Upcoming TDN – Beat the Heat

For some folks on the west coast, the heat has been sweltering. Not unlike a deep-fried bowl of crisp pig ears. No, wait – wrong kind of hot. The sun has been beating down on our whining PNW brethren like Thor’s Wondrich’s Hammer on a block of ice. And barring A/C, what better way to cool off than with an ice-crusted tipple? Refreshing potions will be the theme for this week’s TDN ( What’s Thursday Drink Night? ). And only one rule this time: create a refreshing cocktail you’d crave while gazing into the peeled, flaming cantaloupe in the sky.

We’ll be giving away two jars of Colonel Tiki’s Cinnamon Syrup this week. One to the the best original cocktail and one to the newcomer who participates with the most intensity.

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Equal Proportions Wrap-Up

This turned out to be one of the most fun themes in a while, and the cocktails were great! The winning libation is the first victor to include Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka, which I happen to love.

The Winning Cocktail

Ginger Belle

• 3/4oz Firefly Sweet Tea vodka
• 3/4oz Domaine de Canton
• 3/4oz lemon juice
• 3/4oz simple syrup

Shake like you’re riding on a B-17, double strain, drink.

Marshall from Scofflaw’s Den

Featured Cocktails

For the whole list of tippling eccentricities, observe Twitter. But here are the few that we admitted into the Landsraad of mixological genius:

The Anaheim Foot Vibrator

(pictured at the top)

• 1oz Pimm’s #1
• 1oz Partida Blanco
• 1oz Fever Tree tonic water

Stir with vigor, serve with ice.

Bonzogal

Morgenthaler Gets Paid

• 1oz cachaça (used Boca Loca)
• 1oz Chartreuse photoshop cs6 extended download
• 1oz bianco vermouth
• 1oz lime Juice
• 2 dashes orange bitters

Shake with JMo elan, strain, garnish with lime wheel float

Gabe from cocktailnerd

Corpse Reviver 1A

• 1oz rye whiskey
• 1oz applejack
• 1oz sweet vermouth

Stir while wearing a jaunty hat, strain and sip.

Rocky

Bitter Smoke

• 1oz mezcal
• 1oz Campari
• 1oz Fever Tree tonic water

Build with great concentration over ice.

Tiare from A Mountain of Crushed Ice

Animalito

• 3/4oz añejo tequila
• 3/4oz bonded apple brandy (substitute applejack)
• 3/4oz yellow Chartreuse
• 3/4oz lime juice
• 2 dashes grapefruit bitters
• 2 dashes Angostura orange bitters
• 3/4oz grapefruit soda
• grapefruit twist, for garnish

Build first 4 ingredients in an Old Fashioned glass with bitters, add ice and stir 20 secs, add soda and stir again briefly. Garnish with grapefruit twist.

Chuck Taggart from Looka!

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Tomoka

The Last Drop