Episode 23: Fortuity, Furloughs and Feeling like an Outsider with Kirk Ramsay

The Episode:

The Situations:

Kirk Ramsay had a double run-in with some strangers while on a road trip, Ben is feeling like an outsider in his temporary Seattle apartment, and Chris had an unexpected week off of work.

The Drinks:

Malcolm Lowry
Lime rind
Coarse salt
1oz tequila
3/4oz light rum
3/4oz triple sec
3/4 lemon or lime juice
1 scoop crushed ice

Using lime rind moisten the rim of an iced cocktail glass. Dip the rim in coarse salt. Combine remaining ingredients in shaker. Mix well and pour into the prepared glass.

Brass Monkey
40 oz Olde English
20 oz fresh orange juice

Drink half the bottle of Olde English and top off the bottle with the orange juice. Lightly shake to combine and drink.

Union Club Cocktail
2 oz Maker’s Mark bourbon
1/2 oz Maraschino liqueur
1/2 oz Campari
1 1/2 oz Fresh orange juice

Shake ingredients with ice and fine strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange wedge.

@drinkaboutit @BenjaminAhr @ChrisBChicken best drink for putting in your notice at work?

— Samuel Hansen (@Samuel_Hansen) August 15, 2014

El Diablo
1 1/2 oz reposado tequila
1/2 oz Crème de Cassis
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
2–3 oz ginger beer
lime wedge and fresh blackberry

Combine all ingredients, except ginger beer, and shake. Strain into an ice-filled Collins glass, top with ginger beer and garnish.