Intro

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hi

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my name is marina mooney i’m a soprano

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with the amadeus choir and a frequent

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bartender at amadeus functions welcome

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to our celtic kitchen party

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now you may know that we often have a

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bar at our celtic party and since we

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can’t be live and in person we thought

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we would do a few cocktails

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um show you how to make them so that we

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can all share a drink together in lieu

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of being together in person let’s hope

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for next year the celtic celebration has

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a long history of some serious scotch

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drinking

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uh but as my last name is mooney i’m an

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irish heritage and so i thought i would

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do some irish cocktails now the irish

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are well known to be great drinkers but

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they don’t have a great selection of

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cocktails

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basically it’s beer

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or whiskey unless you go with the green

Guinness

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drinks and i’m not going there so the

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beer we’re going to showcase here is

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guinness guinness is the iconic beer of

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ireland it’s the most popular beer in

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sales and accounts for 25

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of all beer sales in ireland it’s been

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made in dublin since 1759

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and at one point guinness breweries was

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the biggest brewer in the world but that

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was back in the 1880s however guinness

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is still the largest producer of stout

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in the world and ireland continues to do

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its part it is the third largest

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consumer of guinness in the world

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number one is great britain and number

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two you may be surprised to know is

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nigeria nigeria actually has four

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breweries in its country

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number four is the u.s and number five

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is cameroon

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so you might not know this but forty

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percent of all guinness sold in the

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world today is sold in africa

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so guinness is now truly an

Guinness Cocktail

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international beer so guinness cocktails

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are often layered and you do that by

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pouring a layer of guinness over another

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liquid we’re going to choose a half and

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half which is the most popular of this

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type in ireland and that uses guinness

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and

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harp lager so you can use any lager or

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even a nail if you want

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and your technique which i will

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demonstrate in close-up

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is

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you pour in the heavier density liquid

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first which is the lager surprisingly

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guinness and all its stouty goodness is

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actually the less dense of the tube

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so

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half

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lager and then carefully pour the

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guinness over a spoon

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to break

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the flow

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and allow the layers to form

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other variations are using

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cider and that’s called a black and gold

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ireland’s a big producer of cider but so

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is ontario i tried it with this

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brickworks cider

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called queen street 501 it’s even done

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with champagne or other sparkling wine

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it doesn’t layer as well but that

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combination is called a black velvet

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some tips i find that this works better

Tips

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if your

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beers and other liquids are good and

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cold the living works better

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and for those who aren’t fond of

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guinness is very strong taste a sweet or

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semi-sweet version of cider or bubbly

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often mellows out the flavor quite

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nicely

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so if guinness is not going to work for

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you

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then

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it’s irish risky

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one thing about irish whiskey is you can

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be sure it’s always 100 irish it cannot

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be called irish whiskey unless it’s

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aged bottled distilled all in ireland

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there are many excellent types of irish

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whiskey i’ve got two fairly common ones

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here

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and the recipe is simple

Recipe

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one part whiskey

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to two parts of your mix whiskey and

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ginger is the most common of the irish

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whiskey mixed drinks so to make that you

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just fill your glass about half full

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with ice

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you can measure this very accurately if

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you want

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or not it’s one part of irish whiskey

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one little trick you can do is just put

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in enough to

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float the ice

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and then two parts or to taste

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a ginger ale

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now you could also use

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soda water

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lemonade

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reduces whatever you want

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a bit more than two to one

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to taste

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and you can top it off

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with a lime if you like

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finally

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i know that the scotch drinkers are not

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going to have any of this

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you know who you are but that’s fine

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just pour yourself a single ball

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sit back

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and enjoy the party

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