Now when I first saw this post on Pintrest I went "Bring it Bitch!" and was determined to try it. My main restraint was a lack of Blue Curacao, which I found after my 3rd liquor store... yea Washington, you can go fuck yourself... Anyways, I had had a rougher day than usual and NEEDED a drink. This seems to happen quite often in my world... Back to my booze! So seeing as I got home from everything at 3pm I decided it was 5 o'clock somewhere and began grabbing ingredients.
For those of you that are blind the recipe goes as follows:
- 1 oz Gin
- 1 oz Light Rum
- 1 oz Tequila
- 1 oz Vodka
- 1 1/2 oz Blue Curacao
- 2 oz sweet and sour mix (see post below)
- 1 oz Sprite
Mix all the booze and throw the Sprite on top... And then I guess kiss your ass adios... or whatever...Originally I was like "YEA!!! Bitches gonna be drunk all up in here!" (I said this in the comfort of my own mind because I'm not black). But as I poured shot after shot into my glass it began to dawn on me... This is a shit ton of booze. But then I remembered I got called a "poopie face" from a random child leaning out a window of a car (good parenting) earlier in the day, so I decided it was time to try it.
Hello friend... two enemies... one questionable acquaintance... and one possibly new friend!
Mine is a bit more blue, partially because I had to battle my ice container for just a couple cubes. And I do mean battle... blood was almost drawn...
The Taste?
Well if you don't mind being punched in the mouth, then yea, it's great! Mind you I booze it pretty decently, so though it hurt to drink it wasn't terrible. The tequila came through a bit strong though, and even my husband noted it when he finally arrived home... to a pretty tipsy wife.... It's now 3 hours later and I'm still nursing this puppy. It's pretty rough, my husband can't drink it, and I cough every couple of sips or make a face. But I'm feeling pretty damn good. So if you're looking to kiss your ass goodbye, regardless of taste or alcohol poisoning, then yes this is the drink for you.
In line at the grocery store, I see some poor sucker with both Simple Syrup and Sweet & Sour Mix in his cart. I couldn't help but thinking: "that poor idiot". Now for those of you that have been purchasing these 2 items, you need to stop.. right now.
"But why, Pintrialer?" You may ask...
Well Timmy, (yes your name is now Timmy) because it's a total scam. Not only are you wasting you money, but you're putting weird shit in your drinks that will probably give you leukemia. Booze, on the other hand, will only punish your evil, evil liver.
All this being said, I decided it was time for this post, regardless of whether or not it was a pin.
The finished product, clear
Simple Syrup
IngredientsDirections
- Heat in a sauce pan until sugar is completely dissolved in the water
- Let cool
 1 Cup Water + 1 Cup Sugar |  Turn on the heat! But careful that shit is hot... and scars.... |
Sweet & Sour Mix
Ingredients
- 3 Simple Syrup
- 1 parts fresh-squeezed Lemon
- 1 parts fresh-squeezed Lime
Directions
- Combine all ingredients. I don't even know why I put the directions here. It's pretty damn obvious. If you're not smart enough to figure that out, then you probably shouldn't be trusted with alcohol... or a computer.
 Juice those lemon and limes! |  all 3 ingredients |
Now do you see how ridiculously easy that was???? STOP BUYING THAT SHIT!!!
Ok it's game day and I need another drink, mostly because my team is going to lose.... terribly... SO Pintrest! Ok I'm kinda lying.... My sister-in-law sent me this and I figured why the hell not
The Don's Bramble
Ingredients
In a cocktail shaker, muddle the berries, Simple Syrup, lemon juice and salt. Add the pisco; shake. Fine strain into a chilled double rocks glass, add crushed ice and garnish with an orchid or lemon twist
Since this was easy and we'd just picked up Pisco in Peru I was like HELLS YES! For those of you that don't know, Pisco is a Purivian Grape Alcohol, often used for Pisco Sour. Anyways back to the booze...
Given that I had a crap ton of blackberries and my team was giving it up faster than a teen on prom night, I was needing a drink. I pulled over the hubby, showed him the drink and convinced him our hard won Pisco was in need of using.
Since I had no orchids or lemon twists on hand I just went with my awesome glasses.
The Taste?
It knocked my socks off. Which was a bit much for the hubby but after a couple sips I was on board. I should make this clear, I'm not a huge cocktail (hehe cock) person, I'm more of a happy girlie drink that I can down like 5 of kinda person. So yes at times this was a kick in the mouth, like any time you got any blackberry, but not terrible. My super smarty hubby took this and mixed it with seltzer water and made it "amazing!". So keep that in mind friends...
I don't know about you but when I have an insanely dramatic day, and I have a lot of those since I pretty much work in a soap opera, I need a drink. That being said it's also been forever since I made a post so I figured, hey why not try a new pin. Given my current NEED for a drink I wanted something quickly. So I pulled up Pintrest and opened up my "drinks" board and looked at the choices.
After looking through pictures and tracing them back to their original pages, which is like 5 pages apparently these days, I realized drinks have become way too complicated. I mean when did good drinks require like 3 fruits, 3 different boozes, soda, at least 2 specialty liquors, and 2 juices? Like what the hell is some of this shit: powdered white cranberry juice, coconut water, and vanilla beans? Are you kidding me? I've drank Everclear straight for Christ sake just give me a drink. Anyways let's just say I went through a lot of work to find this one for you guys.
The French Kiss
1 oz. Chambord
1 oz. vodka
1 oz. dark crème de cacao
1.5 oz. half and half
Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
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I will tell you right now I did not use half and half, One: I'm a fatty, and Two: I'm kinda lactose intolerant. Or at least that's my excuse. Anyways, I can't tell that much of a different in most cases... ok yea I just tell myself that....
After gathering all the ingredients, which didn't take as long as you think since I had previously searched it for the other crazy ass drink ingredients.
And no the milk was not in the booze cabinet, yea I know you thought it.
Anyways, looking at the booze to ingredients ratio it was clear I was going to be drunk (about fucking time).
So I grabbed the bartender/husband (can't he be both?), put the stuff in front of him, and said "mix these, with these ratios", yea I'm that wife, and sat back and watched my show. I did however pause long enough to see part of the mixing process, which looked like this...
Now seeing this made me go "How did you screw this up? It's like 4 f*cking ingredients???" no I'm just kidding, I'm not that mean, but I was like "Apa?".
At this point it was clear that the above picture lied. I don't care who you are but creme de coco isn't making any drink pink. I mean it they had shot a picture of heavy cream and pink food dye I'd believe it but not this. But hey I don't judge most things by their looks, I mean some of the stuff I make looks pretty ugly. So I made a pact to not judge it till it was in my mouth.
The drink on the right is mine, and yes I even put a kiss on it... but it sunk... I blame the lactose free milk.
But how did it taste?
To me it was pretty darn good as a sipper. My husband said it tasted like straight booze, or straight Chambord. Mind you we both kinda like drinks where you can't taste the booze (or in my case I can't taste vodka) so you down them and 'some how' end up drunk. But hey I'm nearly finished with mine and I feel great! Ok the last drops were like straight vodka (and that's saying something for me) but it's been a long day so YAY!
Anyways, deceptive picture but not to shabby, now I'm going to go 'dance party' in my living room.
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