Finally MORE Perk-a-Cola’s from Call of Duty | How to Drink

I am finally making more Perk-a-colas from Call of Duty!

What is used to make my perk-a-cola's:

00:00 - Call of Duty
00:15 - What are Perk-a-Colas?
02:15 - Bitter (Acid) Water
03:57 - New sponsor!
05:27 - Deadshot Daiquiri
07:49 - Tasting Notes
09:16 - Flopper PhD
12:25 - Tasting Notes
13:57 - Mule Kick
18:01 - Tasting Notes
18:51 - Electric Cherry
22:08 - Tasting Notes
23:11 - Should we do more?

Deadshot Daiquiri:
Build in shaker
2 oz. or 60 ml. Rum
1 oz. or 30 ml. Bitter (Acid) Water*
.5 oz. or 15 ml. Strawberry Pucker
1.5 oz. or 45 ml. Simple Syrup
Add ice and shake
Carbonate in Drinkmate
Bottle or pour into glass over ice

*Bitter (Acid) Water:
25 oz. or 750 ml. Water
60 grams Citric Acid
30 grams Malic Acid
Shake to dissolve

Flopper PhD:
Build in shaker
3 oz. or 90 ml. Plum Wine
1 oz. or 30 ml. Cherry Sangue Morlacco
1.5 oz. or 45 ml. Bitter (Acid) Water*
2 oz. or 60 ml. Vodka
Add ice and shake
Carbonate in Drinkmate
Bottle or pour into glass over ice

Mule Kick:
Build in shaker
1.5 oz. or 45 ml. Mezcal
3 oz. or 90 ml. Simple Syrup
1.5 oz. or 45 ml. Bitter (Acid) Water*
.5 oz. or 15 ml. Ginger Extract*
Add ice and shake
Carbonate in Drinkmate
Bottle or pour into glass over ice

*Ginger Extract/Ginger Syrup:
In mixing glass
2 oz. or 56.7 g. Powdered ginger
1 oz. or 28.35 g. Fresh ginger diced
8 oz. or 237 ml. Ethanol (Everclear)
Soak for 24 hours
Strain into bottle
Add 1 oz. or 30 ml. of Ginger Extract to 25 oz. or 750 ml. of Simple Syrup to make Ginger Syrup

Electric Cherry:
Build in shaker
3 oz. or 90 ml. Cherry Syrup*
1.5 oz. or 45 ml. Bitter (Acid) Water*
1.5 oz. or 45 ml. Cherry Kirschwasser
Add ice and shake
Carbonate in Drinkmate
Bottle or pour into glass over ice

*Cherry Syrup:
1 part sour cherry juice
1 part sugar
Heat until incorporated
Bottle and cool

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[howtodrink]

Alright, drop your picks for the next 4 Perk-a-Cola's for me to cover right here.

Everything you need to make Perk-a-Cola:

[lordofscarlet]

For April Fools Day, you should finally tackle "How to Drink", a detailed instructional video on how to literally drink

[rickotap]

I'd actually love a series of 'greg's cocktail sodas', 'greg's spiked potions' or 'greg's cyberpunk bar hits' etc. where you just go nuts experimenting with different ways of making unusual drinks inspired by whatever suits you at the time. I'll certainly watch it!

[Elastas]

I don't need to finish the video to say yes you absolutely should do more. The fact we also have some of the flavors (not that you should use fish at all) included it gives an idea of the direction for the drinks.

[gnothisauton]

18:48. The Mule Kick “kicks ass.” Terrible pun. Love it.

[kkhanhp]

The almonds taste of cyanide in cherries and their relatives come from benzaldehyde, not from the cyanide itself, so it's possible your extract would still have been okay (hard to say without checking the process itself). The chemistry is like this: cyanide in cherries and their relatives is packaged in a molecule called a cyanogenic glucoside. In this molecule, the cyanide is attached to a sugar molecule and another chemical group, in this case the benzaldehyde. When you crush a leaf of the cherry (such as when an herbivore - or Greg - tries to eat it), the cyanide-containing compound is freed from its cellular container and the bond between the cyanide, sugar, and benzaldehyde are all broken apart, freeing the cyanide to poison the attacker and leaving the benzaldehyde to turn into a vapor that you can smell as that classic almond smell. Therefore, the almond smell could have come from already-broken down molecules leaving behind benzaldehyde (this is in fact what synthetic almond extract is made from!) -- but I would agree to erring on the side of caution in case there are still undigested glucosides still in what you made.

Why does the plant have this complicated way of storing cyanide, rather than just producing cyanide on its own? It's a way of protecting itself. In the un-broken-down form, the cyanide can't act to poison the plant itself. It only becomes poisonous in this scenario when the plant is attacked by an outside source and is already being injured.

[JohnKelly]

Regarding the lime substitute, you should look into a thing my wife found called True Lime. It's "crystalized" lime juice. It's marketed as water flavoring. It lists citric acid, lime oil and lime juice as the only ingredients. I wanted a Mai Tai one night and didn't have any limes. I decided to try it and it worked extremely well. It's already shelf stable, so it may work in your sodas.

Also, this series could be a way you can show us how to make our own bottled cocktails.

[davidwooten]

I've never clicked a video so fast in my LIFE! I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR YOU TO DO MORE!!!!

[isaakmerritt]

I never thought about Electric Cherry like that until now. Electric chair. Electric Cherry and the perk made it’s debut on the map Mob of the Dead and to those who don’t know. That map took place on Alcatraz (hellcatraz if you know you know.). Holy shit consider my mind blown.

[sevagothunedited]

Fun fact, the electric cherry assumption he made is actually completely true! The perk was introduced for the map "Mob Of The Dead" in black ops 2 which is based on Alcatraz Island! For someone who most likely doesn't know the games that was an damn good guess!

[MGDrzyzga]

1) Yeah, I'd like to see more Perk-a-Colas.
2) You caught my interest with the plum wine. I'd be interested in seeing more plum wine cocktails. (Also, I'd be interested in seeing any sake cocktails).

[awaredeshmukh]

When you said "this is my sour cherry syrup, this is the easiest thing in the world to the make, you go to the store..." I really expected you to finish "and you buy some sour cherry syrup" haha

[teamcyeborg]

I've wanted this sequel pretty much since I saw the first one, and I had pretty much given up on it ever happening, now I'm so excited to see the rest of these!!

[Necroes]

I'm honestly really surprised you've not done a Deep Rock Galactic episode.
I know those are all beers, but it still feels very on-brand for this channel.

[Icedmkz]

Next ones gotta be stamina up, death perception, tombstone soda and who's who and Widows wine would be interesting

[nicholasnevins]

In the same idea as these Bioshock Vigors are very iconic drinks!

[clifisboring]

PhD in game is purple which I wish was incorporated but I understand why it wasn’t. I’m excited to see you do the rest of the perks

[_Y.J]

The perks actually have recipes on the back of the can in cold war, a lot of them are genuinely not for human consumption but u could take inspiration from some of the ingredients, like speed cola is a spicy cola from the ingredients, one guy actually followed the recipes and drank them

[djweso]

First of all thank you Greg! You seemed like you really enjoyed this episode! I'm also very glad Darcy is getting some much deserved love. I've been a fan for a time. I finally bought myself his book after putting it on my Christmas list for a decade.

[kaylummcpherson]

Fun fact, the last (first) perk a cola episode was the first episode of htd I ever watched. Been watching ever since.