- Well you know, patrolling the Mojave
almost makes me wish for a nuclear winter.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes me wish
for a nuclear winter.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes me wish
for a nuclear winter.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes me wish
for a nuclear winter.
(classic jazz music)
I'm talking about Fallout today.
I'm talking about Fallout New Vegas.
I am going back.
We're going back to Fallout.
A few of you really, really enjoyed my Stimpak cocktail,
and there's a link down there, right beneath here,
in a pinned comment, and in that video,
I mentioned that if I come back to Fallout,
maybe we would do a Sierra Madre martini.
Well, my time has come.
We are doing it today.
We're making a Sierra Madre martini.
You know, patrolling the Mojave
makes me wish for a nuclear winter.
So, the Dead Money expansion for Fallout New Vegas...
Okay, so, look, here's the thing.
It's a pretty divisive expansion.
I loved it.
It's probably my favorite expansion for New Vegas.
I know a lot of people really like Old World Blues,
the one with the science lab.
I just thought that one was kind of silly.
I didn't really like all the scientists...
I don't know.
To me, it actually missed the tone of Fallout.
Dead Money felt a lot
like Fallout 1 and 2 in a lot of ways, just so bleak.
You get suckered in to going to
this abandoned casino that had
its grand opening gala the night
the bombs fell some 200 or 150 years ago, or whatever.
The hyper-advanced science-fiction-y casino...
What do you call that?
Security system of deadly holograms
and robots sprang to life, eradicated all the people
who were visiting the casino, locked it down,
and it's been locked down ever since.
And there's a couple people still alive in there,
and one of them wants to get the gold,
and so you get roped into his very elaborate heist.
It's one of those expansions
where you lose all your gear,
and they strap an explosive collar around your neck,
so if you try to abandon the expansion, you can't.
And there's a deadly, toxic cloud
that's just constantly debuffing you and hurting you.
There's just super punishing difficulty.
I loved it.
I thought it was great.
You meet a ghoul there, who's been there since
the bombs fell.
Dean Domino, lounge singer.
- The Sierra Madre... beauty, isn't she?
- He teaches you how to make something called
the Sierra Madre martini,
which is a recipe he's perfected over
the last 150, 200 years, whatever.
- Once I, well, realized what
you could scrounge up around here,
I had a lot of time to experiment.
- Now, he makes it using some unusual ingredients.
- Here's the mix, if you can stomach it.
- Gonna need some toxic cloud residue.
This is the disgusting, deadly cloud
that seems to permeate the entire place, collected in a jar.
You're gonna need some junk food.
In the game, it is always pictured
to be a box of potato chips.
And you're gonna need a tin can.
- I call it the Sierra Madre martini.
- Curiously, there's no liquor in that,
so we're gonna provide our own today.
It's a pretty important item in the expansion,
because it gives you a lot of buffs in the game.
I don't think the version I'm gonna make today
will increase your strength or perception attributes,
or anything like that.
I think it will probably just increase
your inebriation attribute.
But, that's fine.
That's kind of what we're going for here.
This version, also, will probably increase
your cholesterol attribute,
so I guess that's something
to be concerned about, a little bit.
And so, to make it you're gonna need
some things you probably don't need
to make any other cocktails.
You're gonna need some genuine junk food.
We're gonna use some potato chips.
You're gonna need some granulated sugar.
Okay, pretty basic.
I'm gonna serve it in the tin can.
You don't have to.
Oh, this.
You're gonna need a cotton candy machine.
So, this is a cotton candy machine.
You can buy it on Amazon,
and there's a link below in a pinned comment.
I picked out the cheapest one I could get for you.
I wanted to get a commercial grade one for $200
or whatever, 'cause it would look more official
for the show, but this one's, like, $35,
and, as an added bonus,
it can do either floss sugar or hard candies.
You can just melt hard candies right down in there,
and make whatever you want.
Our cotton candy is going to be our toxic cloud,
and I'm pretty gosh darn pleased
with myself on this one, actually.
We're gonna take some sugar.
It really doesn't matter how much.
Just not too much,
'cause we don't need a lot of this stuff.
And some absinthe.
And I'm using La Muse Verte.
This is a bit fancier than you actually need.
And, in truth, really, this is a bit fancier than...
Kind of be anything you like the taste of,
but I think absinthe
is super appropriate given our setting.
We're gonna mix them together,
and you see we've got our green absinthe sugar.
Actually, see that, right there?
That's a little...
I kind of think that'll work,
but that's probably, actually, the wrong consistency, right?
To be ideal, we probably wanna dry
that out a little bit with some more sugar,
like that, or maybe a little bit more absinthe
than that, but I think that's fine.
Smells like absinthe.
Smells very strongly of absinthe, okay?
So, if you look online, and search,
you'll find a few blog posts
and recipes for how to make alcoholic cotton candy,
and it'll involve mixing some vodka
and some sugar and letting it dry.
There's a funny thing about that, right?
It takes a stupid amount of time to dry.
I don't think it's polymerizing or anything like that.
The only thing it can really be doing
to dry is evaporating, so if it's dried,
I don't think there's any alcohol left in it.
Thinking you're kinda shooting yourself in the foot.
And, anyway, there's a big, strong heat source here though,
so I actually don't know how much
of the alcohol will be left, anyway.
I did it with Everclear just to try a version
that would have the highest amount of alcohol
in it to see if I could really make
an alcoholic cotton candy.
I ate a whole bunch of it.
I didn't feel... you know, my mouth didn't go numb,
I didn't feel anything.
I'm 90% sure that all the alcohol
that is in there won't survive the heating element here.
I'm not a scientist, I can't say for sure,
it just seems pretty logical.
That doesn't matter, though,
because using something that tastes really strong,
like an absinthe, we're gonna end up
with absinthe-flavored cotton candy.
Add about a tablespoon of our stuff to the center part.
Pop her on.
And we wait for the fun to start.
Is it working?
Come on.
Make me some cotton candy.
It takes a while.
Oh, here we go.
Starting to see some webbing.
Oh, it's floating right up to the ceiling.
Now, the gypsy moth weaves its cocoon.
Soon, all the trees in this valley will die,
because of this invasive species.
This would be the most disappointing
and very slow-moving carnival.
(speaker mumbles) shut up.
I don't get paid enough to listen to you.
Okay, so there is our...
Tastes like absinthe, that's awesome.
That is our cloud residue collected on our drinking straw.
So, we're gonna set that aside,
'cause we don't need that just yet.
The rest of this drink is even weirder,
if you can believe it.
We need a half an ounce of simple syrup.
Two ounces of vodka.
And potato chips.
That's right.
Just put them right in there.
Not too many potato chips, like five.
Five potato chips.
These are just basic Utz potato chips, nothing fancy
about them.
Now, we shake it with ice.
My ice cubes are stuck together.
I wonder what I can use.
How about my Barfly ice knife?
Works so good.
What a wonderful thing, to have a Barfly ice knife.
Hey, all the barware that I've been using
is furnished by Barfly.
If you wanna use the bar tools I'm using,
there's a link in the pinned comment below.
Let's drop a whole cube in.
And we'll crack the next one.
Cracky-cracky.
Now, we shake.
I'm gonna crack some ice into my can.
Nothing too serious, I just...
you know, want some cracked-up cubes in there.
Now, why would I not just free pour this?
Well, there's a lot of potato chip in here,
and we wanna strain that out at this point.
So, let's just double strain.
There'll be a link to the tin can I'm using
in the pinned comment below.
All right, our drink is poured.
We're gonna garnish with, and make it a straw,
our cloud residue.
There we have a Sierra Madre martini.
Looks so good.
I'll take a sip now.
That tastes like potato chips.
That is a very...
Hell yeah.
That's awesome.
It's a potato chip martini, you guys.
With an absinthe...
This is cool.
Oh, that's fun.
We've invented the potato chip martini.
My Sierra Madre martini.
It just tastes like potato chips
with this absinthe cloud on the side.
What does absinthe taste like?
Little bit of licorice.
It's light.
The absinthe is very, very diluted by putting
it through the machine,
so it's not like a 'smack you in the face' kind
of absinthe flavor.
It's pretty mild.
I don't taste the vodka at all.
I taste the potato chips, and the sweetness.
I've made this a couple of times
in prep for the show, so the recipes are always in flux.
This is a little overly sweet.
You need some sweetness to bring
the flavor of the potato chips out.
Without it, it doesn't work.
It's just too dry, the salt...
I don't know, it doesn't taste like potato chips,
it tastes like salt, but if you throw
a little bit of sugar in there, somehow that plus
the alcohol makes the whole thing taste
like you're eating potato chips.
It's kind of insane.
So, I suppose if I was a ghoul,
an intelligent zombie, living in...
Yep, I'd drink these all the time.
You don't have to serve it out of a tin can,
but, I mean, why not?
Won't underlight, huh?
Really defeats the purpose of the whole rig, here.
Wah-wah.
What's your favorite expansion on New Vegas
is a good question.
I go back to Dead Money again and again.
I mean, I haven't played in a while,
but I love Dead Money.
I haven't played Fallout 4 yet,
so I have no opinion on that,
although a lot of you have requested
a Dirty Wastelander, so that's something that
we could definitely look in to
if this episode gets 1,000,000 views.
What else can I say about the game?
Fallout is dead.
Bethesda killed it.
It murdered it.
No, that's not true, a lot of people seem to...
I mean, I get a lot of comments that Fallout 4 is cool,
I just don't think it's the kind of game that I'm into.
I don't think it's my jam anymore,
to be honest.
This is How To Drink,
the show about making cocktails and how to drink them.
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What other video games should I be making cocktails from?
Shoot them at me.
I don't play a lot of video games.
Will you mind if I make a cocktail from a video game
that I don't know anything about?
Will that be good or bad?
Let me know.
Poll it.
Find out.
You decide.
It gets hard.
Okay, so the cotton candy, when it gets wet,
it gets really hard and dense, and kind of...
It's now stuck to my teeth.
That's showbiz.