Substitute Teacher Bonus Cocktail Hour!

Looks like the content mines are a little empty, so here’s a turd I polished something I had in drafts that I finished up really quickly. 

Good morning, boys and girls. Here at DFO, we don’t recommend/encourage morning drinking, but we are happy to share creative ideas for those who wish to partake in it given the way the whole world sucks donkey balls right now.

Now, I know this is Sharky’s thing, and I am not looking to usurp him. But content is content and neither of us is Steve Allen so away we go.

A little while back, Lady BFC was out of town, and I decided to make the Lumiére, inspired by the very creative connoisseurs at the cocktails subreddit:

Lumière
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And who doesn’t need light in these dark times. Plus we can pretend it’s an homage to Macron standing up for Ukraine in the Oval Office this week.

Anyway, back to booze. I may not be as good of a photographer as yeahright or the folks on r/cocktails, but I do my best and then make up for it in the mixology execution.

For my Lumiére I used Castle and Key gin, one of the prettiest bottles in my collection and the only one from Kentucky. Highly recommend y’all visit if you’re ever out on the Bourbon Trail (like most distilleries they started with a clear spirit while they aged their whiskey, and it is all tasty in addition to being in a bucolic setting). And I don’t have St. Germain because I don’t like elderflower enough to pay for the food stuff. Sue me.

Here’s the full complement of ingredients before going into the mixing glass:

And here’s the finished product:

Tasting notes: really strong on the first sip. Mellowed out a little so not sure what that’s about but maybe I should have used a lighter gin. The citrus is balanced, the elderflower isn’t overpowering, in fact I kind of wish I had a little more. Maybe my lime was a little bitter? Either way, this is delicious and I will make it again to tinker, but not likely a mainstay in my rotation.

Alright, get out there and put something positive into the world, whether that’s a drink, a dick joke, or a drug addled insight. Take it sleazy!