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MY! KIND! OF! CONTENT!
DRINK SPACE NINE, DRINKS ALL THE TIME
I mentioned this and then never followed up. I will now!
Since I’ve been in love with bitter, scarlet-hued Campari for several years, I knew I’d surely adore Aperol too once I tried it, given that it’s basically…a more approachable Campari. Milder, a little sweeter, more orange and rhubarb. It’s delicious.
I had this recipe for a drink called the Pamplemousse saved, but I did not have dry white wine on hand. I did have Lillet.
Ce n’est pas le Pamplemousse
2 oz fresh grapefruit juice
1 oz Lillet
1 oz AperolStir with ice, then strain into a cold glass. Magnifique.
At this point I’d already used up most of the juice my grapefruit had, but I did have a bottle of Fever Tree club soda in the fridge, which is very nice. And ohh boy, I can see myself drinking this one all the dang time.
The New Standard
2 oz Aperol
1 oz fresh grapefruit juice
1-2 oz sodaMix grapefruit juice and Aperol and pour over ice, then top with soda to taste. Repeat soon.
Now something a bit harder. The reason why I had Lillet was to make this gentler Negroni, but then when I got home I remembered that my current bottle of gin, while quite good, also has a definite kick of peppery juniper. The recipe calls for Hendricks, which is actually my gin of choice, as I love the lightness and rose. But yeah I don’t have any right now, so made it with this small label gin from a distillery up in Washington instead, and decided to just embrace the pine amongst all the fresh sunny notes — like summertime in the Pacific Northwest.
Cascadia Summer Negroni
1 oz juniper-y gin
1 oz Aperol
1 oz LilletStir all together and pour over ice. Add a twist of orange or grapefruit peel if living your best life.
And those are the things I’ve been doing with Aperol. It is Recommended.
I know I OUGHTN’T drink rosé out of a tumbler but the rosy lights through these facets are just so pretty I do not care
‘Bottoms Up’ This rare Prohibition Era cocktail recipe book, die-cut in the shape of a cocktail shaker, was published in the U.S. in 1928, at the height of the Prohibition Era, flaunting the ban on alcohol with cocktail recipes by famous silent film stars, vaudeville performers and musicians, including W. C. Fields, Fanny Brice, Florenz Ziegfield, Ted Lewis and George Gershwin.
I like lightweight New Years Resolutions, of the small personal habit sort.
In 2017 I want to more frequently
- make drinks
- listen to my music, and make more music mine
- paint my nails
- and once again: take selfies, so that maybe next time I idly see if I could do that Six Selfies meme, I don’t come the conclusion that one of them would have to be of just my hand
anyway those nails are gonna look great this year
If you were on Drunk History, what would you drink & what topic would you discuss?
6 bottles of wine and zora neale hurston
Mojitos and the 1763 lacrosse game-turned-Indian-takeover of Fort Michilimackinac
Absinthe and Verlaine shooting Rimbaud.
gin & tonic and the lost generation or historical women writers OR the fucking Romantics and their shenanigans
Tequila and the mayans
Spicy margaritas and the Reformation and Counter-Reformation bitchy argumemts between Luther and the Catholic Church
Buttershots and/or Kahlua and Richard III.
Vodka and the space race.
Rum and black, brown and Asian women in music.
mojitos and the Dust Bowl
Whiskey Sours and the comics code.
Beer and Christopher Marlowe
French 75s and Oscar Wilde
Chartreuse and Chartreuse
