A Two-Year Toast With Our Top Disney Drinks

The fastest way to learn what we actually like is to make us choose. For our two-year anniversary closeout, we put two heavy hitters on the table and force a winner: our homemade Ottawa Apple versus the Lemoncello Mule that shocked us with how good it tasted. We break down what’s in each drink, why one of them stays so hard to beat, and how a cocktail can feel “Epcot perfect” even when it comes from the most unexpected spot on a menu.

From there, we go full year-two recap with the kind of ranked list you can use for your next Disney World trip or your next home cocktail night. We call out the worst drinks we tried, including the one that nailed its goal of tasting like French onion soup and still ended up being a total loss. We also talk about “disappointing” drinks that weren’t broken, just not worth the hype, plus the honorable mentions we’d happily order again.

Then we get to the fun part: our top five Disney cocktails of the year. We talk Jollywood Nights favorites, festival finds like a light floral English Garden, classics like a properly made Sazerac, and sleepers that got better as we drank them. We also share why we don’t cover much Disney beer, how we pick drinks when menus keep changing, and which episode themes made this year stand out for us.

If you’ve got a drink we need to try or a topic idea we should build an episode around, send it our way. Subscribe, share this with your Disney friend who always orders “the weird one,” and leave a review so more listeners can find Cheers to Ears.

Transcript

Two-Year Anniversary Toast

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Welcome to our second anniversary year-in closeout. And this is Cheers to Ears.

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We're gonna click our drinks. We're gonna toast our ears. We're gonna toast and get our cheers to ears. Cheers to it.

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Okay, we're back, and we gotta talk about these drinks.

SPEAKER_02 0:28

We do. And I didn't, I mean, if you want to find out, so we're gonna talk about a lot of drinks today. We are. And so, like these two drinks. If you want to find out all about them, there's this podcast called Cheers to Ears, and you can scroll through it and find it, and we talk about the drinks extensively.

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Yes.

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So we'll we'll go through some stuff, but I don't remember

The Ottawa Apple Origin Story

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where this one was made. I know all about this one. Let's talk a little bit about it. You of course you do. I'll so I'll talk about the Ottawa apple first. Yes. Ottawa apple was one of our first drinks we ever had.

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It was like four or five in episodes in.

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And we didn't think it would be great because it was an apple dumpling gang episode. Yes. The only reason we had an apple drink.

SPEAKER_00 1:05

Ottawa apple with uh three ounces of Crown Royal apple, three ounces of raspberry juice, and then I believe I put a half ounce of maple syrup.

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And it was far and away the best drink of the year last year.

SPEAKER_00 1:19

Yes.

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Hands down, nothing came close.

SPEAKER_00 1:22

Yeah, that there was some good drinks, but nothing came close.

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Yeah, if I walk into Epcot, an Ottawa apple is gonna be in my hand during the day.

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And ours is a little different.

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It is a little different.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

Their Ottawa apple is a little more raisin flavored. It is, I would say. I think ours is better. And I think so. Here's what I think the difference is they mix theirs, they use maple crown royal, they do, which you can't get in the US. No, and so I think that's the big difference. And then they use apple juice and probably some other types of juice, but yeah, a little bit of a difference.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

Yeah, we use apple crown, crown apple and maple syrup. Yeah, and then three simple ingredients. Yeah, and maybe I'll post a video of making it raspberry juice. I might do that for this two-year thing. Yeah, that might be good. Because if you haven't had this drink, it's a good one, and you like drinks at all, you like adult beverages at all, you have to have this drink. It's amazing. Got a good, it's not syrupy sweet, but it's got a good sweetness to it. And it's sold to strangest place. Yeah, I still think it's strange. It's at the popcorn cart in the Canada Pavilion. Canada Pavilion at Epcod. It's such a strange place. It's a little cart. They usually have two drinks there, and that's it.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

So we made one and we split it between the two of us, and then we made another drink and split it between the two of us. And I believe so. We did this second drink, just

Lemoncello Mule Surprise Hit

SPEAKER_00 2:48

I'm gonna say it now, because it was our favorite drink of the year. And I don't even know. I think I saw it on all ears that she ordered one of these, and I looked at it's a big menu, big list of ingredients like orange juice, pineapple juice, peach puree, lemon cello, vodka, and ginger beer.

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Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:08

So lemon cello meal, but I believe this was my favorite of the year. This surprised of this year, and it was another surprise.

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Right, just like this drink, it surprised us. We just had it. Yeah, we just came up with something to have, and we're like, holy crap, this thing's decent. I gotta have a drink too while we're talking about it.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

And so we did both. Cheers. Another cheers. Yeah, we did both, and that was with our uh Disney Goes Cosa Nostra episode, yeah, and it was in Vienna Napoli at Epcot, the Italy Pavilion, which is why we chose that one. But again, really good. So we did both of these and we made one drink each and we're splitting them, but it was to see the clear-cut best drink of this year versus the clear-cut best drink of year one, and to have a competition.

SPEAKER_02 3:53

Are we deciding now? We should probably should because we're not talking about auto apple anymore after this. We're not because it's not year two, we're only talking about year two drinks today. Yeah, boy, and I'm a step at each, I'm gonna tell you the real decision.

SPEAKER_00 4:07

And I have to say, again, not a big fan of ginger, but for this thing works. I think it's because it has all the other juices in it, the lemon cello.

SPEAKER_02 4:17

Okay, I have a winner for my I'm going Ottawa apple. Ottawa apple still. It's still my favorite. If I try both side to side, the git the ginger drink is good. The lemon cello mule's good, but we've had drinks that are kind of like it. Other mules have kind of like they don't come, they're not as good. There's there's a gap, definite gap, but man, this drink, there's nothing like it. No, it's not an old-fashioned, it's not a fruity drink, it's not alcohol forward drink. It's all of it. Auto apple

Head-To-Head Drink Champion

SPEAKER_02 4:48

is still your number one. Still Ottawa Apple. Do you still agree? You agree?

SPEAKER_00 4:52

Yeah, yeah. But I gotta say, the Lemoncello Mule, I definitely recommend it. I want to try it in the parks.

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We need to do that.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

I want to try VN Apple anyway. That's a good one. It's still very good.

SPEAKER_02 5:04

It's good. And I didn't look back at all to our season one recap. Do you do we have a clear number two last year? Do you remember at all?

SPEAKER_00 5:12

I can't remember.

SPEAKER_02 5:13

I would like to see where it might have been the Lapu Lapu. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

We had okay. Here's what I remember from year one. It was Lapu Lapu, Viking Coffee, Espresso Martini, and the Ottawa Apple, and there was one more, and I can't remember what it was.

SPEAKER_02 5:27

We both have the same top five intermixed. Yeah. And this is gonna be way different because I liked all the drinks this year pretty much.

SPEAKER_00 5:34

As I was listening back, there were only a few that I didn't, there were probably three that I just did not care for.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

I'll be straightforward. Our assignment was to come up with five, five, and five. Five good, five bad, five honorable mentions. I only came up with four bad. I failed. Okay. I failed the assignment.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

And I came to two of my bad weren't they weren't necessarily bad drinks, but I that they were disappointing.

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Yeah. I have two bads and then two others that are not great.

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And a lot of them are eliminated because I just did not remember them. But I I remembered more drinks than I expected.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:13

So with my honorable mention, so I put down the five bad, I just started typing, but for the best drinks and honorable mentions, I just started filling out and I came up with 10, and then it was just ranking them.

SPEAKER_02 6:26

So anyway, this is our second year anniversary episode. Yes, we shouldn't just all talk about only drinks. No, we'll talk about some of the drink. It has. So thank you, Aaron. Thank you, Aaron. That we started somehow together, and it's been amazing. We've come so far. We're almost on YouTube. Two two to eight years from now, we'll be like strong.

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We'll be crushing it.

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Yeah, we'll like get a

Setting Up The Year Two Lists

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little inside tip. As we were making our last episode this week, I tripped over the cord and broke our aux cord that went on. So every week something happens to our camera or our cord. We're I'm taking personal responsibility. Again, I'm really bad at YouTube.

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Yeah.

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But we'll get there. 10, 15, 20 years.

SPEAKER_00 7:13

So should we just start with the bottom five? Let's go bottom five. Okay.

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Let's get it out of the way.

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Do we want to rank them? I didn't rank each other. Worse the first. Okay.

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I can't if you want me to, but I just have four. I didn't rank good, bad, or well mentions.

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Let's just start number one camera.

Bottom Drinks And Big Disappointments

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Worst drink.

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We have the same one. It was just crap. It was from GO82, the Danny DeVito episode.

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Right.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

Great episode.

SPEAKER_02 7:36

Great episode. Fantastic episode. He still has not replied to me. No. I sent him multiple messages telling him how much we love him.

SPEAKER_00 7:44

But it was the drink sucked. It was bad. Yeah, I think it's bad all around.

SPEAKER_02 7:49

It was there was no way to improve it.

SPEAKER_00 7:51

No. And it was maybe if we didn't infuse as much of the leek into the maybe, but it tasted exactly like it was described.

SPEAKER_02 8:01

It was supposed to taste like French onion soup. And it did.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

And it did. And it was bad. Like boozy French onion soup.

SPEAKER_02 8:07

It was bad.

SPEAKER_00 8:08

It was horrible. So not good. Yeah. I just there's no redemption for that one at all. No. And I do know it's not on the menu anymore.

SPEAKER_02 8:18

Yeah, it's not. We looked at it a few weeks ago.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

Okay, and disclaimer, some of these drinks might not be available in parks anymore because they change menus.

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Just like our first year, we had a great drink at Pim's Test Kitchen that I really loved.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

Yes.

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And they took it right off the menu. It's not there.

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And that was one of our first drinks.

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Or Pim's Tasting Lab, excuse me. Yes. I intermix those things all the time. Okay. So let me give I'll give you another one of my bad ones. Okay. Because I have no idea. Because I liked so many drinks. Yes. Here's my second least favorite. Okay. Totally. The Jolly Holiday. Oh, really? From Be Our Guest. It was plasticky tasting. The Jolly Holiday.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

You mean the handsome brute?

SPEAKER_02 8:57

No, it's called the Jolly Holiday.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

That was from Jollywood Knights.

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You correct.

SPEAKER_00 9:02

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 9:03

No, it's from Be Our Guest. There's another drink I have from Jollywood Knights on here somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

I'm sure it was maybe. I don't know. Now we have to look this up. Please tight.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

Do you remember the Jolly Holiday at all? Yes. Okay, talk about it. Was that a bad one to you? No. No, you liked it. It was, I think that was the We both said it tasted very plasticky when we talked about it. So then I started remembering. Remembering the drink. And it was Be our guest. Let me see if we can find it. This is a really strange. We're both typing our phones on an episode. So anyway, let's move on to another one while we look it up. Okay. While we keep going. Tell us one of your bad ones.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

The blue Viking from Acker Schus. Yeah, that was a yeah. Bibity Bobbity Botox episode. Right. And that was just because that was nasty alcohol-y, alcohol-flavored.

SPEAKER_02 9:58

I didn't mind that one. So I'm I like the alcohol flavor. But it was like blue curaca. It was. It yeah. Trying to pull up the menu still. We're talking about we're really ruining our flow here. We are we do this. Let's not let's not worry about it.

SPEAKER_00 10:12

No, you know what? It was Jolly Holiday because it was from Jollywood Nights, because that was one of our Christmas episodes.

SPEAKER_02 10:19

I thought I had a Jollywood Nights. No.

SPEAKER_00 10:22

No, we did several.

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The sugar cookie martini.

SPEAKER_00 10:24

We did several from that. We did several from that. From Jollywood Nights. We actually did three drinks from Jollywood Nights.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

We don't have it anymore on here because the Jolly Holiday is gone now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

The one we did from BR Guest was The Handsome Brute.

SPEAKER_02 10:37

Okay. Oh. I must have looked at it wrong on the thing. So anyway, it was the same drink.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 10:42

Called the Jolly Holiday. And I did not enjoy it. That was the point of the whole conversation. Not what it's not there anymore.

SPEAKER_00 10:49

Because you listened to it.

SPEAKER_02 10:51

I did. I went through and I listened to m almost every episode from last year, the first three minutes. Oh. I did this. This took me longer than any other episode to prepare for.

SPEAKER_00 10:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

Well. But I might have got it wrong. I'm going to keep looking a little bit here while we keep talking.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

So and what which one did you just Jolly Holiday?

SPEAKER_02 11:08

Jolly Holiday.

SPEAKER_00 11:09

See, and I was thinking that those, and maybe I've got them all mixed up now, but that didn't stand out to me. Oh, either way.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

It just didn't stand out.

SPEAKER_00 11:18

No. So next one I had, the Moonshine Margarita from Crockett's Tavern for a Hillbilly Club 33 episode.

SPEAKER_02 11:25

I didn't hate that one.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

I didn't.

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I liked it okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:28

It's Moonshine is not a margarita. That's true. It's a moonshine is harsh. We still got a red bottle of moonshine in there. We do. We need to use it somehow. We got to find some moonshine drinks you can recommend. They have a bunch at Crockett's Tavern.

SPEAKER_02 11:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

I imagine they will at Lakeshore Lodge when they get some lounges in there and stuff when that's finally done.

SPEAKER_02 11:53

But this is going to be the best ever recorded episode we ever had. You know why on YouTube? Because I'm looking at my phone a bunch, looking up this thing. Yeah. So now it's going to come out perfect on the screen. This is how it works for us.

SPEAKER_00 12:04

So Boon Moonshine Margarita. Now what's what's in the third one for you?

SPEAKER_02 12:08

The uh Barrels of Blaze from Beacon.

SPEAKER_00 12:11

Same. That was another one for me. Okay, good. And it was just disappointing.

SPEAKER_02 12:15

Just disappointing. Yeah. So yeah, my other two were just disappointing.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

Yeah. There's nothing bad about them. They were disappointing because I really wanted something good from there. And I think we probably picked that because it had a lot of the ingredients we had. I think that one might have had chili bitters in it. Okay. But anyway, yeah. Just not a very good one. Very disappointing. Yeah. For me, so that was four. That's four. Caramelized leaked martini, blue viking, moonshine margarita, barrels of blaze, the Lacava Avocado.

SPEAKER_02 12:46

You didn't like it. Okay. I thought it was okay. It was disappointing. I thought you might have it on the honorable mention, actually.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

It was disappointing. And it was texturally, it was a little weird. Okay. I do I still want to try one in the park, but not a big fan of that one. And it went on because it was disappointing. I was really excited to try that one. Interesting. And it it disappointed me.

SPEAKER_02 13:07

Yeah, this says be our guest Jolly Holiday Cocktail. It was a be our guest during Christmas time. Oh. This is from our episode of the transfer.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

Oh, it was a Christmas.

SPEAKER_02 13:16

Yeah, of course it was a Christmas party.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

The Christmas was not the party. It was the Christmas party holiday or menu.

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But you can buy it at BR Guest. We talked about how much it cost in addition to what you had in the episode.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

Yeah.

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Okay, and I finally found it. Now we're flowing.

SPEAKER_00 13:32

Okay.

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I'm back.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

So Barrels of Blaze was Beacon Barrel. That was the ride or die episode. And La Cava Avocado from La Hacienda de San Angel, Bad Theme Park Ideas. Was our was the episode. I only have three. You only have three?

SPEAKER_02 13:48

Yeah, because I put barrel of base blaze twice. Okay. And put just on impressive. I might have put it on there twice. Some of those three ones I hated. Yeah. Then everyone else, everything else was just meh.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

And I'd say cava avocado, I didn't necessarily hate. Right. I was just, it made it because it was not, it was a little more disappointing.

SPEAKER_02 14:07

And I think I might have put a lacava avocado on there too. If I was stretching, I had to get five. I think I would agree with you. So you gotta go the rest of this bad because I'm done.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

Oh no, that's it. That's all five of mine.

SPEAKER_02 14:17

Okay.

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Honorable mention. So

Honorable Mentions Worth Reordering

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these still very good. Very good.

SPEAKER_02 14:22

I have zero problem with any of these ones.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

So I'd I had an opinion on about 15 drinks, which means 37 just kind of flowed into each other. They didn't stand out in my mind. Number one, and this was a real hard one to go to go back and forth. The ginger pear snap from Liberty Tree Tavern when we ranked ride music.

SPEAKER_02 14:42

Ginger pear snap. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

Yeah. It had ginger liqueur. That was my number two. It was like a ginger cookie.

SPEAKER_02 14:48

Got it.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

For on honorable mention.

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Honorable mention. Number two honorable mention.

SPEAKER_00 14:52

Yeah.

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Ginger pear snap.

SPEAKER_00 14:53

It was very good. And I'll tell you when we get to the other, the list of the top five, I'll tell you the one that it almost beat out. It was an either or for me.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

Okay. Perfect. What's your next one?

SPEAKER_00 15:05

The amaretto sour.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

Amaretto sour. I have that somewhere on here, don't I? Yep. So I have to say it's not on here, but it was one of my ones I was thinking about putting on here.

SPEAKER_00 15:15

And I have to say, from the Bartesian, it probably would have made top five. That the Bartesian has a great amaretto sour. The one that we followed their recipe from Viennapoly wasn't good.

SPEAKER_02 15:27

It was it was okay. It was okay. But it was not as good as the No, we make it better here at home, handmade, the Viennapoly version that we found online.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

Our homemade version is better than because that was like Sprite and Yeah, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_02 15:41

I don't like it as much as our one Bartesian and then our homemade version we make here.

SPEAKER_00 15:46

Yeah. So you oh you make a homemade version too. Oh yeah, it's very good. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 15:50

But it doesn't have Sprite.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

It was Sprite and Lime or lemon juice and amaretto liqueur, which is almond liqueur, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:59

Yeah, I did not put the Amaretto sour on here, even though I had it as one of my things. And the good I have one good one that's going to be pretty controversial, I think. Okay. But oh so what's your next one? Let's just go through and I'll say of what I have because I don't have that one on there.

SPEAKER_00 16:13

Key lime pie martini. After we sweetened it up from Narcoese's, and it was the rumored land rankings. Yeah. But the key lime pie martini, another good martini from Disney.

SPEAKER_02 16:24

I think it was the first time we tried it that lessened me on it before we changed it.

SPEAKER_00 16:29

We sweetened it up because it was a little too tart.

SPEAKER_02 16:31

I remember how I didn't like it at first. Then we started adding stuff to it to make it.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

If we'd used the sweetened lime juice as opposed to fresh lime juice, which we sweetened it up with some simple syrup and it was good. But it started out, it needed some doctoring, I will say that. But it was still it turned into something good.

SPEAKER_02 16:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Yeah, for in my mind.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

So far, just the ginger one is all I have, the same as you. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 16:55

What about a third one for you?

SPEAKER_02 16:57

One another one of my honorable mentions was the brulee banana highball. Oh, okay. I really liked it. It's a Geo82, and it had banana and coffee in it. And chocolate bitters. Yes, crazy ingredients. And it worked. It was I like things that are complex and they work together. They meld. And this one did.

SPEAKER_00 17:18

That one, it was definitely memorable. So there were a few that were, but it didn't make it beat out any of the other drinks. It didn't beat them out for you.

SPEAKER_02 17:26

Yeah, that was one of my favorite because we were surprised. I like the surprise. This shouldn't work.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:31

But it does. That's why I was so hopeful for the leak martini. Yes. That it was gonna work. That if some people liked it, I was like, oh, maybe it'll work. Let's try it.

SPEAKER_00 17:39

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 17:40

And the banana one did for me.

SPEAKER_00 17:42

So my next one, the Stroopwaffle Bourbon Coffee, Jollywood Night. Good one. Christmas ride overlays. So, yes, definite honorable mention. I because I love Stroopwaffles, but bourbon, caramel sauce, coffee. Yeah, a cream, I think it had in it. And it was a but it was an iced drink, I believe.

SPEAKER_02 18:02

I think so too. Yeah. And it didn't make my list at all, but it's a good one.

SPEAKER_00 18:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:06

That's where I struggled.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Yes. So that's a good drink. That's a good drink, but it just didn't make it to me. Not quite.

SPEAKER_02 18:13

Let's see another one. Yeah, so let me let me go Christmas time since all our Christmas time drinks are gonna be talked about now.

SPEAKER_00 18:18

Okay, but mine are on the top top five. Oh, so I have one in the middle one. Should I wait? I have two that are in the top five.

SPEAKER_02 18:25

So maybe this one. Oh no, go ahead. Okay, go ahead. The sugar cookie martini.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

That made an honorable mention. Honorable mentioned.

SPEAKER_02 18:31

Really? Yeah. It did. It should have probably been over one of my controversi my one controversial good pick. Oh pick. Yeah, with the Amaridal and creaminess, I loved. But I'm telling you, I like all these drinks. They could have you could interf the honorable mention of the top five.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

Okay, but that one was so good we made them for everybody at the football game.

SPEAKER_02 18:49

I contemplated it, but I just like some of these other ones better.

SPEAKER_00 18:52

Okay. That's interesting because that was definitely top five for me. Okay. In fact, I believe that was my number two drink behind the Lemoncello Mule. I did rank my top five.

SPEAKER_02 19:03

Okay, so I didn't. Even if I just took it and I put five on mentions five goods.

SPEAKER_00 19:08

Okay, so how many have you gone through? Four? I think I've done three. Three. Okay, do one more.

SPEAKER_02 19:13

Okay, the command center. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

Space 220. I saw that and I couldn't remember anything.

SPEAKER_02 19:18

It's a raspberry drink.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:21

The raspberries in, they floated the bottom at the end and we stirred them up and it got better and better as we drank it.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:27

So good.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

There was a The Handsome Brute was another raspberry one.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

This was good, and then as the episode went on. Went on and got better. So that's one. If you make the drink, let it sit for a few minutes.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Those were see, and those were ones I forgot what was in. They didn't stick out in my mind. So I'm like, if it doesn't stick out in my mind, it's not I wasn't gonna mention it. That was just it.

SPEAKER_02 19:49

That's totally fair.

SPEAKER_00 19:50

But thinking back, I do remember the Raspberry ones with Raspberry Liqueur were very good. So yeah, that was that's a good honorable mention. That the handsome brute, same thing. Same thing, same thing. Another good one. Okay, so you've you mentioned four. Yeah. My last one, the Sazrek from Scat Cat's Club Lounge characters we wish were Disney. That's in my top five. That's in the top five. Yeah. So that was a really good one. That was another tough one for the honorable mention. That and the ginger pear snap were both top five worthy, but I just had other things that I liked more.

SPEAKER_02 20:26

That's exactly what I agree with. I love a Sazerac.

SPEAKER_00 20:29

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 20:29

I spent a lot of time learning how to make it correctly before the And you made a correct one.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

Thank you. It was very good.

SPEAKER_02 20:36

It was so hard to learn. I practiced a couple times.

SPEAKER_00 20:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:40

And now I can make them two seconds. Because after I'd done it a few times. Yeah, I love a Sazerac. It was one of my first favorite drinks. It was good.

SPEAKER_00 20:48

We have two great drinks right now.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

This is just I know I can. I want to drink this the lemon cello first. I keep grabbing the Ottawa apple. I'm doing that too. I'm really struggling here with these two drinks.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

Okay. So that was my f my honorable mentions were those.

SPEAKER_02 21:01

Can I have one more I want to mention, right? Okay. The Lime Time for Magic Key Terrace. And I saw that one. We called it in the episode a boozy Gatorade. Yeah. And what's wrong with a boozy Gatorade? I mean, come on. You gotta like something something that tastes like a boozy Gatorade.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

That one I just remember it felt watered down, which is why it was like an old school Gatorade. Is it just felt watered down to me? So not a bad drink. No. But yeah, that's why it wasn't it didn't make my honorable mentions or anything.

SPEAKER_02 21:33

This I think this whole thing is the lemon cello mule and everything else is the epitome of our year. Pretty close. I know. There's not really I think I need to try another sugar sugar cookie martini now. I'm gonna have kind of went out of my mind a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 21:47

I think it did because we were raving about those.

SPEAKER_02 21:50

I know, and we really did have them during Christmas time. You're correct.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

We I didn't we did make them for people for the football game there. So, top five

Top Five Drinks Of The Year

SPEAKER_00 21:58

drinks. Well, number one, my lemon cell. Mule was number one. My number two was the sugar cookie martini. Okay. That was my number two drink. So Jollywood Nights, Disney gifts for family members. What did you have for another one for your top five? You didn't rank them, I did.

SPEAKER_02 22:14

No, I'll go with my non-controversial ones first. The Peach Manhattan.

SPEAKER_00 22:19

Oh. And I for Mandinos. And I thought about that.

SPEAKER_02 22:23

So good. I thought about trying to make it again when I read about it today. Yep. And listened to it. I kind of want to make one of those.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

It's funny.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

I like a Manhattan. I like an old fashioned. Those are probably my top two types of dresses.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

Of a cocktail.

SPEAKER_02 22:37

Of a cocktail.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

They're very safe. Speaking of a good old fashioned, I ate, I don't know, two, three weeks ago. I went to El Gaucho's. They had one of the best old fashions I think I've ever had. A lot of orange, which I know you like. Good old fashioned. Nice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

Nice. And this is another sidebar from my dad. My father, as I was talking to me today about this episode, I was struggling with it. He I called him. Uh-huh. I was just talking about random stuff. And this came up. I was like, I'm just struggling about what I'm going to do. And he said, You guys don't talk about a lot of beer on your podcast.

SPEAKER_00 23:12

No, we've avoided doing beers.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

And I told him we have to, because the beer they have at Disney isn't sold in the Pacific Northwest enough to really do it. They don't have a lot of, they have some local beers for us.

SPEAKER_00 23:26

What was the one that we drank when we were there?

SPEAKER_02 23:29

Was it a juicy?

SPEAKER_00 23:31

No, it was kind of a lager. Oh. At Disneyland? It's no, because it's only Disney World.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

The Yulangs. Oh, Yinglings. Yinglings. Yinglings. Yeah. So we don't have that around.

SPEAKER_00 23:44

We can't get that anywhere.

SPEAKER_02 23:45

There's so many in California that are local California brew pubs. Yeah. We can't compare them enough. We can have a beer in our episode. Yeah. But it's not going to be anything you could try at Disney. So that's why we don't do it.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:56

It's not that we are beer, anti-beer. No. They don't make the same beers in the Pacific Northwest. We're so beer friendly here. Yeah. We have our own beers that we have.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

Okay. They should have more Pacific Northwest beers at Disneyland.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

They would all be IPAs.

SPEAKER_02 24:11

And that'll be great.

SPEAKER_00 24:12

I'm not a huge IPA fan.

SPEAKER_02 24:14

We don't have all IPAs. Every brewery has just popular. They're very popular here. You go to a brew pub. If you go to a Crux.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

If it's 50% IPAs.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

It's not good because they're popular.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

Because they're popular.

SPEAKER_02 24:27

They're going to have a logger.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

They're going to have all this stuff. So anyway, sidebar. So you've done three, right?

SPEAKER_02 24:34

I've done we've done Sazerac. Yeah, I have three of mine are gone. I have two more.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

Two more on my list. I had and now it's just called the bourbon peach tea, but it was the Bon Familes bourbon peach tea at Boat Rice Dining Hall, Secret Social Club. So that was bourbon, peach schnapps, and iced tea. And just the thought, I love peach iced tea.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

You're not wrong. That's worthy.

SPEAKER_00 24:59

That was just, I could totally see sitting somewhere in New Orleans, sitting somewhere drinking one of those. That one had to make that because it was just everything about boat rights and going to Port Orleans, Riverside, Port Orleans. What's the other one? It's called French Quarter. Yes. That's great. Anyway, but it just felt like that would be an appropriate drink there. It just everything about that worked.

SPEAKER_02 25:33

That should be on my top five, too, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

But yeah, and it was a very good drinkable.

SPEAKER_02 25:38

Everything you're saying.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

Very good, drinkable. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:41

So I have two left.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

I'll say the controversial one now. Let's get it. Okay, okay. The Nicellin and Bubbles.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

I saw that and I couldn't quite remember it.

SPEAKER_02 25:50

It's Ogus Cantina.

SPEAKER_00 25:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 25:52

It's a gin and tonic with berry.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

That's what it was. Yeah. But it to me it was a gin and tonic with berry. It was. And it did that doesn't stand out in my mind.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

It's simple though. I like simple.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

A gin and tonic is a go-to. It's a go-to as far as like I don't know what to order here. I'm just gonna get a gin and tonic.

SPEAKER_02 26:11

But it was so good as I remember it.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 26:14

That I added on earlier. It's one of the first ones I was like, scrolled through the list, it's one of the first ones I saw.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

And not a bad one.

SPEAKER_02 26:19

That's not bad.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

No, not at all. No. So that was that good choice.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

Okay, thank you. I thought you might say, Oh, I hated that. That's a horror.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

No, no, not definitely didn't hate it at all. It's just to me, it was too there, wasn't anything unique about it. So my next one, the winter spiced Long Island Iced Tea from Jollywood Knights. Really? I'd never had a Long Island iced tea. That's true. And I was like, oh, this is and the winter spiced. I was like, this is actually really good. It was good.

SPEAKER_02 26:48

I was I forgot about how good it was.

SPEAKER_00 26:51

Because we got the the fancy cola nut soda.

SPEAKER_02 26:54

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Yeah, it was really good. I really liked it. Might get me to drink a Long Island iced tea in the future.

SPEAKER_02 27:00

Bartesia makes a dandy. Oh, do they? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:03

I'll have to try that sometime.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

And we add cola to it.

SPEAKER_00 27:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 27:06

The Christie's the Christie Bart scene.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:09

Right? Adds a little cola to the end. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

Just to a little twist.

SPEAKER_02 27:15

A little plus up. Okay, that's good. I have one more.

SPEAKER_00 27:18

You have one more? Okay, I have one more. Okay. Perfect.

SPEAKER_02 27:20

So my last one is the Piranha Punch. Okay. From Skipper Society Lounge on the Disney Destiny.

SPEAKER_00 27:26

Okay. And I that was one I couldn't remember the details.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

One of our better fruity drinks we've had in a long year.

SPEAKER_00 27:33

Yes. Maybe the best fruity drink of the year. We maybe next year we go with categories. But it was, I think that was one after a long break of not having fruity drinks. Because we we had had fruity drinks a lot. Right. They were all tasting the same. They were. And so we took a long break from them and then went back, and it was like, okay, yeah, this was a good one to go back to. Okay, this last one might be a little might be a little more comp controversial.

SPEAKER_01 28:03

Okay, here we go.

SPEAKER_00 28:04

The English garden from Rose and Crown at the Food and Wine Festival.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 28:09

Yeah, we did our food and wine bracket episode. Oh, what ways? It was the one Michaela said this would be a great breakfast cocktail. But I just remember so Elderflower and Elderflower liqueur is in the ginger pear snap as well. But I like that floral, it was light, refreshing. So the ginger pear snap and this one were very interchangeable. It could have gone either way in my

Why We Rarely Cover Disney Beer

SPEAKER_00 28:35

mind. But I because this was so unusual, and it was a good unusual. Sometimes it's okay, this is different. Eh, okay, I'm moving on. But that was like, okay, this is different, but I could sit back and enjoy this.

SPEAKER_02 28:49

I forgot how far that went in our brackets. It kept going.

SPEAKER_00 28:52

That drink? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:53

Didn't it did it win?

SPEAKER_00 28:54

No, we didn't do have that drink. That's what we drank.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

Well, we drank for the brackets.

SPEAKER_00 28:58

For the for that episode.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

Okay. Okay. I just remember how much you liked it.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

That's what and then you had because you had scallops when and I had, I don't know, barbecue or something. Food. Food, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:08

We should do a drink bracket.

SPEAKER_00 29:10

We could have. There was a lot of stuff at that. It was hard to come up with a list of like only 64 food or 32 or something.

SPEAKER_02 29:17

We should do a bracket here with our drinks.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

Oh, that would be an interesting one to do.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

We're getting to 64.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

We have we have 52.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

We're getting there. Yeah. We could do a March Madness. We might be there by next March. We'll be way past that. Anyway, we think about it.

SPEAKER_00 29:33

Yeah. Yeah. We'll have to think about that. Okay. So many good drinks. English Garden, another good one.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

We've been blessed to have this many good drinks.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

I don't know if we pick them right or Disney really has that many good drinks. That they don't miss that much.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

I don't think they miss that much. I think they because they really test the food and they try to go a little unusual, knowing that they're going to sell a few, but I don't think they push the envelope much.

SPEAKER_02 30:01

No, so once in a while we go with something we know or we've heard is good.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

Buy someone like all ears.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:08

Or a but even like that, but we come up with stuff that has nothing. No one's ever said anything. We just start looking at menus. And we try to tie it into the episode. Right. And then lately we tried to tie it in what we have in our liquor cabinet.

SPEAKER_00 30:22

In the liquor cabinet. It's quite extensive. It is.

SPEAKER_02 30:24

It needs to calm itself down a bit.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 30:27

Try it to build onto my house.

SPEAKER_00 30:28

So I was looking because there's a drink I want to try, and I can't remember the name of it, but it had Pim's liqueur. Pim's number one liqueur.

SPEAKER_02 30:36

And what is that?

SPEAKER_00 30:37

What the heck is that? Yeah, it's like 40 bucks for a bottle of it. And I said, Can you make this? And it was compare and sweet vermouth and e-bag. We can make that. And gin. And so we can make it. And so that's what I want to do is I want to make some of this liqueur, and it'll be cheaper than buying a $40 lark.

SPEAKER_02 30:59

I don't know how we keep doing this. We're two years in and we're still evolving.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

Yes. We're amazing. Yes. This is crazy. We we got it going on.

SPEAKER_02 31:06

That's amazing. So do you have a I don't I haven't thought of this? It

Favorite Episodes And Future Ideas

SPEAKER_02 31:10

just popped in my mind. I don't know if I have a good answer for this question.

SPEAKER_01 31:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:13

Do you have a favorite episode from this year? And I don't have all the list of episodes, like a favorite topic of episodes. We didn't do a lot of theme park stuff this year. Not a lot.

SPEAKER_00 31:22

I think you know what my first favorite one was? It was the Mediterranean creating a Mediterranean park.

SPEAKER_02 31:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:30

I think I had the most fun with that one.

SPEAKER_02 31:32

I think I liked the create so same idea was creating the Star Wars park.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 31:36

That was fun too.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

And that and I used part of the Mediterranean one for that one. But we did I was looking up. Yeah, okay. Now Hillbilly Club 33 was a good one.

SPEAKER_02 31:46

That was so much fun. That might be the best one.

SPEAKER_00 31:49

Hero bars, secret social clubs.

SPEAKER_02 31:52

I think Hillbilly Club 33.

SPEAKER_00 31:53

The Timu Disney was fun too that we just did. Yes. The Disney Telethon. That was that was this year? Yes. That was a lot of editing. That was fun, though.

SPEAKER_02 32:03

Something like that again.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

We should. We'll need a year two telethon. Oh, yeah. Year three. Year three. Yes. Our second annual telethon.

SPEAKER_02 32:11

We're approaching year three. Yeah, we yeah. I liked a lot of these.

SPEAKER_00 32:14

We had some good ones. I did like Disney resolutions. Yeah, we had some. We definitely had some good ones here.

SPEAKER_02 32:22

Yeah. I like the Christmas right overlays a lot.

SPEAKER_00 32:25

That was that was fun. That was a fun one.

SPEAKER_02 32:27

Just thought I'd throw it out there just because we don't we don't talk about past stuff a lot. Yeah. We just keep moving forward.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

I would say Hillbilly Club 33, the Hero Bars, and the Disney Telethon, those were all really good ones.

SPEAKER_02 32:42

Yeah, so we've evolved over the last two years of someone. We were we started this whole and Danny DeVito. That's number one. That's number one. We're talking about that. Danny DeVito's number one.

SPEAKER_00 32:52

Thanks, Danny.

SPEAKER_02 32:53

Yeah, we started this whole project.

SPEAKER_00 32:55

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 32:55

We're gonna talk about serious Disney topics, yeah, yada yada, and talk like that, but we didn't because everyone does that.

SPEAKER_00 33:03

Everyone does that.

SPEAKER_02 33:05

We found I think we found our niche that we like.

SPEAKER_00 33:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 33:08

Hopefully you like it too.

SPEAKER_00 33:09

And we'll touch on the series, like after D23.

SPEAKER_02 33:12

Yeah, we'll touch on stuff. We'll talk about park visits. I mean, we haven't last your last visit was a while ago. Mine was further away.

SPEAKER_00 33:18

Mine was 11 months ago.

SPEAKER_02 33:20

Really?

SPEAKER_00 33:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:21

Oh, no, it was just a few. No, we went together.

SPEAKER_00 33:24

Did we go in September?

SPEAKER_02 33:25

Yeah, we went together in the past Yeah, September.

SPEAKER_00 33:28

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:29

Yeah, we was September together. That's my last trip.

SPEAKER_00 33:32

Oh, okay. Oh, that's right. So I went in to Disney World last November, June to July 1st, and then yeah, we went there. But either way, I need to go back.

SPEAKER_02 33:41

Yeah, so it's been a it's been not the best year for us visiting Disney parks.

SPEAKER_00 33:45

No.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

All stuff happens. I keep flying to see my son and the East Coast. Wasted a bunch of my trips, not wasting, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:53

Taking a bunch of my trips.

SPEAKER_00 33:55

Yeah. Oh, Disney time travel. That was a good one.

SPEAKER_02 33:58

Yeah, yeah. Hopefully we can do this for another. How many years can we come up with these topics?

SPEAKER_00 34:02

Yeah, we need help.

SPEAKER_02 34:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:04

You got some topics. You can help. Only you. Only

Send Us Drink Ideas And Wrap

SPEAKER_00 34:08

you.

SPEAKER_02 34:09

How can they help us, Aaron?

SPEAKER_00 34:10

They could send us an idea. Cheers, the number two is the number one at Outlook.com. Or just hit the fan mail.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:19

In the app. You send us a fan mail with an idea and a drink idea. If you've had a drink that you really liked, tell us where you got it and what drink it was, and we'll have that.

SPEAKER_02 34:30

Or pop onto our Facebook page, Instagram, yeah, leave us a DM or a message or whatever, and just tell us.

SPEAKER_00 34:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:38

Comment on something.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:39

Yeah. Just try to be kind of nice.

SPEAKER_00 34:41

I think so. Yeah. I'm just I'm looking at all these drinks. I know.

SPEAKER_02 34:45

A lot of them. A lot of them.

SPEAKER_00 34:46

Hey. A hundred drinks.

SPEAKER_02 34:48

Thanks, everyone.

SPEAKER_00 34:49

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 34:50

For two years. It's been amazing.

SPEAKER_00 34:52

Yes. Cheers.

SPEAKER_02 34:53

Cheers too many more. Cheers.