When I saw that the Mixology Monday theme for this month is "Drink Nerdy" (hosted by The Shrubbery), I thought "that's right in my wheelhouse!"
As I have mentioned before, one of my nerdy passions is wordplay, specifically inventing pangrams (phrases that use every letter of the alphabet). I believe I may be the world's most prolific author of original pangrams. So my first thought was coming up with a new mixed drink recipe that is itself a pangram. So I give you The Lazy Dog:
Muddle a few jalapeno slices in a rocks glass. Mix in 2 oz. blanco tequila, 1 oz. dry vermouth, & ice.
Is this a great cocktail? No. The muddled pepper overwhelms everything else. A different kind of vermouth might've been more suitable, but I needed that "Y"! And though I bet a wedge of lime might go a long way to salvaging this, I thought it merited starting over. And thus was born The Quick Brown Fox:
Equal parts rye whiskey & mezcal joven; dash each of orange & xocolatl bitters.
This felt a bit more complete, not unlike a nice interesting Scotch. You'd have to like strong boozy drinks of course, especially with the bottled-in-bond rye I used. And, like the previous drink, a sweetener of some kind would be a welcome addition. But I'm calling this a success.
