The Sidecar

I have been putting off this drink for some time, because I really didn't know how brandy would mix with triple sec and sours. Legend has it that the drink was named after the conveyance of choice of it's inventor.

The Sidecar
Brandy
Triple Sec
Sours

Wow, this drink is amazing. If you ever wanted to take Hi-C orange and turn it into booze, you would end up with the Sidecar. Very refreshing, no alcohol taste whatsoever, and super easy to make.

The Tigne Rose

This drink may be the precursor to the Long Island Iced Tea, or it may have been just created by someone only had one shot left of everything in his cabinet and put them all together.

The Tigne Rose
1 tot Whiskey
1 tot Rum
1 tot Vodka
1 tot Gin
1 tot Brandy

I don't know why anyone would want to drink this if not for experimental purposes. This drink has no taste but all aftertaste, but not good aftertaste like the Rusty Nail. This is just awful.

The Brandy Alexander

From my dad's old standby drink to my mom's. Amis claims that this drink isn't so much a drink for before meals, but a drink for a meal. This is probably due to the fact that you make it with heavy cream.

The Brandy Alexander
1 part Brandy
1 part Crème de Cocoa
1 Part heavy cream
sprinkle of nutmeg for garnish

The only bad thing about this drink is that I am currently on a diet, and anything that has heavy cream in it can't be good for that. That aside the drink is very tasty, and it's easy to see why Evelyn Waugh made it the drink of choice for one of the characters in Brideshead Revisted. You really can't drink a lot of these, due to their sheer weight alone, but they are good, but I'm pretty sure anything with crème de cocoa and heavy cream in it is bound to be good.

The Stinger

So Friday's is apparently more legitimate of a bar than Buffalo Wild Wings, and as such I was able to partake in a Stinger tonight.

The Stinger
Mostly Brandy
Some White Crème de Menthe

James Bond once ordered this drink, and it boggles my mind as to why he would want a primer drink. This drink seems to be another in the list of drinks that ease you into drinking something straight. The Crème de Menthe really does nothing for the brandy, except give it a burny aftertaste. So Obviously someone invented this drink either to get into drinking straight brandy, or because they had an old bottle of Crème de Menthe lying around and they wanted to get rid of it.

This drink sort of tastes like weak Drambuie--not as sweet and less of an aftertaste. Definitely something I won't have again