#old pal

[hexnoirn]

I wanted to draw a fancier version than this but here I am.

[aestheticallypleasinganimeboys]

Old Pal - Cocktail Prince

[faellustrations]

old pal (EXTRA AWESOME version!) (alt text)

[poughkeepsiesjr]

🧡

thank you my good friend

[wellingtonskeleton]

What's that? Another Locked Tomb drink? That's right! 

It's a Sex Pal! 

Like an Old Pal, but nerdier (and made with NZ Whisky and an NZ bitter aperitif)

[kakupuri]

happyyy birthday, sidecar and old pal!!

[livingof-love]

💜Gorilla Punch by Old Pal💜

Coming in so hot, so good 😍

22.2% THC, great terps.

GOOD MORNING 🌞

[drinkacefahz]

無頼派 [Buraiha] | ABV: 28.03% | Yield: 3.04 fl oz | Classic, Pre-Prohibition, Japanese, Fandom, Themed

"To the Stray Dogs." 

To change things up a little I went for a almost-perfectly screen-accurate Japanese spin on a variant of variant of a now-classic cocktail. So, in a way, kind of appropriate for an anime that creates superpowered characters loosely based on the lives and works of modernist authors. In fact, each of the ingredients is representative -- to me, anyway -- of aspects of them. Dazai’s ingredients, for example, both contain a form of wormwood, which tends to have a somewhat dark reputation and mythology around it. Ango’s are a bit of a nod to his personality, haha. And since a traditional cocktail is tied together by both the way the aromatic bitters accentuate the other ingredients as much as balancing the right spirit, what is more appropriate for Oda’s “Flawless” than Harmony? 

 1.25 oz or 37.5ml Hibiki Harmony Whisky (Oda) 

.75 oz or 22.5ml Oka Bermutto (Dazai) 

.75 oz or 22.5ml Campari (Ango) 

 Absinthe Rinse (Dazai) 

1ml saline (Ango) 

2 dash Orinoco Bitters or preferred aromatic bitters (Oda) 

Optional orange twist

Rinse Chilled glass with absinthe. Add ice sphere to glass along with remaining ingredients, then stir until chilled. Express orange twist if desired, and either drop in glass or discard as you will. Give a toast to the stray dogs. 

The Buraiha, which in English is translated as the Decadent School, is the name for the real-life authors’ artistic movement, is a Japanese cousin to the famous Harry MacElhone’s Old Pal, which uses rye whiskey and dry vermouth, which itself is a variant on the Boulevardier, which uses bourbon whiskey and sweet vermouth, which itself is a variant on the Negroni, which may or may not have been invented by a literal Count Negroni. That’s a story for another time. You may be interested to learn MacElhone actually invented a drink called the Yokohama, where of course the main events of the show are set, which is also where I stole the dash/rinse of absinthe from. I may visit it another time, and of course would like to design a drink featuring port wine for a certain part of the cast... 

The only thing that threads the needle from the Negroni to the Buraiha is the iconic Aperitif: Campari. Distilled from dozens of ingredients since the mid 19th century, this is the number-one bottle that people think of when they think of red Italian bitters. It’s sweet, but bitter, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the real authors had drunk Negronis, Boulevardiers, or Old Pals at Bar Lupin way back when.