Drunk Monkeys - Episode 16 - Season 3 Teaser

The ladies who drink weird things so you don't have to are back! Season 3 of Drunk Monkeys starts this Friday, February 10.

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 15 - Bonus Feature.

It's a pretty short episode this week, with Jen and Erica suggesting a mixed-drink based on episodes 11 (Bärenjäger) and 14 (Schönauer Apfel). And with this, we're going on a Drunk Monkeys hiatus until we can get back into the studio and film some more. We hope you'll join us for our third season, whenever we get around to it.

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 14 - Schönauer Apfel.

Jen and Erica are drinking Schönauer Apfel, a German apple schnapps or "Apfelkorn Liqueur". Please don't give this drink to your children. Erica was kidding. Mostly. But don't.

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 13 - Bitters

Jen and Erica are really getting into the "things you normally drink mixed with other things" spirit by tasting three different bitters: Angostura, Peychaud's and Fee Brothers' Grapefruit.

Erica mentions the Sazerac, one of our favorite cocktails, and Watershed, one of our favorite Chicago bars for cocktails. A bartender at Watershed introduced us to a remedy for the hiccups that seems to have worked for us so far: a half-shot of bitters followed by biting on a lemon wedge.

Erica notes that bitters are about 40% alcohol, but I learned from Hella Bitter that bitters are classified as a condiment, and so may be sold in grocery stores and the like.

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 12 - Vermouth

Jen and Erica are drinking straight vermouth, both dry and sweet, so that you don't have to. Vermouth is, as Erica says, a fortified wine and the other ones that Jen mentions are sherry, port, and madeira. Jen first had madeira at the New York restaurant Hearth. Jen's shot glass is from El Jardin, 3401 N Clark, Chicago. The vermouths that the Drunk Monkeys are drinking are a Martini & Rossi Rosso Vermouth and Gallo Dry Vermouth.

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 11 - Bärenjäger.

Jen brought the German honey liqueur Bärenjäger ("bear hunter") to share with Erica for this episode of Drunk Monkeys. Here's a close-up of that label with the crafty hunter about to trap the leg of the bear who is going for the tasty honey.

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 10 - ChocoVine

Erica brings an exotic discovery to the Drunk Monkeys table: ChocoVine, a blend of "Dutch chocolate and fine red wine". Jen is rightly skeptical.

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 9 - 360 Double Chocolate Vodka.

Undeterred by their somewhat rocky tasting of 360 Cola Vodka last season, Jen and Erica are trying 360 Double Chocolate Vodka.

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 8 - Disaronno

Sorry that we're a day late posting this episode, but as you'll be able to tell, production values have gone way up. It's the first episode of our second 'season', and Jen and Erica are drinking the drink that started the whole Drunk Monkeys idea: the Italian amaretto liqueur Disaronno. If you'd like to see the mentioned Disaronno spin, and people who are probably aliens, here's an example.

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 7 - Lemon Arak

In a departure from the usual reviews on Drunk Monkeys, Jen shows Erica how to make Lemon Arak.

Jen's recipe:

• 1/4 cup Arak
• 1/3 cup lemon juice
• 1/4 cup simple syrup
• 15 large mint leaves
• ice