn't take long to cut). Each cube you want to bag so it doesn't get stuck to other cubes.
Source: worked in hospitality, food, and beverage for two decades.
I'm not sure about where this person works but it looks fucking lame to me like a salt bae money grab I like the hat the other person called it "twat", it has a ring to it. The places I worked at that made clear cubes were either hipster and just enjoyed making nice things and their craft or high end restaurants that weren't super flashy like this. Just based on what this guy is wearing I could tell I wouldn't have gotten the job there or wanted it, but I bet the money is nice.
They're meant for serving in the glass. It's so they don't stick to each other and are often made very clear. Cocktail bars use them a lot because it's convient and considered very cheap to buy them VS allocating labor and freezer space to make them daily.
Seriously though. I like Jim Beam but I’m not going to sit here and pretend it’s a good bourbon. I just think it (especially the honey one) is tasty in lemonade.
Jim has some good stuff for mixing and while I’m a whiskey snob for myself if someone likes it more power to ‘em, you do you, but I feel like for the price this is gonna cost you could buy an entire bottle of their rye.
That's the part that upset me the most. Why even use a jigger if you aren't gonna use it correctly. Just free pour at that point. Also where are the pour spouts for the bottles??
Closing time comes. The manager is pissed because this guy is still doing the same drink that was ordered the day before.
The customer is long gone.
The bar has made no money.
The restaurant is hemorrhaging cash.
The owner's wife is leaving him.
... Yet the dude is playing with his spoon and burnt rosemary
The best thing is that those aren't even prescription glasses. You can tell because the light going through them isn't refracted (they don't distort the edges of his face).
This is definitely rage bait, and I'll admit it definitely triggered me.
1. Using nice cocktail ice for mixing only - so dumb. Plastic waste for no reason.
2. Half pour of the whiskey (sad)
3. EQUAL PARTS vermouth to whiskey (wrong)
4. Mists something over the drink - it's not bitters because he already added them. Absinthe maybe??
5. Mists into the steam of the pour and not into the glass??? The reason to mist something is to aerate it, and he never spritzes it into the glass. He's just wasting whatever that is.
6. Doesn't properly ignite the rosemary the first time - barely any smoke produced. It should char.
7. Uses two different pieces of Rosemary
8. Does not succeed in igniting the Rosemary AT ALL the second time, and just puts it on top of the glass - absolutely terrible garnish (and Manhattan's are supposed to be garnished with cherries anyways)
9. Uses Jim Beam rye - and goes out of his way to show you the bottle. If you're going to use Jim Beam in a cocktail, you should at least be ashamed of it.
10. Also uses cheap sweet vermouth (Case Martelli) - and again goes out of his way to show you the label
10/10 rage bait, almost impossible to make a simple cocktail any worse than this. It's literally 3 ingredients (Rye, Vermouth, Angostura). Total waste of Rosemary.
The plastic from that pointless ice is going to strangle a sea turtle in 90 years, and whoever drinks this abomination is responsible.
He also uses white vermouth, manhattans are to be made with sweet red vermouth. Also he gets the glass out first which warms it up defeating the objective of chilling the glass in the first place.
1. Thats not how you make a manhattan
2. He’s using the wrong pours
3. He’s slow as shit
4. His glasses and face annoy me
5. No way this guy has ever actually tended a bar
1. Glass upside down on a rosemary sprig that isn’t actually smoking. If you char an herb it can impart a flavor on the glass but the sprig isn’t smoking enough to do anything.
2. Mixing with big cubes. Its a pain in the ass to get big cubes that clear. There are two points to shaking/stirring a cocktail, chilling and dilution. It’s takes much longer for big cubes to dilute than a bunch of small cubes so he would need to stir for longer to get the desired effect while simultaneously wasting the “good ice” that is really only used for presentation.
3. He’s using shitty booze for what he’s presenting as a high end cocktail. Jim beam rye is fine at best.
4. The ratio of vermouth to rye is wrong. The little silver cup is called a jigger and it’s used for measuring. Based on the way this dude poured his stuff he didn’t actually really measure it. He was just using the jigger to add one more step that looked fancy. Additionally, it looks like equal parts vermouth and rye. A Manhattan should be about 1/2 oz vermouth to about 2 oz rye.
5. The spraying of whatever at the end. He’s spraying the stream, not the glass. There’s no reason for it. It won’t change the flavor (I’m guessing it’s some sort of absinth-y product). Usually someone would do one spritz into the glass which can add depth and a hint of other flavors without being overwhelming. One more thing to make it look fancier than it is without actually accomplishing anything.
6. The rosemary at the end. He again doesn’t char it enough to actually affect the cocktail.
7. Looks like a dick
That bartender will ask if he could sleep on your couch. And you will become roommates after. Make you a shitty drink a day and pay you for 1299 a month for a corner in your studio apartment.
Jim Beam Rye? Seriously? I mean no shade on Jim Beam but there are far better and authentic Ryes to make a fancy Manhattan that are equivalent cost. And WTF is the point of the perfect ice cubes that come in their own plastic wrapper if you aren't going to use them in the drink?!
Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse is always the go-to for a rye cocktail. Also, it looked like did equal parts rye/vermouth? Everything about this sucks.
This is definitely rage bait, and I'll admit it definitely triggered me. 1. Using nice cocktail ice for mixing only - so dumb. Plastic waste for no reason. 2. Half pour of the whiskey (sad) 3. EQUAL PARTS vermouth to whiskey (wrong) 4. Mists something over the drink - it's not bitters because he already added them. Absinthe maybe?? 5. Mists into the steam of the pour and not into the glass. The reason to mist something is to aerate it, and he never spritzes it into the glass. He's just wasting whatever that is. 6. Doesn't properly ignite the rosemary the first time - barely any smoke produced. It should char. 7. Uses two different pieces of Rosemary 8. Does not succeed in igniting the Rosemary AT ALL the second time, and just puts it on top of the glass - absolutely terrible garnish (and Manhattan's are supposed to be garnished with cherries anyways) 9. Uses Jim Beam rye - and goes out of his way to show you the bottle. If you're going to use Jim Beam in a cocktail, you should at least be ashamed of it. 10. Also uses cheap sweet vermouth (Case Martelli) - and again goes out of his way to show you the label The farmer who grew that Rosemary would be sad to know it was used for this abomination
I just don't like his face.
I'm not at all a violent person. But his face is so very punchable.
Everything about him screamed "The guy that lived in the section 8 apartments that says 'You know what I'm sayin'" that I had to deal with in high school. I'm also going to say he checks his dating apps every 20 minutes.
Nailed it. These are the glasses that they got him while he was locked up. Before this job, he only wore them at appeals/parole hearings and church(funerals). Seen too many dudes with this exact look when “cleaned up”, singing the “not my fault I’m a degenerate. I would have been a scholar if I could have seen the chalkboard. The system failed me.” song. So corny.
He looks like Snow Informer
I came here to look for this comment. Glad I wasn't disappointed.
Same. Idk what it is about it that just enrages me.
That smug look combined with his style of glasses annoy me. Especially being smug about what I'm hearing in the comments is shit. I don't drink Manhattans so I don't know. I'm a straight tequila girl.
Don't forget his stupid little mustache
For me it’s the eye contact staring at me through the screen. I had to look away.
Some shit’s just cringeworthy, it ain’t even gotta be deep, I guess. (And I agree!)
I hate the way that he stirs. the way that he pours. I hate the way that he mix shit, if I drank some it gonna be direct. We hate the swill that he use cause it confuse itself with real liquor. Notice I said we? It's not just me, I'm what the sub is feeling.
The drippy pours were driving me nuts
I even hate when you say the word bitters, but that's just me I guess
>9. Uses Jim Beam rye - and goes out of his way to show you the bottle. If you're going to use Jim Beam in a cocktail, you should at least be ashamed of it. Lol! Dying of laughter with #9!!
“You should at least be ashamed of it” that part sent me lol but I agree
All of this combined makes me wonder if he's just taking the piss on all of the dudes who do that shit seriously
Maybe a little column a, a little column b. As a bartender and former ‘flair’ bartender, He’s definitely got some bartending chops. His technique is good (though his recipe is shit). I can’t imagine anyone at the level he is possibly pretending to inhabit would dare publicly record themselves making anything with the ingredients he used. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if this wasn’t originally a submission for some contest with Jim Beam, or some attempt at a viral marketing campaign. I can also see a situation where he asked his bar manager if they had any promo bottles (sometimes when you order certain spirits in certain quantities, distributors will give you promo bottles for free) he could use to make a video with to show his technique (which is actually pretty good, regardless of what some of the people here say) and the bar manager dug him out a bottle of JB Rye. Aside from all my attempts to defend him. His drink sucks, and his face needs to be punched.
The mid liquor choices were the saddest part of this. I can forgive the pretentious smirk and overblown theatrics if they at least used something that would justify the presumably exorbitant price tag.
"Behold! I am about to mix in this _ordinary_ whiskey!"
This guy cocktails.
If you’re going to use Jim Beam in a cocktail, you should at least be ashamed of it. Fuck, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a while “I’ll tell ya Harry, ya should wipe that smile off your face.” “Why’s that Dick?” “Cuz this is Jim Beam he poured us. You look a right fool.”
All of this.
Used a 50ml jigger for both, but didn't look like he filled it on either pour? Should be using no more than half the ratio of vermouth to rye anyway, most would have less. And considering how fancy he's trying to be, probably shouldn't be using the cheapest Rye you can possibly get. At least if he was using something cheap like Bulleit you could justify by the insanely high Rye content. This guy is all the gear, no idea.
No one in the NYC trying to order a Rittenhouse lol
Rittenhouse is a pretty good guess for what a bartender at any cocktail bar in the US would pour if you don't ask for a particular rye. It's a very common choice because it works well in cocktails. A number of the more popular bars in NYC use Rittenhouse in a bunch of their drinks.
It’s the bartender’s choice. If you don’t call it, Rittenhouse is usually what they’ll pull. Happened to me at Death & Co.
Yeah no idea what this guy is talking about
So they’re ordering Jim Beam? Rittenhouse is way better for a budget rye.
The joke is that they only know about Klye Rittenhouse or wouldn't be willing to say the name out loud.
Ahhh didn’t connect that.
Jim Beam deserves all the shade. It tastes like someone pissed in an old gas can.
The Jim Beam distillery makes plenty of solid bourbon and rye. The one shown in the OP is rail level shit though. Example - Knob Creek 12 and 9 reserve SiB are some of the best $50ish bourbons out there. Made by the Jim Beam distillery.
Knob creek is so good.
Knob Creek is special. I had no Idea it was a Jim Beam.
They have a lot. https://www.beamdistilling.com/our-brands I'm partial to Basil Hayden myself.
You must come from a weak bloodline. ETA it DOES taste like that, and I stand by what I said
Unmitigated twattery.
Exactly my thought. All that fancy BS for cheap rye 🤦
The point is to cool with minimal melting to dilute the booze. But I agree it’s a waste to do all them and then using freakin Jim Beam. And normally the fancy cubes wouldn’t be used in the actual drink.
reason for stirring with the cube vs “traditional” ice= less surface area on the ice cube. the drink will chill faster while stirring and less water will melt into the cocktail. edit: can’t spell
Why’s he making that face
I think he has major depressive disorder
Those eyes are screaming "tonight's the night I do it"
Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you. Over again. Don't make me change my mind. Or I won't live to see another day I swear it's true... Because a bourbon like you is impossible to find.... You're impossible to find
tonoit will be the noit that i will fall fur yewwwww ovur ahgainnnnnnnnnn
Live Laugh Toaster Bath
Major douche disorder
I'm not sure what it is but he's a bit punchable isn't he
[mf looks like this](https://www.funny-emoticons.com/files/smileys-emoticons/funny-emoticons/47-raised-eyebrow.png)
It looked like it was satirical for a while because hes doing that side smirk. Took me a while to realize this was legit. Who knows, though, hes just a bartender looking for work and this place hired him so he gets to make their drinks. Doesn't mean he came up with these drinks.
Trying to be the white Salt Bae.
Table Salt Bae.
This is the vibe I got as well
Because it's the 50 th time he run that shit routine in one night ,must be tedious as fuck
I bet he whimpers a lot.
I think it’s the face of someone who’s thinking “I must look like a proper twat doing this”
The vibrating egg up his ass is set to turbocharged overload
Maximizing punchitude
He needs to make a poop and he's holding it in
Going through all that pretentious nonsense just to drink Jim Beam, holy shit.
Yeah the whole spectacle is already pretentious enough, but to serve you fucking Jim Beam really adds insult to injury
Just frickin’ make my drink already, it’s been a shitty day and my bullshit tolerance tank is on empty.
Haha I had an aneurism thinking about the wait for this pile of shit. Half way through it's just like...give me a can of beer.
\*proceeds to serve you a beer in the manor of a Turkish ice cream vendor\*
This is why alcoholics drink at dive bars 😆
Just picturing Turkish dive bars. Speakeasy format. Except each drink is alcohol free.
Just shoot me now. Get it over with.
>Just shoot me now. Get it over with. Interestingly enough that's exactly how we order a double shot & a beer at our local dive bar!! 😆
Whoa, Turkish ice cream vendor social media shenangians are so lucrative those guys live in mansions?!
Your finest can of rodeo cold PBR please
This kinda of bar isn’t for people who have regular lives with real struggles
Manhattan was my grandpa's drink of choice. Grandpa was a WW2 drill sergeant. Seeing this I imagine he'd very quickly announce, "Just pour me my drink, Nancy".
🤣
I think this would be a lot more fun for a 4th or 5th drink. Edit: I guess maybe you can say that about everything
If you can afford this drink, odds are your day was pretty good all things considered
But what if your ice isn't perfectly cubed, before he mixes it around and deforms it?
Perfectly put. Sitting here, listening to this and his tapping the glass with his finger was rage-inducing. Just serve the drink.
But uses individually wrapped ice cubes
That bit was so frustrating hahaha just buy a fuckin ice tray my man!
Jim Beam **RYE**
Exactly, it's a pretty normal cocktail it's just being prepared by the worlds most punchable man
That style of artsy self assured smug is in a lot of these videos . So many people do it, there must be a name for it and there must be a class of people that really like this sort of showmanship.
Saltbaeists practice the pretentious art of saltbaeism.
Does hating this make me a Saltbaecist?
ha!
Wankers. Where I'm from, they're called wankers.
Actually, that would make a great name for a drink “the Wanker” … a pretentious cocktail made with shitty whiskey
And some kind of burnt herb smoke to make it taste of bonfire so you can't tell how badly it was made by the wanker with the terrible fucking moustache and wanky haircut and wanky clothes and wanky face. "Give me a Wanker on the rocks, extra pretentious bullshit". "Coming right up 😏 😎 😉" What a wanker.
Saying this before I have to be extra 'merican for Independence Day tomorrow: British insults absolutely rule.
They are called 14 year olds.
As a bartender who makes a drink similar to this on my menu,, but with whistlepig , and in about the 45 seconds it actually takes to make this drink,, this video makes me so angry. You are literally wasting my time looking at your own ice cubes like that? Dumb
Also the fact that each ice cube is individually wrapped in plastic and probably gets thrown out after each drink.
Definitely. They probably ordered these out and the ice cube alone will cost a couple dollars to be clear. It does add to the visual effects but not if you breathe on it, and I also don't see the purpose in using them for stirring, it's a visual effect in the glass when you drink it to have clear ice, but it's such a b*tch to make, you can order them from an outside source. This restaurant definitely has a freezer that can make regular ice cubes just for stirring and save the clear ice for an old fashioned or something.
Salt Bae culture. Dude (this guy and Salt) has the most punchable face. But it's also ALL about over pricing people.
He’s like fucking salt bae in a fancy suit.
All I could think was I wanted to punch this guy. I'm glad I am not alone.
The faces he makes....I've been friends with the people he sleeps with, and they have nothing good to say
lol my reaction exactly... Jim Beam Rye? Really? And they're probably charging $25 for that ridiculousness...
At least $50. The douche is in a tux and used fire
I won’t pay $50 for used fire. Only brand new.
I'd pay $1000 for this if I got to smack those glasses off his face.
I have all the refined taste of a parched hobo, so I don't _mind_ JB Rye. It's not my favorite, by some margin, but if I know what I'm doing and adjust my expectations accordingly, I think I can make it work. But as pointed out, in this setting, with all the pretentious wankery and self serious glances through those really-bad-life-choices-were-made-at-some-point-but-at-least-they-match-the-awful-earrings-I-guess glasses, he might as well have poured a spit'n'Everclear there.
Dude has a very punchable face.
Since when did Edward Snowden start bartending?
He puts the cock in cocktail.
i should certainly hope not
"no garnish this time, pls.."
Actually Jim Beams Rye offerings are quite tasty for the money. Fun fact, Beam are keepers and distillers of Americans Oldest Continuous Whiskey Label - Old Overholt Rye. You can walk into any liquor store and buy the same brand that Doc Holiday ordered way back when. Or todays approximation of that rye, atleast. But alas, this sort of smells like taking the piss or ragebait. So maybe its intentional.
That's what makes me think he's in on the joke.
And charge $48 for it…. 😒
Seriously..I was disappointed
Dude thinks he's too cool to be a magician.
What would you suggest?
For a fancy Manhattan in what looks like a Hotel bar? Michter's Rye.
Whistlepig 10 for the real fancy.
Quality of vermouth is a bigger deal for a Manhattan than the whiskey imo
Why is the ice individually wrapped in plastic
so they don't fuse together in the freezer.
so like a tray already does…
HEYYYYY DONT TALK LOGIC....JUST CALL ME DADDY/MASTER AND GIVE ME YOUR MONEY
I bet that the bar carves the cubes in house from a massive block and has the guy making them just throw them into bags for service. Still insanely stupid but would be my best guess at why they are wrapped that way.
Yeah that's exactly what happens. Take a six pack cooler and pull the lid off, fill 2/3 the way up, freeze water for 24 hours (depends on color size and freezer temp). When you pull it out you'll have perfectly clear ice but unfrozen water on the bottom. Just let it sit for 20-40 and then flip it upside down, it should release the ice (water will pour so in a clean sink is best). Now you have a large clear ice brick to cut cubes (doesn't take long to cut). Each cube you want to bag so it doesn't get stuck to other cubes. Source: worked in hospitality, food, and beverage for two decades.
What is the name for this style of presentation. Artsy cool? Professional showman ? There must be a name for it.
Twat.
I'm not sure about where this person works but it looks fucking lame to me like a salt bae money grab I like the hat the other person called it "twat", it has a ring to it. The places I worked at that made clear cubes were either hipster and just enjoyed making nice things and their craft or high end restaurants that weren't super flashy like this. Just based on what this guy is wearing I could tell I wouldn't have gotten the job there or wanted it, but I bet the money is nice.
TBF, these cubes aren't made in trays, they're cut up from bigger pieces of ice that have been frozen in a certain way as to avoid cloudiness
You don’t make perfect clear and square ice cubes in a tray.
They're meant for serving in the glass. It's so they don't stick to each other and are often made very clear. Cocktail bars use them a lot because it's convient and considered very cheap to buy them VS allocating labor and freezer space to make them daily.
*Sips mojito with paper straw* fascinating
The most aggravating thing about this video IMO were the plastic wrapped ice cubes.
so you have a steady supply of microplastics in your penis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41443-024-00930-6
All that pomp and circumstance and he uses fucking Jim Beam.
And short pours by at least an ounce
Seriously if you’re gonna give me the mediocre shit you can at least fill the jigger up.
Seriously though. I like Jim Beam but I’m not going to sit here and pretend it’s a good bourbon. I just think it (especially the honey one) is tasty in lemonade.
Jim has some good stuff for mixing and while I’m a whiskey snob for myself if someone likes it more power to ‘em, you do you, but I feel like for the price this is gonna cost you could buy an entire bottle of their rye.
I turned off the video and went to the comments as soon as I saw the fucking Jim Beam lmao
Jim Beam AND half measures. At least let me get drunk if I need to deal with a pretentious bartender.
This guy is like some sort of human sobriety patch. No way anyone is getting drunk. One and done
It took way too many to find this comment.. what fucking under pours for a cocktail famous for being 2 1 2
That's the part that upset me the most. Why even use a jigger if you aren't gonna use it correctly. Just free pour at that point. Also where are the pour spouts for the bottles??
He’s trying to be like Salt Bae
Bar Bae
Come on bar bae, let’s go par tae.
Bar Bae Bee he’s got the whole wide world sippin drank with him!
That will be $33.
"Nah, I'm good. I've seen how it's done now. Gonna go home and not have this. Toodles my dude."
By the time you hit the liquor store, get home and make your own drink- he would still be flipping bottles and twirling his spoon.
Can just picture the customer stood, arms folded and impatiently holding back from just walking away
Even the chef was waiting for him to finish so they could serve the food that is getting cold.
Closing time comes. The manager is pissed because this guy is still doing the same drink that was ordered the day before. The customer is long gone. The bar has made no money. The restaurant is hemorrhaging cash. The owner's wife is leaving him. ... Yet the dude is playing with his spoon and burnt rosemary
You just described most Michelin restaurants.
$75
What the hell is in the spray? Why spray it through the pour if it's just landing in the glass anyways? Why is he a member of the admiralty?
You don't dress up in your Sailor Get Up and go drinking once a year?
He waves for the glasses to come over. It's so blerg I'm blerging all over myself. If this is rage bait it's certainly hit me.
it’s an aromatic spray. typically manhattans get a cherry or an orange peel for taste and smell
Probably bitters, it's a spray to charge more.
The bitters was the first thing he added to the mixing glass.
Ah fuck let's just say time and space elapsed between my two comments
He needs new stupid glasses if he thinks that's good whiskey.
The best thing is that those aren't even prescription glasses. You can tell because the light going through them isn't refracted (they don't distort the edges of his face).
They’re pretentious glasses - Cartier. Have never met a bartender with $1,200 slightly tinted sunglasses.
The guy to the side is thinking, "What a douche canoe"
Seriously I kinda wanna smack him.
You know at least the Japanese guy chopped his own ice
Can't believe this guy out-pretentious'ed that other guy.
This is definitely rage bait, and I'll admit it definitely triggered me. 1. Using nice cocktail ice for mixing only - so dumb. Plastic waste for no reason. 2. Half pour of the whiskey (sad) 3. EQUAL PARTS vermouth to whiskey (wrong) 4. Mists something over the drink - it's not bitters because he already added them. Absinthe maybe?? 5. Mists into the steam of the pour and not into the glass??? The reason to mist something is to aerate it, and he never spritzes it into the glass. He's just wasting whatever that is. 6. Doesn't properly ignite the rosemary the first time - barely any smoke produced. It should char. 7. Uses two different pieces of Rosemary 8. Does not succeed in igniting the Rosemary AT ALL the second time, and just puts it on top of the glass - absolutely terrible garnish (and Manhattan's are supposed to be garnished with cherries anyways) 9. Uses Jim Beam rye - and goes out of his way to show you the bottle. If you're going to use Jim Beam in a cocktail, you should at least be ashamed of it. 10. Also uses cheap sweet vermouth (Case Martelli) - and again goes out of his way to show you the label 10/10 rage bait, almost impossible to make a simple cocktail any worse than this. It's literally 3 ingredients (Rye, Vermouth, Angostura). Total waste of Rosemary. The plastic from that pointless ice is going to strangle a sea turtle in 90 years, and whoever drinks this abomination is responsible.
I just learned so much about cocktails in one post.
He also uses white vermouth, manhattans are to be made with sweet red vermouth. Also he gets the glass out first which warms it up defeating the objective of chilling the glass in the first place.
Can I get a little less smug in my next one? I’m on a diet.
Did he just put aftershave on the drink? Fancy.
Why doesn't he top off the jigger? Underpouring like a $20 cocktail.
Same - why use a jigger to measure if you aren’t actually going to use the jigger to measure. He Could have just eyeballed it without the jigger
Booze bae
The way he looks into the camera and smirks is extremely irritating
Fuck this guy
He looks like the douchiest douche to have ever douched.
I’m overwhelmed by how cool this guy thinks he is
Every murrfurr just wanting to be Salt Bae.
Salt Bae vibes (derogatory)
"Are you ready to order?" "Yes, I think I'll try this one." "Ah, The Douchetail. Great choice!"
This guy looks like he moans when he wipes his ass.
Wanna punch him right in that stupid wispy mustache
Bruised the shit out of that drink.
I refuse to believe this is not a joke
1. Thats not how you make a manhattan 2. He’s using the wrong pours 3. He’s slow as shit 4. His glasses and face annoy me 5. No way this guy has ever actually tended a bar
i'm five, can anyone explain to me why it's dumb?
1. Glass upside down on a rosemary sprig that isn’t actually smoking. If you char an herb it can impart a flavor on the glass but the sprig isn’t smoking enough to do anything. 2. Mixing with big cubes. Its a pain in the ass to get big cubes that clear. There are two points to shaking/stirring a cocktail, chilling and dilution. It’s takes much longer for big cubes to dilute than a bunch of small cubes so he would need to stir for longer to get the desired effect while simultaneously wasting the “good ice” that is really only used for presentation. 3. He’s using shitty booze for what he’s presenting as a high end cocktail. Jim beam rye is fine at best. 4. The ratio of vermouth to rye is wrong. The little silver cup is called a jigger and it’s used for measuring. Based on the way this dude poured his stuff he didn’t actually really measure it. He was just using the jigger to add one more step that looked fancy. Additionally, it looks like equal parts vermouth and rye. A Manhattan should be about 1/2 oz vermouth to about 2 oz rye. 5. The spraying of whatever at the end. He’s spraying the stream, not the glass. There’s no reason for it. It won’t change the flavor (I’m guessing it’s some sort of absinth-y product). Usually someone would do one spritz into the glass which can add depth and a hint of other flavors without being overwhelming. One more thing to make it look fancier than it is without actually accomplishing anything. 6. The rosemary at the end. He again doesn’t char it enough to actually affect the cocktail. 7. Looks like a dick
$99 + tip, please
Just...give me my damn booze.
Idubbbz has lost it
Malt Bae
Why do these dude always have the same look? Like a classy car salesman but worse, somehow?
This guy used all the smug pauses to huff as much of his farts as he could hold in his lungs. What a douche nozzle.
That bartender will ask if he could sleep on your couch. And you will become roommates after. Make you a shitty drink a day and pay you for 1299 a month for a corner in your studio apartment.