…Huh. This one I found while randomly flipping open the Death & Co book. Since the Last Word is probably my current favorite cocktail I knew immediately I wanted to try it. Unfortunately I think using an Islay overpowers just about everything else. Maybe if I had more of a taste for Islays my opinion would be different.
With that much passion fruit syrup, I knew this would be a very sweet drink. It wasn’t quite as diabetes inducing as I thought, though, and I think the club soda is the reason for that.
I feel like at least 90% of gin drinks use lime and/or curaçao. No complaints here.
Occasionally I like to try making something with a liquor I haven’t used in a while. This time I stuck my head into the cabinet and saw the bottle of Pisco.
This cocktail reminds me a lot of a Last Word, but the Pisco and tequila give it a slightly smoky flavor. Very easy drinking.
Today I hosted a tea party, and several people ended up staying later for drinks. A girlfriend of mine is a big fan of vodka, so I found this recipe for her. She liked it so much she requested a second one later! I had a sip to test it, it was not as sweet as you would expect. The Aperol gives it a bit more of a grown-up taste than a typical vodka drink.
Tomorrow at work we’re doing a salsa/guacamole/margarita “contest”. (Basically, we’re all going to win, because we get to have salsa/guacamole/margaritas.) I volunteered to make margaritas (obviously), so I wanted to make a test drink tonight. I already took the bottle of Cointreau in to work today, since I commute by transit and bike and carry a backpack and didn’t want too many bottles in my bag at once. So I made this one with curaçao instead. I really liked this a lot! I even enjoyed the salt rim (I never use salt rims). I hope the Cointreau tomorrow makes them even better.
Today William and I went to the grand opening of Isla, a new rum and tiki bar by the Péché team. I’ve been waiting for this bar to open for several months and was very excited! I was pretty much immediately in love with the place. Among the cocktails we tried was this one. It’s a great rum drink if you usually drink your rum on the rocks. The Falernum gives it some interesting sweetness and the little bit of lime gives it a fresh bite. I think this will likely be in heavy rotation at home.
William’s been bugging me to make a Last Word for a while, since he thought I would like it. Problem is that I didn’t have any chartreuse anymore. Many years ago I had a bottle that lived in my cupboard and never got any use, until I finally gave it away. I grabbed a bottle on the last liquor store run. Turns out that it works super well in cocktails if you make anything that’s more than two ingredients.
Any cocktail with crème de banana used to get the side-eye from me, but I think I’m starting to come around. This is not obnoxiously banana flavored. It’s fairly smooth, and smells more like banana than it tastes.
