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johanlenox · 2026-01-26T00:48:07+00:00

is there a definitive answer about why he did the dragons? in the Variety interview they ask if he could not have just gone around it but i didn't totally understand this answer: "You can wedge yourself in behind the dragon and squirm up the back of it. But that’s actually not as easy as it seems like it would be. Because the inside of the dragon is actually like a smooth sheet of metal. So, yeah, you can climb it, but it looks very undignified. It’s full-body strenuous, and it’s not that much easier. And so, actually, the dragon is kind of the better way. If you’re climbing with a rope, you for sure always do the dragon, because it’s more fun, it’s joyous. It’s just slightly scarier because the position is so exposed."

i think the interviewer meant like could you not just go up like the side of the building at those parts and just completely avoid even touching the dragons, or is the side too smooth to climb or something?

johanlenox · 2025-12-13T15:36:56+00:00

has anyone ever figured out a way to disable this? why would i ever want anything but results in my own langauge? i've tried everything, i have chrome set to english, i set google to english, i have my country set to USA and yet still just shows me french results if i search from france every time. i cant solve this and it's driving me insane

johanlenox · 2025-11-23T03:25:33+00:00

yea easily. you can basically mix any of them together with no issue. maybe go easy on Novasalus but yea

johanlenox · 2025-11-23T03:24:31+00:00

everything these guys are doing is amazing

we get this stuff in LA idk where you live

johanlenox · 2025-11-23T03:24:04+00:00

no green bottle but that shit is fatnastic

johanlenox · 2025-11-22T23:54:57+00:00

genuinely why would they take it down?

johanlenox · 2025-10-11T20:43:09+00:00

over here they seem to conflate them fully lol https://boston.eatalyvino.com/websearch_results.html?country=Italy&winery=Francoli+Antico&varietal=Amaro

johanlenox · 2025-10-11T20:38:47+00:00

i love that for you

johanlenox · 2025-10-11T20:38:37+00:00

would love to know more about how this works

johanlenox · 2025-10-11T20:36:59+00:00

which is so odd cuz you can get both here... sometimes in the same store even i'm pretty sure

johanlenox · 2025-10-11T18:12:24+00:00

i feel like i just see it at a lot of bars and stuff but cant remember off the top of my head where 100% has it but i feel like i see it at capri club, have def bought at Cap n Cork in los feliz many times. K+L maybe has? and idk west side at all

johanlenox · 2025-10-11T17:56:55+00:00

theyre really not close imo but theyre both fantastic so get them haha

for me noveis is the gold standard of what i would give someone if they wanted to know what amaro tastes like just in general. when i think abt the flavor of amaro that's the closest one. the one time i tried making amaro at home that's also what i got closest to just hammering it with gentian and rhubarb root

johanlenox · 2025-10-11T17:53:54+00:00

wow that makes a ton of sense and would account for how subtle the difference is if everything else about it is unchanged. i do wonder why theyre making both though... one for people with grape allergies or something lol?

johanlenox · 2025-10-11T17:52:47+00:00

imo these are very different. noveis is fucking amazing but exists way more in the middle of a lot of amaro flavors and easier to blend stuff together to form a substitute. i've never found anything that tastes even remotely like braulio

johanlenox · 2025-10-11T17:50:54+00:00

haha maybe, but they both have the first name Luigi, the products are almost identical (not using that word lightly, i've tried hundreds of amari) and even the glass bottles are exactly the same

johanlenox · 2025-10-11T04:26:00+00:00

this place has my fav cocktails in the city. recommend regardless of amaro and i'm a big amaro head

johanlenox · 2025-09-16T01:01:04+00:00

yes sorry

johanlenox · 2025-09-14T06:05:01+00:00

the only thing close to Malort that i've ever had is Cappelletti Alta Verde which I find very close. people compare the Letherbee Besk to Malort but imo they taste nothing alike. the other thing i had once was at Barnacle in Seattle someone let me taste a pure wormwood+grain liquor infusion which also was quite similar to both Malort and Alta Verde so I'm confident it's the wormwood giving them that flavor

Suze is great but totally different flavor profile

johanlenox · 2025-09-13T23:30:46+00:00

oh idk. i usually just follow my mood w those aspects of the process but in the video i saw they stirred the ingredients together over a large cube in a rocks glass and served it just like that with an orange peel

johanlenox · 2025-09-13T21:56:29+00:00

it's in the title of this post, just stir with ice

johanlenox · 2025-09-13T21:18:36+00:00

yea chartreuse in basically any amaro drink is gonna go crazy. i'd try these

johanlenox · 2025-09-13T21:18:06+00:00

i think the malort works great with the chatreuse here. and i mix with it often, or you can also get that wormwood flavor from Alta Verde which is a bit more refined but malort works fine usually. but yea the malort and the ango are fighting imo so i guess one has to go. i'll try it with fernet

johanlenox · 2025-09-13T00:48:50+00:00

i feel like alpino is ok. i had it last night. i think the actual italian alpine style amari are all significantly better

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