Episode 85 - A Cure For the Summertime Blues - Blue Cocktails!

This Episode's Cast of Characters

They say their ain't no cure for the summertime blues, but the Gentlemen of Elegant Leisure have found one!  Blue cocktails!  If that doesn't cure what ails you, there is also another exciting "Tale of Eddy" in this week's episode!  Let's get mixing!

First up is a cocktail called the Bluegrass.  The Gents hope you like tart drinks because this one is loaded with citrus.  It should have been called the Farewell Scurvy.

Bluegrass

1 ounce bourbon
1 ounce lemon juice
3/4 ounce lime juice
1/2 ounce blue curaçao
1/2 ounce Southern Comfort

lemon peel and maraschino cherry for garnish

Shake the ingredients together with ice in a cocktail shaker and strain into a highball glass with fresh ice.  Add the lemon peel and maraschino cherry to the glass.

Wooeeeeee!   That's tart!   The drink is almost 1/2 citrus juice!  Too much?  Maybe.  Make it and try it and let the Gents know.  As it is it would be the perfect drink for a Bluegrass Festival where you're expected to yell "Wooeeeee!" a lot.

Up next is a drink that Gentleman Fred found on the world wide web.  Have you heard of this thing?  It's crazy.  Be careful what you type into it though.  It'll turn up the most horrendous things.  Anyway, Fred found a delightful drink called Dark Magic.  You know what's really magical about it?  The recipe is written in milliliters!

Dark Magic

40 ml gin
20 ml Blue Curaçao
20 ml Raspberry Syrup
100 ml Pineapple Juice
1 egg white

Shake all the ingredients together vigorously with ice for 20-30 seconds and strain into a tumbler with fresh ice.  Garnish with 3 fresh raspberries.  Serve with a straw.

First of all, this drink was designed to be sipped from a container that you can't see through.  The extra long shaking makes a wonderful foam that you can't see though.  The drink creator served it in a dark metal can with a black titanium straw.  The whole idea was that out of this mysterious darkness came this light fluffy raspberry delight.  It still works in a regular glass but if you couldn't see the contents it would be quite a surpise!

Gentleman Dave thought that the drink was a little too sweet and so Gent Jason mixed the two drinks together and that turned out to be really good too.  One of those "greater than the sum of it's parts" situations.

Try them both and mix them together and leave a comment.