Drink of the Week !!!

This is my drink of the week !!

I hope you all will enjoy this as much as I do..

The first time I had this drink I was in Florida in a cigar bar in downtown Disney in Orlando...

And let me tell you it wasn't for the light of heart ! Because they Bartender had a heavy hand ! (That's my favorite kind ;))

Drum roll please !!!!!

The Classic Mojito

2 oz Bacardi® light rum
1/2 oz peppermint schnapps
1/2 oz Grey Goose® Le Citron vodka (or other lime vodka)(Ciroc Vodka works well too)
1/2 lime (about 4 wedges)
12 fresh mint leaves
ice
3 oz club soda
2 tsp sugar



In a highball glass, drop the limes, then mint, and add the sugar.
Muddle together, but don't break down the mint too much, otherwise, You'll be sipping mint bits. If you don't have muddler, you can use a wooden spoon, or the bottom of an ice cream scoop handle. You want to basically crush the juice out of the limes, while using the sugar to grind against the limes and mint to release their oils and flavors. You're not trying to dissolve the sugar here.

Next pour in the alcohol. I like grey goose because its particularly light, you can use whatever you have on hand, or use 3 oz of Barcardi Limon in place of the light rum and grey goose.

Some people add the ice here, but I don't recommend it, because if you do, then the sugar is hard to dissolve, and you end up sipping grains of sugar, so rather, stir with a bartender's swizzle stick, or whatever you have on hand, don't shake though, cause it'll damage the mint, breaking it apart.

Once the sugar is dissolved (you can usually tell after about 20 vigorous stirs, or when you look at the bottom of the glass and see no sediment), and lots of ice, and top off with club soda, about 3 oz or just to the top.

Stir to mix in the club soda, and drop in a straw and enjoy !



and for all of you non alcohol drinkers (Poor babies)

15 mint leaves
1 teaspoon raw sugar
1 ounce fresh lime juice
1/2 ounce Simple Syrup
Ice
4 ounces chilled ginger ale
Directions
In a cocktail shaker, muddle the mint, sugar, lime juice and Simple Syrup. Add ice, shake well and pour into a highball glass. Top with the ginger ale. Drink and enjoy..
then wish you drank the real thing lol.... Or Laugh @ all the drunks who drank the real thing...