Last Straw Drinks Local, Oscars Edition - 1917

Hello, and welcome to Last Straw Drinks...Local, Oscars Edition! All week long we will be bringing you drinks from and inspired by all 9 of the 2020 nominees for Best Picture. We hope you enjoy the ride, we know we enjoyed watching the films and coming up with different recipes for each one.

In the seventh episode of the sub-series, Last Straw takes a look at Best Picture nominee, 1917 starring Dean-Charles Chapman and George MacKay. In total, 1917 was nominated for 10 Academy Awards:

Best Picture (Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren and Callum McDougall)
Best Director (Sam Mendes)
Best Original Score (Thomas Newman)
Best Original Screenplay (Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns)
Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Best Sound Mixing (Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson)
Best Visual Effects (Guillaume Rocheron, Greg Butler and Dominic Tuohy)
Best Production Design (Dennis Gassner and Lee Sandales)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Naomi Donne, Tristan Versluis and Rebecca Cole)
Best Sound Editing (Oliver Tarney and Rachael Tate)

We decided to feature The Sidecar for this episode. It was featured in Harry MacElhone's 1922 book "Harry's ABC's of Mixing Drinks" and we felt it was appropriate as its origins are credited to an American Army captain posted in Paris during WWI who named it after the motorcycle sidecar in which he travelled around in. We found the recipe on The Spruce Eats, and as always, we substituted for local, and especially our own, when and where possible.

Last Straw recipe:
1.5 ounces Last Straw sCorn
https://www.madebyhand.laststrawdistillery.com/product-page/scorn-whisky
1 ounce Cointreau
0.5 ounces fresh lemon juice

Background music:
Gaiety in the Golden Age - Aaron Kenny

Harry's ABC's of Mixing Cocktails | Harry MacElhone
https://www.amazon.ca/Harrys-Mixing-Cocktails-Harry-MacElhone/dp/0285638912

The Sidecar recipe | thespruceeats.com
https://www.thespruceeats.com/classic-sidecar-cocktail-recipe-760601

Last Straw Drinks...Local | Casablanca ft. Gin Twenty-One
https://youtu.be/-zH9jYEP8p8

Last Straw Drinks...Local, Oscars Edition | Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INIPiW3NWYs&list=PLCqo9KcuPTYu-hyOx2NXI3_y5wsXC6ba6

Видео Last Straw Drinks Local, Oscars Edition - 1917 канала Last Straw Distillery