OKLAHOMA!
Posted By SeanMike on June 19, 2009
I do have to admit – I was going to post pictures to help make fun of that state, but alas, I don’t have the rights to ‘em and with under an hour to go in the day, didn’t want to try to find some free ones.
Oklahoma. What do you think of when you hear that word, assuming you’re not Rick and thinking of the musical? I think of dusty plains, tumbleweeds, and 1possums.
Needless to say, I was quite taken aback 2 when a friend told me that it’s as much raccoons and armadillos! And he’s from there HE MUST KNOW.
Clearly, if I’m talking about Tales of the Cocktail, cocktails in general, and Oklahoma, I must be talking about your friend 3 and mine 4 cocktailnerd aka Gabe. 5
I really wanted to make a drink with poser fluid 6 for him but alas, it was a combination of laziness and 7 respect that stopped me. But the idea of making an Oklahoma Squirrel 8 rang with me, only getting slightly dented when I realized Gary Regan 9 already had one with rye and called it something like “Maryland”.10
Talking to an old friend of mine 11 broke me through to the other side and ta-da, here’s the drink. 12
It's pink, an added bonus!
The Oklahoma Squirrel 13
1 1/2 ounce rye (Rittenhouse 100)
1 ounce Zirbenz stone pine liqueur
1 ounce lemon juice
1/2 ounce simple syrup
1 dash Peychaud’s
Shake over ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with a whiskey soaked cherry.
And there we go! 14 Enjoy, and if you try it, let me know what you think. 15
[Twelth in a series of drinks named after bloggers, mixologists, and random others who'll hopefully be at Tales. The first post in the series is here.]
- o ↩
- nay, shocked! ↩
- not your friend ↩
- not mine, either ↩
- Well, okay, I consider him a friend, but you gotta know him probably to get that joke… ↩
- nee’ vodka ↩
- I shudder to say it ↩
- aka the ‘possum ↩
- progenitor of the squirrels in his book The Joy of Mixology it seems and DAMN HIM ↩
- There’s nothing good about Maryland but crabs and The Wire. ↩
- and I’m serious this time, he’s a great guy, read his stuff ↩
- I know, you’re thinking, FINALLY! ↩
- Or the Armadillo, or the Raccoon, or the ‘Possum, depending on where you live there ↩
- Awesome, no more footnotes! ↩
- Okay, one more – ahem – AS USUAL. ↩
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This drinks needs more of your mom.