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Curious Cases

Adam's ASMR Cocktail

Curious Cases

BBC

Science

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Adam Rutherford concocts an Old Fashioned. First listen to our episode on ASMR, then grab some headphones and let Adam mix you a cocktail. Let us know if it gives you the brain tingles, or any other kind of reaction, by emailing curiouscases@bbc.co.uk.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, today I'm going to be making an ASMR curious cases cocktail.

0:07.0

Now it's important that you put your headphones on for this and just so that you know this is your right ear and this is your left ear.

0:21.0

So here we go. I'm going to be making the curious cases old-fashioned which is a delicious drink.

0:31.0

So the first thing is I need a whiskey tumbler which I got right here and you need a spoon and then the ingredients which are a bottle of bourbon.

0:43.0

Some bitters, I'm using Angostura's bitters. Some sugar, preferably soft brown sugar or maybe Demerara.

0:53.0

Lots of ice and then I like a cherry on top.

1:01.0

And the first step is to take some bitters, Angostura's bitters which comes in a bottle like this.

1:07.0

And I'm just going to take the top off.

1:17.0

Take my glass and just get a big dash of bitters in there.

1:23.0

And the next stage is a big teaspoon of brown sugar.

1:40.0

In the case in my glass like this, I'm going to put a dash of whiskey in there to dissolve it.

1:52.0

And I'm going to do a long stir so that's all dissolved.

2:00.0

It takes a long time to dissolve all the sugar.

2:06.0

Whiskey and sugar.

2:12.0

And sugar.

2:17.0

And sugar.

2:22.0

I am getting tingles here but it's not from the ASMR. It's because it's delicious.

2:36.0

It's 11 o'clock in the morning, the studio 60 CD at the BBC. And I'm making an old fashioned.

2:47.0

And I'm going to take that all do.

2:53.0

And the next stage is to add a whole handful of ice which I've got here.

3:00.0

And an ice bucket.

3:08.0

So, some ice.

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