Alien Urine Sample Drink

Day 44

Alien Urine Sample

5 shots out of 5

I am really enjoying this Alien Urine Sample!  Yes I said it, it's really good!!!  My bartenders book has some mighty interesting named cocktails, but boy are some of them really good!  This is a very very yummy cocktail that I will definitely be making again.  OK, is it too soon to make another one now?

I gave tonight's cocktail 5 shots out of 5.  This is a very refreshing cocktail and one that's fun to drink.  Alien Urine Sample has a good mix of a few different liqueurs that makes this cocktail super yummy.  The color of it can be a little intimidating (another neon colored cocktail like the Liquid Marijuana I made not too long ago), but boy is it good!!  If you have been enjoying the same cocktails that I have been so far, you'll definitely need to try this one!!

Here are the ingredients for Alien Urine Sample:

• 1/2 shot coconut rum
• 1/2 shot melon liqueur
• 1/2 shot banana liqueur
• 1/2 peach schnapps
• 2 shots sweet & sour juice
• soda water
• 1/2 shot blue curaçao

In a shaker fill with ice and add coconut rum, melon liqueur, banana liqueur, peach schnapps and sweet & sour mix.  Shake it up really good to mix everything together.  Pour everything into a tall glass, add a splash of soda water and blue curaçao.  Enjoy!!!!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Cheers to Alien Urine Samples!!  This is the only kind of urine sample I believe I will ever try!!

The Cocktail Lady

Purple Rain Cocktail

Day 19

Purple Rain

3 shots out of 5

Purple Rain.......no not the song by Prince, the cocktail Purple Rain.  I had seen a couple yummy looking purple cocktails on pinterest and thought, I love purple.....lets do it!  Purple Rain is a cocktail that came up on my search of cocktails, so I investigated its ingredients.  Not so easy, every listing of Purple Rain I found had yet another set of ingredients then the one before it.  I chose one, gave it a shot and COULD NOT for the life of my make it turn purple!  Frustrated with my shades of blue, I sat down at my computer and did......yet another.......search for Purple Rain.  I found one that had simple enough instructions as to where at the end you add a tiny bit more Blue Curaçao until you get a deep purple color.  That sounded more controllable then the other one I tried.

Needless to say, it worked!!  Yeay!!  Only thing was........I had to revisit my new friend.....gin.  OK, we were pretty friendly last time, so this time should be fine.  It was!  I must say, I enjoyed tonight's cocktail.  Therefore gin moved up a couple notches on my belt.

I gave Purple Rain 3 shots out of 5.  Reason being, this cocktail isn't extremely flavorful where the strongest flavor I could taste was the gin.  That being said, the gin taste was not enough to make me not enjoy it.  All in all, I have enjoyed my second cocktail with gin.  My husband who if you remember likes gin said that it tastes good and reminds him of a gin tonic.

Side note, be careful out there when searching for cocktails!  I did an "Images" search for Purple Rain as well as purple cocktails and when I clicked on a few of the purple cocktails I got virus alerts!  Just wanted to pass that on to you all.  When I've done a regular google "Everything" search for these cocktails (purple and not) I've run into no viruses at all.  Not to say that each and every search you do will turn up with no viruses if you use the "Everything" search, but that's just what I've found recently.

Here's the recipe for Purple Rain:

• 1 1/2 shots of gin
• cranberry juice
• splash of blue curaçao
• splash of sweet & sour mix
• splash of club soda

Fill your tall glass with ice.  Pour in the gin, then fill the rest of the glass "almost" to the top with cranberry juice.  Add your blue curaçao, sweet & sour mix and club soda.  Gently stir all of your ingredients together and examine.  If your cocktail is not deep purple, add a tiny bit more blue curaçao to it and stir.  Keep doing that until your cocktail becomes a deep purple color.  I only had to add one small amount of blue curaçao to my cocktail at the end, so just judge the color yourself to find the right purple color.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Did you notice that I changed the order of my pictures inside tonight's post?  Why did I do that you ask?  Simple, when I link this page to my facebook page the "ingredients" photo is always the picture that represents my post, and I'd rather have the "end result" show up, therefore I switched the photos and will do so from now on.

Hope you enjoy tonight's cocktail!

The Cocktail Lady

Into The Blue

Day 13

Into The Blue

1 shot out of 5

Sounds like a fun drink.  Into The Blue.  Blue cocktails are fun to drink, right?  Well if you're talk'n Blue Hawaiian then you'd be right!  This cocktail has the taste of what I was afraid grapefruit drinks would taste like, yuck!  Tonight's cocktail is the reason I was scared to try them and I have to say that I'm glad that I tried the Sea Breeze first, because I REALLY liked that one!!

I tried tonight's cocktail along with my husband and our neighbors.........survey all agreed XXX.  None of us enjoyed this cocktail.  I hate to tell you all how bad some of these cocktails are, but I feel if I wasn't honest about it and you tried it and hated it, then you'd in turn hate me.  I couldn't have that!  So if you're following me and have enjoyed what I've enjoyed, then don't try tonight's cocktail.  But if you're feeling adventurous and have the ingredients at home (don't go out to buy them if you don't) and want to try it, then by all means go ahead but let me know what you think.

I gave tonight's cocktail 1 shot out of 5.  The mix of ingredients was not a good one.  It's sad that my new found love of grapefruit juice can have a bad outcome, but I guess every mix has a bad day right?

Here is the recipe for Into The Blue:

• 1 shot light rum
• 1/2 shot of Blue Curaçao
• 1 1/2 shots of grapefruit juice
• club soda to top it off with

Put ice into a shaker and add the rum, blue curaçao and grapefruit juice.  Using a bar spoon stir it up real good.  Pour the cocktail including the ice into a highball glass and top it off with club soda.

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here's to tomorrow night's cocktail being better then tonight's!!

The Cocktail Lady