Don’t mind me. I’m just a…

Bitter CanadianBitter Canadian.

From DrinkNation, here is the Bitter Canadian although surely it cannot be the only one, particularly during the Playoffs.

While the recipe sounds like a pretty standard Whiskey Sour on the rocks, with bonus bitterness, this is NOT how one makes a drink like this. Puh-leeze! See if you can spot the errors.

Bitter Canadian

In a highball glass with ice, add the following in order:

1 1/2 oz Canadian Whiskey

sour mix to fill

2-3 dashes Angostura Bitters

squeeze of a wedge of fresh lemon

Okay, the problems here are numerous. And with drinks, everything matters.

If you don't think so, go grab your Chick Beer or your malt liquor as the case may be and slink off back to the prom. We won't tell your parents you were here.

Even if it's a highball, you don't just plop the bitters on top and hope for the best. This drink needs to be mixed, it deserves the loving caress of a pitcher or a shaker or at the very least another glass, where you can mix it and muddle it and stir it and then pour it into the glass over the ice that's already there.

If you really build the drink the way it tells you, it will overflow, duh. Surely I'm not the only one who studied Archimedes?

NO GARNISH???? Everyone knows that all lemon drinks require a garnish. Sheesh. raincoaster suggests a green maraschino cherry wrapped and tied in a lemon twist in some sort of garnashian BDSM scenario. Very 21st Century James Bond.

4 thoughts on “Don’t mind me. I’m just a…

  1. You’re betraying your true colours here.

    Of course, you realize that if you do manage to come down the first week of July, you’ll be there when I unpack my new martini glasses you helped me buy.

    Hmm. Maybe that’s your plan.

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