#1: Seafoam

Recipe:
1 oz. light rum
1 oz. Midori
1 oz. blue curacao
Sprite or 7-Up

Shake first three ingredients over ice. Strain into a chilled Collins glass. Fill glass with Sprite or 7-Up.


So ... yeah. This is not very good.

On the one hand, the color is very appealing. It looks kind of like radioactive Scope.

But then there's the taste. After Kristin took her first sip, she said, "It's like drinking a cantaloupe." At first, I agreed. It was as though the Midori was dominating the flavor. But after a few sips, I noticed there was something familiar about the flavor. It took me a while to pinpoint it, but eventually we came to an agreement.

This drink tastes like a big pink wad of bubblegum.

It's not unpleasant, but it's not particularly good. We both finished ours, but neither of us had any desire for a second one.

On the plus side, we did reach one agreement: the vast majority of storylines on this season of True Blood are really not interesting.

So it begins ...

The impetus behind this blog was an episode of "Good Eats" about cocktails. Alton Brown quipped that cocktail hour was once a daily ritual and the traditional end to the work day. In today's society, of course, the work day doesn't ever really end, so the ritual of cocktail hour sort of died with it. Which, I think, is quite sad.

My wife Kristin and I decided this is a concept that needs to be revived. We spend far too much of our free time glued to the television or our laptops, and we thought it would be nice to set aside an hour or two per week to make drinks and just talk.

Sometimes we invite friends. Sometimes we don't. We've yet to actually make this a weekly thing, but we're working on it.

Anyway, to help us, we got this:




There are 52 cards in the deck, each with a different recipe. So we're going to work our way through this deck and I'll be blogging about the drinks along the way.

To be clear ...

- We will try EVERY drink in the deck at least once.
- They will not all be good.
- Several of these drinks will be blue.
- Tiny umbrellas will be involved.

So ... yeah. Hope you'll join us.