Cocktails from Quarantine Part I
I probably don't need to tell you that I'm a bit bored. I can also take a guess that you might be a bit bored too. Physical Distancing has certainly changed a lot about our daily lives.
If you know Jordan and I at all, you know we are usually very busy. We're the kind of people who sit on lots of committees, run multiple experiments at the same time, go to yoga classes, are involved with other extracurricular activities and generally don't have much time to sit down and drink a cocktail. People often say to me: "you always look like you have somewhere to be!" Which is true. haha. So, you can probably guess that we've been kind of bored during this time of physical distancing. Mind you, we've tried to come up with things to keep ourselves busy. One of those things was my decision to take this opportunity to try out different cocktail recipes and have Jordan try them all. This evolved into keeping track of the cocktail experiments in case any of them turned out and we wanted to make them again (absolutely happened). And then we started making cocktail deliveries for friends and leaving them at their doors.
The cocktail list was becoming rather large (we're basically having one each evening) so I decided to split it into several posts. Here you'll find the first 10 successful recipes.
1. Wedding Wine Sangria
1 small bottle (500ish ml) Blueberry wedding wine (bonus points if the wedding was more than three years ago)
3oz Screech
3oz Peach schnapps
Ginger beer to taste
Garnish with citrus fruits and frozen (Newfoundland or New Brunswick) blueberries
2. Hannah Misses Hugs
This tastes kind of like a sweetish berry so . . .
Equal Parts:
raspberry vodka
Peach schnapps
Cranberry juice
Top with a bit of sparkly water
3. No Green Beer: St Paddy’s Day
1oz Peach schnapps
1.5oz Irish whiskey
Top with ginger ale
4. Deep Freeze
Taken from a sign at the Newfoundland liquor store
2oz vodka
1oz blue curaçao
1oz triple sec
1oz lime juice
5. Moscow Mule
2oz vodka
0.5oz lime juice
Serve over ice
Top with ginger beer
Lime to garnish
Serve in copper mug (I don't have any . . .yet)
Winter Moscow Mule
Adapted from Craft Cocktails Blood Orange Sparkling Mule
I didn’t have any blood oranges but I did have clementines . . .
2oz vodka
1oz lime juice
1oz clementine juice
Serve over ice
Top with ginger beer
Garnish with lime and clementine
6. Peach-Mango-no-go
1oz vodka
1oz peach schnapps
2oz mango juice
Top with ginger ale
7. The Dorothy H. Anderson
Adapted from This Podcast will Kill You
Original Recipe:
2oz tequila
0.5oz lime juice
0.5oz ginger ale
1.5oz pomegranate soda
Jordan’s version:
2oz gin
1oz lime juice
1.5oz tart cherry juice
Top with ginger ale
Hannah’s Take:
1.5oz vodka
1oz lime juice
2oz tart cherry juice
Top with ginger ale
8. Peter Rabbit Punch
Adapted from Craft Cocktails
The recipe says it makes eight cocktails. I doubled the recipe and it perfectly filled six standard Masson jars.
1.25 cups pineapple juice
1 cup carrot juice
0.5 cup lemon juice
1 cup gin (I used vodka)
0.75 cup ginger beer (the original recipe also called for ginger bitters so I added some extra ginger beer)
Garnish with citrus and frozen pineapple.
Serve over ice
9. Science is Now! (aka Gray’s Drink)
2oz Chambord
Lots of ice
Top glass with cherry or strawberry bubbly water
10. Sydney’s Sangria
1 small bottle (individual serving size) strawberry-partridgeberry wine
2oz vodka
0.75oz of grenadine
1.5oz triple sec
Extra 1oz of vodka (because that’s all that was left in the bottle)
Garnish with frozen partridgeberries and citrus fruits
Top with strawberry bubbly water
Maybe this post and idea was born out of me being prohibited from moving small amounts of liquid around in the lab . . . 🤷♀️ #labwithdrawl
Happy Cocktail experimenting! Let me know if you try any of these!
Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay home.
H.