Americano highball

Weirdly enough, Campari was one of the scary ingredients that I could use.
The reason I bought it was because of the Campari Orange, which sounds like a sweet concoction.
However, Campari, has a strong bitter taste, almost to be thought as the bitters.

While Campari orange didn't turn out to be as I expected, this one worked out pretty well.

Did my life become too bitter to accept the bitterness of Campari, or is it just the magical chemistry of Seltzer water and Vermouth?

2 oz Sweet Vermouth
1 oz Campari
Seltzer Water to fill up the cup (Club soda might do the work)

Comforting Tiger

I guess the name shouts out pretty well.

Strong enough to comfort the tiger, but has the flavor in it. Quite a fruity fragrance follows, too.
Not a drink for the people who thinks the cocktail is some juice containing alcohol.
Alcohol is boasting its existence very gravely. Well, how it can't. All the ingredients except
the ice has at least twice the alcohol content than the beer.

So, the recipe,

2 oz Brandy
1/2 oz Southern Comfort
1 tsp Sweet vermouth
Ice (preferably crushed)
-> Stir

Brandy Hot Toddy

Brandy or Rum 45 ml
Lemon Juice 15 ml
Maple Syrup 15 ml (if sugar 2 tsp, and I only had half of Maple syrup)

Can't help saying I had a bad day today. It was the due date of the rare homework of this semester's class. The fact that distressed me most is not that I wasn't good enough in coding to do a very good job on it, but that even in the most desperate moments I just couldn't concentrate less than I did today. That's a major disappointment.

Anyways, after the long abstinent with the alcohol (2 weeks!!), and having the meeting canceled, I decided to reward myself with a cup of warm cocktail. I was never a big fan of warm alcohol, but these days, my body calls for it. I couldn't make the hot chocolate because of the lack of the ingredients, so here it is, a lot more to my taste, and all ingredients on hand cocktail.

This one has very predictable taste, the one that I have been drinking for so long;; Just added brandy to it. However, I haven't tried it yet, but cheapest rum will do the same trick.

After 40 hours of battle with the distraction and digress of myself, I need a good rest.

Hot chocolate with alcohol

Have never made it, and don't know if I'll take this much effort in drinking such, but would like to try it sometime.

Buy bittersweet (fine) chocolate from Valrhona, Guittard, Scharffer Berger, Callebaut
Chop it, and let it melt in the how milk.
Add rum, whiskey in the end.

Cuff and Buttons

Cute name, huh.

4 dashes Sweet Vermouth
2 oz Southern Comfort
Juice of 1/2 Lime

First impression of the harmony of apricot(? from southern comfort) and grape wasn't pleasant for me, but eventually they worked out quite well as they mingled in.
Probably I should have shaked it as I was told to, but I still don't have my shaker with me ;_;

Probably would make it again if I have leftover lime juice on hand, but definitely won't take pains of juicing it from fresh lime to make it.

Boston Side Car

Boston has its own side car.

3/4 oz Brandy
3/4 oz Triple Sec
3/4 oz White Rum
Juice of 1/2 Lime

Still playing around with the lime, but I think I discovered that drinking/eating lime makes my throat soar. It's a pity that I like the lime ;_;

Well, this variation didn't live up to its original, in my opinion.

Blue Margarita

Another cocktail using the lime juice.
This turned out to be fine, but not that great.

1.5oz Tequila
1 oz Blue Curacao
1 oz Lime juice

Moscow Mule

Upon visiting the grocery, it occurred to me that it's a high season for the citrus.
Bought three of them, and juiced them all. This is the rare occasion where I actually use the real juice with the exception of Mojito.

As searching for the perfect recipe using this fresh and fragrant lime juice, I realized, simple recipes should do the best with this nice juice.

Oldies but Goodies. The well-known birth story of this cocktail includes the marketing of Smirnoff vodka for US. Well, it's pretty damn good to be the ad hoc recipe.

Build over ice
2 shots of vodka
1 shot of lime juice
3 dashes of Angostura Bitters

Top it with club soda.

Goooood :)

Mimosa

This is probably one of the most well-known cocktails, and 'the' most well-known for champagne-based cocktail.

I guess this is the sunday brunch kind of cocktail.

Half OJ
Half Champagne.

Due to its reputation for brunch drink, some said, champagne is the alcohol, than can be consumed at any time of the day, any time of the week, any time of the year. Well, that's perfectly understandable, as drinking beer on early sunday morning sounds alcoholic, but drinking mimosa at the time doesn't.

However, for me, champagne is something that isn't easily accessible. It's probably because I don't have many to celebrate in my life. So, here it is. The most common, but not to be met in a short time cocktail. (It wasn't that good, anyways. Really.)

Ritz Fizz

Once I opened the champagne, I couldn't resist the urge of making the cocktails with champagne.
This is one I couldn't imagine the result beforehand, but it turned out quite well.
Though the recipe has all the merit;; of my hated recipe - being terribly inaccurate - I followed it through, and voila, pretty good.

Quite complicated flavor amalgamated in one drink.
Pleasure finding.

dash(es) Amaretto
dash(es) Blue Curacao
Champagne
dash(es) Lemon Juice

Champagne Blitz

4 oz Champagne
3/4 oz White creme de menthe

Well, what else to say, it tastes like the mint added champagne.
No better, no worse.