Join us as we dive into the world of true crime and craft cocktails. Cheers!
Each episode will feature a captivating tale and a fun cocktail to wet your whistle and help the doom & gloom go down a bit smoother.
Ep.9 - Jim & Sandra Melgar
1) Jim & Sandra
2) The tub with evidence inside it
3) Sandra being interrogated
4) Police showing how one can prop a chair to lock yourself in
5) Sandra’s left hand, the night of the crime
6) Sandra’s upper arm bruising
7) How the master bedroom looked after the crime
8) The murder weapon
This week we are sipping a Blood Orange Martini 🍸 🍊🩸
2 ounces blood orange juice
1 ½ ounces vodka
½ ounce Cointreau
½ ounce lime juice
1 teaspoon simple syrup or maple syrup
2 dashes orange bitters (optional, but recommended)
Place the blood orange juice, vodka, Cointreau, lime juice, syrup, and bitters (optional) in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake 15 seconds until cold.
Strain the drink into a cocktail or martini glass. Garnish with a blood orange wedge or lime, and serve.
CHEERS!
Happy Wednesday everyone! Episode 8 is the survivor tale of Teka Adams.
1. Teka Adams
2. Veronica Deramous
3. Teka, Miracle, and PJ
4. Teka, Sadie, Miracle, and PJ
5. Teka and Miracle
6. Teka, Miracle, and the first responders that saved their lives
7. Tekas scar
A new week means a new cocktail!
The Miracle Worker:
2 oz Bacardi Gold Rum
1 oz Pimms No. 1
1/2 oz Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
1 dash Angostura bitters
1 skewered brandy cherry to garnish
This cocktail would typically come in a rocks glass but mine are packed for the move and Charna is working on her glass collection so coupes it is!
Method:
Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass or large cube.
Ep.7 - Sarah Stern
1) Sarah Stern
2) Liam McAtasney
3) Preston & Sarah before prom
4) Sarah’s car on the bridge
5) The stolen money
6) Sarah & her dad
Say hello to this weeks cocktail:
The Cold Black Heart 🖤
3 oz. blackberries
¾ oz. Aperol
¼ oz. grenadine
1 ½ oz. vodka
¾ oz. lemon
3 dashes Rhubarb or Orange Bitters
1 Egg white
½ tsp. activated charcoal (you can find this at any pharmacy or health food store)
Skewered blackberry, or lemon slice for garnish
Muddle blackberries in a cocktail shaker. Add Aperol and grenadine, then add vodka, lemon, bitters, egg whites, and activated charcoal. Shake dry ingredients, then add ice and shake again. Double strain. Garnish.
CHEERS, ya creeps.
Drink Credit: https://www.rachaelraymag.com/recipe/cold-black-heart-cocktail-recipe
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Ep.6 - Arlis Perry
Sit through a spooky storm with us, as Morgan covers the case of a horrendous murder, that was cold for 44 years.
1) 19 year old Arlis Perry
2) Stanford Memorial Church
3) Inside the church
4) Stephen Crawford
5) Again, the beautiful, Arlis Perry
If you didn’t already see our reel, check out this weeks cocktail!
🍸THE VERDANT LADY🍸
What you need:
ice
3 tablespoons gin (we used the botanist) (1 1/2 ounces)
1 tablespoon fresh, strained lime juice (1/2 ounce)
1 1/2 teaspoons simple syrup (1/4 ounce)
1 teaspoon Green Chartreuse (1/6 ounce)
4 large mint leaves, plus a sprig for garnish!
In a cocktail shaker filled halfway with ice, combine the gin, lime juice, simple syrup, chartreuse, and mint leaves. Shake vigorously for 30 seconds, then strain into a coupe. Garnish with a mint sprig and lime 💚
CHEERS!
This week we are covering The Gorilla Killer, Earle Leonard Nelson.
1) Earle and his large hands
2) The Napa State Mental Hospital
3) One of his victims, Clara Newman
4) His route or terror through the US and Canada
5) Earle’s mug shot after this final arrest
This week we sipped on the Slick Rick Cocktail. So appropriately named for our episode dropping this week 🍋 In this sour, we pair gin with an olive oil that has grassy, fruity notes.
Yields 1 cocktail
2 oz. gin
1⁄2 oz. of a quality olive oil
1⁄2 oz. fresh lemon juice
1⁄2 oz. simple syrup
1 egg white
Pinch of kosher salt
Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously; add ice then shake again, then strain into a chilled coupe.
Top with a splash of aromatic bitters. 🤌🏼
CHEERS! Ya, creeps.
This week Morgan tells the incredible story of The Hollowed Nickel. Join us as we sip a Vesper and talk espionage! 🍸🪙
1) The hollow nickel found by the Brooklyn newspaper boy
2) The coded message contained in the hollow nickel
3) Rudolf Ivanovich Abel
4) A newspaper clipping from The New York Times
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This weeks Crooked Craft Cocktail is the Vesper! 🍸
Can anyone guess what the topic for Episode 4 will be?
Bar tools you will need, cocktail specs & method are all listed below!
Bar equipment you will need:
-shaker tins
-double jigger
-Hawthorne Strainer
-fine mesh strainer
-bar spoon
-channel knife
-coupe/ martini/ nick and nora glass
-1 lemon
Build and method:
1 ½ oz gin
½ oz vodka
¼ oz cocchi american or lillet blanc
***IF and only IF you are using Lillet Blanc, you will also need
1 dash angostura bitters
1 SMALL pinch of citric acid
1. Chill your (up) glass- fill with Ice and water and let sit
2. While your glass chills add an ounce and a half of gin to your mixing glass, followed by a half ounce of vodka, then a quarter ounce of cocchi americana OR lillet
-we are using Lillet blanc because I accidentally broke my bottle of cocchi (sad girl hours) if you are using lillet like we are, add a dash of angostura bitters and a pinch of citric acid to cut some of the sweetness
3. Add ice and because our case this week is about real life espionage we will make it “shaken not stirred”
4. Shake for 30-40 seconds to chill and dilute
5. Then empty the ice from you glass then double strain your vesper from your shaker glass into your chilled glass
- to double strain you need a Hawthorn strainer and a fine mesh strainer, the purpose of the fine mesh strainer is to collect any little ice chips that escape your hawthorne strainer
6. Then using your chanel knife cut a good length of lemon peel over your cocktail so that the peels oils are expressed over the drink
7. Then tightly wrap your lemon peel around your bar spoon or something long and skinny, and give it one last twist over your drink and drop it on it for your garnish
8. CHEERS YA CREEPS, its time to enjoy!
Episode 3, The Mysterious Disappearance of Angela Hammond.
1) Angela Hammond
2) Rob Shafer
3) A depiction of the fishing scene in the rear window
4) The truck believed to be driven by her abductor
5) The note shared by police
6) Age Progression of Angela (age 43)
Hi, ya creeps! 😈
This weeks episode takes place in small-town Missouri. Clearly, we had to pair the Missouri Mule with the telling of this unsolved mystery. This isn’t your typical Mule (using ginger beer) The Missouri Mule is pure spirits, leaving a tart flavor. Pour your ‘Mule’ into an iced cocktail glass, & let’s get boozy. 🧊🥃
• 1 oz Bourbon
• 1 oz Applejack or Apple Brandy
• ½ oz Campari
• ½ oz Cointreau
Drink Credit: Joe Gilmore
Episode 2 - Las Poquianchis
Pictures 1-3: The sister from hell
4: survivors demonstrating a method of torture/ punishment
5: the uncovering of a mass grave
6: Delfina and Maria de Jesus being arrested
Our first episode! We celebrated by featuring a classic Bloody Mary as our cocktail of choice. What better way to sip a Bloody Mary then covering the depressing story of Mary Bell and her victims, Martin Brown & Brian Howe? Join us as we dive into Mary’s childhood, her crimes, and the life after the fallout.
1) Mary Bell as a child
2) Martin Brown
3) Brian Howe
4) Vandalism left in the nursery
5) The Scissors in evidence
6) Betty Bell
7) Mary Bell Again
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A new week means a new cocktail! The Miracle Worker: 2 oz Bacardi Gold Rum 1 oz Pimms No. 1 1/2 oz Luxardo Maraschino liqueur 1 dash Angostura bitters 1 skewered brandy cherry to garnish This cocktail would typically come in a rocks glass but mine are packed for the move and Charna is working on her glass collection so coupes it is! Method: Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass or large cube.
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