hi it's me trixie mattel i'm outside my bar this is it in
milwaukee wisconsin and i think we should go make some drinks come on
hi this is trixie mattel this is it well it's like a pink chiffon but it can come right off
okay bye dad wrong number hi it's me trixie mattel and welcome to my bar here in milwaukee wisconsin
and today we're gonna make some incredible and exciting quality cocktails i have selected
several cocktails from uh i think what would be considered every bartenders like bread and butter
and uh i don't really know how to make any of them so since i'm a new business owner i'm trying to
roll up my sleeves figuratively and get involved and learn a little bit what it's like to make
drinks professionally now it makes sense that i'm making drinks here today because if you don't know
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on your nomination and they knew so it's kind of an elite club and when i got that award i remember
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very iconic cocktails and we're gonna start out with the manhattan the manhattan is what is it
it's basically a lot of booze we're gonna love it okay so we start with a small glass oh we have to
put ice in there george is actually here george is the owner of this is it hi george hi trixie george
actually served me my first drink when i came here at 21 because i waited till 21 to drink thank you
all right so reach below you trixie reach below me it's not that kind of video this is bullet
i've had this this takes me back to a lot of um episodes of diary at the airport if we're
being completely honest i used to be really into rye whiskey and then i decided that solid ball
movements were for me two shots of rye whiskey okay i feel like i'm doing this a lot neater than
most people i feel like the real bartenders like basically fill up 75 and then they like splash
extra good night mom my mom came to the bar the other night she had a great time i gave her an
open tab at the bar which she understood as i have to drink everything what's next
oh sorry i have to go down to the basement to get this
yeah this okay this is it this bottle of worcestershire
it smells like an old wallet see this is for adults and this is for the children
you know what though there are people that like this my boyfriend actually first started dating
drank this all the time and i thought it made him seem very rich and i was right so next we're
gonna do a dash of bitters bitters are it's funny you ask bitters are they're just bitter
does anyone know what they really are i don't know oh perfect the other bottle of ketchup 44.7
alcohol what if you did a shot of bitters i'm still recovering from this weekend so i will not
be doing a shot of bitters today but stay tuned this is like a little dash it's like a um uh did
it how do you guys remember all this stuff i don't even know the words to my songs we're gonna top it
off with ice getting comfortable don't need this and we're gonna put some cherries in these are
maraschino cherries which if you don't know are bleached and colored red did you know that i found
it on the internet look how i found a way to make this look as as unappetizing as possible i'm like
welcome to my bar okay this is a uh this is a manhattan i've never had this i feel
like it's a very fancy old people drink and it makes sense this is a very historic bar oldest
gibbon wisconsin you're welcome i bet that people were drinking this when the bar opened
i bet that tempest azure was here tempest de jour's face was the first
brick throne at this is it should we try it
it's not bad it's a lot it's a lot it's a lot of it tastes like something you might siphon out of
someone's vehicle if you ran out of gas but it has a you know what it's kind of growing on me
it's not growing on me quickly but it's growing on me i do like it it's beautiful
this is in manhattan let's make something else so next we're gonna make something called a brandy
old fashioned if you don't know wisconsin is the number one consumer of brandy of all the states
it makes sense i think of my grandpa i think of growing up i think of him sitting drinking
blackberry brandy at the kitchen table i remember my grandpa drinking brandy and me
being like i want to try it i want to try it and i remember trying it and i pretty much was never
the same it kind of like mentally scarred me as like a five-year-old but uh maybe this will be
good so let's make an old-fashioned if you've never had an old-fashioned come to wisconsin
it's really kind of a classic what is it all right so we have a glass here a simple glass
orange simple orange real fruit two cherries a packet of sugar
there's something very feminine about doing this to a packet of sugar then again i can
make anything feminine oh a whole thing the whole time okay about four dashes of bitters
don't get bitter get bitters which is called a muddler oh i have one of these at home is
it this end yes i just think it's funny that the other end is shaped like this
i just think it's funny and then is it it's stabbing is it stabbing a need oh
okay i kind of get this we're muddling we're really just making a fruit salad at this point
and yes every bartender here wears a full set of press-on nails and foundation on their hands
that is guaranteed we haven't really started that directive yet but tomorrow it feels like this is
the modern gay version of churning butter it feels a little weird grabbing something this small but
oh we have corbell which is really really really fancy but that's not that kind of video so we're
going to swap out the corbell for a lovely fleischmans which i think was my first bottle
of vodka i ever owned in college was fleischmann's rich a double i knew thank you how come there's no
drag queen named brandy old-fashioned just by the way hope if you ever come here i'm not bartending
because apparently this is how long it takes to get a single drink from me not to mention i
would be like peppering in conversation i'm like so where were you born you're like i'm thirsty
i don't know what happens next in the meantime make sure you subscribe to my channel we have new
videos every single week we're doing makeup we're cooking with easy bake ovens and apparently we're
professional bartenders now so get into it by the way i'm standing on one of those bar mats in like
spike stripper shoes i understand why everybody who works here wears crocs
we're gonna tumble it we don't have a tumbler but this is my mother's urn
my mom's alive just told the story of how she was here
all right so this is a brandy old fashioned sweet so we're gonna top it off with a lovely
sweet soda how's that gorge stun stoneesha so this is a bratty old fashion i've actually uh
i think i might have had one of these in my life i will say this isn't just an old people drink i
have a lot of friends who maybe lived in riverwest maybe had a vinyl collection who also like these
it's a little bit of a hipster energy if you're 20 years old drinking these you want people to
know about it let's try it this is good this is better than that this is good i like this
i'm getting fruit pieces in the straw which i actually kind of like i understand the appeal
now this is a brandy old fashioned sweet either of those drinks are very like wisconsin's supper club
friendly like i remember going to supper clubs for like prom your grandma's birthday going down to
renee's for a fish fry sure sure i'm very proud to be an owner at this bar this was the first gay bar
i ever went to and i'm i'm happy all these years later 10 years later actually because
i became here at 21. now i'm 31. god it's nice to actually maybe get some of the money back
that i've poured into this place over the decade next we're going to make a long island i'll get
the iced tea we're doing top shelf okay folks we're elevating an otherwise humdrum experience
so we're going to start with a giant glass here we call this a pint a pint
by the way i used to work at a beer brewery and i didn't know what that was called if that tells
you what kind of employee i was and still am we need ice because apparently here in wisconsin even
though it's uh 40 degrees in the summer people need a cold drink so the long island if you don't
know is uh it's a very strong drink and it's it's not there's no iced tea in it that's fake news
it's a lie so we're starting with some milwaukee rehorsed vodka very rich very fancy very local
are made from uh handcrafted small batch uh people made from people so we're gonna start
with one shot of this it's the fashion please one love it okay keeping it local once again we
have milwaukee rehorsed gin small batch made right here in town come on down to rehorst
you guys i have to say being a bartender i think it's a lot like being on stage
people watching you make their drink everybody's probably very critical and specific about how
you're doing it and you have to do it in front of them i would be the worst people like i don't like
it i'd be like well you shouldn't ordered it isn't that funny i think it's important with bartending
to judge the person you're making a drink for if you see a handlebar mustache ask what they
want specifically okay if you see one of those newsy hats ask what they specifically want if
you see one of those bandanas wrapped around the neck give them whatever some lovely puerto rican
white rum so so far we've done vodka gin and rum i'm pretty sure i've been told that mixing booze
makes it harder for your body to process it so this should be good puerto rican white
rum love it if you're from puerto rico why are you white this is tequila blanco
which is tequila foot blanco so this is vodka gin rum and tequila so far this is triple sec
it's from the delicate peels of select oranges for the famous margarita inside car cocktails
okay ooh that was that was thicker did you see that did you see the cam did you get that on
film it was like a thicker consistency this is one shot of sour mix trusted by bartenders for
over 50 years no wonder we need such a big glass there's like all this going on in here
so we're adding some lovely cola and that's what gives it like a tea color even though it's not tea
it's a lie i wonder how the people of long island feel about this being called an iced tea
it does look like it kind of looks like an arnold palmer okay we have a lovely lemon wedge quarter
and a straw because people are wearing lipstick hello
and that's it stunning gorgeous vodka tequila gin rum triple sec cola is that it and sour
it's so good how is it so good i mean it's like
all alcohol and it really does not taste like that and maybe it's my imagination
it does taste like iced tea to me i don't know why
psychological warfare i mean if you name a drink something does your brain think it
tastes like that this is a gay bar we should have a drink called dick and ass and i bet you
people would order it this is delicious this is by far the best of the three it's really lovely
really refreshing uh summer appropriate i would think sit on the patio huh sure let's finish it
with a shot let's make a quick little fun little shot something with showmanship something lifted
i wish this was the uniform i look like i work at some kind of like dusty springfield hooters from
hell not far from the truth when you come to this bar you'll notice some incredible
physical attributes that are very iconic to this space we have wood paneling police on standby
my mom probably needs a ride to the cvs that's all this is carpeting on the walls when i started
coming here we had a real jukebox if you came here often enough you could have a mix in and then
you could come here and play music off your own mix cd i've gotten out of drag in that bathroom
probably about a dozen times people are peeing i'm like you're good you're good they're like are
you good i wasn't good let's make an exciting shot something i've noticed that i think is a
little bit wisconsin specific is i know a lot of friends who come here right after work in like the
third ward and they love to get a shot at happy hour which i think is very respectful okay we're
making a blue moon shot can't wait to find out what that is i'm gonna be honest i i just i i
feel for bartenders so when i ask for a shot i just want to make their life easy so i ask for
things like straight up not chilled nothing i'm just like whatever it just hit me and move on
ice ice in the shaker so we're gonna do three equal parts of three different things ryan's
irish style cream liqueur this is for the straight people out there straight people love an irish bar
that's not enough i will say the only place i've been where people drink more than wisconsin is
probably ireland to be completely honest this is uh blue what is it curacao blue coraco huh
sure it's just eyeballing it i mean you could measure it but we're not there oh that's a good
drag name amaretto amaretto sour that legendary queen from richmond virginia this smells good
this smells like a car freshener my earring fell off aren't these cute get a shot of the earrings
it reminds you that love is a game a game where there are no winners
this is called a blue moon because it tastes just like blue moon ice cream i used to work in
an ice cream place across from twin bridge park in wisconsin the place was called lickety split
and at night high schoolers would comment and rearrange the marquee and make the letters say
lick my and then in the mornings the boss would call and say did you know that the marquis says
lick my cl again and i would go no i had no idea i knew um i got fired i've been fired four times
being self-employed is the only job i haven't been fired from blue moon ice cream also turns your
poop blue if no one knew that oh it even looks like melted blue moon ice cream look at that
gorgeous i have a feeling it should be bluer than this does it look does this look right
would i fail my bartending test yeah they're gorgeous look at them okay i guess we'll try one
it does taste like blue moon ice cream wow here do you want to try it ernie's
here by the way and james mansfield's here hi james do you want to try it
it does taste like blue moon ice cream it's like a dessert shot i wouldn't say like i'd want to drink
it middle of the day like right now but like on a hot day it tastes good it tastes like a blue moon
i really like this this is cute we made some lovely drinks here today if this is
it if you want to try any of these cocktails i encourage you to try out the recipes at home
or come visit us here in downtown milwaukee or come visit us here downtown milwaukee at this
is it one of the most amazing gay bars in the world and you'll get these drinks made better
and faster than i did and probably by someone better looking if you have a favorite drink
you want to see made here at this is it in one of these videos comment below let me know what
you like to drink and i could make it here at this bar thank you for joining me today goodbye