#fizzy lemonade

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Interviewer: Monday morning hits hard. Are you a morning person, Louis?

Louis: Not at all. I thought as I got older, I might find it a bit easier, but no. I despise early mornings.

Interviewer: Congratulations on Lemonade! It sounds so so fun, and different.

Louis: Thanks. That was definitely my intention. There’s been a certain weight, especially in the singles that I’ve done to date. I wanted to create something that just felt really light and really fun, but also gives a scope for how different the record is from stuff I’ve made previously.

Interviewer: I think it’s just so vibey. You come across these tracks in your life, I can see it now. I want to be in an open road with the windows down, and I want to be listening to Lemonade. I feel like that’s the perfect scenario. 

Louis: That sounds like a beautiful setting for it.

Interviewer: When you say “lemonade,” are you thinking more like Sprite, or are you thinking more like the lemonade that American school kids make homemade and then they sell it outside their front door, or are we thinking a San Pellegrino vibe?

Louis: It’s an important distinction. To be honest, I only interpret lemonade as the fizzy one, but over in America it’s a bit different, innit? I think lemonade is fizzy to me. 

-Louis Tomlinson describing his lemonade as light and fizzy, Capital FM Scotland (27.10.2025)

[warriorxeno]

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[soraniyan]

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[100cocktails]

No. 32: Pimm’s Julep (May 10, 2013)

So the friends from the Pegu Club were back and we had a dinner party with them that was très très great.  We knew one of the guests (the Ph.D student) but otherwise, all other invitees were new to me.  I love that, because I love meeting new people, but from a cocktails perspective, it’s a little nervewracking.  What will these people like to drink?!?!?  But then I relax and realize we always have wine and water as backups for people who are missing the cocktail-loving gene. Or who are sober, as one of our guests was, which I had known, but then forgot, and then felt really terrible after I offered him a drink and he asked for water.

We decided that since it was a decent weather day (not great; it was a bit humid, but at least we could stand around outside for cocktail hour), we should have something fizzy.  A fizzy mint julepy thing was brought up, and we agreed that sounded tasty.  Then, at the liquor store, I saw a bottle of fizzy lemonade and knew that I needed to make a combo mint julep/Pimm’s Cup.

1 oz Pimm’s No. 1

1 oz bourbon (I used the local Berkshire Bourbon Whiskey)

1-2 teaspoons (to taste) of muddled mint bourbon (recipe below)

2-3 oz fizzy lemonade

squeeze a lemon wedge in

mint sprig for garnish

When I make muddled mint bourbon (which I have done once) (and this time would be that once), I smash around a bunch of fresh mint and a couple of teaspoons of sugar with my muddler (which is the non-business end of a wooden spoon).  Then I add a certain amount (maybe it was 6 ounces? maybe 8?) of Wild Turkey 101, and muddle that around some more.   Then I let it sit around and think its sweet minty bourbony thoughts for a bit.  Longer is probably better, but shorter worked pretty well, I have to say.

These were tasty.  The Pimm’s comes through quite strong, which surprised me.  I have thought of Pimm’s as being a sort of quiet, background spirit, but it turns out that it can assert itself in the right context.  One guest suggested adding a ginger syrup, which could add a nice spiciness. I didn’t have any ginger syrup to experiment with, but maybe I will in the future.  Mint and ginger – I should do something with that for an Asian meal maybe?  But I digress: in the Pimm's Julep, the bourbon almost disappeared, the mint was strong, the Pimm’s was strong, and the lemonade added a nice flavorful fizz. I wonder how this would taste with rye instead of bourbon?

Anyhoo, it was almost the perfect drink for a spring party, in that it was “fresh and refreshing and light” (said the Ph.D. student).  The problem was needing to make each one individually, but I could have avoided that by making a pitcher and then just adding the lemonade at the end to each one.

My husband made a really, really good dinner (grilled sausages and a bunch of grilled vegetables) and I made a good drink.  The guests provided the rest of a great dinner party.  Then there was the 1:00 a.m. trip to the neighbors’ house, where we were going to go in the sauna, but then ended up sitting around talking and drinking wine instead.  But I didn’t make a cocktail for that.

Fun dinner parties: A; Pimm’s Julep: A-

[100cocktails]

No. 57: Pimm’s Cup (July 30, 2012)

We’re home!  We’re home! We’re home!

I was gone for four weeks and six days, my husband was gone for three weeks and five days (although he worked a bunch on the trip, poor fella, so he was physically away from home and the office, but not mentally), and our son was gone for five weeks and six days.   Our trip was incredible, awesome, unforgettable, and often flat-out spectacular, but walking back into our house was a magically wonderful thing.

Our friends the Harvard professors had agreed to come over to celebrate our return, and had even offered to bring dinner, which was so, so great.  (Tacos! They were delicous!)  The London Olympics had just started, and one of the professors had spent much of her childhood in England, and it was a warm summer’s day, so I picked a Pimm’s Cup for our evening’s libation.

Straight Up doesn’t have a Pimm’s recipe and the Ultimate Bar Book has some club-soda-filled nonsense as its recipe.  So I used the proportion of Pimm’s No. 1-to-soda from the Ultimate book, but I IGNORED the club soda baloney because it is bullshit.

3 oz Pimm’s No. 1

3 to 4 oz FIZZY LEMONADE,  not, NOT, NOT club soda

cucumber spear

lemon slice

Okay, so lots of people (misguided people! very misguided people!) think that you can use ginger ale or, God forbid, 7-Up in a Pimm’s Cup, but they are wrong.  Sparkling lemonade is what you add to Pimm’s No. 1 to get a Pimm’s Cup.  Period.  Add something else, and you get something else.  Whatever that thing is, do not call it a Pimm’s Cup. There really isn’t room for discussion on this topic, and I’ll thank you for never bringing it up again.  I am getting upset.

So, Pimm’s Cups are one of my absolute most favorite drinks ever, and this one was no exception.  We played croquet with the Harvard professors, our son reunited with their son and the two of them happily talked Pokemon for many, many hours, and I reveled in being back with my dear friends and back in my home.  I forgot to ask a single other person what they thought of the Pimm’s Cups.  I assume they liked them since we drank almost an entire bottle of Pimm’s No. 1.

Pimm’s Cups get an A

[animalpuff]

Fizzy lemonade:

What the hell is the matter with this crap.

[chandelucifer]

Pasta, fizzy lemonade, and Catherine. AWWWW YEAH.

...and now its raining :I