Four Ways to Drink Corono

Been experimenting/reasearching interesting ways to consume Corona, and have been insanely amazed by how many interesting variations there are.

Here's the top four i've discovered.





The Traditionalist:

12 oz Bottle of Corona
Lime or Lemond Wedge  
Salt

Take a traditional chilled bottle of Corona, and add fresh lime juice. The best way to achieve your desired result is to insert a lime wedge into the neck of the Corona bottle, place your thumb over the top, and flip the bottle upside down (very carefully) so the lime wedge floats to the bottom, which allows the lime to give the most flavor. Lemons also have a similar affect.

Note: try salting the lime or lemon before placing it in the beer to add an even more intense flavor.



Corona Sour

12 oz Bottle of Corona Lager
3 0z Sweet and Sour Mix
1 lime wege

Take a chilled bottle of corona, and fill a chilled pilsner glass 1/3 of the way with Sweet and Sour Mix (Margarita mix works as well). Fill the remainder with chilled Corona.

Serve Pilsner glass with a salted rim, and garnish with a lime wedge.






Beergarita

1 oz Gold Tequila
1 oz Triple Sec
1 oz Lime Juice
12 oz Bottle of Corona Lager



Mix all ingredients (except for the beer) in a blender with ice. Pour into a large pilsner glass (or pint glass), then add chilled Corona on top. Salt the rim of the glass and garnish with a lime wedge.







Michelada

12 oz Mexican Lager (dark is better)
1/4 cup of freshly squeezed lime juice
1-2 dashes of hot sace (such as cholula, tapatio, or tabasco)
1 Dash of soy sauce
1 Dash of worchestshire sauce


In a Pilsner Glass or Pint Glass: Salt the rim of the glass, and fill halfway with ice. Add lime juice, and other ingredients (sans the beer) into the glass while mixing with a bar spoon. Lastly top off the mixture with beer. Garnish with a wedge of lime and serve immedietly.

All those wonderful things that make beer into a COCKTAIL!!!!!

Essenital Bourbon Cocktails: Manhattan

The Manhattan

3/4 oz. Sweet Vermout

2 1/2 oz Bourbon Whiskey

1 Dash Angostura Bitters

1 Marashino Cherry

Combine the vermouth, bourbon whiskey, and bitters with 2 - 3 ice cubes in a mixing glass. Stir gently, don't bruise the spirits and cloud the drink. Place the cherry in a chilled cocktail glass and strain the whiskey mixture over the cherry. Rub the cut edge of the orange peel over the rim of the glass and twist it over the drink to release the oils but don't drop it in. 

Lavender Mimosa's and a Fathers Day Suprise

Per usual, mid June rolled around this year and I still had no idea what to do for Fathers Day. Not that this is a new issue....every year, despite a good two decades of practice, I spend two or three days in a panic over what to get my father. I hate being repetitive. OR obvious, hence all the panicking.

This year though, an interesting idea sparked in my mind, brought on by an old memory and a fairly common garden plant.

Lavender. Or as I chose for my fathers day gift, lavender simple syrup. My fathers always had a love of Mimosas. And before you roll your eyes too much at the idea of a grown man drinking sparkling wine and orange juice out of a champagne flute, keep in mind that champagne is a classic drink and my father, despite some of his shortcomings, has always been a classy man. Over the years, as we would head out on weekends to get lunch or dinner together, he was always on the quest for the pefect mimosa. And about six years back, he found it at a local eatery known as Caseys Caffe. The caffe itself I have very little to say about, but the mimosas  are another story.

Casey's caffe is one of the only places that i've seen do Lavender mimosas. Lavender you say? As in the plant, the garden plant? The one people use in perfume, and bathsalts, and in sachets under pillows and in your underwear drawer? Yep. That would be the one. Despite what a lot of people think, lavender is not simply a fantastic fragrance. It also offers a very unique taste to many food dishes. Take for example, lavender tiramisu.....a unique twist on a classic dessert by far. Lavender often mixes well with chocolate but is also known to mix well  with lemon, honey, and vanilla flavors as well. In this case, the lavender mimosas are an interesting balance of sweet, bubbly and a spicy-herbal taste that really jazzes things up. The champagne offers a crisp and fruity flavor which is enhanced by the somewhat sweet taste of the lavender.

For father's day, I decided to replicate my Dad's favorite drink by ordering Lavender syrup from a company called Monin Syrups. I had the whole thing planned out to a tee. Dinner out, followed by Mimosas while we sat and smoked cigars together. Yes, a woman who smokes cigars.....hell will freeze over and penguins will learn to fly shortly after I complete this blog post. But anyway, back to what I was saying.....My game plan was simple, a nice Dinner withDrinks afterwards. Not too complicated. Lots of room for improvisation. But seriously, imagine my suprise when Amazon sent me an email letting me know it would take an additional week for my syrup to arrive. However 'if I wanted to upgrade to super saver shipping for an additional $93' I could get my syrup on time. Seriously? $93 freakin bucks? I dont think so. Amazon can dam well suck it.

Obviously with that set back, I didnt have too many options for coming up with a new Fathers day suprise last minute. So instead I went with the simple approach: Dinner as planned, with drinks in the resturaunt bar instead. And a cute little card that promised lavender mimosas in the near future. All in all the evening was great, with wonderful food, some quality company, and great drinks. Dad was happy. And I was perfectly content with the alternative.

To cut myself off before I continue with my long winded dialogue about Father's Day Traditions, and Amazons crappy shipping policy, I'm going to go ahead with the long awaited Lavender Mimosa Recipe.

The Simplistic Version

1oz. Lavender Syrup
3/4 of a glass of champagne or Prosecco

Pour lavender syrup into the bottom of a champagne flute. Fill the remainder of the glass with champagne or sparkling wine of choice. Garnish with a sprig of fresh lavender.



The Red Carpet Version



Ingredients:

• 1 Bottle of Sparking extra dry wine, chilled½ Cup Ultimat Vodka
• ¾ cup of green grapes, halved
• 11/2 cups white grape juice, chilled
• 2 tablespoons elderflower cordial
• 2 tablespoons of fresh lavender sprigs for garnish

*Serves 8 people

Borrowed From: http://heidiklum.aol.com/category/lifestyle/red-carpet-cocktails/

Apple Crisp

Apple Crisp

4 oz applejack

4 oz lemon juice

1 oz Cointreau

crab apple for garnish

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the ingredients and shake vigorously. Pour into a tall glass with ice and garnish with a speared half crab apple.

Snow Cosmo

Snow Cosmo

3 oz Smirnoff Citrus Twist vodka

2 oz Cointreau or Patron Citronge   

1 oz  white cranberry juice

squeeze of lime

cranberries for garnish

Add all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake. Then strain into a stemmed glass and garnish with skewered cranberries.

The Fresh Sunrise

The Fresh Sunrise

3 lemon wedges

1 tsp sugar

4 oz Alize Bleu

sparkling wine 

Put lemon wedges in a shaker with sugar and muddle. Pour in Alize Bleu, top with ice, and shake vigorously. Then strain into a champagne flute and top with sparkling wine.

         Stolen From:

http://drinksfordrinkers.tumblr.com/post/9908716024/the-fresh-sunrise-3-lemon-wedges-1-tsp-sugar-4

Strawberry Vice

    Strawberry Vice

1 1/2 oz Remy Martin VSOP

1/2 oz vanilla syrup

2 strawberries, halved

Piper Heidsieck champagne

strawberry to garnish

Muddle ingredients and shake over ice.

Strain into champagne flute and top with champagne. Garnish with a strawberry.

*Stolen from
http://drinksfordrinkers.tumblr.com/post/9946334181/strawberry-vice-1-1-2-oz-remy-martin-vsop-1-2-oz 

Rangpur Strawberry Crush

Rangpur Strawberry Crush

4 strawberries, sliced

1 1/2 oz Tanqueray Rangpur

1 1/2 oz Sprite

Prepare strawberries in a highball glass. Add crushed ice and Tanqueray Rangpur. Top with Sprite.

Stolen from:

http://drinksfordrinkers.tumblr.com/post/9909232215/rangpur-strawberry-crush-4-strawberries-sliced 

Essential Bourbon Cocktails: The Derby

The Derby 

• 1 1/2 ounces Bulleit Bourbon
• 1 ounce Bénédictine D.O.M.
• 2 dashes angostura bitters

Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice. Add bourbon, Bénédictine D.O.M., and bitters and shake vigorously until well chilled, about 20 seconds.

Strain into a chilled cocktail or coupe glass.

Essential Bourbon Cocktails: Boulevardier

The Boulevardier

1 1/2 oz. bourbon
1 oz. Campari

1 oz. sweet vermouth

Ice cubes

Garnish: orange slice, lemon twist or cherry.

Stir long and well with ice in a mixing glass and strain into a cocktail glass.

Essential Bourbon Cocktails: Mint Julep

Mint Julep    

4 fresh mint sprigs
2 1/2 oz bourbon whiskey
1 tsp powdered sugar
2 tsp water

Muddle mint leaves, powdered sugar, and water in a collins glass. Fill the glass with shaved or crushed ice and add bourbon. Top with more ice and garnish with a mint sprig. Serve with a straw.

Essential Bourbon Cocktails: Whiskey Sour

Whiskey Sour

2 oz blended whiskey
 juice of 1/2 lemons
 1/2 tsp powdered sugar
 1 cherry
 1/2 slice lemon

 Shake blended whiskey, juice of lemon, and powdered sugar with ice and strain into a whiskey sour glass. Decorate with the half-slice of lemon, top with the cherry, and serve.

Essential Burbon Cocktails: Old Fashioned

 Old fashioned

2 oz bourbon whiskey
2 dashes Angostura® bitters
1 splash water
1 tsp sugar
1 maraschino cherry
1 orange wedge

 Mix sugar, water and angostura bitters in an old-fashioned glass. Drop in a cherry and an orange wedge. Muddle into a paste using a muddler or the back end of a spoon. Pour in bourbon, fill with ice cubes, and stir.