Day 18: Life gave me lemons
I was pretty sure I wouldn’t manage a thing today, having spent the whole day helping my brother move out of his apartment and into a storage facility. I’m wiped. However, when I got home, I realized that I had some ingredients I wanted to play with, so I made yet another newish cocktail. This one started life as a Sidecar, then I added yellow Chartreuse for a little herbal background (which turned it into a Knight Cocktail), and then replaced the triple sec with St. Germain, a citrusy/sweet elderflower liqueur which is really astonishingly amazingly totally unbelievably good. Or something. The end result was:
The Knight Templar
1.5oz brandy
1oz fresh lemon juice
.5oz yellow Chartreuse
.75oz St. GermainMix in a mixing glass, shake over ice, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon wheel.
This is good stuff. Hell, anything starting as a Sidecar is going to be good stuff, but the St. Germain and Chartreuse really do succeed in their respective goals.
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- Day 20: Guacamole and Chips - February 20th, 2008