Episode 234: Cocktail Month 2018 Episode 2 with Chad from Abiding Citizen

It’s episode 2 of this years Cocktail Month, check out episode 1 if you haven’t already. This week, we’re joined by Chad Friesen – he and his wife Teri-Lynn own Abiding Citizen Craft Beverage Company. They make a variety of small batch bitters, shrubs and syrups to help anyone put together a delicious cocktail. Chad brought some along to use in his cocktails (yes, multiple) and we also tried some Tangerine Dream beer from 4 Mile Brewing, BC.

Show Notes

00:00 – Introduction
01:28 – Tangerine Dream
03:50 – Abiding Citizen, the origin story
6:15 – No booze bitters?
11:20 – Making beer cocktails
13:15 – How many home-bars is enough?
19:24 – Cocktail #1 – Trash Panda & Tequila
23:00 – Bitters dosage
29:50 – Our cocktail – Mulden Draak
34:42 – “Tea is the double-double of Britain”
38:30 – Cocktail #3 – Looks like a tequila sunrise, tastes 10x better
40:15 – Wrap-up