- ♪ We're here to drink. ♪
- ♪ Poitin. ♪
(both singing) ♪ Poitin cocktails ♪
♪ Do do do do do ♪ (both laughing)
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- Poitin is something that
I think a lot of people are like "Ooh".
- Yup - So.
- Yeah, I'm really excited for this one, 'cause I
- But I don't think I've
ever had a poitin. - Love a bit of poitin.
- I didn't know poitin could come in cocktail form
because any time I drink poitin,
it's out of a holy water bottle for some reason,
(Sean and Justine laughs) that we keep in our house.
- I've had the illegal poitin and I've had the legal poitin.
- If it's legal, it's not poitin (chuckles).
- It's a certain alcohol percentage now.
- Yeah. - To drink it legally.
But I've had the stuff made by Irish hillbillies.
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- Ooh.
- Now, I've never read "The Great Gatsby"
but I did shoot a man in a swimming pool once.
(Blaithin laughs)
- It smells interesting.
- This is not a lot of liquid,
so I feel like the poitin
isn't going to be very diluted in this one.
- Can, Have a whiff there. Is there cider in this?
- It smells kind of bitter.
- Yeah, I'm gonna be excited. - Doesn't it? (Sean laughs)
- It smells like Bla could wash her rings in this martini.
- Thank you for noticing that my ring needs cleaning.
- Oh, I don't know, it smells like cider to me
and I'm not happy.
- Smells like there should be an orange rind in there
but there isn't, 'cause I can,
- What is this? - I'm looking at it.
- There's no orange rind in there.
- It does smell like a headache.
- Oh my God, that's beautiful.
That doesn't taste like it has
poitin at all. - It's actually not bad at all
- It's really nice.
- It is nice. - That's lovely.
- Okay, on the count of three, we both say at the same time
what we think this drink (chuckles)
should be called.
- Okay. - 'Kay, one, two, three
- "Incense At Mass" - "A Mulled Poitin"
We both went very different directions there.
- Like I don't like the smell, 'cause I get cider,
but it doesn't taste bad.
- It's beautiful, oh my God.
- The reason that I don't like vermouth usually
is because I don't want it interfering with the gin.
The good thing here is that
it's interfering with the poitin.
- It tastes like the smell of incense burning at mass.
- Oh my God, (chuckles) I thought you said incest.
- Please tell me I said incense.
- So, sorry, there is cider in it?
- [Interviewer] "Eh, some apple juice."
- Apple juice. - Oh.
- Yeah, I love, I fucking love apple juice
and that explains so much. - That's so weird, I really.
- I love apple juice.
- Mulled poitin. - Molding?
- Mold poitin. Yeah.
- Mulled. - Mold?
- Mulled. - Mold.
- Mulled.
- It does taste like mold.
- Yeah, like mulled wine, you'd have at Christmas.
- Oh mulled.
- That's what I was trying to say (laughs).
I thought you were just taking the piss.
- Taste?
Great.
Smell?
- Great (laughs).
- Uh, I don't know.
- The more I drink it, the more I like it.
The first time I tried it, I was like,
ooh, I think I thought it was cider
and then that was kind of messing up my head
but actually it's very drinkable.
- [Interviewer] This is called a poitini.
- Oh, I like that a lot.
- Like I mean it doesn't taste like a martini.
It tastes like a different drink.
It is very, very nice.
I wouldn't mind. - It's very drinkable.
- Oh, the gif. (hand tapping)
Leo-
- Leo- Oh.
- Cheers.
- Oh I love this.
I'm getting really warm. - Mmm.
Like I, like it's already hitting me.
I'm like, whoo.
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- Ooh, this looks like whiskey sour.
- I see a pineapple.
- I do see a pineapple.
- It smells delicious.
- It looks like a little, tiny beer.
- I already love this.
I just know I'm going to love it.
- Oh wait, is that beer?
- No, it's too orange.
Well it might be beer mixed with MiWadi or orange juice
but it's too orange to be solely beer.
- It's like a Hilgart, or - Yes, yes, yes, yes
- Even a blue moon nearly.
- Cheers to a Dying Paddy. - Ahh. Cheers.
- I think there might be some poitin in here.
(Bla laughs slowly)
(both laughing) dramatically
(fist banging table)
- Nice
- I mean is that just a beer?
- Ooh, the alcohol in that's a bit stronger now.
- It tastes nice.
- It tastes- do you know why? There's beer in this.
- A substance in there that doesn't belong there.
(Sean laughs) - There's a foreign element.
- There's a foreign element.
- Oh I do like it, yeah, - I feel like it's not,
- yeah, yeah. - I feel like it's not strong.
- It's much more refreshing than a regular beer.
- Yep. - I'd love this
on a summer's day.
- I'm getting a little bit of pineapple.
- I think it's more so 'cuz I can see the pineapple
looking at me, it's staring me in the eye.
- It's winkin' you. - It's like, you fuckin'
better say that I'm in here.
- Rest it on top as a (Clisare laughs)
garnish. Hang on.
- Try to drink it through the hole in the center.
- Oh jeez. (laughs) You don't have to do it,
it's fine, you don't have - Nope.
to do it (laughs) (glass clunks on table)
- This one tastes like a calypo?
- You're very good at these taste comparisons.
- Thank you. - Well done.
- I use my imagination.
- [Narrator] "There's some poitin,
some pineapple juice,
a ring of pineapple,
and then some Blue Moon ale!" - Eh, you got it!
(hands drumming table)
You're like a bloodhound but for beer,
(Justine laughs) you're a beerhound!
You're a beerhound! (laughs)
- Is it gonna taste different,
now that you've taken that out, I wonder?
- Mm (giggles). - Eat and find out (chuckles).
- I don't know.
- [Interviewer] "How is this compared to the poitini?"
- I prefer the poitini.
- If you gave it to me,
I wouldn't know there was poitin in it,
so I would drink four and then be very surprised
- Be dead. - what's happening.
- You, you'd be the guy
that was dead in the pool. - Yup.
- This is the best way to get your fiber in,
honestly, so pure pineapple - Oh
in poitin.
- There should be a surprise pineapple in every pint.
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- Prosecco - Also,
- I have to say - poitin cocktail.
- Colin, if I was ordering
(Clisare slowly clapping) a glass of prosecco,
and you came down to me with a glass this full,
I would marry you
- (whispering) Yes. right then and there.
- Bing. Prosecco and poitin.
- Oh it smells like death.
- [Interviewer] "An Ireland Spritz."
- Fuck off! Fuck, - An Ireland Spritz?
wait? Okay. - There has to be
a better name.
- It feels like it would be the perfect
Irish celebration for anything.
- Oh yeah. - If you're having poitin
and prosecco or champagne.
- You've takin' a sip or
you've takin' a smell? - I just smelt it.
- Little smell, yeah, yeah, the smell is not good.
- So they should have called it like,
god, what weapons did we use in Ireland?
Call it a fuckin',
a flaming turf to the head
or something like that,
(Clisare mirks) do you know what I mean?
Give us a little bit more.
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- Ugh, no.
(Sean smacking lips in disgust)
- Oh, fuck!
- Oh that is so, so, so, so bad, so bad.
- Ooh! - That's lovely.
- Wow. - That does not taste
like that much poitin in that. - Um, I feel like she's smart.
- Poition just tastes like incense, genuinely.
(Sean laughs) - This is, I, actually
am like, loosing my mind.
- I think it's sparkling water - Yeah.
- [Interviewer] "This is poitin, white wine,
and soda water." - uh huh,
Yeah, it's, I think it might be the soda water
that I'm not likin'.
- There's no prosecca - no prosecco
- I saw flush. - I feel like, I feel like,
I've been had. I've been had!
I'm not jokin', sorry,
but that, like,
I feel like I'm tastin' mass (Sean gagging in disgust)
I've no other way to describe it than
I feel like drinkin' mass. - I gotcha.
- There's nothin' hidin' the flavor,
the way there was apple juice
and pineapple in the last ones - No, exactly.
- If you were like, you know what,
I wanna go for a drink with the girls,
and I definitely wanna have a fight with my boyfriend,
(laughs) - Yeah!
- And I wanna little bit of danger, there ya go.
- That is a bizarrre combination of flavors there.
- Also, if someone mixed a white wine and a soda water,
that alone is pretty nasty. - That's a bad start.
( Sean chuckles) That alone is terrible.
- Smells like death
and tastes like death,
I'm gonna taste it again
because that's the job
that we're here to do, okay - that's why we're here.
So I'm just gonna give it another chance.
- It, it's an interesting cocktail when you drink it,
that you're very aware that it will have consequences.
- This is what you give to somebody
when they've lost horribly. - Oh my god,
when they've lost hope.
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(glasses clank on table)
- Oh look at this now
- Looks harmless,
- I don't like when they're, like, not very colorful.
- So I believe this cocktail is just called cold.
- So cold! Thank you! - Yes, yes, yes, yes!
- Oh my god! - Okay then
that is stunning. Oh wow! - Ahh! Amazing.
- Could there be absenthe in this?
Really mixing poitine absenthe Oh no, there's not.
- I just, I mean, that would be proper devil's work.
- Kinda smells like a whiskey and ginger, or somethin'?
- Little bit? I'm not gettin' a very strong
flavor off of, or smell,
- Whiskey, poitine, that's it. (chuckles)
- You ready? - Uh huh.
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(glass clunks on table)
- This is my favorite.
- Whiskey,
rum, - Have you tasted it?
- Yeah. - Oh, yeah.
- That's nice! - Oh, that's lovely.
- Could you tell me what it is?
- Is it lemony?
- It's just water.
It's just poitin water. - (chuckles) Yeah.
- Whoa, hang on now. - What's in that?
- [Interviewer] "Poitin, whiskey and gin!"
- Oh, there's whiskey in it!
- I could've told you! - Oh my god! There's three
drinks and no mixer.
- That is so
wild. - So this is sugar
and three shots of alcohol. (laughs)
- I was thinkin' gin,
that's why, that's why we like it,
for the,
with the, - it's nice and cool.
- No wonder it's the fucking one,
I'm like, I don't know why
but I like it! - How the fuck is that not,
like blowin' our faces clean off?
It's not that strong. - Yeah, it tastes gorgeous.
- That, is like, three kids in a trench coat
in the different shots.
- This is Vincent Adultment. - This is Vincent
Adultment's business.
- ♪ Hail to the business. ♪
- I got the hint of the gin but I thought,
no, there's no way that he would do this,
but apparently, there's no limits!
- [Interviewer] "And it's called...
A Dublin Handshake!"
- I don't mind that they're called after Ireland,
but like, give us something.
Like, call it like a 4am snackbox,
or like, call it, (Clisare laughs)
like, d'you know what I mean?
- Well I mean, it kinda-
(gibberish chattering)
- Did'ya ever walk down the street
and Dublin handshake, eh.
- It's delicious.
- It's really, really good.
- I think it's the sugar cubes though as well,
they're really makin' it
like, dessert. - They're helpin'
- Yeah, they're helpin'. (ice clanks in glass)
- I'm really confused,
that does not taste like
there's three shots of alcohol and a bit a sugar.
- Oh my god! It, did you
say, gin and poitin, and what? - a three in one!
- [Interviewer] "Whiskey."
- Right, it's three in one. - It should absolutely be
called a three in one! - It's a three in one.
- You know when your mother tries to hide your veg,
as a child, she tries to hide the veg underneath
your mashed potatoes, - Yeah.
- That's what's happenin' here,
with alcohol. - Oh, completely.
- This is nice.
- This is nice,
- And it doesn't taste
like there's any spirits
in at all. - I know.
- What kind of fuckin' sorcery - I know,
is this? - that's my favorite thing.
- A spoonful of sugar makes - (chuckles) I just fuckin'
the three alcohols go down. Mary Poppins knew too know.
- [interviewer] "Super-TALLAGHT-fragilistic-"
(glass clanks) (Justine Claps) - Ahh! Super!
♪ Super-tallaght-fragilistic-Expialidocious ♪
(claps) (sings gibberish)
- I've loved this shoot,
this has been one of the best shoots ever.
- Oh! No way! - Yes.
- Why is that? Is it the
poitin journey? - It's both the poitin and
the fact that I'm paired with you.
- Ahh!
- Doublin Handshake, altogether, absolute, all around,
are deadly bulls , gets ya locked, charms the face off you,
- Poitin cocktails overall, all of them, 11 out of 10.
- Entirely, but equally 'cuz I never really considered
poitin as a drink that,
to be mixed with anything.
- It's been a good day here at the Try channel.
- ♪ A whole new world... of poitin. ♪
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- I'm so excited for Sean, our content captionist (laughs)