Man Cave Happy Hour: Exploring Bitter Lekker & Embracing the Quirky World of Malort - Ep 198

Ever wondered what happens when you blend whiskey, cigars, and a dash of 12 year old humor? Picture us, your Man Cave Happy Hour hosts, along with our delightful friend Kristen Carlson, trying to keep a straight face while exploring the aromatic profile of Bitter Lekker from Babylon Storen. Our latest minisode is a tapestry of stories that blur the lines between episodes, sparked by unforgettable whiskey events and a name that prompts enough giggles to rival a classroom full of teenagers. We promise plenty of laughs as we savor the non-alcoholic aperitif and share the art of palate cleansing with Honeybush and Rosemary.

But that's not all! Embark with us on a bold adventure through the quirky realm of Jepson's Malort, a spirit infamous for flavor notes that might remind you of grapefruit rinds and dry burnt erasers. It's an acquired taste, sure, but there's joy in the journey as we recount tales of Malort margaritas and celebrate the daring souls who embrace this cultural icon of a drink. If you're curious about the digestive benefits of bitters or ready to get "Malorted," grab a seat and join our camaraderie-filled exploration that promises to entertain as much as it enlightens.

Episode 198

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Jamie Flanagan @DJJamieDetroit

Matt Fox @fox_beazlefox

Merch www.WearingFunny.com

Chapters

• 0:01 Man Cave Happy Hour Podcast Mini-Sode
• 6:21 Unveiling the Mysteries of Malort
• 20:42 Exploring Malort and Bitters

Transcript

Jamie Flanagan: 0:01

I said, hey, hey, welcome to the man Cave Happy Hour.

August Gitschlag: 0:09

I said, hey, hey, welcome to the man Cave Happy Hour.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 0:16

We're gonna drink a fine whiskey and smoke a really fine cigar.

Jamie Flanagan: 0:24

Happy Hour. It's the man Cave Happy Hour. It's the man Cave Happy Hour. Whiskey, cigars, spirits, the stories that go along with it. That is Matt Fox.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 0:32

That is August, gitchland.

August Gitschlag: 0:33

Jamie Flanagan is the big pipes over there. Ah, the professional voice the presentation.

Jamie Flanagan: 0:40

Mrs Vino, kristen Carlson, kristen Hi, kristen, hey guys.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 0:43

Hey girl.

Jamie Flanagan: 0:44

It's been so long. It's a man Cave minisode because we went over. We went over. There's only so much funny you can fit in one podcast.

August Gitschlag: 1:00

In Mrs Vino In a Mrs Vino episode In a Mrs Vino episode.

Jamie Flanagan: 1:05

In a Mrs Vino episode.

August Gitschlag: 1:08

That was actually what I meant to say and we teased. I looked Jamie in the eye and I stopped talking. That happens.

Jamie Flanagan: 1:13

That does happen. That's actually what happened. We teased or pre-sold.

August Gitschlag: 1:19

I drowned in those eyes.

Jamie Flanagan: 1:20

Sorry, jamie's still trying to get something out here. We just won't shut the hell up. Just let it go, just trying not to die. And then Matt and I we would do like two episodes, right? A lot of times we'd be at a bar and we'd do two episodes and you could always tell which was the second episode we always pointed that out. You could always tell which was the second episode.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 1:38

What was that? We did Whiskey in the winter one year and it was pre-covid five episodes, it was like seven or eight and you could tell oh my gosh. And the last episode was stamina guys. It was a whiskey event. It was very impressive, but it was scotch was what we finished with.

August Gitschlag: 1:55

Yeah yeah, on my previous podcast that I used to work on, it was nothing but drinking and ripping on each other. Then a band would play you drink and rip on each other. They would go. Band would play You'd drink and rip on each other. They would go three hours.

Jamie Flanagan: 2:06

What.

August Gitschlag: 2:07

Oh yeah, those old.

Jamie Flanagan: 2:08

Yeah, they're coming in at the. They're coming to hear to the podcast your voice studios. We have a podcast recording Roadworks record with T Money Green. Okay, he's the original bass player for Death Row Records.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 2:24

Oh yeah.

Jamie Flanagan: 2:25

Yeah, he's produced like he was in the uh dramatics and uh he's. He's produced just like a crap ton of stuff. Uh, gin and juice, that's his baseline. Uh, t-money green, anyway. So but uh, those, those guys are coming in to be on that podcast and I've had a little bump in the road with that other podcast troupe well, you know, I'm gonna get one of them guys is a good friend of mine and I want to have him here to do a little cross-pollination.

August Gitschlag: 2:49

Oh yeah, yeah, he'll talk about the podcast I used to be on and what you guys are doing now. And he was Early on. When he was younger he was a radio guy. He's got those pipes, he's got that voice, just got to you know it goes so it'll work.

Jamie Flanagan: 3:03

So, oh, yeah, yeah, so anyway, but anyway, it's funny that they're, they're, they're coming in. Uh, that was a crazy place. Yes, it's a. It was a uniqueness blend of of stuff.

August Gitschlag: 3:12

Yes, it's a crazy studio, they're still.

Jamie Flanagan: 3:14

They're still rolling with like a ton of irish stuff and all their own rock and roll and and other.

August Gitschlag: 3:19

Good for them, that's lots uh.

Jamie Flanagan: 3:21

So we were, we were, we, we were doing uh an episode and talking about wines and alternative Valentine's.

August Gitschlag: 3:27

Day.

Jamie Flanagan: 3:28

And we teased at the beginning and we said that we'd do an aperitif at the end, do a palate cleanse, and then we ended and we're like, oh wait, we never did that part, so we're doing a mini-sode to follow up.

August Gitschlag: 3:43

This is your aperitif. When I first saw this, I assumed it was a mead. When I saw the bottle, the size of the bottle and the color so Kristen what is this and why were we doing it after?

Jamie Flanagan: 3:51

we drank several things.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 3:52

Yeah, so this is called Bitter Lekker from Babylon Storen in South Africa.

Jamie Flanagan: 3:57

So it's B-I-T-T-E-R-L-E-K-K-E-R and K-E-R, and it's Honeybush Rosemary, so the 12th grader in me is having so much trouble with Beater Liquor and Honeybush.

August Gitschlag: 4:11

And.

Jamie Flanagan: 4:11

KKKKKKK, the 12th grade boy in me.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 4:14

Can we tell that this is the second? This is the follow-up. Yeah, this is the follow-up.

August Gitschlag: 4:18

I'm sorry. We made plenty of Beater Liquor jokes before in the other episode.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 4:21

This is why I'm here. I have to keep the boys alive. I've got to keep the boys alive. No apology needed, sir.

August Gitschlag: 4:27

There's no label on this cute little bottle. Is this for sale?

Jamie Flanagan: 4:29

It is.

August Gitschlag: 4:30

There's a cardboard wrap.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 4:33

These come in six packs and you can drink it straight. I like mine with a big rocks glass, I know right, there's a whole lot of nose on this.

August Gitschlag: 4:44

Like I said, honeybush rosemary. What's our ingredients? What are we looking at?

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 4:48

Honeybush, which is a type of tea.

Jamie Flanagan: 4:50

I dated her in college. That was Matt's nickname in college.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 4:53

Yeah, if you dated her in college, you know that she's going to taste good. Stop stealing my shit.

Jamie Flanagan: 4:59

Yeah, there's going to be a little bit of sugar and it's all carbonated.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 5:03

So, yeah, you can have this before you drink. After you drank, it can be an aperitif. Alcoholic or not A bitter Non-alcoholic.

August Gitschlag: 5:10

Non-alcoholic. Yeah, Cheers guys. So would you mix it with something?

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 5:16

Usually when I make mine, it's on a rocks glass, or I'll add some bitters on top like some orange.

Jamie Flanagan: 5:23

It is carbonated, yeah, but it's already bitter.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 5:26

And then I add, and I'll dilute mine with sparkling water.

Jamie Flanagan: 5:30

It smells sweet.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 5:31

I know you like your Vernors, your Canada Dry. I would put this in Canada Dry or Vernors.

August Gitschlag: 5:36

Why would you do that when you can put whiskey in this?

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 5:38

Yeah, and that's the other thing too. You could make this alcoholic, you could add. I too, you could make this alcoholic, like you could add. Um, I think this would be good with white rum.

Jamie Flanagan: 5:48

I know, uh, august just went to go grab some booze either booze or well. Okay, so a few episodes back.

August Gitschlag: 5:53

I gotta share a few episodes back.

Jamie Flanagan: 5:54

We did mocktails oh yeah, the entire episode as we're making mocktails august keeps pulling out booze.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 6:02

To add to the mocktail.

August Gitschlag: 6:03

You know what you can.

Jamie Flanagan: 6:04

You know what he had like a a vodka a tequila and a rum and a bourbon behind him there oh hell yeah man and uh, yeah yeah, can I smell it before you pour it in there? Yeah jepson's bourbon yeah, that was fun, do you know?

August Gitschlag: 6:21

have you had malort?

Jamie Flanagan: 6:22

Have you been Malorted?

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 6:24

I haven't been Malorted in a long time, if ever, or maybe when I do.

Jamie Flanagan: 6:28

Well, you would know if you were. You would know if you've been Malorted. There's no, I don't know. There's no, I don't know.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 6:34

So it's kind of like an alien abduction. No.

August Gitschlag: 6:38

You either had a baby, or you didn't, you would know. So malort is is an evil, vile, disgusting.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 6:53

You watch your fucking mouth. Yeah, isn't malort supposed to be?

Jamie Flanagan: 6:55

I mean, this is jeffson's bourbon, it's not malort this is not malort this is a company uh, but jeffson's malort is an evil vile.

August Gitschlag: 7:05

I'm in. Nailed it, I'm in.

Jamie Flanagan: 7:07

Are you?

August Gitschlag: 7:08

It's just look, this is really nice, it's really nice, I like that. Oh, yeah, yeah that little bit.

Jamie Flanagan: 7:14

I don't think I've ever said this in my life.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 7:16

May I have the.

Jamie Flanagan: 7:16

Jepson's, I have never said that.

August Gitschlag: 7:20

So this is carbonated too.

Jamie Flanagan: 7:21

I wonder if it's bottle conditioned if it's carbonated ahead of time, it's nice.

August Gitschlag: 7:25

Pass the little bottle over, yeah.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 7:28

I'm still at the last one.

August Gitschlag: 7:29

It's almost like an instant old-fashioned.

Jamie Flanagan: 7:32

Okay.

August Gitschlag: 7:33

With the orange and the honey.

Jamie Flanagan: 7:34

Oh, my God yeah.

August Gitschlag: 7:36

It's like the nose changes.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 7:37

Do you think it's too bitter though?

August Gitschlag: 7:39

No, no, no, no. I think it's not as sweet as they force you to have with any kind of old-fashioned mix. It's always super syrupy Dude. This is a lovely old-fashioned fix Plus a little nip of carbonation.

Jamie Flanagan: 7:53

Magic just happened on the back here, yeah.

August Gitschlag: 7:56

This is a great old-fashioned mixer. You don't need the simple syrup, you don't need even the orange.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 8:02

You don't need to muddle anything. No, it's all right there.

August Gitschlag: 8:06

So you don't need even the orange.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 8:06

You don't need to muddle anything, it's all right there.

August Gitschlag: 8:07

So it's just this, and bourbon and an ice cube, probably. I think we gotta like pause the show and start to subscribe. You got any more of those?

Jamie Flanagan: 8:13

oh yeah, yeah gosh darn it all but yeah, because Jepson Malort is a very distinctive taste yeah, is it like a cheap.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 8:26

No, no, no, no, it's just unique.

August Gitschlag: 8:28

It tastes like grapefruit rinds and dry burnt erasers, and shame.

Jamie Flanagan: 8:33

And shame Perfect.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 8:37

They have like I voted it's good. It's kind of like a carbonated, old-fashioned. You can actually let this sit out.

August Gitschlag: 8:47

The carbonation isn't overwhelming, it's not super bubbly.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 8:51

It's not obnoxious.

August Gitschlag: 8:52

You're not looking at it saying that it's carbonated until you open it. I heard that hiss. I didn't know it was carbonated.

Jamie Flanagan: 8:57

Because I said mean things about the Jepson's bourbon before we tried it. I was like I think I said F you and whoever gave it to you, cause he got this and you got this from your cousin from Chicago. I don't think it's available in Michigan.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 9:13

So this is very special.

August Gitschlag: 9:16

Well, that's, maybe get that here. I might have an airline bottle of Malort in my car. You can leave it in your car, should we? You leave it, should we?

Jamie Flanagan: 9:29

Next time, next time I'll make sure I have it.

August Gitschlag: 9:34

I'll have to leave the podcast.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 9:35

Go outside go outside I'll wear my other pimp hat, silky.

August Gitschlag: 9:39

Johnson. Like Silky Johnson, I can never just decide to do Malort. I have to be prepared to know that Malort's going to be there, no one's saying you have to do Malort.

Jamie Flanagan: 9:48

All you have to do is film her drinking.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 9:50

Malort, is it like kind of like preparing yourself like you're going to the high school party or the frat party and you know you're going to see your ex there?

Jamie Flanagan: 9:59

Yes.

August Gitschlag: 10:01

You have to know that it's going to be there. It could come out and scare you.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 10:07

Oh, okay, get ready for a fight.

Jamie Flanagan: 10:10

Yeah, that's what it comes down to.

August Gitschlag: 10:12

There are countless YouTube videos, and it's a classic reaction. Yeah, yeah.

Jamie Flanagan: 10:19

The Malort reaction videos is a thing, yeah, now.

August Gitschlag: 10:22

I am now. It's kind of like Iocane powder. I built up my lifetime becoming immune, so Malort does not bother me, I revel in it. I enjoy everyone else's misery and I'll drink it right next to you and I do not tear up anymore. I've built up an immunity to it. I told you what it is. It tastes like you're going to lose your security deposit. What is it? It's a liquor that will make you take a swing at your old man that night. That's why it's weird.

Jamie Flanagan: 10:56

There's two guys sitting at this pub. We're down around the Ring of Kerry there in Ireland the sheep are walking by, there's two guys sitting at the bar. The one guy turns to the other. He's like I fucked your mother, we took a turn here. The guy goes I fucked your mother, whoa, we took a turn here. And the guy goes all right. And he goes no, I fucked your mother. And he's like okay, all right, whatever, I fucked your dad, you're drunk, go home.

August Gitschlag: 11:30

Yeah, here's the Malort.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 11:34

I was the result of that comment.

August Gitschlag: 11:35

Malort, kick your mouth in the balls Is that what it means Malort.

Jamie Flanagan: 11:39

No, it's just comment time when?

August Gitschlag: 11:41

courage meets the champagne of pain.

Jamie Flanagan: 11:43

The champagne of pain, oh no, I don't want that.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 11:46

Oh no, you have to.

Jamie Flanagan: 11:48

At least one time as a connoisseur. You need to.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 11:50

You got to try the good and the bad you guys suck.

Jamie Flanagan: 11:54

Have that in your carpet bag, yang and yang.

August Gitschlag: 12:00

My pants ain't going to shit themselves.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 12:02

I'm sorry, but I don't feel like shirting.

August Gitschlag: 12:07

They sell posters like that it's real.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 12:12

You need to show it to people.

August Gitschlag: 12:13

It's real Tonight the night you fight your dad.

Jamie Flanagan: 12:15

The night you fight your dad this is real, oh my goodness.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 12:21

So it'll make you shart.

Jamie Flanagan: 12:24

No, well, it depends on your constitution. The official drink of not getting your security deposit back.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 12:33

So yeah, so you let me know when we're going to do so I can wear some depends, okay, because that's how I'm celebrating my 40th, oh my god.

August Gitschlag: 12:40

With you guys, when you need, when you need to unfriend someone in person no that's it.

Jamie Flanagan: 12:46

That's that is. That is it in a nutshell. So, our friend ming chen, friend of the show, oh, he's got this stuff tattooed on his body. He got a malort tattoo and then malort, like, brought him in and gave him a tour of the factory and I don't know how it still exists, but it's kind of, because it's kind of a running gag almost no, it's nothing, it's its own unique spirit what?

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 13:12

there's nothing. What is the herbal ask? What is it?

August Gitschlag: 13:14

there isn't anything, it's more Malort.

Jamie Flanagan: 13:16

What's the mash bill on the Malort?

August Gitschlag: 13:17

It's nothing, it's its own thing.

Jamie Flanagan: 13:19

I left my phone over there on purpose.

August Gitschlag: 13:23

I'm not lying to you. It's a unique Chicago, jepson's only thing.

Jamie Flanagan: 13:29

But this Jepson bourbon, because I cursed you out and then we tried it and I'm like oh, it's a Basque liqueur.

August Gitschlag: 13:38

Oh, like that means any fucking thing. Yeah, it does. That sounds made up.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 13:44

Because they're weird. Oh, here we go. Oh, here we go. Some of my heritage. The Swedish word for wormwood, that's what Malort means it is kind's fair moth herb, yeah, which is a cree, uh key ingredient, and basque malort is extremely low in thujone, a chemical once uh prevalent and absent. So does it taste like anisey, like licoricey?

Jamie Flanagan: 14:07

uh, no, no, oh it's extremely, extremely bitter taste. Desperation and violence.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 14:17

Described as infamous, and quote the worst booze ever. End quote.

August Gitschlag: 14:22

It tastes like a domestic violence record in your past.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 14:26

Jesus, this is awful. You guys want to give this to me. You have to get malorted, the man next to you is a connoisseur of malort.

Jamie Flanagan: 14:33

I love it.

August Gitschlag: 14:34

Barrel-aged.

Jamie Flanagan: 14:35

Malort Regular Malort.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 14:37

Malort with cicadas Malort spritzer. You can buy Malort. How bitter I mean, because this is like sweet and bitter.

Jamie Flanagan: 14:44

About as bitter as my first X-Fly. There's nothing. Have you done straight, aramira?

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 14:49

How many X-Fly's do you got?

August Gitschlag: 14:51

Aramira with bit, nothing like that. I cannot explain it.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 14:54

Does it chemically alter your tongue?

August Gitschlag: 14:58

It tastes like grapefruit rinds, a baby scab and an old band-aid.

Jamie Flanagan: 15:10

Do you really have one in your car? I might I think I do have we mentally prepared you for this. Yet If we weren't streaming live, we could pause.

August Gitschlag: 15:19

It's going to take 10 seconds. I can go do it.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 15:22

No, let's not malort it tonight.

Jamie Flanagan: 15:25

We can get malorted.

August Gitschlag: 15:26

I'm half out of the chair, I think it has to happen.

Jamie Flanagan: 15:31

It has to happen Run, fly like a bird. So the little name tags is like. I voted right. So it's like I've malorted, it's like they have those and like the posters. It's a whole marketing thing. I don't understand If it tastes like fucking shit why are people drinking it? It's like Scottish cuisine Most of it's on a dare.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 15:53

I'm sorry, but I'm done with my 20s guys.

Jamie Flanagan: 15:55

Jägermeister had his time with me.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 15:57

I don't drink that shit anymore.

Jamie Flanagan: 15:58

Would you eat haggis, haggis?

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 16:02

I will try. I will eat anything and everything. I will drink anything you put in front of me. So, yeah, I'm going to smell this. I'm going to take a little sip and tell you guys to fuck off. Quite, most likely you can't be like fuck you guys, I'm never coming back here again. Quite frankly, it could happen. No no, no, I appreciate the opportunity to share in your misery and your pain. You're so PC and have you guys laugh at me, so this all. Oh, look at her face oh, she's actually drinking it.

August Gitschlag: 16:33

Okay so with August, not in the room. It'll be the three of us with the same faces and August will be sitting back going, isn't it good?

Jamie Flanagan: 16:42

So here's the thing. What do I hate most in the world? Pickles I despise. Pickles I love, and so I'm at a bar and I was with uh bob yeah, podcast, that's right, yeah, and uh, I think it might have been neil um, by the way, I lost a nail, so don't eat it, okay, fair, fair okay so we're there and they, they line up some shots and beers and they're like, oh, we're doing shots here and have this one too, and I grab, we drink the whatever and I drink the next shot and I will.

Jamie Flanagan: 17:10

Boom, it was a pickleback.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 17:12

Oh, picklebacks are yummy. No, not for this guy.

Jamie Flanagan: 17:15

Pickles, with all the Jamie. What happens? Because you're allergic to pickles, I'm allergic.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 17:30

What happens if you are allergic?

Jamie Flanagan: 17:31

to to the garlic, the dill or the. I'm not positive. But what happens? Are you just saying you're allergic because you're a baby? What happens is I break out in hissy fits. Um, I'm like. So I grab the shot glass full of I don't know what and I shoot it, not knowing, and it's like the like. It's like I just I'm down to kryptonite and I'm from kryptonian. It was the worst thing ever. I was like seconds from hurling all over the bar. Uh, I did. I was able to maintain myself and I downed the rest of my pbr to wash it down good pbr was.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 18:03

It was the pbr on draft, yeah okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jamie Flanagan: 18:06

P the PBR on draft. Yeah, it was Okay.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 18:08

PBR's best on draft, by the way.

Jamie Flanagan: 18:11

So it was a rough night for me.

August Gitschlag: 18:15

And.

Jamie Flanagan: 18:15

I tasted it, do we? Oh, good God.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 18:19

That is an airplane shot of Malort.

Jamie Flanagan: 18:22

Do you have another little shot glass over there? Do I need another?

August Gitschlag: 18:24

Oh, look at that I do You're so thoughtful, I'm not going to make them do it Like I said. It's like I have came powder, I'm immune to it. Now it's like, yeah, you can do the glasses back and forth.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 18:35

Now I'm not drinking all that shit, by the way. Whatever you don't, I will.

Jamie Flanagan: 18:40

You got the small one.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 18:43

Why does it not smell like anything? Taps the bottle of it, just tap, yeah, squeeze the nip.

August Gitschlag: 18:53

August. Just tap the bottle in, Twist the cap.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 18:56

Can I see that bottle? Sure, I'm curious.

Jamie Flanagan: 18:59

I'm astounded. You had an airport bottle. Why are you?

August Gitschlag: 19:02

surprised.

Jamie Flanagan: 19:03

Yeah, why are you surprised?

August Gitschlag: 19:03

I'm not surprised. You know who he's with.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 19:06

Thank, you Catherine.

August Gitschlag: 19:09

No, it didn't come from her.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 19:09

Government warning. No, I'm just kidding, we all have that.

August Gitschlag: 19:15

35%, all right, all right you got a bottle of water over there. You got a bottle of water.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 19:21

Hang on, let me get my, get the swamp fluid, get the swamp, blew it up.

Jamie Flanagan: 19:27

All right, just get your prepared, just preparing you.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 19:31

Flip it.

August Gitschlag: 19:32

So, ladies, and gentlemen, we have a virgin lord.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 19:37

Yeah, but what in the hell is it?

August Gitschlag: 19:41

You just read it. You just read it to us, virgin lord, you just read it to us. To your health. You got to go all of it.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 19:52

You got to go all, you got to rip the band-aid.

August Gitschlag: 19:54

Rip the band-aid.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 19:55

I'm not 20 years old anymore.

August Gitschlag: 19:56

Rip the band-aid. I'll rip it. I just did it Rip it, rip it, rip it.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 20:02

It's very bitter, yeah, but like it's very clean.

August Gitschlag: 20:06

I'm impressed. It's also cold. Oh, slightly cheat slightly a cheat code.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 20:12

It's been in the car.

August Gitschlag: 20:13

Oh, there, it is, there, it is there's that Ryan hit you right there, the Ryan. It keeps up.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 20:20

No you're right, it's very like grapefruit Ryan. Yeah, very.

Jamie Flanagan: 20:27

And then there's like something else, that's like that's the shame.

August Gitschlag: 20:28

Desperation and sadness, yes no, it's the tears of all these pussies that can't drink it. That's what you're tasting the bitter, salty tears of these defeated men over here you're 50th.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 20:42

I did a shot of malort with me. Because Mike Pierce does malort.

Jamie Flanagan: 20:47

I never said it in a sentence before.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 20:50

Why not? This would be very good in a mixed drink.

August Gitschlag: 20:53

It's great in a margarita. We did a margarita at the Elephant Room and it was so good that a couple other people ordered it and it made the Jepson's Instagram page. Yeah, because the grapefruit comes out, it's so bitter. How do we sell this? This is building. The bitterness is building it grows in your mouth like a fungus, but I like it you like it.

Jamie Flanagan: 21:15

I do we have a new malortian. Ladies and gentlemen, it's not horrible.

August Gitschlag: 21:21

It's chilly, so it's a nice cold, easy taste.

Jamie Flanagan: 21:24

I like that. You get that bad boy at room temperature or hot. It's chilly, so it's a nice cold, easy taste. A new Malortian. I like that.

August Gitschlag: 21:30

You get that bad boy at room temperature.

Jamie Flanagan: 21:33

Or hot.

August Gitschlag: 21:35

Hot Malort. I'm proud of you, Kristen.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 21:38

No, I can appreciate it for what it is If you're shooting that back like fricking Sambuca or Rumpelmann that's different.

Jamie Flanagan: 21:46

Yeah, that's what people are doing. I'm proud of you If you're trying to shoot this back dude, this is definitely made for cocktail creation right here.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 21:56

It really is, because it's so bitter. But you have to remember, like bitters and astringents and you know things that are alcohol-based, they do do well for your digestion and your guts.

August Gitschlag: 22:10

I love her. I'm August Gitschlag.

Jamie Flanagan: 22:15

I'm Matt Fox, jamie Flanagan, kristen.

Mrs. Vino - Kristen Carlson: 22:18

Carlson.

August Gitschlag: 22:18

Kristen. Many episodes. Bitters and Malort. Bitters and Malort. Yay, bitters and Malort, what'd you call me? Yeah, that's right, and I'll say it again.