Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Let there be snark.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

I really should read my own blog.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Accountability, motherfuckers.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

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  4. 4.

    el_gallo

    (Not quite a) caipirinha

    Highball-ish glass

    1/2 lime, muddled with
    2 teaspoons suger

    Fill glass with ice, then add
    2 oz rum

    Shake ever so briefly

    Sip.

  5. 5.

    JenJen

    Hmmmm. Vermouth and rum don’t go together. Suggestion: Run to the store, pick up some grenadine and some sweet & sour mix (unless you make your own).

    Put a level scoop of ice into a cocktail shaker. Add an ounce of rum, just a splash of grenadine, and just enough sweet & sour mix until the ice floats. Shake, and pour contents into a rocks glass. That’s called a Bacardi Cocktail and it’s a long, lost drink that is a favorite go-to of mine to recommend to my guests.

    You could also just go get some Coca-Cola, throw an ounce or so of rum into a highball glass packed with ice, add enough Coke to the top of the glass, garnish with a lime wedge. Voila!! A Cuba Libre!

  6. 6.

    WereBear

    Not a vermouth fan.

    But slice up a lime (take the ends off, of course) and drop it into a rocks glass. Then sprinkle with some sugar, brown if you got it. Now mash it up with a big spoon.

    Throw in your rum, and ice, then fill with club soda. Presto! A sparkling caipirinha. Brazil won’t mind.

  9. 9.

    taylormattd

    Some gin and tonics.

    Oh wait, that wasn’t helpful, it’s just what I want right now, sorry. :)

  10. 10.

    el_gallo

    Club soda in a caipirinha?!? Sir, we may need to step outside and have words. Words about the joys of undiluted rum.

  11. 11.

    Winston Smith

    We need a drink that you can chug every time Todd Akin renews his pledge to stay in the race.

    (He did so at a press conference an hour ago. The Freepers were praying that the event was him quitting.)

  14. 14.

    thatguy

    Classic Daquiri. Done. Great summer drink.

    Classic Daiquiri
    2 ounces light rum
    1/2 ounce simple syrup
    1 ounce fresh lime juice

    Shake well with ice.

  16. 16.

    YoohooCthulhu

    Vermouth doesn’t go with rum.
    Simple daiquiri:
    2 ounces light rum
    3/4 ounce lime juice
    3/4 ounce simple syrup

    If you have maraschino liqueur…
    Hemingway Daiquiri (“Papa Doble”)
    2 oz white rum
    1 oz fresh lime juice
    ½ oz fresh grapefruit juice
    ¼ oz maraschino liqueur
    1½ to 2 cups shaved ice

  17. 17.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    Add some good craft gin to the tiniest little bit of that dry vermouth, stir in an ice filled shaker. Garnish with a twist of lime zest (after rubbing the glass rim with a spare)and voila, Mexican martini. Leave the rum and all that sweet shit for the sissies.

  18. 18.

    eric

    The Akin
    First, crush one moderate
    Add mouthful of gibberish
    Then
    1 part GOP establishment, shaken
    1 part Rush Limbaugh, shaken
    serve with side of popcorn.

  22. 22.

    Ann Rynd

    Put mouth to bottle top.
    Tilt bottle upwards
    Swallow
    Repeat
    Say something a pirate might say.

  25. 25.

    LanceThruster

    X doesn’t go with Y?

    Please! My people (Russians) would drink the de-icing solution from Soviet planes regardless of the risk of going blind.

    Mix whatever you got with whatever else you got and call it a …

    Muddy Waters

  26. 26.

    mainmati

    Palmetto:
    equal parts rum and dry vermouth (how much up to you and your friend) and a couple of dashes of bitters. Over the rocks or not (I like rum at room temp the way it was intended to be drunk).

  29. 29.

    Mnemosyne

    @el_gallo:
    @WereBear:

    Clearly the mojito’s day in the sun is gone, because no one remembered that rum, lime, sugar and club soda gets you most of the way to a mojito (lacking only the mint).

    ETA: Teddy’s Person remembered — clearly my soulmate!

  33. 33.

    el_gallo

    @Mnemosyne: I purposefully didn’t mention it, ’cause I’m not a big mint fan, and I’m all about foisting my own petty likes and dislikes on everyone else.

  34. 34.

    Todd

    If you’ve got some bitters and nutmeg about, you might try working the St Germain into the rum for a wicked Planters Punch.

  37. 37.

    mai naem

    I hardly drink so I don’t know sheet about drinks but the google is mah friend and it says you can make a Vermouth Cassis with Creme de Cassis. I had to look up what Creme de Cassis was and apparently it’s a black currant liquer that works well in pousse-cafés. Pousse-cafes you say what does that mean? Well, that’s what I said, not that my mind was in the gutter or anything. It means coffee pusher. You learn something new everyday.

  39. 39.

    ? Martin

    @Jamey: Why do I have a feeling that if corned beef and peanut butter had been in the original list of ingredients, those too would have been in your old family recipe?

  40. 40.

    lamh35

    I don’t really drink much (except occasional marguarita) so no suggestions from me.

    But I sure need some strong suggestions, cause this Romney birther joke BS really pissed me off, particularly with people who write it off as “just a joke”. Nevermind the dog-whistling welfare ads, nevermind the “anglo-saxon” relations bullshit, nevermind the “doesn’t understand what it is to be an American” bullshit…it was just a joke. Or as Romney defended it “the crowd loved it”…yeah well guess what people used to love watching a lynching too…don’t make lynching right!

    I’m seriously reaching what some called the “Roots” point. It the idea that after watching Alex Haley’s Roots, or “Rosewood” or “Misissippi Burning” where I just need a day or two to come down off my anger before I just explode at the next white person for real or subtle or imagined racial actions.

    I’m actually really just tired of it. And that makes me more pissed off damnit black people in America as a whole have taken a whole lot of things in stride in this country and ugh forget it…it just pisses me off.

    I need something stronger than a margurita I think. Wish I was in NOLA a Daiquri or Hurricane would probably do me some good.

    ETA: Oh wait, I forgot to add the disrespecting of the NAACP in their own house and then going in front of his white brethren to tell “those people” if they want to be handed free stuff vote for the the other guy.

    Wow. It’s not the “joke” people, it’s the damn pattern that is emerging and it really pisses my people off.

    Not surprising he to 0% of AA vote in that NBC/WSJ poll

  41. 41.

    Shane in Utah

    I’m with Sylvan @36. If it’s really nice rum (read: Zaya, Ron Pampero Anniversario, or Ron Zacapa), sip that shit neat. Mixed drinks are for people who don’t like the taste of alcohol…

  42. 42.

    negative 1

    In a highball glass:
    Muddle the lime with a little bit (1/2 oz or so, or 1/2 a shot if all you have is a shot glass) of St. Germain. Fill with ice, fill about halfway with club soda, fill to taste (i.e. – not until you cringe or can breathe fire) with rum.
    Sip.

  43. 43.

    joeyess

    A Gin Rickey:

    2 parts Gin
    1 part freshly squeezed lime juice

    fill a cocktail glass with ice to the brim. Cram it in there.

    Add lime juice, Gin, and top off with soda water.

    Tastes just like a Squirt without the sugar.

    Excellent.

  44. 44.

    joeyess

    @beltane: That didn’t take long.

    Seems all it takes is 3 paragraphs of ridicule from Tbogg and these wingnuts disappear like Jimmy Hoffa.

    I suggest that we unleash the Boggyman on all the wingnuts from this point forward.

  45. 45.

    Hill Dweller

    @lamh35: You knew the media would cover for Willard, especially going into the convention.

    Willard’s “the crowd loved it” rationalization is every bit as bad as the joke. It was a crowd of old white republicans; of course they’re going to laugh at his racist joke.

  47. 47.

    kindness

    Get a blender, ice, fresh (or frozen) mangos, peaches, strawberrys, bananas, pinapples, coconut mix & make some great Pina Coladas.

    Alcohol smoothies…yum!

  48. 48.

    Joel

    Sounds like the Red Sox are about to dump second least favorite player Josh Beckett and non-injury disclosing, possible juicer Carl Crawford on the Dodgers, who apparently desperately want Adrian Gonzalez.

  49. 49.

    burnspbesq

    @Winston Smith:

    We need a drink that you can chug every time Todd Akin renews his pledge to stay in the race.

    I believe that drink is called Freeper Tears. There is considerable controversy as to what the ingredients are.

  53. 53.

    tomvox1

    Dude, just get some Mexican sugar Coca-Cola & forget all that other shit. Cuba Libre, baby!

  56. 56.

    wrb

    ekkk.

    Throw that crap away & go out and get a nice bottle of Scotch, or perhaps a Barolo or Brunello.

  57. 57.

    Roger Moore

    @lamh35:

    But I sure need some strong suggestions, cause this Romney birther joke BS really pissed me off, particularly with people who write it off as “just a joke”.

    It’s not “just” a joke; it’s a joke designed especially to appeal to unreconstructed racists. If Mitt is actively courting the racist vote, he deserves to be called out for it.

    This is about the same thing I think every time somebody tries to excuse their bigoted behavior as a joke. Maybe it is a joke, but it’s a joke that only a bunch of bigots will think is funny. That you and your friends think it’s funny still says something.

  58. 58.

    joes527

    Tip up the bottles and drink

    Drink the rum first. The sweet vermouth will taste like shit straight until you are good and smashed.

  61. 61.

    JGabriel

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    __
    Winston Smith:

    We need a drink that you can chug every time Todd Akin renews his pledge to stay in the race.

    In that case, we should probably recommend the ayahuasca. That’s about the weakest thing I can think of that would make Todd Akin sufferable (as opposed to insufferable).

    .

  62. 62.

    catclub

    Mitt is claiming no one has asked about his birth cert.
    Obama could follow up with “No one has asked about my tax forms because I released them.” Even better if he made a joke about a manufacture certificate.

  63. 63.

    NotMax

    @mai naem (#37)

    A pousse cafe alcohol drink is one of the most complicated to make, consisting of liqueurs of differing densities and colors (plus often brandy or cognac) floated one atop the other.

    Some classic pousse cafe recipes: #1 – #2

  64. 64.

    Violet

    @Winston Smith:

    We need a drink that you can chug every time Todd Akin renews his pledge to stay in the race.

    @burnspbesq:

    I believe that drink is called Freeper Tears. There is considerable controversy as to what the ingredients are.

    Ha! Made me laugh. Let’s see…One part–no, make that two parts–Everclear, one part white man’s piss, one part anti-pregnancy rape secretions. Sounds delicious.

  66. 66.

    catclub

    @Roger Moore: Seconded.
    “it’s a joke designed especially to appeal to unreconstructed racists.”

    And a sign of desperation if he thinks he needs to appeal to them still.

  68. 68.

    NotMax

    @mai naem

    Cassis is also handy to have around (and delicious), to drizzle over vanilla ice cream.

    And in a Kir (cassis with champagne or other wine), scrumptious.

  70. 70.

    Violet

    Oh, man. I just saw the clip of Romney’s birther comment. There are nuns behind him cheering up a storm after he says it. Nuns! WTF?

  73. 73.

    MikeJ

    Go to the liquor store and buy gin.

    I have rum on hand but the only thing I ever use it for is part of the marinade in jerk chicken.

  74. 74.

    moops

    @Roger Moore:

    actually, I did find Romney’s joke funny. Not the way he and his audience did. I’m just finding it bewildering that he is such a lousy politician. He has been wanting this job for so long.

    it is also nice to see all the apologists flail away. It is nice to see the bigots around us out themselves to thoroughly. I knew it would happen as soon as I heard saw the quote.

  75. 75.

    MikeJ

    Go to the liquor store and buy gin.

    I have rum on hand but the only thing I ever use it for is part of the marinade in jerk chicken.

  79. 79.

    Violet

    @maya: They were old school nuns with the head covering and robes. They weren’t wearing the newer nun outfits, like below-knee skirts and sensible shoes and bare heads.

    I don’t see a lot of “Sound of Music”-style nuns these days. Is that some ultra-conservative sect of Catholicism?

  80. 80.

    Roger Moore

    @NotMax:

    And in a Kir (cassis with champagne or other wine), scrumptious.

    Technically, it’s a Kir if it’s white wine and Creme de Cassis, and a Kir Royale if it’s Champagne and Creme de Cassis.

  81. 81.

    schrodinger's cat

    BTW did any one read TNC’s long article in the Atlantic? Shorter TNC, Obama is wimp because he does not have the courage to address the issues of race, as TNC would like to have them addressed. Of course, and since he used drones he is just like Cheney.

  82. 82.

    Violet

    @efgoldman: The media doesn’t like Willard. They’re still in their horse race rut, but it’s hard to hold on to that. Romney is such a disaster as a candidate, Republicans are being outed on a daily basis as the party of bigots, racists, misogynists, and other horrible people. At some point they’re going to crack and stop playing the “both sides do it” card. I think that point is coming sooner rather than later. Maybe the convention will be the breaking point.

  83. 83.

    different-church-lady

    If it’s really nice rum, you drink it straight.

    Otherwise, you’re coincidentally veering towards things I’ve been experimenting with lately, and not successfully, having had a plethora of limes to run through. I’m finding that the lime/vermouth combination just ain’t doing it for me. You can look up the Floridita to get an idea.

    Leaving out the vermouth, you could get some mint and try a St. Germain mojito, using the St. G. in place of the sugar. Put the mint at the bottom, cube up half a lime, muddle the cubes over the mint, then add the rum, St. G. and club soda.

    St. G is quite nice, but can be cloyingly sweet when used too much. It needs some dryness to counter it, which is why it pairs well in a cocktail glass with champagne or dry white wine. Ideally you’d have lemons instead of limes and then just have a blast experimenting with something that wasn’t a highball-form.

  84. 84.

    scav

    Ah, the shining honor of Mitt, he’s reached the “I’ll say anything to the crowd in front of me at the time so long as it gets cheers.” pinnacle of principled campaigning.

  85. 85.

    schrodinger's cat

    More on TNC article,
    It starts of really well but the last two pages but goes downhill after the first two pages. Just like the NYT op-ed, which started of well before it disintegrated into both sides do it Village wisdom.

  88. 88.

    Steeplejack

    What was the nice rum that was brought over?

    My standard rum drink is two ounces of Mount Gay and seven or eight ounces of tonic over ice, with an eighth of a lime squeezed and then dropped in the drink. I’m not usually a brand ho’, but Schweppes tonic water always tastes indefinably better than Canada Dry or others.

    My other go-to rum is Barbancourt. (I prefer the three-star to the five-star.) If you like darky dark rums, Gosling’s Black Seal has that 30-weight motor oil quality.

  89. 89.

    different-church-lady

    And, of course, I left out the most important consideration: what style of rum is it?

  91. 91.

    Roger Moore

    @efgoldman:

    Beckett has 10/5 rights, and can block a trade.
    And can they move a player on the DL?

    It’s very rare for a player to use a no-trade clause to completely block a trade. It’s much more common to use the no-trade rights as a bargaining chip to demand some kind of extra money or other concessions to the player as compensation for waiving the right. Not to mention that very few players will block a trade from an also-ran to a contender.

    As far as trading players on the DL, IIRC that it’s not allowed directly. Teams commonly work around that by including a PTBNL as part of the trade with the understanding that the player will be named as soon as he comes off the DL.

  92. 92.

    NotMax

    @MikeJ

    Only reason I keep rum in the domicile is to use when making Bananas Foster. (There are lots of variations of this, incorporating various spices and sometimes banana liqueur, but I prefer the simplest version – if only light rum on hand, that works nearly as well, just add a touch of molasses or use dark brown sugar in place of light brown.)

  93. 93.

    Ash Can

    I’ve never had St-Germain, but after reading up on it I don’t see how it can go with rum. Seltzer and a little dry vermouth, maybe, even with a touch of lime. But that rum? I second the suggestion of drinking it neat if it’s that good, and leave the other stuff in the cabinet, unless it’s to have plain club soda on the side, maybe with a wedge of lime.

  94. 94.

    WereBear

    @Mnemosyne: Well, I’m a caipirinha fan (by marriage, my bro married a lovely Brazilian lady.)

    But my favorite place grows mint in the window so they can make FRESH mojitos. One of the many reasons it is my favorite place.

  95. 95.

    Mike in NC

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    If I have absinthe, I am not wasting it on a millionaire.

    Wasn’t absinthe banned in the US for years because it could allegedly make you blind? Apparently you can buy it now but it’s quite pricey. We saw it a few years ago while vacationing on St. Martin. All the liquor stores carried it and it was about as cheap as bottled water, though I didn’t care for the taste.

  100. 100.

    Joel

    Does anyone know how to fix this double-triple posting issue that I’ve been having?

    Chrome for Mac…

  101. 101.

    Roger Moore

    @Mike in NC:

    All the liquor stores carried it and it was about as cheap as bottled water, though I didn’t care for the taste.

    You don’t like drinking nuclear mouth wash? What’s wrong with you?

  102. 102.

    scav

    There are a lot of myths about absinthe, many more fantastic than others. Adds to the charm for some.

  103. 103.

    Ann Rynd

    @Mike in NC:
    Hollewscinations that made hewmens go mad and want to do violence like Van Gogh did to himself. An artists way of going insane. Very chic.

  104. 104.

    Keith

    What would be a good drink to make?

    The Velvet Hammer? The Alabama Slammer?

    (sorry, Cocktail’s been on a lot lately)

  105. 105.

    different-church-lady

    @Joel: I forgot he was still “with” the team.

    And really, forgetting him has been the only bright spot on the entire season.

  106. 106.

    NotMax

    @Omnes Omnibus

    Sorry, mate. If I have absinthe, I am not wasting it on a millionaire.

    One of the reasons I linked to a recipe which suggests substituting Pernod for the absinthe.

  107. 107.

    damn good mr. jam

    Make this.

    Presidente Vincent

    1.5 ounces rum
    1 ounce dry vermouth
    1 ounce lime juice
    half teaspoon sugar

    Shake, strain into sugar-rimmed cocktail glass.

  108. 108.

    different-church-lady

    OT: I’m still trying to comprehend how USADA has the authority to strip Armstrong of his TdF titles. On the Wiki there’s a statement saying they have recommended it, but UCI hasn’t decided to follow the recommendation or not. Is it just lazy-ass press reporting that makes it sound like they have the authority, or lazy-ass press reporting that fails to explain why they actually do have the authority?

  111. 111.

    dww44

    @schrodinger’s cat: Sorry, I disagree with your synopsis. My takeaway is that politically BO was always in a box and that he couldn’t survive, POLITICALLY, if he directly addressed the race issue. Coates gives several concrete examples to prove this. In the end, the President’s problem is the American electorate. A goodly number of us are out and out racists and will DO anything to prevent a good and capable man from being reelected. I did not view the article as an attack on the President but rather an explanation of his actions in context of the times in which he is trying, honorably, to govern for all of the country.

    I’m working to reelect this President. How about you?

  112. 112.

    gelfling545

    @schrodinger’s cat: I did indeed read the article but I didn’t come away with the same impression you did. Seemed to me that TNC was talking about the constraints that the President’s position and our culture have put on his ability to address the questions of race.

  113. 113.

    schrodinger's cat

    @gelfling545: Yes he does that, but he is also disappointed in Obama for not achieving the impossible
    @dww44: To me he seems to be blaming Obama for not trying harder to get out of that box. He compares Obama to Booker T Washington.
    From the article

    His approach is not new. It is the approach of Booker T. Washington, who, amid a sea of white terrorists during the era of Jim Crow, endorsed segregation and proclaimed the South to be a land of black opportunity.

    He also thinks that on issues of race Obama tells the country what it wants to hear not what it needs to hear.
    From the article:

    But whatever the politics, a total submission to them is a disservice to the country. No one knows this better than Obama himself, who once described patriotism as more than pageantry and the scarfing of hot dogs. “When our laws, our leaders, or our government are out of alignment with our ideals, then the dissent of ordinary Americans may prove to be one of the truest expressions of patriotism,” Obama said in Independence, Missouri, in June 2008. Love of country, like all other forms of love, requires that you tell those you care about not simply what they want to hear but what they need to hear.

    But in the age of the Obama presidency, expressing that kind of patriotism is presumably best done quietly, politely, and with great deference.

  114. 114.

    maya

    @Violet:There are still “old-style” nuns in full wipple and who may even carry the traditional ruler up their sleeve. I actually had one like that. That was years ago, however.
    And, yes, they do tend to be conservative in outlook and do everything the ober-mensch in Rome tells them to.

  117. 117.

    Steeplejack

    @WereBear:

    Yeah, it’s a good one for sipping, not so much for mixing. Too overpowering.

    Mount Gay has an upscale flavor that is the same way: much stronger and more complex than my usual Mount Gay Eclipse.

  119. 119.

    dww44

    @schrodinger’s cat: But, Coates ends with this:

    In a democracy, so the saying goes, the people get the government they deserve. Part of Obama’s genius is a remarkable ability to soothe race consciousness among whites. Any black person who’s worked in the professional world is well acquainted with this trick. But never has it been practiced at such a high level, and never have its limits been so obviously exposed. This need to talk in dulcet tones, to never be angry regardless of the offense, bespeaks a strange and compromised integration indeed, revealing a country so infantile that it can countenance white acceptance of blacks only when they meet an Al Roker standard.

    And yet this is the uncertain foundation of Obama’s historic victory—a victory that I, and my community, hold in the highest esteem. Who would truly deny the possibility of a black presidency in all its power and symbolism? Who would rob that little black boy of the right to feel himself affirmed by touching the kinky black hair of his president?

    Whatever issues that TNC has with President Obama, he, like Shirley Sherrod, still “holds his victory in the highest esteem”. He concedes the problem is with us, not so much with the President. Who among us does not recognize that an Angry Black Man would never have been elected President and won’t get re-elected? Barack Obama knew this before 2008 and knows this now. I posit that his rapidly greying hair is not only due to the extraordinary stresses of the job, but the special stresses he has by virtue of always having to tamp down righteous anger at the racist attacks he and his family, unbelievably, must still contend with.

    Who among us believes that what Romney said today was intended as a joke? Not me.

    Speaking of unfunny jokes, yesterday a not so conservative former neighbor emailed a photo of Obama in a golf cap with “Entitleist” engraved on the front. He thought and still thinks it’s funny. If you google the word, you will get many versions of this current example of dog whistle racism, apart from the sheer political untruth of its inference.

  120. 120.

    different-church-lady

    @dww44:

    Who among us believes that what Romney said today was intended as a joke?

    I am personally of the opinion that Romney is just too damn dumb and clueless to be cognizant of the raw nerve under his quip. It’s one of the things that makes him such an awkward asshole. When a five year old repeats a joke he only partially understands you can shrug it off as learning experience. When a 60 year old man running for president does it it’s just pathetic.

  121. 121.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @different-church-lady: No, it was a boss joke. You know, where the boss makes a “joke” and everyone is expected to laugh and say “Good one.” That has been Romney’s whole fucking life. He has always been the guy who could tell the boss joke. Fuck him.

  122. 122.

    burnspbesq

    @efgoldman:

    Yes, I’m old – I also remember when the Globe was a great newspaper

    No one is that old, even me, and I’m old enough that I delivered the Herald Tribune on my first paper route.

  123. 123.

    different-church-lady

    @Omnes Omnibus: Probably a combination of the two, now that you mention it: the boss telling a joke he doesn’t understand.

    The whole thing is starting to feel like the guy who owns a small auto repair chain in Des Moines who’s trying to fit in and be cool at a Fortune 500 cookout.

  125. 125.

    jamie d

    Get some gin and make martinis and White Linens.

    White Linen

    · 1 ½ oz gin
    · ½ oz St. Germain Elderflower Liquor
    · ½ oz Simple Syrup
    · 1 oz Lemon (or lime) Juice
    · 5-6 thin slices English cucumber
    Combine all ingredients in a shaker and shake well. Strain into a highball glass with ice, top with soda water and garnish with a cucumber.

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