The call out to Masters of the Air was quite timely and useful to illustrate the point. I had no idea what it was like for those boys until watching the show.

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Fascinating story. Great companion podcast as well. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-masters-of-the-air/id1727191019

@ryanhayden3465

Ай бұрын

Great show , great drink and great episode. One of my favorite drinks

Ok, so, I never expected to get a history lesson with a cocktail recipe. This is the reason I followed you after hearing about you from Steve the bartender. Excellent story, an excellent drink, and told like a true storyteller. You have a gift and I love hearing you tell stories. Keep it up.

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Steve is the best! Glad you enjoyed it

With Memorial Day coming up, I'd say this was a perfectly timed video. We have to be reminded time and again what many people of an entire generation faced. At my Grandpa's 100th birthday celebration earlier this year he shared his own experience. He was young when the war started and took a couple Farm deferments before joining the Army. He was made an infantry man and after boot camp was sent to the Philippines. His unit was shipped to the front lines fighting the last of the Japanese resistance on the islands. He could hear machine guns and mortars. Turned out it was the last day of the war and the whole unit was told to return to camp. He spent the rest of his enlistment working in the Mess kitchens still in the Philippines and even made Sergeant. I'll never forget talking with a gentleman who was at Bastogne, part of Patton's 3rd Army. All he would really say is that he hated the cold. One of the nicest, most soft spoke gentlemen I ever had the pleasure to meet. I'd say it's unimaginable what happened, but someone had to do just that for it to happen. I think I'll be giving this drink a try in a couple weekends.

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Well said. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the recipe...and the reminder of what airmen suffered during ww2. The history of that time seems to have been forgotten by many today.

The drink that got me into tiki. Took my wife to the namesake bar in Chicago on her birthday in 2018. Ordered the drink and it completely blew my mind. I remember reading the ingredients as I sipped: “What’s falernum? Pimento dram? Agricole?” I had to know. I had to be able to make this at home. Awesome job on the history!

I got goosebumps listening to this story.. quite possibly the most amazing cocktail story ever told.... You cannot top this !!!

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

You’re right not a historical show, WELL DONE! Learned so much about Don, that I had no idea was the case… I had the wrong impression!

One of my favorites. So hard to beat. Really loved the story of Don’s war time service. Don serving the men fresh fish and smuggled Scotch is amazing.

Three Dots and a Dash is my go to when I see it on a cocktail menu. Love love love this cocktail.

Top notch, especially on the historic lead in.

Great video! I like the historical format.

This is my favorite tiki cocktail. This became my favorite vid of yours after finding your channel 2 weeks ago. Adding WW2 history made it Epic. One of the draws of tiki to me the early history and escapism of Don's 1930's and 1940s. Kudos and well done on this video.

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Thank you! One of my top favorite Don cocktails as well.

Thanks for the history and great suggestion for V Day! Prefer to make it with a more traditional Martinique style rum - Denizen Merchant's Reserve. Adding a half ounce of ED12 was a great idea. Great video!

This is probably my favorite classic tiki cocktail. It really has a unique flavor, compared to most other tiki drinks. Tiki Tom's in Walnut Creek makes an incredible Three Dots!

Holy Moley, your production value is outrageous. A+ keep it up.

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

Incredible drink. I had no idea of the history behind it and Don's valor. Amazing job on the history and backstory. Truely captivating 🙏

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Thank you much!

I fucking love this channel. And no waaaaaay I live close to one of those OC bases!

Another great history lesson professor. Keep it up!

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Many thanks!

Absolutely beautiful storytelling and research 🧐 and one of my favorite drinks 🍹!!!!!

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Thank you! Mine too!

Fantastic introduction of the historic background! Great work - again :-)

Your story telling is incredible along with a great story to tell!

What a great video - I didn't know any of Don's story outside of his tiki cocktail making prowess.

Great background - thanks for the research and drink! I just finished Masters of the Air and indeed, that was a good series - much respect and thanks to those flyers.

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

100%

I’d give two thumbs up if I could. Great video!

54 comments after 6 hours. Glad to see your channel is growing. I love this cocktail, and love the recipe. I also add 1/2 oz of Jamaican rum (I use Appleton 12) for a bit of funk (balance with slightly more orange juice and lime juice). Great video, love the bit of history. Hoping to get to the bar in Chicago sometime.

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Thanks, Rob! I as well hope to get to the bar in Chicago someday soon.

Such a fantastic Channel, happy to have found it.

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Glad you're enjoying it!

Loved hearing about the history hear. It was super interesting and I never would have heard or seeked it out on my own. Seems like a good drink too. Keep up the great content!

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Awesome, thanks so much!

Great opener!

amaizing cocktail with amaizing history .

Thank you !!! The history was very interesting and important. Keep up the great channel

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Love these stories. Great cocktail and also the name of my favorite hang-out in Chicago. Thank you & a cheers to all those that have and are currently serving out nation.

Amazing episode! Thanks Derek. Definitely going to make one of these this weekend.

Great episode with great production !

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Well done...again! Well researched, lots of new info re Don the Beachcomber, and from the comments I'm not the only one who thinks so. Bravo Zulu!

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Love the history on this one! Well done. Cheers

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

One of the two drinks that I always order when visiting a place for the first time to judge their tiki cred.

@mikemcewan1189

Ай бұрын

What is the other?

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Vodka soda

@deedeethedog05

Ай бұрын

@@makeanddrink Invented by Donn Beach himself, I hear

@tmunzing

Ай бұрын

A mai tai, of course

**Great** episode on a great drink!

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

Great vid.

Fantastic video! 👏👏👏

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

One of my favorites - didn’t know some of that history though!

Excellent video! I've been to three dots and a dash in Chicago several times never got the namesake drink. Finally made it at home to finish off some honey syrup. Sooo good.

There's been some discussion on what the appropriate rum to use in the Three Dots, because while it does call for an aged Martinique rum, Donn describes it's flavor as dark and molasses like. Which certainly isn't an agricole. Some believe a more appropriate rum here would be a dark jamaican instead. Did you run into this discrepancy when researching this cocktail?

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Kind of but the cocktail became the least important aspect when putting this video together, and I just wanted to go with the most common recipe (s) out there. But when it comes to all the discrepancies with what a Martinique rum would have been like in back in the 1940s-1980s it’s incredibly hard to say one way or the other. Not to go even deeper in the Mai tai rabbit hole but there’s still a ton of disagreement on that, and there’s way more evidence and writings from Vic about what that rum would have tasted like.

I really hate to say it, but I really wish Don didn't have so many drinks that required a Mix Master. My wife will drop a safe on my head if I buy one. She tolerates my tiki beverage fascination, but only so far.

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Best not to get into Mai Kai cocktails then because every drink requires one.

@HeyBoz-04

Ай бұрын

@makeanddrink I guess I'll just have to show how having one is to her benefit as well. Maybe a never-ending stream of date shakes is in her future.

I'll need to catch Masters of the Air soon. For this cocktail, I prefer the Paul McGee version via Lost Lake, which uses orange liqueur instead of orange juice. I also like to tinker with the rum here, since what we know today as rhum argicole is not really the same thing that Don would've been mixing with in the 1940s. Though it does work great with a modern agricole too of course.

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

I'm still not convinced with Don the Beachcomber drinks on what type of rhum from Martinique was used. We know the brands from his menus and it's likely that some were sugar cane juice, so I'm reserving judgement until each of those rhums can be parsed out more definitely.

QB Cooler would be a good one today also. Quiet Birdmen may they rest in peace

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

I've done the cocktail but not really a history of the Quiet Birdmen. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k3WnstV-pNvXfLQ.html

@bobsmith5096

Ай бұрын

@@makeanddrink didn’t realize…will check it out

Excellent history lesson, very worth presenting in this case. Paints a very different side of Don the Beachcomber than another, let’s say prominent bartending channel on KZread likes to paint…

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

well now i need to know more

@mmwosu

Ай бұрын

@@makeanddrink It’s a channel you’ve been shallowly accused of imitating. He gave a very unflattering take on Don’s life story that largely ignored the intangible service he did for our airmen. Referred to him as a “b¥ll$h!t artist” if memory serves.

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

@mmwosu not sure that narrows it down. I’ve probably been accused of intimidating everyone.

Anybody have a agricole they like in this recipe? I am using la favorite ambre, but surely there are some better options

What’s the music under the history section? Thanks

What rums are used here? Brands I mean 1 ½ oz aged rhum agricole (45 ml) ½ oz demerara rum (15 ml)

@erickhines4121

Ай бұрын

@5:30

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Clement and Hamilton

@staszekpulpecik3381

Ай бұрын

@@makeanddrink Thanks but what rhums specifically from Clement and Hamilton?

I wanted to love it, all ingredients I like but the taste was not convincing

@tommymatheson7519

Ай бұрын

I agree, I think this recipe can be modified to be a bit sweeter, more sour and also might need some tweaking on the specific agricole rums and ratio with the demerara. Might have to experiment a bit

This was a great one, Derek. Thanks!

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

This is a fantastic vid!!! Thank you for all the additional info surrounding this incredible drink! Great job!!! 🔴🔴🔴🟨

@makeanddrink

Ай бұрын

Thank you!