And over here, I've got bartender Timothy
Stondon from Rob Roys Bar in Belltown,
and I have to say he is uniquely qualified
to make a few Christmas cocktails in July.
Good morning, thanks for being with us.
Good morning. Thank you for having me,
by the way, happy belated birthday.
Ohh thank you's birthday was yesterday.
Now before we have drinks in the winter,
Rob Roy transforms into a holiday pop-up
called Miracle on 2nd tell us all about that.
So a miracle on 2nd started
in New York and then was
quickly adopted by Rob Roy.
And the owner of robbery, Annu.
And there we transform it
into a Santa's workshop.
Everything, everything is wrapped,
everything is wrapped,
everything is festive.
I'm so here for all of
this at the Rob Roy.
So what are we making today?
So today we're going to
be making two cocktails.
One cocktail is going to be our Santa Rex.
OK, became very popular and in the Santa
Rex we have a little bit of tequila.
OK, a little bit of Midori.
Do you get enough Midori in
drinks these days, Moscow.
We have some oorschot here,
which is an almond syrup.
Thank you. I was just going to ask
and in there we have some tiki
bitters and a little bit of lime.
I am trying to imagine what
this is going to taste like,
but I don't think I can,
so the Santa racks it's got to
be shaken, not stirred, shaken.
You can stand to wreck shakes things up.
I always love it when they do
that. Now, a portion of all proceeds
from this sales on merchandise like this,
Santa Rex Mog year goes to charity.
You can buy that mug
right at Rob Roy all winter long,
right there. It's right, there it's a win.
I gotta, I gotta get this money.
Where do you even get a
Santa Rex mug? Make it made.
We order these from cocktail
Kingdom in New York.
OK, this is about the most fun
holiday drink I've ever seen.
Ohh my goodness ohh I'd really
good so good in my belly
and this is one of our other bestsellers.
I'll tell you what a couple of Santa
Rexes I might be in the Jurassic period.
Is there a snowball fashion?
OK, alright, what makes
it a snowball old fashion?
So every year we make about 2000 of
these snowballs we have a snowball
maker right here. Ohh OK, OK,
I have to make some snowballs for us.
Alright I've pre made some for.
For the magic of TV,
that's right, I love it.
And you said once these are made,
you have to deep freeze them
so we deep freeze these because when
we once we pour the booze on there,
the snowball starts to fall apart. So we
like to keep it really cold. Ah,
ah you. It's kind of hard to get
a perfect cylindrical speed,
so absolutely. So I'm impressed.
I'm impressed and so how many
snowballs of these do you make?
A year 2000? A year,
2000 snowballs a year?
I bet you'd be really good in
a snowball fight. Well, every
year at Belltown when it
does Snow, we're ready.
I love it. OK, what is so special about
this snowball old-fashioned other than
the fact that it has a snowball ice cube?
So the snowball fashion
instead of a regular syrup?
We have a gingerbread syrup,
so it's got sugar, spice, cinnamon.
All those fun things.
Sugar, spice, everything nice,
absolutely. May I please? Ohhh.
Ohh my that's so good that
really does bring me right to
like the Christmas fall time
I'm glad please come in to Robert
I will be I will be there in a heartbeat.
So when will miracle be back
so Miracle starts November 25th this
year OK and we'll run through Christmas.
OK also to keep note is going to
be our Advent calendar to go kit.
Oh yeah, tell me about this.
So every year we're gonna put
together 24 cocktails leading up
to Christmas starting on December
1st and you unwrap a new cocktail.
Today, and it's a surprise some of
these are gonna go in the fridge so
they're wrapped in blue, wrapping OK,
and some can sit out and they
have instructions on each one.
There'll be a second release day
12 days before Christmas as well.
I love this Advent Keller idea.
What a great gift to get folks.
Absolutely,
that's just the perfect thing.
Oh my gosh, thank you so much.
This has been delightful here.
You may take the old fashion.
I'll take Santa Rex.
Cheers, cheers.
Happy, almost holidays.
153 days.
I'll be seeing
you. 153 I'll see you there.