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I hope you’re dying to know why I I’m not one to judge a drink by its recipe. I’m kind of the opposite – I like to try the modern cocktails with weird-ass ingredients…gin and Drambuie? What are you EVEN DOING? Not to mention kirsch and agave. C’MON.

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Last of the Summer Garden Cocktail⁣ ⁣ Really j

Last of the Summer Garden Cocktail⁣
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Really just a Tom Collins with passion fruit pulp.⁣
2 oz gin⁣
1 oz lemon juice⁣
1 oz simple syrup⁣
the pulp of one passion fruit⁣
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Add the ingredients above to a shaker, shake with ice. Strain into a glass over fresh ice, add sparkling water to fill the glass.⁣
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Now, what I'm really proud of, the plants from my garden.⁣
Bougainvillea⁣
Black Opal Basil⁣
Wormwood⁣
Fennel⁣
Mexican Mint Marigold⁣
Rosemary⁣
and two roses, but you can only see one in the photo.⁣

Sloe Scobeyville Sling⁣ ⁣ apple brandy, sloe g

Sloe Scobeyville Sling⁣
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apple brandy, sloe gin, lemon juice, simple syrup, Peychaud's bitters, club soda⁣
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I found this recipe in Death & Co Modern Classic Cocktails book.⁣
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I was browsing this book and this cocktail stood out to me as the perfect drink to celebrate fall in Texas. Fall flavors? Check! An icy cold drink because it was nearly 100 degrees on the dog walk this afternoon? Check!⁣
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I was also excited to try this because two of my favorite, generally unsung, ingredients are in this one - apple brandy and sloe gin. For the apple brandy, I had a choice...I could have used Calvados, an apple brandy made in France. Or good ol' American Applejack. Applejack is often considered more of a whiskey made of apples. But if you ask the Laird family, the folks who have been making Applejack since 1698, they'll tell you it's an apple brandy. And they're not wrong.⁣
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Whatever you call it, Applejack is uniquely American. George Washington loved it. Abe Lincoln served it up when he was a bartender. And FDR added it to his martinis. Before the US started drinking whiskey and bourbon, applejack was the booze of choice.⁣ (And so easy to make. Just let a pail of apple juice freeze on the back porch and remove the ice. Ferment what is left.)⁣
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I'm not making as many cocktails as I was earlier in the project (more on that below), but one of my favorite things about each cocktail is learning the history of the recipe and ingredients. Applejack is delicious and has a very cool history in this young country.⁣
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I've kind of reached a point in the Drinky-Drink Project where I've pretty much made all of the drinks. Not really, but I've made all of the classics, and I've learned so much. I am a bartender now and a certified mixologist - I'd say I won the last lockdown. 😂 This lockdown I'm still making cocktails, but my other project now is to learn Spanish. I'm Staci Perry on Duolingo if you want more high-fives. Salud!⁣
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Strange Weather gin, Drambuie, kirsch, oj, lemon

Strange Weather
gin, Drambuie, kirsch, oj, lemon juice, agave nectar
I found this recipe on cocktailpartyapp.com.
I'm not one to judge a drink by its recipe. I'm kind of the opposite - I like to try the modern cocktails with weird-ass ingredients...gin and Drambuie? What are you EVEN DOING? Not to mention kirsch and agave. C'MON.
These ingredients look like a kid grabbed a bunch of stuff they could reach and made a drink out of them.
But I've been surprised by weird-ass cocktails before, and here I am again. This one took first-place prize at the 2009 Drambuie Den cocktail competition. For good reason.
Like, how do you even imagine how these things are going to taste together? You can't. You have to trust that there was thought and knowledge put into this drink (there was). First taste, I actually said "bang!" and pulled out finger guns from pretend waist holsters. 🤠 You're hit with the tang of the citrus and the kirsch.
Then it settles on your tongue and you get the Drambuie and agave. Put those finger guns away, this is sweet and spicy. The gin is in there, but kind of lost. It's okay, my taste buds are busy enough. I used The Botanist, a New Western style of gin. An Old London Style of gin (think Tanqueray or Bombay) would have given more gin flavor.
In other news, I switched from PC to Mac. Omg. Lifetime PC user, like since high school? I'm learning new photo editing software. Not super happy with this photo, but I know you'll be nice to me.
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Wasp⁣ 🐝 ⁣ gin, St-Germain Elderflower lique

Wasp⁣ 🐝
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gin, St-Germain Elderflower liqueur, white wine, lime juice⁣
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I found this recipe on kuletos.com.au. ⁣
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Today is one of those days where I Google a cocktail name to see if it exists. Turns out there are a few cocktails called Wasp, but since I don't really like banana liqueur, this was the one I chose.⁣
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Now I hope you're dying to know why I searched for a cocktail named "Wasp"? CUZ I GOT STUNG TODAY. Two little mofos got me while I was watering my plants out front. Just like my mom, a retired cop, always says - nobody ever looks up. I didn't look up. There was a new wasps' nest in the eaves of the house. I didn't touch it, but I walked under it. And the wasps were ready for a fight.⁣
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I don't think I've ever been stung by a wasp before. It feels like fire! Holy shit, it burns. It is now eight hours later and it still burns. I got stung once on my arm, and once on my back. The one on my back was actually BLEEDING, which only tells me that the little effer was out for blood.⁣
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So here is the good news. My neighbor is a firefighter who also does yard work as his side gig. He was here to do my yard when I got stung. He hung out with me to make sure I wasn't going to have a SITUATION, and he took care of the nest. "Took care of" sounds so nice. He didn't care for it. He obliterated it. Let's hear it for cute firefighter neighbors with side gigs!⁣
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And the cocktail might make it all worthwhile! (No, I take that back.) But I've made so few cocktails with wine, and this is really nice! The sweetness of the St-G is balanced with the wine and the lime juice. It turns out to be the balance of a standard sour cocktail, with the complexity of the wine thrown in. Yes! Maybe I deserve a second today?⁣
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Chas bourbon, Benedictine, amaretto, Cointreau, G

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bourbon, Benedictine, amaretto, Cointreau, Grand Marnier
I found this recipe on https://cocktailsdistilled.com.
Look at that ingredient list. This cocktail is ALL THE FANCY THINGS. Aside from the bourbon...it could have called for cognac.
Maybe I'm not giving my country enough credit in the fanciness department. Because bourbon? Feels kind of ordinary. But cognac - that's some fancy French shit, right?
That was me expressing my FEELINGS, because I can describe to you the exact processes for making bourbon and making cognac. And because bourbon is our national spirit here in the US (thank you, Nixon), we have all kinds of regulations around it. So it is indeed fancy. It just doesn't feel like it.
But I love it. Bourbon kicks some Frenchie ass.
Oh - and this cocktail has gone straight to my head, if you didn't notice.
On to the real news about this cocktail. It is lovely in a Rusty Nail/Godfather sort of way. Because of that, I took this photo then dumped the drink into a rocks glass with one big cube. Because this should be sipped, and cold. And with no mixer it is super boozy...I welcome the little bit of water from the enormous ice cube.
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