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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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Adding that they also make True Lemon, True Orange, and True Grapefruit. All distinctly represent their fruits, orange is just missing a touch of sweetness.
It's great stuff but I'm thinking once that crystalized lime juice hits water and turns into well lime juice, it'll no longer be shelf stable, so wouldn't work here unless you poured it in after you opened the bottle.
Adding just the oils from the citrus fruits to the acid water would also be a decent approximation, and while you can definitely buy food grade citrus oils quite easily, it would be fun to see Greg get into steam distillation for those "more science-y" methods he was looking for :P
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.
@@Abysithhe's done a "tavern ale" for his d&d episode that was a cocktail with beer, I'm sure he could do a different beer cocktail for each beer in Deep Rock
@@howtodrink late on this, but bioshock, while havent had any gamesi n a while, is probably seen as hte most prolific and standout of video gaming, especially in terms of setting and theme, even more so with inifnite in my opinion. if you did the vigors, that would be stellar, and plus they never really have had description of their taste or ingredients, its more so their affects. so it would be interesting to see what you would build off of the vigors, especially ones like "Murder of Crows" or "possession".
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).
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground Into the blue again, after the money's gone Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
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!!
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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
I'm not a gamer, not into fancy cocktails (make mine Manhattan), and have to stay off sugar, but ... ...the ginger extract alone is worth the price of admission. I can now make a good ginger beer or ale that has the heat and just enough sweetness for my taste (not much). I assume the stuff will keep forever, given the alcohol content.
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
I'm happy to see this continuation. The original video is still one of my favorites of your vids. Hopefully you do make a series out of this. Also you nailed the Electric Cherry naming motif. It shows up for the first time in "Mob of the Dead" a level that takes place on Alcatraz Island, and is indeed a play on Electric Chair.
THIS is what I originally came to HTD so many years ago. Love learning new ways to create cocktails. I never would have considered making "acid water" when you cannot use fresh juice but holy crap it makes so much sense.
I always loved the characters reactions to drinking the perk-a-colas. You can tell the writers and voice actors had a lot of fun with it. "Tastes like fermented herring dipped in cat piss... ugh..." "This drink requires a... 'mature pallette'." "I think Dempsey is right. It *is* a bit fishy." "Why is this stuff so damn chewy?" "I can't be sure but I'm fairly certain the active ingredient rots your mind." "WOAH everything seems kinda sped up, what was that stuff?" "Oough, that tasted like liquid chalk..."
Can't imagine it is original and not sure how it would make an episode but kwisatz sazerac popped into my head and I figured it would be appreciated what with the relevance of dune and all. Love the content as usual though. keep up the good work
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 looooong time. I finally bought myself his book after putting it on my Christmas list for a decade.
21:13 The thing about Electric Cherry is it might be better as a wine-based thing, because its main appearance was on a map based in prison. And prison wine was the sort of inspiration for it. Maybe another option?
I guess as some deeper explanation for you greg on alot of the lore, Samantha Maxis is the daughter of one of the head researchers of group 935, Ludvig Maxis. Him andnhis long time partner, Dr. Edward Richtofen (famously voiced by nolan north), are the head researchers in developing super soldiers for the nazis during ww2. This was being done (at least in the canon of world at war and black ops 1) through a meteorite that crashed in japan. The story itself expended LARGELY from that and includong stories of dimensional travel and cosmic beings that brought forth doom to the universe among other supernatural phenomina. To put it sinple, the lore of cod zombies over thenyears became a larger and larger iceberg of alternate stories, expansions, and even entirely different universes with no relations other than its a zombie gamemode in a call of duty game Thenone i will note most is the zombies in infinite warfare, a story where a crazed film director (voiced by paul reuben) made a deal with the devil to make kany of his films real, and trapped 4 of his actors into these films. These movies each parody a different film genre from 70s martial arts films, to 90s slasher, to 50s sci-fi. Notably, the perk o colas in this version of zombies is replaced with essentially, jellybeans. Instead of soda, perk machines gave movie theater boxes full of flavored jellybeans that essentially function the same as the normal perk-o-colas. One last thing ill say is that i cant wait for your next cod zombies video, and if i got to choose the next perk for you to look at, its elemental pop. Not only for it being from the 80s focused cold war zombies, but also because in cold war, the perk bottles are replaced wifh soda cans. So perhaps you could try straight up canning soda.
At last the second lot of theses, but dead shot daiquiri is yellow in the game, PhD flopper needs to be purple and stamin up should be orange just to fit the traditional looks from the game
I agree, he nailed the colors on the first 4 and these ones felt off, still really well done, could’ve added some food coloring! I’m also wondering where he heard that Samantha said deadshot tastes like strawberries? Samantha never tasted the perks as far as I’m aware?
COD Zombies was something I played the crap outta a while back, to the point it and its very haphazard narrative/setting used to even be a hyperfixation of mine. So happy to see more of this on the channel since the Perk-A-Colas are such nice encapsulation of the Zombies nonsense. Really curious to see what you'd do with a Who's Who or Tombstone, the latter especially if you wanna get more science-y or experimental. Vulture Aid and Widow's Wine too could hit that category, they both have interesting effects which could allow for embellishment in their presentation/profile.
Electric Cherry was introduced on a map called Mob of the Dead, which takes place on Alcatraz Island and has lore that basically had the events of the game kicked off with the four characters in the Electric Chair. the electric chair is also a vital part of the map, as it is the way to get back to Alcatraz after flying off of it on a makeshift plane for pack-a-punch. So yea, Electric Chair-y is exactly on point
Staminup, Tombstone Soda, Who's Who?, and Vulture Aid would get you caught up on unique perks up to Black Ops 2. As a bonus you could also tackle the improved Doubletap 2.0. Unfortunately that leaves us with only one more that has dialogue on the taste, being Widow's Wine in BO3.
Im not on the discord anymore to suggest it, but a periodic "update" video on just bar stuff you've worked with more, purchased, or changed would be great. Not even through this episode yet, you've talked about changing the way you make ginger syrup, and are using the removable bottom bottles that you weren't sure of yet since you didnt get to use them much.
Absolutely do more of these, it's utterly fascinating to see these fictional sodas be translated into reality. Staminup would be the easiest one out of the remaining perks, but Tombstone, Who's Who, Vulture Aid, and Widow's Wine will be extremely interesting to see what you come up with, because there's little to no flavor 'clues' for those. You got 'tastes like chalk but an old man thinks it's good', 'not fit for humans', 'might have carrots', and 'came from a giant spider'.
In Black Ops Cold War, the Perk Colas are detailed enough to see the ingredients. Obviously alot of the perks have jokey substances like feline urea and a lethal amount of sugar but just a thought.
9:54 prunes are actually a different fruit. I know this because I have two Italian prune trees in my back yard right now. You can buy fresh prunes at the grocery store.
Because you asked so nicely; 1) Stamin-Up 2) Widow's Wine 3) Stone Cold Stronghold (even though it's not a soda) 4) Double Tap Root Beer 2 (even though we've already seen DTRB1) In all seriousness, though, great video! I was very entertained. Thanks Greg!
The massive zombie fan in me would love to see you tackle both stamin up and widows wine, but I'm just so happy to see a ep2 to this little series you made, can't wait to make these later this year!!!
I originally found this channel on the first zombie perk drinks video and I’m so happy to see this one and all your other videos now too they’re great!
I actually have Darcy O'Neil's book after seeing it on Glen and Friends Cooking when he did a chocolate phosphate, and I have to say, it's a fascinating read.
I was listening to the talking heads this morning and you humming the song that was currently stuck in my head absolutely bugged me out, just thought you should know
Make my Piquancy Cocktail, its based on one I had at a michiline start Korean joint in Chicago: 1/2 ounce powdered orange drink (that's been to the moon) 1/2 ounce gochugang sauce 2oz Bourbon (bonded or barely legal preferred) Mix the above, then top with crushed ice and a splash of lemon lime soda from the gun Haven't thought of a garnish yet, but I like it. It's like a danky mushroomy bloody mary but somehow without tomatoes....
I've been waiting for this for years, i make the speed cola as a summer drink and the double tap is one of my all time favorite drinks ever. Can't wait to try these. Also big things are coming to custom zombies on BO3 this year for those real zombie fans
staminup, tombstone soda, vulturesaide and whos who- next please. avid fan of call of duty, this show, and drinking. these two videos are some of my favorite youve done.
The characters say specific quotes depicting how each of the perks taste. In the Cold War Call of Duty game; they actually have ingredients for each of the perks. (Of course these wouldn’t make them consumable)
Love this channel, it’s been with me for the last 7 years. I wish the algorithm would stop being lame about alcohol and just let you blow up like you should. I don’t even drink but I’ve always enjoyed this channel and the beautiful shots of beautifully colored liquid
I know booze seems to be what everyone gravitates to but your soda content is some of my favorite stuff. It itches s chemistry itch in my brain. Excited for Nuka Cola!
Felt like Mentioning it in case you were curious at all but there is a anime that started airing this season called "Bartender: Glass of God" about a bartender, dont really know anything about it but thought of your channel when i saw it was airing.
My only complaint (call it a nerd nitpick) is that aside from Electric Cherry, the perks aren’t the right color. Otherwise, these all sound delicious and I love the creativity that went in to making them. Awesome job!
I LOVE CoD Zombies and watching you make the perks is a ton of fun. Some interesting ones I think you could do next are Tombstone Soda, Vulture Aid, and Who’s Who
I've been dying for this for three years, excellent video. You gotta do Stamin-Up to complete the original set. Other than that? Maybe some widow's wine or some Vulture Aid Elixer, I always imagined that one would take inspiration from the real life Moxie original elixer.
Stamina Up would be nice since i feel thats a sort of Orange "with a twist of lime" flavored soda. Widows Wine would be next since again its a wine flavored soda. Who's Who with a tangy/saucy flavored and finally Vulture Aid Elixir.
Love to see cocktails w/ Detroits favorite: Vernors ginger Ale. Tates like no other, strong ginger and vanilla. Used to be oak aged if that inspires...
I loved this. Call of duty zombies is my favorite so these are always great to see! For future perks I’d love to see tombstone, vultures aid, widows wine, and maybe some staminup too!
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Do Stamin-up, Widow's Wine, Vulture Aid, and a newer one, Elemental Pop!
I tried the link for Darcy O'Neil and it doesn't work for some reason...Says Cant find what I'm looking for...
Thanks for catching that, I fixed it
@@howtodrink No problem!!!
After @@Whoa_Oasis suggestion do tombstone soda, who's who, death perception and dying wish
For April Fools Day, you should finally tackle "How to Drink", a detailed instructional video on how to literally drink
"I may have a drinking problem"
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@@allochervenkall9819 exactly
But virgin
@@AMPProf lol
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!
Isn't that what the channel is already? Just, "what's Greg making today?"
@@abadathaYes.
Or plasmids from BioShock?
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.
Lemme blow your mind even more. The perk machine is designed to look similar to an electric chair
I didn’t even realize phd flopper was a rip on Dr. Pepper until this vid those dots never connected😂
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.
Aquavit is always good when you need something fishy
no he should absolutely use fish
live a little
Theres so many perk a cola flavors that you could experiment on. I wanna see more
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.
good job knowing things, nerd
I knew about benzaldehyde, but I didn’t know about this relationship with cyanide. Thanks for the info 🫡
@@jacobm2625 good job not knowing things, cool guy
I love this explanation. So cool!
YES!!!! FINALLY!!!! PART 2!!!!!
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!
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.
Adding that they also make True Lemon, True Orange, and True Grapefruit. All distinctly represent their fruits, orange is just missing a touch of sweetness.
It's great stuff but I'm thinking once that crystalized lime juice hits water and turns into well lime juice, it'll no longer be shelf stable, so wouldn't work here unless you poured it in after you opened the bottle.
Adding just the oils from the citrus fruits to the acid water would also be a decent approximation, and while you can definitely buy food grade citrus oils quite easily, it would be fun to see Greg get into steam distillation for those "more science-y" methods he was looking for :P
18:48. The Mule Kick “kicks ass.” Terrible pun. Love it.
I've never clicked a video so fast in my LIFE! I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR YOU TO DO MORE!!!!
Next ones gotta be stamina up, death perception, tombstone soda and who's who and Widows wine would be interesting
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.
I think it would be great! But beer fermentation is quite a long process
Could be beer based and then add stuff to it
@@Abysithhe's done a "tavern ale" for his d&d episode that was a cocktail with beer, I'm sure he could do a different beer cocktail for each beer in Deep Rock
greg probably doesn't know what deep rock galactic even is lol
@@toddoverholt4556it's very hard to make decent beer-based cocktails that don't just ruin the beer.
In the same idea as these Bioshock Vigors are very iconic drinks!
They're so old at this point, I have no idea if they'd be of interest. Maybe!
@@howtodrink Bioshock is never old.
@@howtodrinkI’m sure everyone would be interested in them, no matter how old the game gets
@@howtodrink late on this, but bioshock, while havent had any gamesi n a while, is probably seen as hte most prolific and standout of video gaming, especially in terms of setting and theme, even more so with inifnite in my opinion. if you did the vigors, that would be stellar, and plus they never really have had description of their taste or ingredients, its more so their affects. so it would be interesting to see what you would build off of the vigors, especially ones like "Murder of Crows" or "possession".
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).
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
Yeah, I was hoping he'd add some purple food coloring to it so it would look like the in-game version
@@hipster_tacosor indigo gin
Yea the PhD and the deadshot colors weren't what I expected tbh still a cool video
Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
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!!
I made promises the numbers here are not backing up……..
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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
It was Johnyj25
Glitching Queen made them as well 😊
I'm not a gamer, not into fancy cocktails (make mine Manhattan), and have to stay off sugar, but ...
...the ginger extract alone is worth the price of admission.
I can now make a good ginger beer or ale that has the heat and just enough sweetness for my taste (not much).
I assume the stuff will keep forever, given the alcohol content.
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
Fun fact, the last (first) perk a cola episode was the first episode of htd I ever watched. Been watching ever since.
I'm happy to see this continuation. The original video is still one of my favorites of your vids. Hopefully you do make a series out of this. Also you nailed the Electric Cherry naming motif. It shows up for the first time in "Mob of the Dead" a level that takes place on Alcatraz Island, and is indeed a play on Electric Chair.
THIS is what I originally came to HTD so many years ago. Love learning new ways to create cocktails.
I never would have considered making "acid water" when you cannot use fresh juice but holy crap it makes so much sense.
As a Zombies fan, These look good! Tried and made the other perks, tasted so good!
I always loved the characters reactions to drinking the perk-a-colas. You can tell the writers and voice actors had a lot of fun with it.
"Tastes like fermented herring dipped in cat piss... ugh..."
"This drink requires a... 'mature pallette'."
"I think Dempsey is right. It *is* a bit fishy."
"Why is this stuff so damn chewy?"
"I can't be sure but I'm fairly certain the active ingredient rots your mind."
"WOAH everything seems kinda sped up, what was that stuff?"
"Oough, that tasted like liquid chalk..."
I'm so glad this is back the original perk video is what got me into your channel!
Samantha is the crazy voice you hear in the air in WAW and BO1. She's a little girl who controls the zombies cuz Richtofen killed her dad lol
She's also a playable character in cold war zombies, the story line for her and the series is.... Confusing as hell
A little girl who drinks daquiris, apparently.
@@TehCakeIzALie1Tbf, she only gets the chance to use the perks once the universe resets and she’s finally allowed to grow into a woman
@Soultiger2100 the story for zombies melted my brain
@@elywoen You can blame BO4 and Cold War for that
OK... I'll give you a thumbs up just for the Talking Heads reference. :)
Can't imagine it is original and not sure how it would make an episode but kwisatz sazerac popped into my head and I figured it would be appreciated what with the relevance of dune and all. Love the content as usual though. keep up the good work
Oh man seconding this!
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 looooong time. I finally bought myself his book after putting it on my Christmas list for a decade.
21:13 The thing about Electric Cherry is it might be better as a wine-based thing, because its main appearance was on a map based in prison. And prison wine was the sort of inspiration for it.
Maybe another option?
I heard “Cherry Wine” while reading this comment and the song “We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off” popped into my head.
it's insane how the first episode is how I found this channel and I've been watching ever since
I guess as some deeper explanation for you greg on alot of the lore,
Samantha Maxis is the daughter of one of the head researchers of group 935, Ludvig Maxis. Him andnhis long time partner, Dr. Edward Richtofen (famously voiced by nolan north), are the head researchers in developing super soldiers for the nazis during ww2. This was being done (at least in the canon of world at war and black ops 1) through a meteorite that crashed in japan. The story itself expended LARGELY from that and includong stories of dimensional travel and cosmic beings that brought forth doom to the universe among other supernatural phenomina.
To put it sinple, the lore of cod zombies over thenyears became a larger and larger iceberg of alternate stories, expansions, and even entirely different universes with no relations other than its a zombie gamemode in a call of duty game
Thenone i will note most is the zombies in infinite warfare, a story where a crazed film director (voiced by paul reuben) made a deal with the devil to make kany of his films real, and trapped 4 of his actors into these films. These movies each parody a different film genre from 70s martial arts films, to 90s slasher, to 50s sci-fi. Notably, the perk o colas in this version of zombies is replaced with essentially, jellybeans. Instead of soda, perk machines gave movie theater boxes full of flavored jellybeans that essentially function the same as the normal perk-o-colas.
One last thing ill say is that i cant wait for your next cod zombies video, and if i got to choose the next perk for you to look at, its elemental pop. Not only for it being from the 80s focused cold war zombies, but also because in cold war, the perk bottles are replaced wifh soda cans. So perhaps you could try straight up canning soda.
At last the second lot of theses, but dead shot daiquiri is yellow in the game, PhD flopper needs to be purple and stamin up should be orange just to fit the traditional looks from the game
I agree, he nailed the colors on the first 4 and these ones felt off, still really well done, could’ve added some food coloring! I’m also wondering where he heard that Samantha said deadshot tastes like strawberries? Samantha never tasted the perks as far as I’m aware?
If i remember correctly electric cherry did come into the game during the Alcatraz map. So eletric chair vibes make sense
You should do widows wine, Vultures Aid, Whos Who and tombstone next :)
Been waiting for this one boys. I really like his choices as well. But man!!! How has he still not done my favorite perk! Stamin-up!!!
COD Zombies was something I played the crap outta a while back, to the point it and its very haphazard narrative/setting used to even be a hyperfixation of mine. So happy to see more of this on the channel since the Perk-A-Colas are such nice encapsulation of the Zombies nonsense. Really curious to see what you'd do with a Who's Who or Tombstone, the latter especially if you wanna get more science-y or experimental.
Vulture Aid and Widow's Wine too could hit that category, they both have interesting effects which could allow for embellishment in their presentation/profile.
There are some that you still haven’t done. For example: widows wine, stamin-up, who’s who and tombstone. Would love to see those as well.
Never played COD in my life. Watched the whole thing. Loved it. super fun :)
Electric Cherry was introduced on a map called Mob of the Dead, which takes place on Alcatraz Island and has lore that basically had the events of the game kicked off with the four characters in the Electric Chair. the electric chair is also a vital part of the map, as it is the way to get back to Alcatraz after flying off of it on a makeshift plane for pack-a-punch. So yea, Electric Chair-y is exactly on point
Staminup, Tombstone Soda, Who's Who?, and Vulture Aid would get you caught up on unique perks up to Black Ops 2. As a bonus you could also tackle the improved Doubletap 2.0. Unfortunately that leaves us with only one more that has dialogue on the taste, being Widow's Wine in BO3.
Im not on the discord anymore to suggest it, but a periodic "update" video on just bar stuff you've worked with more, purchased, or changed would be great. Not even through this episode yet, you've talked about changing the way you make ginger syrup, and are using the removable bottom bottles that you weren't sure of yet since you didnt get to use them much.
Im so glad i got recommended this and i dont even drink. I watched the first one and loved it
Absolutely do more of these, it's utterly fascinating to see these fictional sodas be translated into reality. Staminup would be the easiest one out of the remaining perks, but Tombstone, Who's Who, Vulture Aid, and Widow's Wine will be extremely interesting to see what you come up with, because there's little to no flavor 'clues' for those. You got 'tastes like chalk but an old man thinks it's good', 'not fit for humans', 'might have carrots', and 'came from a giant spider'.
Yes!!! Make this a series! It's amazing to watch these as a huge COD Zombies fan!
I found you from mrtlexify’s reaction video to your original perk-a-cola video! I’ve been subscribed ever since! This is awesome!
In Black Ops Cold War, the Perk Colas are detailed enough to see the ingredients.
Obviously alot of the perks have jokey substances like feline urea and a lethal amount of sugar but just a thought.
I would love this as a series
9:54 prunes are actually a different fruit. I know this because I have two Italian prune trees in my back yard right now. You can buy fresh prunes at the grocery store.
Been playing a ton of zombies recently so this is perfect. Coming through as always Greg what with the "catered to my interests" and such.
Because you asked so nicely;
1) Stamin-Up
2) Widow's Wine
3) Stone Cold Stronghold (even though it's not a soda)
4) Double Tap Root Beer 2 (even though we've already seen DTRB1)
In all seriousness, though, great video! I was very entertained. Thanks Greg!
Since DTRB 2 packs more of a punch for less ammo cost, I think it would be cool if he did it as low sugar soda.
@@jfellsie that's brilliant! I didn't think of that 😅
The massive zombie fan in me would love to see you tackle both stamin up and widows wine, but I'm just so happy to see a ep2 to this little series you made, can't wait to make these later this year!!!
Awesome video! I’d love to see Stamin-Up, Widows Wine, Vulture Aid and Tombstone Soda.
The first video was how I found out about your channel, good to see the part 2 finally came out!
Electric Cherry to me makes me think of a collision of "Blue Razz" super citrus with cherry for some reason.
Apparently Cherry Phosphate IS supposed to taste like almonds so I think you made it right lol. What an odd thing.
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO MUCH LET'S GOOOOOO
FINALLY, IT'S BEEN AGES
I originally found this channel on the first zombie perk drinks video and I’m so happy to see this one and all your other videos now too they’re great!
SHOUTOUT TO THE GREEN ROOM GOBLINS!!!
Green room like the famous comedy shop
that electric cherry was so perfect and looked so good id kill for that !!
It's been a while and i forgot just how hard this guy goes with his B-roll. Everything is shot like he's doing a drink commercial
“It’s a 2.2 million views and I said it’s probably good enough…” good god I love you man thank you!
I actually have Darcy O'Neil's book after seeing it on Glen and Friends Cooking when he did a chocolate phosphate, and I have to say, it's a fascinating read.
Part 2?? Let’s gooo! I love perkacolas, hope he makes the rest! Even the custom ones like banana colada would be AMAZING!
I was listening to the talking heads this morning and you humming the song that was currently stuck in my head absolutely bugged me out, just thought you should know
Darcy’s channel is fascinating. A little too scientific at times, but very informative
This came out on my birthday. I don't know how you planned for it but thank you so much for the video!
Ever since Bistro Huddy dropped the bartenders' shaking style vid, my brain cannot handle a double-shaker shake 😭😭😭
Widows wine and stamin up would be fun to do also two of my favorite optional perks that i like to use
It would be really cool if you did the same thing for the Bioshock tonics
You should make Stamin-up, Widow's wine, who's who, and vulutre Aid
Make my Piquancy Cocktail, its based on one I had at a michiline start Korean joint in Chicago:
1/2 ounce powdered orange drink (that's been to the moon)
1/2 ounce gochugang sauce
2oz Bourbon (bonded or barely legal preferred)
Mix the above, then top with crushed ice and a splash of lemon lime soda from the gun
Haven't thought of a garnish yet, but I like it. It's like a danky mushroomy bloody mary but somehow without tomatoes....
4:50 can adhere to whatever you're dietary requirements *unless your vegan or vegetarian
I've been waiting for this for years, i make the speed cola as a summer drink and the double tap is one of my all time favorite drinks ever. Can't wait to try these. Also big things are coming to custom zombies on BO3 this year for those real zombie fans
staminup, tombstone soda, vulturesaide and whos who- next please. avid fan of call of duty, this show, and drinking. these two videos are some of my favorite youve done.
I absolutely loved dead shot's perk jingle the rock and roll and the flow of it
The characters say specific quotes depicting how each of the perks taste. In the Cold War Call of Duty game; they actually have ingredients for each of the perks. (Of course these wouldn’t make them consumable)
I'd honestly love to see how you do Stamin-Up,Tombstone Soda,Who's who,and Widow's Wine
Would LOVE to see you do Widow's Wine, Stamin-up, and Vulture-Aid!
Love this channel, it’s been with me for the last 7 years. I wish the algorithm would stop being lame about alcohol and just let you blow up like you should. I don’t even drink but I’ve always enjoyed this channel and the beautiful shots of beautifully colored liquid
I know booze seems to be what everyone gravitates to but your soda content is some of my favorite stuff. It itches s chemistry itch in my brain. Excited for Nuka Cola!
Saw the Talking Heads reference coming, still appreciated it 🙂
Felt like Mentioning it in case you were curious at all but there is a anime that started airing this season called "Bartender: Glass of God" about a bartender, dont really know anything about it but thought of your channel when i saw it was airing.
Thank you so much for making the rest of the perks! I was always hoping you would make more!
I got this notification and instantly hopped off the video I was watching been waiting for a while ❤❤❤
That's the stuff
Only the real ones know that Deadshot has the BEST perk jingle hands down 💥🙌
I see you, but I raise you Death Perception has a killer riff. It's a close call between those two.
@howtodrink you got 8 perks down, now to finish the rest, god I wish I could try them with you man they sound so good
My only complaint (call it a nerd nitpick) is that aside from Electric Cherry, the perks aren’t the right color. Otherwise, these all sound delicious and I love the creativity that went in to making them. Awesome job!
I LOVE CoD Zombies and watching you make the perks is a ton of fun. Some interesting ones I think you could do next are Tombstone Soda, Vulture Aid, and Who’s Who
I've been dying for this for three years, excellent video. You gotta do Stamin-Up to complete the original set. Other than that? Maybe some widow's wine or some Vulture Aid Elixer, I always imagined that one would take inspiration from the real life Moxie original elixer.
Stamina Up would be nice since i feel thats a sort of Orange "with a twist of lime" flavored soda. Widows Wine would be next since again its a wine flavored soda. Who's Who with a tangy/saucy flavored and finally Vulture Aid Elixir.
Love to see cocktails w/ Detroits favorite: Vernors ginger Ale. Tates like no other, strong ginger and vanilla. Used to be oak aged if that inspires...
I loved this. Call of duty zombies is my favorite so these are always great to see! For future perks I’d love to see tombstone, vultures aid, widows wine, and maybe some staminup too!
Finally got around to watching this one and I loved it, I hope you do part 3, but if not seeing these 8 perks was already enough
Just learned about milk washing and thought it would be cool for you try milk washing different cocktails. Would love your spin on it.
stamin up, widows wine, vulture aid, tombstone soda, whos who.
Actually insane that chemistry equipment is being used here for these drinks. Loved that you continued this! Hope to see the rest.