One cool thing about working at Playboy is that we get sent a lot of samples of liquor. And right about now on a Friday we start sampling them. (As they say, it’s five o’clock somewhere. And somewhere is here.) Over time, we’ve accumulated bizarre personal liquor cabinets, stashes of stuff that is good, bad, weird, specialized—or some combination of the above. We burn through the brown liquors pretty quickly, as they are easily mixed with Coke from the vending machine or enjoyable straight. The whites are a little trickier, as anyone who’s attempted a gin and coke will attest. In what could become a regular feature, we will now attempt to make a cocktail out of the ingredients at hand:
Hendrick’s gin
Drambuie
Leblon cachaca
Hiram Walker Peppermint Schnapps
Tito’s Handmade Vodka
Novi: L’esprit de Paris (for Her)
Leroux Blue Curacao
Pama Pomegranate Liqueur
Tree of Life pomegranate wine
Inert ingredient: Can of Sprite taken from sales luncheon earlier in week.
Hmm. Let’s see…
Two healthy ounces of the Tito’s vodka?
An ounce or perhaps less of the blue stuff?
Top with Sprite?
Verdict: No surprise here. It tastes like orangey Sprite. Vodka undetectable. It’s completely drinkable but we wouldn’t exactly whip up a batch of it for a party.
All it needs is a name, in the way that any three random ingredients combined by desperate teenagers need at least a name. Turns out someone’s already dubbed it: The Ice Bear.
Cheers until next time…
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