God Bless America
The first drink I ever invented was inspired after a cookout at the home of my good friend Emily. Her sister brought to my attention an amazingly unique piece of produce known as starfruit. If you’ve never seen one, it’s a tropical fruit that comes from the Carambola tree native to East Asia. It tastes similar to a grape and forms a five (sometimes six) pointed star when sliced. As a result, starfruit is one of the coolest easy-to-impress things with which to garnish a cocktail.
The recipe below is indeed the first one I ever came up with and as such is very near and dear to my heart; it’s a pretty simple, easy drinking cocktail with a lot of citrus flavor (I really like citrus). Good for sitting around on a sunny afternoon or impressing your friends at your next nerdy political debate party.
The Lady Liberty
Ingredients:
1.5 oz gin
1 oz blue curacao
1 oz sour mix
ginger ale
tonic water
Instructions:
Fill a rocks glass with ice and add the liquors and sour mix. With the remaining half of the glass, fill with equal parts ginger ale and tonic water. Stir and garnish with a slice of starfruit.
For the full effect, try soaking the starfruit in grenadine for a few minutes while preparing the drink to give it a deep red color that sits on top of the blue liquid. Drop in a white stirring straw and you’ve got a nice example of American liquid courage.
Liberty Prevails,
Foggy
