Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Funky Cold Medina


She was in bartending school, so it was only fair that I helped with cocktail memorization. Rifling through the index cards, I'd find the most obscure drink recipe and quiz her:

Okay, give me a caipirinha, I'd ask.

2 tsp granulated sugar
8 lime wedges
2 1/2 oz Sagatiba Pura (cachaca)

Muddle the sugar into the lime wedges in an old-fashioned glass. Fill the glass with ice cubes. Pour the cachaca into the glass. Stir well.

Alright, how about a Long Island Iced Tea?

1 part vodka
1 part 1800® Tequila
1 part rum
1 part gin
1 part triple sec
1 1/2 parts sweet and sour mix
1 splash Coca-Cola®
1 oz Absolut® vodka
1 oz Southern Comfort® peach liqueur
1 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
top with cranberry juice
ice

Pour over ice and top off with cranberry juice.

Mix ingredients together over ice in a glass. Pour into a shaker and give one brisk shake. Pour back into the glass and make sure there is a touch of fizz at the top. Garnish with lemon.

Hmmm. Good. How about a Funky Cold Medina? I asked, with one arched eyebrow.

There's no such drink! She said, implying I was being underhanded.

Sure there is. Her cue-cards didn't contain the recipe for a Funky Cold Medina, which is how we ended up using the internet to research cocktail recipes. That naturally led to us discovering the Pink Squirrel.

Not the drink.

Prize goes to Miss T-Shirt for guessing correctly.

Pink Squirrel (definition one.) [Link]

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