DROPS OF BRANDY
[slip-jig, hornpipes, or whatever.  Step-hop encouraged.  CDM3, p39}

Longways for four or five couples.  Whole set dnce.

Single reel Figure: (single strip): 1s arm right 1 1/2, woman arms left
with each man in the line, right with her partner, left with the next man,
etc, as the partner goes down the middle.  At the bottom they change roles,
he swinging each woman with the left, partner with the right, back upt to the 
the top.

Double Strip: Both actives swing down the lines simultaneously to the bottom.
While doing this, the next couple begins.  (sort of ad-lib).



PETE COE writes:

Drops Of Brandy, the true northern version, starts with hornpipes, all
step hopping & doing single strips & a double strip, for quite some
time. Then the band lurches into slip jigs & all couples double strip
only 'til band or dancers or both collapse. Been doing that for years,
thought everybody knew that. The trick for the band is changing from
hornpipes into slip jigs.
A good way is for the band to miss out the last note of the last B part
of the preceding hornpipe. The caller needs to include this info in the
walkthro' & alert the dancers as this change is coming up. As a caller
I'm frustrated by the fact that dancers frequently ask for the dance but
bands don't have a decent Drops Of Brandy Set.
You need a minimum of 2 hornpipes played through at least twice each &
probably 3 slip jigs played through at least 4 times each. We had a
great set in Red Shift.
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