Cocktail Recipe - Cola Stingray

When I was a kid, the coolest car I ever wanted was a purple Corvette Stingray.  This is what I thought the the Batmobile of the day should look like.

On New Year's Day, I was looking for a suitable cocktail to watch football games whilst staying awake after not getting enough sleep. That meant a recipe involving Coca Cola (sorry, Pepsi fans, only Coke goes with my booze).  Here is what I came up with:

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Crown Royal (or suitable Whiskey)
• 1 oz. Galliano
• 4 oz. Coca Cola

Mix ingredients over ice, garnish with lime.  

The name comes from an older recipe for a Golden Stingray which is simply Bourbon and Galliano mixed over ice. 

Cocktail Recipe - The Rusty Venture

Our family is a big fan of the Venture Bros TV series on Cartoon Network, described on IMDB as:

The warped misadventures of a former boy genius turned washed-up, middle-aged mad scientist Dr. Rusty Venture; his moronic teenage sons; their maniac bodyguard; and the Doctor's arch-nemeses, incompetent super villain The Monarch and his masculine paramour, Dr. Girlfriend.

I wanted to create a cocktail to honor his zany madcap adventure and came up with the Rusty Venture Cocktail.  It takes off a bit from the Rusty Nail, and bespeaks the adventure of the series.

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Drambuie
• 1 oz Crown Royal Canadian Whiskey
• 1 tsp Lime Juice
• 3 oz Ginger Beer (preferably Cock N Bull or Bundaberg)

Mix ingredients over ice and garnish with lime wedge.

Enjoy.

Making an Old Fashioned With Tullamore Dew

I normally make an Old Fashioned with bourbon, usually Jim Beam black label 8-year aged.  I tried it tonight with Tullamore Dew and I liked the result.  Here is the recipe.

Place in tumbler, or more specifically, an old fashioned glass:

1 rounded teaspoon granulated sugar
2 maraschino cherries
1 section mandarin orange, peel removed (2 if small)
1 teaspoon club soda (water will do in a pinch)
Muddle the mixture well (it is best to have a muddler, but the back end of an ice cream scoop can also work)

Add 3-4 ice cubes

Pour 2 oz. of Bourbon or Whiskey
Add 3 dashes of Angastura Bitters

Stir the mixture

Most recipes call for garnishing with an orange slice.  I don't because I am too impatient to get the first sip.

Pictured at left is a stainless steel muddler.