#calicogirlfriendd

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…

I’m enjoying this photo of Toto smiling at George who’s smiling at kimi who is trying to kill George with his mind

favorite covers are such an underrated insight I think

1: song with a color in the title

blue by first aid kit! love this song so much it’s very near and dear to my heart

15: song that’s a cover by another artist