Cocktail Countdown Day 4: The French 75

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Apparently the French 75 was named after an artillery gun used in WWI. Opening the recipe post and seeing that made me reconsider this whole thing. And then I read that the drink had gin. But I soldiered on (see what I did there?) and made the drink. For you. For myself. For Art.

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I’m going to drink this

I assembled the ingredients once again, but forgot to take a picture this time. I used this recipe here. I did commit the sin warned against in the recipe and cut back on the amount of gin in the recipe. But it was 9pm when I was making it and still 80 degrees out, so I didn’t feel like dealing with a gin bomb in my mouth.

The first sip was a surprise. It wasn’t exactly pleasant, but it wasn’t the gin-soaked terror I was dreading. The lemon was the most prominent taste, perhaps because it was amplified by the carbonation in the champagne. I sipped it while I watched the first episode of Deadwood. (Which is really good and I’m sorry I didn’t start watching sooner.) All the whiskey they were tossing back in that show made me feel so very sophisticated with my champagne cocktail.

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Mine wasn’t quite so classy

Final verdict: It was decent, but if I have champagne, I’m going to probably just drink it straight. Because it’s champagne and doesn’t really need dressing up. Tonight we’ve got the Champagne Cocktail as we use use up the last of champagne. Let’s see if that changes my mind on the notion of mixing champagne with hard liquor.

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