Tipple Theory

This episode September and Sean talk about one of the ubiquitous dive bar orders: a shot and a beer. Otherwise known as a boiler maker. Usually its whiskey and a cheap beer, but some bars try to give you options. Other bars will encourage you to drop the shot into the beer, thereby making a bomb or depth charge shot. It takes many forms, but this simple night ruiner just keeps hanging on, generation after generation.

September and Sean find out where this popular lemon vodka margarita came from and take a quick look at it's close cousins; the Kamikaze and Cosmopolitan cocktails.

In this episode September and Sean talk about the Mind Eraser drink, that's not a shot, but also not sipped, you chug it through a straw. So it's a weird one!

September and Sean explore where this party shot came from and Sean realizes that it originated within his lifetime!

On this episode September and Sean ROLL TIDE! With the shot...cocktail? Drink! That celebrates Alabama.

On this episode of Tipple Theory, September and Sean explore the oldest cocktail category; Punches. We have a rough idea where they came from, but their popularity sored for almost a hundred years as an easy social lubricant. Even in recent years it's become popular in restaurants once again as an easy seasonal offering.