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Today we are putting the New York Times claim that the Dirty Shirley is that drink of summer to the test. There may be a few other drinks we can add to the naughty list as well.
00:00 - Is the NYT right?
00:16 - Shirley Temple history
02:35 - Dirty Shirley two ways
04:10 - Tasting Notes
05:04 - A special message
07:05 - Dirty Shirley fixed
08:37 - Greg's Dirty Shirley
10:40 - Tasting Notes
12:23 - Rummy Roy
13:32 - Tasting Notes
13:58 - Sex Demon Palmer
15:00 - Tasting Notes
15:55 - Sign off
Dirty Shirley:
Build in glass
.5 oz. or 15 ml. Rose's Grenadine
Add ice and stir
Add sprite or ginger ale - leave a little room for vodka
Top with two cherries
2 oz. or 60 ml. Vodka
Greg's Dirty Shirley:
Build in glass
1 oz. or 30 ml. homemade grenadine
1 oz. or 30 ml. lime juice
1.5 oz. or 45 ml. vodka
Bar spoon Maraschino
Add crushed ice
Top with seltzer
Garnish with lime, mint and cherries
Rummy Roy:
Build in glass
.5 oz. or 15 ml. homemade grenadine
1.5 oz. or 45 ml. Rum
Add some crushed ice
Stir a bit to incorporate
.5 oz. or 15 ml. lime juice
Top with coke
Give another stir
Garnish with cherries
Sex Demon Palmer:
Build in glass
~ 4 oz./120 ml. or equal parts Lemonade and Iced Tea
1.5 oz. or 45 ml. Mezcal
1/2 a lemon worth of lemon juice
Top with crushed ice
Garnish with mint and a lemon
Bonus Drink!
The Shelby Sour
Build in shaker
.25 oz. or 8 ml. simple syrup
.5 oz. or 15 ml. lemon juice
.75 oz. or 22 ml. orange liqueur
2 oz. or 60 ml. Bushmills Prohibition Whiskey
Shake and strain into glass over ice
Garnish with a lemon wedge and mint
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Dude no excuses-really good ginger ale matters! I suggest Cock & Bull ginger beer, Canada Dry is what you are forced to endure on a plane…worth upgrading trust me!
Thinking about this instead of a ginger ale, I wonder what it would taste like with a crabby ginger beer
No, this is objectively wrong, a Shirley Temple is a quarter of the syrup from the maraschino cherry jars and 3 quarters sprite
No alcohol, just cherry and sprite
I swear to god that “old guy tells you a shirley temple is a girls drink and suggests you get a roy rogers” happened exactly how you phrased it to me when I was like 11
My parents never drank at restaurants or took me to bars, and at home they'd just give me wine; my first experience with alcohol-free cocktails was just a couple of years ago, when my employers would give their young son Shirley Temples while adults drank. I have never heard of the Roy Rogers discrimination.
Fun fact: Shirley Temple denied that the drink was invented for her, and also hated them, calling them sickeningly sweet.
And she really hated when people would send them to her table when she was out eating.
yep. supposedly she always hated them but she found it even less amusing after she reached adulthood as well
It seems pretty clear to me that it's only called that because it's 'sweet and unadulterated'.
She actually successfully sued a soda company to keep them from using the name 'Shirley Temple' on a canned version.
I agree! I much prefer less sweet drinks, or at least ones where the sweetness is balanced by sour or bitter notes.
source or bullshit
Look it up yourself
@@daveraschke pretty easy to use Google, bud.
Ages ago I had a "reverend palmer" cocktail at a bar in Portland, OR. Black tea infused bourbon, lemon simple syrup, and bitters. It was so good I wrote it down and recreated it at home for years. It was closer to an Old Fashioned in proportion and presentation.
My drink of this and every summer is a Bitter Southerner No. 7, which sounds rather similar - sweet tea syrup, lemon juice, mint, and bourbon. The recipe includes one of my favorite instructions: “add ice and shake all to hell.” (And then you’re supposed to double-strain into a coupe but I invariably just pour it into a rocks glass.)
The Arnold Palmer Company (apparently he actually started a company) makes a delicious hard Arnold Palmer. It’s one of those things where you have to be careful because you can barely taste the alcohol so it’s easy drink way too many
Do you have the recipe?
What bar was it? I’m in the area and would love to try it
The drinks of summer, as I see it, mojitos and r sea quencher by dogfish head.
The "girly drinks" thing cracks me up. I went to look up how much simple in an Old Fashioned and one of the Google suggestions was "is an Old Fashioned a girly drink?" People get way too caught up on what everyone else is doing.
My drink of summer is the mai tai. I bought some orgeat a little while back and I've been loving it.
I've slammed so many Mai tais this summer, so much money spent on rum. Guess I gotta go make a Mai Tai now
Mai tais are magic! If you have it, give a shake or four of orange bitters, the extra citrus gives it nice character
@@davidb4935 Gotta try that
Fun fact, sub orgeat for inexpensive amaretto and the Mai tai is now allergen free.
@@benzracer I don't know that I would be so sure about that... But I'm not sure how much of the almond proteins (typically what nut allergies are triggered by...) make it through into the amaretto.
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Bushmills is a quality whiskey and I would expect a higher proof bottling previously aged in old Bourbon barrels is likely to be pretty darned good. My .02 USD
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I never really experienced that kind of 'pressure' to have a man's drink everyone i know including plenty of bar goers in my area all basically say the same thing which is "Drink what you like to drink and don't bother others about it unless your actually interested in trying what they have." I love Shirly Temples in fact they are a drink i fix for nieces and nephews when they stop by for a visit. But that is my experience.
I always tell folks "If you drink and worry what people think of you, you are doing it for the wrong reasons." I have had people judge me on my drink choices before, but I never let that keep me from enjoying myself.
Two things to see: The big, tough looking guy who orders a Shirley Temple...and the obituary of the man who DARED to make fun of him for ordering it.
@@gamemasteranthony2756 Hell yeah.
Goddamn I wish
I get constantly shamed just for ordering anything non-alcoholic, and when I presented as a guy god help me if I ordered anything vaguely feminine looking.
Ikr! Once I opened up to some coworkers of mine (that were super into beer and alcohol in general) and told them that I dont like beer because It tastes like ass.
I expected a typical UA-cam comment section level of backlash, instead I got suggestions of more sweet brands and coctails that I might like
When I was a kid, a Shirley Temple/Kiddie Cocktail was 7up and maraschino cherry “juice.” I discovered that Amaretto and 7up (or Sprite) has a very similar flavor profile, but is more fun. Our family now refers to this drink as “Party Pop.”
Second, I remember the "cherry juice".
I also remember this
Disaronno Seven (playing off seven and seven) is how this is commonly ordered at the bar. It’s actually more commonly ordered than you might think.
When I was sick my mom would make me what she called a Screwball 🤣 basically a virgin screwdriver prepared with orange juice and 7 up with a crazy straw🤣
I'm pretty sure that's what it was when I was growing up as well. Felt so adult, getting a drink like the adults!
The Dirty Shirley is a cocktail I commonly make for my partner and guests who want something simple and sweet but long and refreshing. Been doing them for years. The two spirits most often requested to spike the drink are London dry gin and bonded rye whiskey. The standard mixer is always ginger ale as I do not stock lemon-lime soda. The typical measure for the grenadine is only half an ounce and it goes in last instead of first so it doesn't get all stuck at the bottom of the drink.
Yes!! This is exactly how I make mine - I'm a gin drinker in general and always have ginger ale, so this is the perfect summer mix-up for me. I do throw in a little cherry juice from the maraschinos to split with the grenadine.
Fun Fact: Arnold Palmer used to order "An iced tea with a splash of lemonade." I have no clue where or why it got morphed into a "half and half" drink.
Feels like a stupid, stupid question, but is the “iced tea” supposed to be sweet or unsweet tea?
As a Barista, I can tell you "a splash" is uhhhhh... an unhelpful measurement. A splash of milk in a black coffee may not change the color enough so people want more, or some people's splash is too short or too long. And a splash isn't like saying a pour or a half pour of a liquor because we have literal definitions of how many ml/oz those are, even dashes are defined by using a cap that restricts the flow of liquid.
So i bet over time, calling it a half and half mix made scaling and measuring an Arnold Palmer easier and more standardized.
@@____________838 Do you know how the question, "Does the milk go in before or after the tea" causes brits to go to war? This is the same thing for southerners in the US.
To be honest, drink it how you like. There is a version of iced tea called "Sweet Tea" that has so much sugar you practically walk on the stuff. I rather add some sugar to my tea, and not the other way around. I can't drink the stuff. You may be different.
@@Shrifbun Maybe. I just remember seeing an interview where Arnold Palmer stated his preference for Iced Tea. My guess he wanted to substitute the lemonade for either the lemon wedge or a dash of lemon juice in a traditional iced tea with lemon.
@@jackielinde7568 That’s kind of the reason I asked. I grew up in the South, but to parents who drank their tea unsweetened.
Sweet tea is known as “Iced Tea” in my area, and just wanted to clarify.
First time I heard of an alcoholic version of a Shirley Temple was from Gilmore Girls where Lorelai called it a “Shirley Temple Black”, which was Shirley Temple’s married name. It added scotch (possibly Johnnie Walker Black?) to the standard recipe.
I've always called an alcoholic Shirley Temple a Shirley Temple Black, bc that's how my parents refer to them, though the alcohol is question is always vodka.
the thing i have found about haphazardly mixing lemonade and unsweetened iced tea is that the flavors do cancel each other out, so the addition of sugar is probably needed even if you don't like sweet/sweetened iced tea or prefer a more tart lemonade. arnold palmer himself played in 50 masters tournaments so i'd wager his iced tea had sugar in it
also a dirty arnold palmer should be called a john daly
Unsweetened ice tea is an absurd blasphemy and shouldn't exist
I’ve only known a Shirley Temple to be made with ginger ale, but I think Shirley Temples are better with ginger beer. The spice cuts through the sweetness in a really good way.
That sounds good, especial with gin as well!
Another good add is couple dashes of cherry bitters to help balance the sweetness.
also grew up ordering/drinking shirley temples and always knew them to be ginger ale, without a specification or even an ask
When I think about the Drink of Summer it needs to be easy to make, a limited number of ingredients and something I can sip while lounging on a float in the pool. Also, if it was something I can prep in a pitcher, pour into a glass and top with soda or whatever carbonation - it is primed for entertaining.
I've been working on a Paloma. Currently making it with tequila, lime juice and Italian pink grapefruit soda (NOT SQUIRT), but have also seen a recipe to use tequila, grapefruit vodka and grapefruit soda. Would love to see you riff on it.
My summer drink right now is blueberry lemonade with lemon rum/vodka. I've been making drinks out of Simply brand juices and they're so good pool side!
Personally I tend to build my Shirley Temples and their variants in reverse order, with the grenadine on top so it sinks down in. That way you don't end up with a pool of it at the bottom that needs to be mixed up.
As for the dirty version, I would personally go with rum and ginger ale, plus lime juice. Definitely agree that it has to be real grenadine and not the Rose's.
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Also, the name for an alcoholic Arnold Palmer has always been a John Daly, as far as I'm aware. Another famous golfer, and drunk. Add vodka if you're trying to hide the fact that you're drinking, or bourbon if you're not.
Yep. Came here to call out the John Daly.
There’s a restaurant in the town I live in and they call it the Laura Palmer
Also came here to call out the John Daly to see been beaten to it good on you sir
I wasn't paying 100% close attention for a few minutes and thought Greg said "Six Demon Palmer" and now I'm really curious about what a "summer drink" with baiju would be like....
Ooh it's nice to catch a video as it comes out! I usually miss it on the jump. ❤️👏🏾
I know, right!
I would personally push the "Slow Comfort" as my drink of summer. It's equal parts Sloe Gin and Southern Comfort topped with either orange juice or lemonade, and served on ice. It has a lovely orangy pink color to it and tastes amazing.
@@zacharyrwriter what's all in that? Sounds a bit more than what I'm making?
@@novaiscool1 Vodka, Southern Comfort, orange juice, sloe gin, and Galliano (or other vanilla liqueur).
The sweetness problem is exacerbated by drinking with a straw from the bottom. That is where the Rose's is settling and will be sweeter.
Yeah, whenever you get a drink with grenadine/any kind of sugary syrup you've got to stir it up before taking a sip
when I was a kid, my family would make shirley temple's with split sprite and orange juice. honestly so surprised to find out thats not actually the recipe, it cuts down on the sweetness and makes it delicious 🧡 i suggest trying it like that, if you like the concept of a temple but aren't a fan of how cloying it is!
I also grew up chugging Shirley Temples, so when I hit 21 and found out that there is an alcoholic version of my beloved childhood drink I was pretty excited. It's my go to drink to order at dive and local bars that serve more beer than cocktails. Loved that you made a bunch of variations, that I will now have to try lol.
Shout out the Greg. You are great at what you do. I remember when I first watched your videos you peaked my interest in mixology. And then I started mixing with a basic 7 bottle bar. (my bar is now a 30 bottle bar because i enjoy experimenting.) Now I'm creating my own cocktails and writing a book with these. You inspired me to dive into this hobby and I've learned so much along the way from you. A few years of trial and error has taught me alot Thank you!
The Rummy Roy is a great drink. I think I’m going to try to make a Dirty Shirley with ginger ale and cognac instead of vodka, easy on the grenadine. I think the natural fruity sweetness of cognac would elevate the drink. Then again, a Dirty Shirley with ginger ale and rum instead of vodka would be a really nice play on a light and stormy.
It's funny, Shirley Temple found the drink too sweet for her. Also I'm amazed by how few people know that she was an ambassador when she was an adult.
When I was a kid in the 80’s my grandma’s friends would make me a Shirley Temple out of 7Up and Cherry juice. I always thought that was how they were supposed to be made. Learn something new every day.
My husband's typical summer drink for years has been the Tom Collins. It's essentially grown-up fizzy lemonade so it's a perfect refreshing drink!
I’m sure the Shirley Temple must be a thing in the UK somewhere, but I’ve really only ever heard about them from American media. Would love an expansion on the idea of the mojito as the drink of summer though, since it was the first cocktail I ever ordered. For me personally, maybe for nostalgia purposes and maybe because it’s a semi-respectable way to get drunk at a village fete, you can’t really beat a good pimms (strong and overloaded with fruit and mint leaves) on a baking hot summer’s day though.
Yeah same, I'm sure somewhere here in the UK it's a big thing but my first exposure to the drink was American media, and still haven't even tried one myself.
Well if you think about it, how often do you see grenadine in a pub in the UK? I definitely don't see it often
@@ShaneWalta Honestly half the stuff Greg mentions on this channel I've never seen in a pub or anyone serving behind the bar even knowing about.
Greg's learned we're all just thirsty for him and he's leaning into it with this thumbnail. Love the videos and how much fun energy you put into them!
I'm actually thirsty for classic cocktails and history again and less of the weird / unrelated stuff
@@boarderking133 Oh, i definitely enjoy the content and little lessons too! ☺️
My grandpa would always make tequila sunrises (without the tequila of course) for my sister and I every Christmas. I think the tart orange juice will probably balance out the overly sweet grenadine you were talking about!
....although, if you were like me as a kid on Christmas, I would sometimes use the straw to drink all the grenadine first to satisfy my sweet tooth before instead of mixing it with the OJ 😉
In most of Canada, if you order a Shirley Temple, you get grenadine and a splash of OJ topped with dry gingerale... and is a nice alternative for kiddos who want something a little LESS sweet than the typical fountain offerings.
I'm sure now with Dirty Shirleys all the rage, Canadians (or at least Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver) will start making "proper" Shirley Temples and try to gaslight the prairies and maritimes into thinking they've always done it that way and make them feel like a bunch of hicks for adding OJ. Then it'll get needlessly political and Shirley Temples with orange juice will replace domestic draft as the de-facto drink of conservative manly-man oil rig dudes just to pwn the Laurentian Libs with their pink Sprite... at least, that's how things tend to go in Canada these past few years.
I've seen a few cocktail books saying that the Shirley Temple is actually lemonade, ginger ale and grenadine. Which I love. The kiddie cocktail being the Sprite and grenadine mocktail you're making.
Maybe add grenadine to the mojito? Perhaps grenadine is the syrup of this summer?
I was super relieved to hear that it was made dirty with the addition of alcohol and not olive brine. That sounded atrocious.
Also, CLEARLY the Long Island Iced Tea is the drink of summer, it literally has "island" in the name! Alternatively, you could declare you give up and just call whatever the ratio for the jungle juice that ends up in the bar mats at the end of the night is" the drink of summer.
Is Long Island Iced Tea not named for the place in New York? Definitely not a fun summer vibe there.
Weird to say, but I loved the sponsored spot. It's more of the same kind of content I come to this channel for!
Right? Loved the old style when Greg actually made classic cocktails and went into their history and variations.
As a kid I remember it being a 7-UP else it tasted off... and I too was teased to order a Roy Rogers, and majority of the time I stuck with the 7-up but I remember being forced to switch depending on who was with us. Although I have add if my older sister was near she'd steal the cherries from my drink right away unless I pushed them to bottom of the glass.
Agreed. For me a true Shirley Temple has 7up.
CORRECT
That is hands down the most Grenadine I have ever seen added to a Shirley Temple. Growing up, it was just a splash and a cherry, and you got a little plastic sword.
this. I remember watching the bar tenders making my Shirley Temple- fill highball glass with ice and 7-up (or sprite- whatever was in the gun) with a bar spoon of the maraschino cherry juice on top and a plastic sword with cherries. The drink was clear with just a ribbon of red- mostly tasted of 7-up not whatever the "red" was .. cherry juice or grenadine. No sweeter than a home-made cherry coke would be. My days were also early/mid 70s so no HFC-Syrup sweeteners.
As far as summer cocktails go, nothing beats mojitos imo. In the last year or so though I've discovered gose beers and those have changed the game for me. They're basically what you'd get if you wanted to make a mojito beer but they have a long history and are amazingly tasty. There's a local microbrewery that makes a hibiscus and lavander gose and that shit's a real banger I gotta say.
You should do a video on fan submitted cocktails and you rate them and try to improve or at least rebalance them if you think they need to be; here’s my cocktail, the Sherman’s March:
1 part De Kyper peach “Schnapps” (or southern comfort if you have terrible taste)
2 parts Fireball
Sprinkle with nutmeg, cinnamon or cinnamon sugar, and chili powder, add ice and mix; optionally garnish with lemon or lemon juice, peach slice, or mint sprig
You call out soco as being for people with bad taste but somehow fireball and de kuypers isn't? Lol
How is no one talking about the sponsored bit? One of my favorite channels has a direct sponsorship with a TV show that I just started watching? This is the Proof We've been waiting for. After all; There Are No Coincidences. Remember, Brethren, They Are Ever Vigilant. 🤣
Thank you for making a classic feeling how to drink episode. Love your stuff, Greg
I definitely experienced the gendering of drinks described in this video- I remember at the holiday parties we attended for my mom's hospital, the bartenders at the venue would make you a Shirley Temple if they perceived you as female or a Roy Rogers if they perceived you as male. My preferred non-binary pink drink is a Salty Dog: shake 2:1 or 3:1 London dry gin with fresh squeezed grapefruit juice over ice. Salt your rim. Top with seltzer if you want a longer-lasting highball drink. It's beautiful, and the floral nose that comes from the combination of gin & grapefruit is glorious!
Gotta love how just the name of something can supposedly make a drink "girly" or "manly." It honestly says a lot that some men won't drink Shirley Temples purely because it's named after a famous girl actor.
Same kinda dudes that won't squeeze in next to each other at the bar or share one menu. They're scared their peens will touch and that will make them 🏳️🌈
I've been making my own take on Dirty Shirley for over 7 years, and its amazing how in this video you mention how the NYT is saying folks are treating it with ironic nostalgia... because every time I make it (with Ole Smoky Moonshine instead of vodka) it reminds me of when I was a kid wandering around in my small town's small bowling alleys wondering what the alcohol the adults were drinking tasted like. My own sort of nostalgia! So maybe its more an ironic nostalgia drink than a "drink of summer."
Fun video! Congrats on the Bushmills sponsorship. They’re one of my favorites for irish whiskey cocktails!
A drink I liked more than than a shirley temple was called a Killaloe Sunrise - basically a shirley temple with some orange juice in there as well. I only ever found it at one place here in Canada.
Thats hiq shirley templez were made when o was a kid in vancouver.
I always thought to make the Shirley temple with lime juice grenadine and soda of choice. I think it would help balance that sweetness you were getting from the first two.
Yes! Do another episode talking about rums! And doing all kinds of classic tiki. That's what we need this summer!
I am such a big fan of the Blinders and I'm so happy you got sponsored by them. It was fantastic
A few years back, say 2003-2004, there was a ltd ed Sprite variation with an icy mint flavor called Sprite Ice. Me and my buddies drank Sprite Ice+Jagermeister the whole summer. The mint really worked with the herbaceousness of the Jager. Ice cold Jager, lots of ice, and Sprite Ice. Refreshing AF. They've long since discontinued Sprite Ice (at least in Canada) but that strange mix remains my favorite Summer Drink.
Tbh, I’ve never heard of that variety…
couldnt you add some mint syrup to sprite and then make your favorite drink again?
@@frankgelder8519 I've come close, but nothing ever matched the "drinking icy cold Sprite while chewing 5 Gum" sensation. Now I just drink whiskey, it's my summer fall winter spring drink.
I usually make mine with 7up, I was honestly not aware that Sprite was the usual soft drink used for it. And isn't an alcoholic Arnold Palmer a John Daly?
THANK YOU. Came here to say the same thing. Drives me nuts how many people seem to ignore the fact that an alcoholic Arnold Palmer is a John Daly!
Country Club employee here, it’s a John Daley.
I honestly can’t believe he didn’t k ow that’s what it’s called
Holy crap, that one of the best sponsored spots in any video I have seen so fa on UA-cam. Looks amazing, works amazing with the show and the audience. Also Greg looks cool AF in that outfit.
If I were going to make a Shelby Sour I’d base it off a whiskey sour since the only real cocktail Tommy drinks is a whiskey sour during Christmas. I’d split the base with an Old Tom gin (probably ransom just to get a crime related name in there) both to represent Tommy’s gin he makes and the fact that it’s called old TOM. Add in mint to represent the wild mint he enjoys with his son. A little Rosewater just because Tom is Romantic
1 oz. Irish Whiskey
1 oz. Old Tom Gin
0.5 oz. Lemon Juice
0.5 oz. Simple Syrup
Half an Egg White
2 dashes Orange Bitters
2-3 drops Rosewater
3-5 Mint Leaves
Dry Shake
Shake with Ice
Coupe
Mint Garnish laid across foam
Rosewater drop on Mint
I wanted to suggest naming the alcoholic version of the Arnold Palmer the Happy Gilmore, but apparently that's already a drink... apparently the tea is infused in the vodka and in addition to the lemonade there's orange liqueur, peach schnapps, and cranberry juice.
Sidebar, I'm pushing 40 and had only just heard of a Roy Rogers today.
It’s called a John Daly
Shirley Temples were my favorite drink when my family used to go to our favorite Chinese restaurant way back in the day. It really has a special place in my heart ^w^
Love theee videos!! You guys are the besttt
All of the cherries in this made me think of a question. I use Old Smoky Moonshine Cherries as a garnish for my Old Fashion. For the first time every I used up a jar with having it seal shut on me. So now I have half a mason jar of cherry infused moonshine. I'm sure I can do something special with this, what do you suggest?
I'm very surprised Shirleys are made with Sprite! I don't drink (love your channel tho lol) and we have Shirleys every year at Christmas as a family tradition, and we always use ginger ale! And then I go out and buy soda water and use the grenadine, cherry syrup, and leftover heavy cream from all the baking and make myself cherry cream sodas til New Year's.
Grenadine is pomegranate are you sure your getting grenadine and not something else just curious
@@redmist6131 nope it's grenadine but I just used a splash and then syrup out of the cherry jar! The grenadine is a little more tart despite still being, you know, sugar in a jar, lol so it makes it less sickly than just the cherry syrup
@@rejamrejam that makes a lot more sence thank you for the clarification
When I was a kid my mom would make me a Shirley Temple and make a Dirty Shirley for herself. She called it a Shirley Temple Black though and told me that when she grew up and got married, that was her name. I tried ordering one in a bar when I turned 21, but I've never met a bartender who heard of it by that name. I've heard some people say that a Shirley Temple Black is with whiskey or bourbon, but I've never seen one served or ordered in a bar that way.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking--I'd never heard "Dirty Shirley" until recently; I'd heard of Shirley Temple Black as a Shirley Temple with some sort of dark liquor (I thought it was Kahlua or coffee-flavored but whiskey makes much more sense)
Not too sure about any other Canadians here but the standard where I’m from for a Shirley temple is about a half oz of grenadine topped with equal parts ginger ale and orange juice
I would be shocked if the Dirty Shirley were the drink of the summer. It's not only too simple, but the differences in grenadine quality (almost Rose's, like you say) would make it too variable.
That said, your ice of lime was a good call, and rum (the best alcohol) was a great call for the "Rummy Roy."
Is it just me, or does calling it a "Dirty" Shirley conjure up the image of adding Olive Brine to a Shirley Temple? I feel like it needs a better name, one that conveys that you're only adding alcohol instead of, uh, uninvited flavors.
love th4e outfit for your special message. I have not had a shirley temple since I was young. but do miss it. now I'll have to make a dirt shirley. I agree it's not a summer drink. but to each their own. thanks again cheers
This is a real trip, locally shirley temples have orange juice in them, meaning the shirley I'm used to is equal parts OJ and sprite with a splash of grenadine
Great ideas and presentation in this video, but I have a thought I'd like to share and folks on reddit pushed against it ---
I sometimes wish the cocktail community could move past the way the Dirty Shirley moniker is used -- i have no issues with sexually named drinks, but ones that verge on bad taste or making innuendo about a person most well known as a child. If its an "adult" version, why not Shirley Black, or Temple Black, something thereof? After all, that was the surname name she used as an adult, which included a long career as US Ambassador to not only Ghana, but to Czechoslovakia before the fall of the Iron Curtain, including a period of time as the Chief of Protocol in the United States Federal government. Or maybe something like Grown Up Miss Miracle. I mean, even on a naming template, "Dirty Shirley" doesn't make any sense; The drink is still very balanced, and prefixing a drink with "Dirty" implies to many casual drinkers that theres a similarity with the Dirty Martini template. It's a provocative name, but its both confusing and doesn't sit right with me to sexualize a former child star from an era which was famously lacking in protection for child actors and actresses, when this is still a wonderful drink and should do better than the least common denominator. The Mary Pickford or Ginger Rogers don't sexually objectify them, so it feels out of place with Celebrity-named cocktails too. Plus, your version visually indicates that you used appropriately "grown up" ingredients and feels like a more "mature" name would suit it aestheticaly.
Dirty doesn't necessarily imply sexualization - sometimes, dirty is just not clean.
@@JKtheSlacker but the association with spiking a "virgin" [a designation for zero abv drinks that i hate but recognize is common] drink, named after a child -- there's a very clear sexualization there i think especially from how other drink blogs have written about it. and again, since a dirty martini already codifies the naming template of using a prefix format dirty, its a little perhaps confusing in that sense.
So, I work at a bar near a college, and this has been THEEEE drink amongst fresh 21 year olds. It is the Gen Z version of an Amaretto Sour (first mixed drink I, a 1985 millenial drank). It is so godawfully sweet and screams, "I'M NEW TO DRINKING AND DON'T LIKE THE TASTE OF ALCOHOL AND I'M GOING TO HAVE 5 CAVITIES AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER".
Hard pass.
Here's to hoping you are able to get more drink-relevant sponsorships like this in the future - totally aligned with the content of the show, relevant to my interests, even snuck a bonus cocktail recipe in there and everything! Not often I'll happily and attentively watch the ad spot all the way to the end but this was one of them. :)
My dad took me to the local bar with him when he wanted to hangout with his friends. I was ~6 maybe. The bar owner called me “Peanut” and mixed me Shirley Temples with 7Up, and my dad taught me to shoot pool with a kiddie cue stick. You really brought back memories with this one.
My family and I have vacationed to the same spot in Michigan nearly every year my entire life. There's a nice restaurant we always make a point of eating at and I always, always got a Shirley Temple there growing up. Even now that I can drink I always get a Shirley Temple there at least once per trip. They're amazing.
Fun fact: in most countries here in Europe a lot of lemon and sugar are always present in our iced tea recipes. So what you call Arnold Palmer - we simply call "iced tea".
Adding a little orange juice to a Shirley temple can help fix some of the over sweetness and is actually really good
The ones I make are called gin temples. Ginger ale, fanciest most expensive maraschino cherries taken from someone else, and empress gin. Very tasty and the purple, deep red, and yellow colors all mix very interestingly.
Glad to see that you're using clear ice spears. I've fallen down the clear ice rabbit hole and love the heck out of it.
Wisconsinite here, Shirley Temple is what you drink with your family at the bar. On occasion a little wine at those wine tasting sessions and then grass hoppers and pink squirrels, just a taste. Just my experience as a child.
My recipe for a spiced Roy Rogers (still no alcohol):
"Hot Rogers":
Start with no ice in your glass
A pinch, or a couple of grinds, of black pepper at the bottom of the glass
Add 2oz cola (Coke, RC, Pepsi - sweeter isn't always better)
Add a splash of grenadine
A pinch of ground coriander seed on top
Add some crushed ice and stir
Top with a few leaves (a sprig) of mint
Wow, after school special insights into your life. NICE!
Very cool you did a video explaining the Shirley Temple. My Dad always made the Shirley Temple with Schwepp's Grapefruit Soda, Grenadine and a maraschino cherry (and sometimes a dash of maraschino cherry syrup) for a "treat" when he had the Grapefruit Soda around - otherwise it was always Sprite or 7-Up. I've made them with Ginger Ale and upgraded to Luxardo Cherries and it's pretty good.
Nice to see my hometown whiskey showing up there. Cheers to Bushmills.
You can never beat a good mojito on a hot day. It might just be that I have spent many years in Tampa, FL but a majito is always the drink of summer for me.
The mojito is my favourite cocktail, so looking forward to seeing Greg's approach!
I grew up drinking Shirley Temples and Roy Rogers, and hilariously had the same but opposite experience- my mother's boyfriend who worked at a bar and grill would make me a Roy Rogers and set me at the bar to play games on my game boy, and a few times some old guy would chime in that a young lady like me should be drinking a Shirley Temple, and that I would like it better. I wasn't huge on lemon lime soda back then though.
A Roy Rogers and onion rings are a comfort staple of my childhood.
I still order them when I'm at a bar with friends and I don't want to drink.
-This was a really fun episode, you are really on your game right now, and it's fantastic.
Just made a Rummy Roy with my new homemade grenadine made to your spec and maaaaan this is tasty. Cheers Greg and Merideth!
I made some for my kids recently. 1oz homemade grenadine, with a spicy ginger beer. To make it “dirty” I add 2oz of Appleton Estate, and a few dashes of angostura bitters. garnish with a lime.
I believe O'Charley's restaurant does or used to serve a shirley temple with cotton candy as a garnish. It would just melt and make the glass a sticky mess. Never stopped 8 year old me from ordering them though
Thanks for such a thoughtful video.
This episode had a surprising amount of personal tidbits. I really enjoyed that. Cheers, Greg 🥃
Amen on the ginger ale. I'm still looking forward to making some of those mixed drinks with it or ginger beer someday when I can find access.
For a few years growing up, my dad had my sister and me hooked on Shirley Temples with Lime. Our house recipe was Rose's grenadine, homemade 1:1 simple, club soda, and a lime wedge. I think at one point I realized we didn't really need the simple and nowadays I'm sure I'd omit it and increase the lime. I love putting way more lime than is called for in my Moscow Mules...
Greg's Drink of the Season is a series I need in my life.
Haven't been here in a while, nice to see it's just as good as when I left. A touch better, even
Welcome back!
The Shirley Temple, with Sprite, is a fond part of my childhood with my grandparents at shows in Las Vegas.
I’ve been making your dirty Shirley (sans Luxardo) with angostura bitters for my wife recently. She’s a big fan. I actually prefer it with gin vs vodka, but both are very tasty. So glad I watched your olllllllld episode on homemade grenadine, cause it’s so good and so easy. Thanks for continuing to be awesome.
Fill a glass half-full with ice cubes.
Add a half a cup of orange juice and half a cup of Sprite or 7UP.
Then gently pour in a tablespoon of grenadine.
Top with an orange slice wrapped cherry on a cocktail stick.
I was a child who was constantly in and out of the hospital for intestinal issues and to the DAY ginger ale is my Favorite Soda because it was always what they gave me to cheer me up 👌👌 never had it in a Shirley temple tho
Your videos are great !
I will always think of a simple g&t as the drink of summer. Growing up, our house had a wet bar built into the wall behind my dad's desk. In the summertime, he'd finish work and make a gin and tonic for himself and my mom - Tanqueray, lime, and just a couple drops of bitters, always in these beautiful cut crystal glasses. That ritual is so ingrained in my childhood memories that, for me, gin smells like summer.
When I was growing up in Wisconsin, they called these Kiddie Cocktails. And I had ALOT of these growing up.
Going to try the rummy roy. Mojito has definitely been my drink of summer this year. Been making them every chance I get.
Gin is probably what I would go with if I was using ginger ale. I make a quick ginger buck all the time at home as one of my go tos. And I love it. Ginger ale just pairs so well with gin.
I got so excited when you said Canada Dry was a comfort drink for you because you got it at Grandma's because I have basically the same association.
Canada dry is a festive holiday drink in my brain because I really only ever had it at grandma's house, which we usually only went up to for special occasions because it's an hour away.
I have a cocktail I think you’d like to play with
2oz Hendricks
.5oz lime
1oz simple
Muddled bell pepper and cucumber
2-3 dashes celery bitters
Heavy shake and double strain
Fine as is or you can too with soda and garnish with rosemary or basil
I also have a version with rosemary simple.
It’s bright, herbal, and a great summer drink especially on a hot sunny day. I love gimlets so this was my twist on it.