Previously, on American Drink…

*Special! If you’re the kind of person who likes ratios, and who isn’t, here’s a solid starter: 6:4:3

6 = 1.5 oz liquor
4 = 1 oz simple syrup
3 = ¾ oz lemon or lime juice

You just made the base for like eleventy-million drinks. As always, adjust to taste. I prefer to reverse the last two ratios for a more tart drink. That’s right. I’m a 6:3:4er. In your face, Drink Nazis!

—JT Dobbs (@sloganeerist)

“Eleventy-million” people. It’s a big number but JT’s right, give or take. The other day, I posted a recipe for simple grenadine. Other than coloring your drinks or making fancy looking floats to impress Your Mom™, use grenadine as your sweetener.

If you made cold process grenadine the ratio holds. The hot process grenadine’s potency is a bit too sweet so drop down to 6:3:4 or even 3:1:2¹. Me? I’m more of an 8:3:4’er. This is the real benefit to making your own drinks. Hell, to be completely honest sometimes I’m a 1.

Grenadine and You

2 oz. Booze
½ oz. Hot Process Grenadine
1 oz. Fresh lemon juice

Shake or stir and serve over ice.

New Yorker

Generically speaking, when you use Canadian whiskey this drink is called a New Yorker. Go figure. Use absinthe and you get either a Gargoyle or Spring Fairy, depending on whose marketing you’re reading. Substitute lime juice for the lemon, use Tequila and you’re dancing with an Amarita Chica. Use vodka and it’s stupidly called a Pomtini by the people that brought you “2K” as in, 2K3 or Y2K. Use gin and who cares what it’s called. I don’t really like gin (more on this later.) Rum and lime juice? That’s a simple Mai Tai or Rum Cocktail. Top that with soda it becomes a Planter’s Punch. Add a little gin to that— BOOM!— it’s a Johnny Weissmuller because back then, people just liked to drink and had fun with it. Like you, YAY!

The important thing here is that you use real grenadine and experiment. Eleventy-million is a big number.

Oh, look at that… it’s the weekend.

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