Drunk Monkeys - Episode 44 - Cardamaro from Fuzzy Gerdes on Vimeo.

Jen and Erica kick off season seven of the show with a classy Italian digestif called Cardamaro.

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 43 - Season 7 Teaser from Fuzzy Gerdes on Vimeo.

Jen and Erica give us a quick tease of the liquors they’ll be drinking on the upcoming season of Drunk Monkeys. See you next Friday!

Here is a complete list of all episodes of Drunk Monkeys, for your reference!!

Episode 0: Introduction
Episode 1: Root
Episode 2: 360 Cola Vodka
Episode 3: Chambord
Episode 4: Crema de Mezcal
Episode 5: Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka
Episode 6: Herbsaint
Episode 7: Cocktail Time--Lemon Arak
Episode 8: Disaronno
Episode 9: 360 Double Chocolate Vodka
Episode 10: Chocovine
Episode 11: Barenjager
Episode 12: Vermouth
Episode 13: Bitters
Episode 14: Schonauer Apfel
Episode 15: Cocktail Bonus Feature
Episode 16: Season 3 Teaser
Episode 17: GIRL
Episode 18: Pinnacle Cookie Dough Vodka
Episode 19: Zen Green Tea Liqueur
Episode 20: Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine
Episode 21: North Shore Eldergin
Episode 22: Cocktail Time--Eldergin Fizz
Episode 23: Jeppson's Malort
Episode 24: Season 4 Teaser
Episode 25: Live Show Promo
Episode 26: Soplica Orzech Laskowy
Episode 27: Maker's White
Episode 28: Pinnacle Cake Vodka
Episode 29: Bakon Vodka
Episode 30: Calvados Pays d'Auge Venerable
Episode 31: Creme de Cassis
Episode 32: Cocktail Time--Sazerac
Episode 33: Live! Chicago Women's Funny Festival Intro
Episode 34: Hum
Episode 35: Alaska Distillery Salmon Vodka
Episode 36: Season 6 Teaser
Episode 37: Pinnacle Gummy
Episode 38: Byrrh
Episode 39: Risky? Whisky
Episode 40: Phillips Lime Vodka
Episode 41: Breuckelen Whiskey
Episode 42: Naked Jay Big Dill Pickle Vodka

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 42 - Naked Jay Big Dill Pickle Flavored Vodka.

Jen and Erica were given a bottle of Naked Jay Big Dill Pickle Flavored Vodka and they brave the green for the second time this season.

We’ll be taking a short hiatus before we get our next season in the can, so in the mean time please rate the show on iTunes, leave a comment here or on our YouTube channel, and follow us on Twitter so you’ll know when the show is coming back.

Show links:

• Naked Jay
• Sazerac Company
• Van Holten’s Pickle in a Pouch
• Bob’s Pickle Pops
• Jen’s shirt: Tastes of the Portions of the Swine
• Erica’s shirt: Beer Run

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 41 - Breuckelen Whiskey.

Jen and Erica sample Breuckelen Whiskey, a New York-made whiskey that was a gift from Dave’s brother.

Show links:

• Breuckelen Distilling
• Jen’s shirt: Tastes of the Portions of the Swine
• Erica’s shirt: Beer Run

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 40 - Phillips Lime Vodka.

Our good friend Shaun gave Jen and Erica a present: a bottle of Phillips Lime Vodka brought back from North Dakota. They brave the bright green bottle.

Show links:

• Phillips Vodka
• Jen’s shirt: Tastes of the Portions of the Swine
• Erica’s shirt: Beer Run

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 39 - Risky Whisky.

Friend-of-the-show (and just regular-friend-to-us) Peter Felonk gave us a gift of some Risky? Whisky, a “barrel your own bourbon” kit. We’ve seen home aging kits that have an actual tiny barrel, but they seem to all be over $100. This is a much more affordable solution (around $25) using wood chips in a mason jar. In this episode, Jen and Erica taste the unaged liquor and then start the aging process. We’ll be checking back in on the whisky over the coming months.

Show Links:

• Risky? Whisky
• Jen’s shirt: Tastes of the Portions of the Swine
• Erica’s shirt: Beer Run

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 38 - Byrrh.

Jen and Erica are trying Byrrh, a French wine-based, quinine-flavored apéritif that was only re-introduced to the US this year. Now that it's in the house, Fuzzy made a champagne and Byrrh cocktail this week.

Show Links:

• Byrrh
• Jen's shirt: Tastes of the Portions of the Swine
• Erica's shirt: Beer Run

Drunk Monkeys - Episode 37 - Pinnacle Gummy.

The ladies start out the new season with an old friend: Pinnacle flavored vodka. This week the flavor is “Gummy”, with a picture of a fish which looks suspiciously like a Swedish Fish.

Show links:

• Jen’s shirt: Tastes of the Portions of the Swine
• Erica’s shirt: Beer Run
• Drunk Monkeys - Episode 18 - Pinnacle Cookie Dough Vodka
• Drunk Monkeys - Episode 28 - Pinnacle Cake Vodka
• 360 Glazed Donut Vodka

Erica was making dinner last night and said, “make me a cocktail. Something fancy.” So I went over to the (overflowing) liquor cabinet and tried to see what might be fancy. I noticed a bottle of limoncello that one of our cruise-ship working friends had brought back from a tour of the Mediterranean and that we had never even cracked. That sent me to my old standby, the Cocktails+ app on my iPhone (and… I was going to link to it, but evidentially it’s no longer for sale.) A great feature of the app is that I can just type in an ingredient and see what cocktails include it. Cocktails+ only had three results for limoncello: one was a coffee and one required mint leaf, which I didn’t have. The third had just three ingredients: limoncello, Prosecco, and Carpano Punt e Mes. I knew I had a bottle of champagne that I could substitute in for the Prosecco, so I click on Carpano Punt e Mes to see what it was. “Proprietary Italian quinquina…”. Well, that was a coincidence—in the new season of Drunk Monkeys, the ladies try Byrrh, a quinquina, and now we had this bottle sitting around that otherwise I’d have no idea what we were going to do with.

I mixed us up a couple of Tulio Oros and I have to say they were quite tasty. The champagne was a little old, and maybe a hair bitter on it’s own, but the limoncello and Byrrh covered that up nicely. It was also a very strong drink and maybe we were a little slow getting some of our after-dinner chores done. But fancy, check.

Tulio Oro

Shake with ice:

3/4 oz limoncello
1/2 oz Carpano Punt e Mes

Strain into a Champagne flute.
Fill with 6 oz Prosecco.
Garnish with a lemon twist.

From Cocktails+, Adapted from Gary Regan, The Joy of Mixology.