I have a fun bartender related question for you 😁 what would you put in a george-themed drink?
YAY HI MO I LOVE THIS QUESTION. also reminded me that i have a similar-ish ask sitting in my drafts i need to get back to today so thank you 🙂↕️
for a george themed cocktail i think i would want it to be some kind of riff on a classic. something timeless but with a modern kind of twist, maybe something punchier than expected? i’m thinking a clean, crisp flavor profile rather something warm and bold—polished and relatively approachable, but also sharp and lightbodied? basically something that appears very smooth and sophisticated on the surface, but with a little bit of bite, something that makes you go “oh! wow….” on your very first sip.
SO. that’s a lot of words without having actually said anything of substance but for me those characteristics are immediately pointing towards gin! a white lady would be an interesting choice, but for george i think i would want to stick with the simpler spec as our base—just gin, cointreau and lemon! i think including any simple/egg white would soften it too much for our purposes.
from here it’s just about building out that complex underlay which is a little bit trickier to do without experimenting with it but i think adding a little bit of green chartreuse could be really interesting…i know there’s a riff called the verdant lady which i think adds green chartreuse and mint also? could be very fun i think! i love love LOVE green chartreuse and am still seeking out a bottle for my bar bc its so hard to get ahold of right now but it’s so good. very herbaceous and complex and i think could give exactly the kind of zip i’m looking for here!
(also…,i have seen people do a “blue lady” which is a white lady with the cointreau swapped out for blue curaçao which isn’t really going to change the flavor a WHOLE lot imo other than maybe making it a tinyyyy bit sweeter. but it would make it blue! which i think would be super cute…for my part i don’t keep blue curaçao for my home bar so i rarely use it but i am willing to make an exception for george 🩵)
ORRRRR we could do a necromancer which i have been MEANING to try and have yet to get around to. it’s a riff on a corpse reviver no 2, which goes heavy on the absinthe and uses elderflower liqueur instead of orange…but i can’t decide if i think the licorice/anise flavor we’d get from the absinthe is too spicysweet for the george flavor profile i have in my head…
without actually playing around with them it’s hard for me to say for sureeeee which i would go with but i’m leaning more towards our white lady options! in any case it’s a jumping off point (which i’m realizing is insane to say when i just rambled for five paragraphs but here we are 😭)