Posted By SeanMike on February 6, 2010

Remember how I mentioned before about books and drinks?  Obviously, the same thing works for movies – but with the shorter run time, and the possibility of spoilers, it can be harder…

Tonight I watched Inglorious Basterds.  Yes, it took me a long time to see it.  Yes, it was a GREAT MOVIE.  I’d like to put in a lot of cuss words to show how much I liked this movie, but I just finished watching it, so I’m high on adrenaline and lots and lots of booze.

How do you do a drinking game for a movie you haven’t seen yet?  It’s called the pause button.

I’d been out with a friend of mine earlier, came in, fired up the movie.  The joys of pay-per-view, though in my case, it took a few tries because, well, FiOS was having “issues”.

Okay, we’re watching a movie with Germans, French, and Americans.  We need a drink, and I make one, declaring it the “Inglorious”:

Inglorious
2 ounces rye whiskey
1 1/2 ounce Belle de Brillet (a French pear-flavored cognac)
1/2 ounce Underberg (I originally used 3/4 ounce, which is the size of a mini-bottle of it, but that’s too much)
Stir, strain into a chilled cocktail glass with a twist of lemon peel.

Actually, that was pretty good.

I kept watching the movie and needed another Lt. Aldo drink.  I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRINK.

The Basterd
2 ounces applejack
1 ounce Dolin dry vermouth
1/2 ounce Barenjager
2 dashes Marshall’s moonshine bitters
Shake and strain into a glass with a twist of lemon

Unfortunately, the Barenjager overwhelms the drink in this one.  It needs work.

Notice something on those?  I went for French-German-American.  But I got tired, and the movie went to a scene where they order “33 year old” Scotch whisky.

WARNING SPOILERS

I said “hey everyone is going to die here” and so I got a shot of scotch straight.  You know what?  I was right.

I’ve been trying to make drinks that fit in for the movie and now I end up with a German beer, a shot of Scottish whisky, and … well, Aldo admitted to being a moonshiner, so when I guessed what was going to happen at the end I did a shot of Kopper Kettle “Virginia Moonshine”.

When it comes to movies and a drink – it’s the fun of “do you play it by ear” or “do you have set rules”?  Tonight, I had fun playing it by ear.

I’ve got District 9 on DVD.  And Navy SEALs on TV.  Hmmm….

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