The NC Double Shot: Cheers
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on July 18, 2011 – 4:32 PM23 Comments
Drum roll, please — it’s time to announce our NC Double Shot winner. And the title goes to…
…the margarita! Keckler and I totally should have guessed that outcome from way back in the planning stages, but totally did not, slapping the marg with a 10 seeding and forcing it to fight off pretty stiff competition (so to speak). I have no regrets, however, as it didn’t matter, and also I harbor residual bitterness about the ouster of the bourbon Manhattan.
Perhaps Keckler has a few gracious words for our victor. Keckler?
Fuck off, Pimm’s Cup murderers!
Okay then!
Thanks so much to everyone who commented and voted; we’ll see you again fairly soon for a brand-new, super-exciting, very annoying non-food spin on the brackets. Chin chin!
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I figured you left this poll open a reeeeeaaaaalllllly long time to try to get enough G&T votes.
Don’t mind the marg, sad about the Pimm’s, but all I can say is: at least the Shirley Temple didn’t win. In popularity contests, you so often get the bland and/or inoffensive winning out, but damn, if the non-alcoholic cocktail had taken it all, I’d have organized a tar-and-feather brigade.
I figured you left this poll open a reeeeeaaaaalllllly long time to try to get enough G&T votes.
(Trebek voice) Coe-RRECT!
…Not really. I got distracted by other things, mostly. But I’ve been drinking a lot of G&Ts lately and they are kicking ASS.
I’m also a little bitter that the Pimm’s Cup didn’t win. I shall hoist one this evening in salute. Well, also because the air conditioning in my Chicago-area office died this morning and I am hot and crabby.
I’m not sad the margarita won. I love a G&T, but when I go out with the girls to see Fast Five (Vin Diesel, sooo pretty! And car porn = yay!) or similar cinematic cheese, we gear up with margaritas. They are full of fruity win :)
When you say “very annoying,” are you referring to us or the subject of our next bracket? Because I’d believe both.
…Yes.
(hee)
Yay! I just had two delicious blood orange margaritas the other day. Fan-tastic.
Aw, Keckler. I’m resolved to try a Pimm’s Cup at the very next opportunity, just ’cause you two are making me laugh so much.
I raise my G & T in salute to the winner. Cheers!
Sandman, I love you.
Now go ahead and send me a dream, DAMMIT!
I’m still upset about sangria’s loss. I had never heard of white wine sangria before the NC Double Shot but it has become one of my favourite tipples – I can’t wait to try it in summer!
I made some to take to a party and everyone loved it. Later on there was conga dancing with cats, but I don’t feel it’s fair to blame the sangria.
@Anna, “conga dancing with cats, but I don’t feel it’s fair to blame the sangria”: in my house we do that with no alcohol at all to blame! Some days, the cats just ASK to be picked up and danced around.
This tournament made me really curious about Pimm’s Cup so I tried to make it but I’m not sure I had the best recipe. Anyone have a good one that they reccommend?
Kim, here’s my basic recipe to get you started: http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2007/05/10/summer-tipple/
After that, you can add and take away stuff as you like. Best mixers for Pimm’s are 7-Up/Sprite, British lemonade (Fentimans is a great Brit lemonade that you can get in the US at places like Whole Foods), Limonata (made by Pellegrino), and ginger beer.
I should add that Pimm’s is definitely an acquired taste. It’s very herbal and I didn’t love it the first time I had it but I was interested enough to keep trying it.
Pimm’s Cup is my new favorite, thanks to this tournament. I have no idea if what I’m making is what they’re supposed to taste like; Orangette recommends Reed’s Ginger Brew, so I just mix that with Pimm’s 3 parts to one and throw in a few slices of Trader Joe’s little Persian cucumbers. Delicious!!
Per Sars’s request on Twitter, what I made last night instead of a Pimm’s Cup:
For 2 strong drinks:
-Muddle some chopped up ginger (an inch or two) with 3 shots gin in a cocktail shaker and let it sit for as long as you have to wait. The longer you wait, the stronger the ginger flavor will be.
-Fill cocktail shaker with ice
-Fill with lemonade
-Shake well
-Pour over ice and garnish with mint if you have any (you could also muddle the mint in w the ginger at the get-go)
I had a phenomenal gin/ginger cocktail out in my hometown in Oregon a couple weeks ago and now I want to make some strong ginger syrup. Oh, ginger. Oh, gin.
(Kim, re. Pimm’s: I just mix lemonade and Pimm’s if I’m not in the mood to actually break out lemon-lime soda or what-have-you. It’s a good starting place to try out the flavor of Pimm’s No. 1, which can be an acquired taste. It’s not as strong as, say, gin or vodka, so start w/ 1/3 Pimm’s to 2/3 lemonade, over ice, and go from there. Add some cucumber, mint, maybe a strawberry if you want to be fancy.)
Thanks to this tournament, we already have gin and tonic, and we also just happen to have fresh mint and ginger. Now the BF’s picking up strawberries and a cucumber. Considering my car will be about 150 degrees for most of my drive home, I’m looking forward to some summer beverage experimentation this evening…
I’m in the corner scowling over my Manhattan, y’all.
Later I’ll recover enough to try a Pimm’s Cup and pour a damned Shirley Temple into a septic tank where it belongs.
Greatest thing about being able to drink again post-baby: margaritas.
And I’ll say it again: yea, more brackets.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I had mixed Pimms with some lemon/lime soda and definitely liked it enough to want to try different versions. I’m going to try to find some British lemonade.
I hopped aboard Train Bitterness with Sars way back when Manhattans were outmatched — here, at least, if not in my house!
Looking forward to more brackets.
Pimm’s Cups have hit Portland like crazy this summer, and it’s been great! I haven’t invested in my own bottle of Pimm’s yet, but that day may come. I tried my hand at drink-mixing over the Fourth with fancy tonic water (holy crap, so much better) and Plymouth gin (recommended by Mike at Choosy Beggars) and fresh lime and OH MY GOD I want to go back and cheat the system to vote for G&Ts one million times.
That said, I like margaritas fine and can’t get upset at their victory, really.