Hey everybody! Hi friends, I'm Kina
and I'm Will and we are The Nerdyweds
and what are we doing today? We are
making apple pie,
the alcoholic alcoholic apple pie, not
the pie that you eat
okay and we're doing that because we are
celebrating virtual dragon con this
weekend and apple pie
is the unofficial official drink
of dragon con.  It's the beginning of fall
uh the end of summer convention. A lot of
people are starting to get into the
halloween
spirit right at dragon con. Of course
with the cosplay going on, everything
else.
You know the spirits are high and
everybody likes to share
in some apple pie. So the spirits are
high so they share spirits.
It's a double entendre yes.
So what are we making this stuff out of?
We are making the very..I hate to be a
basic bitch, but we are
making the very basic recipe
because it's just simple and
straightforward and if you want to
modify it,
it's easier to modify from this recipe.
So what we have is a gallon of apple
juice,
a gallon of apple cider
and six
cinnamon sticks actually I'm just going
to use both of these containers because
each
only have four in them so eight cinnamon
sticks and then we got a cup of brown
sugar
and a cup or half a cup of white sugar.
So it calls for a cup and a half of
sugar and we really prefer
dark brown but we only had light brown
and we only had that amount
so we had to mix it up a little bit with
white sugar.
Yeah but again, basic recipe if you um
you want to use all of one kind or mix
it up you can do that
and then we have you talk about alcohol.
This is uh everclear,
not sponsored um 151
proof. The recipe calls for 190 but we're
not adults here in Florida so they won't
let us have
190 because somehow that's
worse than 150. I guess it it's going to
do worse for you
but it's 75 alcohol by volume.
It's still potent stuff uh and that's
one liter of that
and the recipe that
we usually make I think we use more
alcohol. Do you remember?  I know there's
there's another recipe that you found
that we're not using for this one which
called for 750 milliliters
of that and 750 milliliters of vodka
right
which comes out to be more alcohol
volume wise but 250 milliliters less
than
of that one but 50 milliliters more
alcohol
overall so you know yeah.
I mean we're gonna, we're lightweights
and
we're not going to dragon con so we're
not sharing this so I
figured even though we normally make
that one, it'd be better to do this one
but for the holidays I'm going to make
the other one
and then I'm also going to play around
with different fruit flavors
and that's what people are going to get
for the holidays and these friends who
live locally and family who don't
live locally you can take it up with him.
If you don't live locally it's your
fault
so um I've already washed my hands I
think you did too as well
but we need to have some take a quick
little pause
and get something to cover our hair
because we don't want hair getting in
in the food so I'll meet you back here
in a second.
Okay. What the hell am I supposed to use  to cover my hair?  Be creative and we'll see.
We didn't really need to cover our heads.
I just want an excuse
to put on this hat and to see Will's
reaction.
Where's your cover?  I don't have anything.
You could have got. You could have got
your Jane Cobb hat.
This is The Nerdyweds.  Okay we're back.
Pretty cunning don't you think?  No I
don't.
Okay I'm going to get started.
So we put the pot on the heat. Can you um
open the other one?
Yep you got that one?  No I don't.
Carefully pour in that apple cider.
The only problem is this isn't a Dickens
cider
because she loves Dickens cider.
You are an idiot!
This is these both are a gallon right?
Yeah they are yeah.
Well that one's a gallon right? Yes it
says one gallon.
Oh we got enough room in this bowl? This
is the pot I used last time.
Okay
that's a lot of liquid going in the
bottle. I know I do have a bigger pot
but I thought was pretty
pretty sure this was the pot. We'll we'll
put it in the other pot that's
crazy. Yes
all right let's let's let's switch pots.
Where's the other pot?
well this we'll just explain the switch.
Okay
no that's smaller. I'm thinking this was
the pot, maybe I just used
less stuffs.  I could've sworn you had that big pot (Will in background)
black pot? Yeah
Oh
it's good uh and I'm recording like
Will's looking for another pot
and I've just been pouring in
ingredients so there's not going to be
any editing
over here.
Except to get rid of that big dead space
we had there looking for head covers.
Yes
So Will um.  Wow this is
that's a very full pot.  It's a very full
full pot
but it's coming it's only going to stay
in here long enough
to dissolve the sugar
and bring it to a boil.  And bring it to a boil
so it'll be okay and it's not like I
have it on high heat
so I'll be able to turn it down as soon
as it comes to that boil
but um at dragoncon you will have people
strangers coming up to you with flasks
and all kinds of different drinks for
you to just randomly try.
I personally have never taken a drink a
drink
a drink from a stranger.  I sound like a
little kid
but I haven't just because.  Stranger
danger.  I'm not comfortable with that
because I don't know what they put in
that drink.
I don't know where their lips have been
so if it's someone I know
I will take a drink from their cup sip
from their cup
yeah but not from strangers but I know
you have.  I think that
in light of recent pandemics
that might be a thing of the past yeah
in
in the way that it was done in previous
years where people would literally walk
up
with a giant flask of apple pie
moonshine or or some other concoction
that they want to share with you
and just hand it to you and be like here. 
 But why were you so
comfortable drinking from
like that?  Because I know a lot of people
at dragon con do that, it's normal.
Well nine times out of 99 times out of
100 it's a person I know
that we've been going to dragon con for
so long
I have a group of friends I only see at
Dragon Con
right I only see them once per year
but we all are tight
for that one weekend a year. That's true
and
and you know we've gotten to know each
other over the years. And I do have to call
myself
out when I say I haven't I've never done
it,
I'm sitting here thinking I'm like I've
taken plenty of jello shots from people.
Yes you have but I guess that's what
that's an individual
serving type thing but it's not somebody
walking up and handing you a bottle and
saying here take a swig of this
but still I don't really. Speaking of
bottle, I've got this bottle
again not a sponsor but loaded dice
I mean talk to us um this is a
the 100-sided uh 100
sided die from loaded dice
and right here you can see what you
rolled
and uh as you drink it down you roll a
higher score
um the intentions not behind the hundred
sided die of course but the intention is
uh
they have shot glasses and stuff that
represent different
uh sides like four sided dies a little
shot glass and six sided dies a little
bigger
and eight sides bigger than uh 10 20
and then 100. This is a growler.
So you're going to fill this with that
okay.
So what you will do when you're
making it if you don't have one of these
is that you would get a quart sized
mason jar
something similar to this but a little
bigger
and you would just fill these up and
tighten
close the lid up on it and just keep it
in your fridge and these
allow it to keep a little longer than if
you were to just say
put it back on the gallon jugs yeah
yeah which is typically to be honest we
do what we do
when we're going to dragon con we will
make this a a week prior
and fill the the jugs up that we took
everything out of
uh just for ease of transport you don't
carry glass around
for one thing yeah uh if you can avoid
it and it's gonna be gone
uh once it gets to dragon con anyway
it's not gonna last more than a few days
at the convention between you and your
friends
it's getting drunk drank drunk
so once this comes to a boil
and the sugar is definitely dissolved
we'll let it cool
to room temperature and then that's when
we'll add the alcohol
and then we're done this is like the
most simple
recipe but it really is very tasty and
it can get you messed up really quick
because of that.
It sneaks up on you. Yeah it does
especially this recipe
because it has the lower volume of
alcohol in it compared to
some of the others that call for 150
milliliters of alcohol.
This one can really sneak up and kick
you in the teeth.
Okay so that's it.  This is a really
simple recipe and all you're going to do
now is bring it to a boil, make sure the
sugar dissolves
and then once it comes to room
temperature make sure it's at room
temperature
then you'll add the alcohol and then
just refrigerate right? Yep
so yeah just like she said wait for it
to cool down you don't want to add
alcohol in before it does
or your alcohol will start to evaporate
out of your
your mixture and we don't want that no
no
we do not want that and like and
I am going to be sharing this with some
friends because
we are going to be consuming this over
our our live uh
feed yes saturday night it's gonna be
one of the main drinks that we've got
we've got another surprise drink in the
fridge for that night
but uh this will be our main drink of
the night
but as you can tell there's a lot of
alcohol in this
this is a drink that can sneak up on you
well when you share it with friends I
I assume you mean you're taking it to
them or something.
I'm still social distancing so the only
person I've been around
is Will and uh like two people at work
at a distance and that's about all I'm
trying to do. It's better to be safe than
sorry that's how I look at it
but I'm excited for this weekend now
that we're having this and
our other secret drink and I'm a
lightweight.
You you're not as much of a lightweight
but I think it's still like you said
it's going to hit us it's going to hit
us yeah
and you guys will see a little bit of
that
just just a little bit so that's all
I've got
what else do you've got? That's it uh
this is not gonna be the best dragon con
weekend we've ever had
but we're gonna make the best out of it.
Yep
So until next time stay nerdy and uh
we're The Nerdyweds and see you next
time.
