Category: Cocktails

Cocktails In Cammadan: The Desert Rose

Let’s talk about Brea month continues! I’m a little obsessed with her right now, after writing her interlude, and I thought she deserved her own drink!

For Brea I wanted something that was complicated, deceptively sweet, and maybe a little bitter.

And I knew immediately, it required Mezcal. Smokey, complex, and definitely not for everyone, I love subbing a base cocktail out for Mezcal. I also wanted to use grapefruit, because, A) I love grapefruit in cocktails, and B) it has that bitterness I was talking about. So a Mezcal Paloma seemed the way to go, but rather than the traditional grapefruit soda, I thought fresh grapefruit juice and ginger beer would add some zip and spiciness.

So we’ve got a kind of Paloma Mezcal Mule, and I’m going to be drinking a lot of these.

The Actual Drink

Juice of 1 Grapefruit
Juice of 1 Lime
1 shot Mezcal
3 Oz Ginger Beer

Squeeze Juices over ice and add Mezcal, stir gently to chill, top with ginger beer.

Drink while scowling at your boyfriend’s childhood crush and tossing your hair dismissively. You’re hotter than her anyway.

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Cocktails In Cammadan: The Viscount And The Chieftan

Aaron Pantona is infuriating. Harranof The Border Tribe is congenial. (Also their names rhyme!) One night, a long time ago, Harran gave Aaron a bottle of whiskey and they got very drunk. Aaron’s been hooked on the stuff ever since.

Pantona grows lemons (as previously discussed.) If ONLY, there was a drink that combined whiskey and lemons!

Enter The Whiskey Sour. Usually made with Bourbon, I prefer it with Irish Whiskey, because I don’t like Bourbon at all and I love Irish Whiskey.

The Actual Drink

2 oz Irish Whiskey
1 oz Lemon Juice
1/2 oz Simple Syrup
1/2 oz Egg White

Add ingredients to shaker and shake dry (without ice) for about 30 seconds. Then add ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a coupe glass

Drink in good humor and deal with it that the fourteen year old girl can hold her liquor even when you can’t.

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Cocktails In Cammadan: Yellow Roses

Yellow Roses

Carolina DuKarras starts falling in love with Tristan Dugarry when to thank her for dancing with him his first night in Dorin, he gives her a single yellow rose. She later becomes a spy. For this reason, I wanted to do something light, that played on The Vesper Martini, James Bond’s signature libation, shaken not stirred.

I subbed out a few liqueurs, including 007’s standard Lillet, (which I LOVE, but I didn’t want Caro just stealing Jame’s drink!) before landing on Saint Germaine, derived from Elderflower, a little sweeter, a little less subtle, and one of my all time favorites.

The Actual Drink

1/2 oz Saint Germaine
1 oz Vodka
2 oz Gin

Add liquor to shaker over ice. Shake (don’t stir!) until chill, and strain into a chilled martini glass.

Drink while quietly listening to the people around you and intuiting what that means for you and the people around you.

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Cocktails In Cammadan: The Little Duchess

The Little Duchess

People call Marina Sanpierre “The Little Duchess” because of her youth and her size. She’s itty bitty. For her cocktail I wanted something a little bit unexpected, I wanted to use rum (which Lefty introduced her to) and something really refreshing, with a little bit of . And so, here’s a lightly modified mojito.

The Actual Drink

1 tsp sugar
About 5 mint leaves
2 1 inch squares of Watermelon
1 lime (juiced)
1 Shot Silver Rum
Sparkling Water (I like a carbonated water rather than a mineral for this type of drink, for a cleaner flavor)

Juice the lime into a glass, add the sugar, watermelon and mint leaves. Muddle until the sugar is well mixed and the liquid from the watermelon and mint have matched the lime juice. Add ice and rum, stir, and top with sparkling water.

Drink next to water if possible, follow your heart even when it hurts.

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Cocktails In Cammadan: The Countess of Pantona

The Countess of Pantona

I’ve been mixing Vodka Lemonades for…about as long as I’ve been writing about Cammadan actually…(ehem, I mean, I never once touched alcohol before I turned 21…) and since Athena and Aaron spent an evening drinking shots of vodka (and she now has a taste for the stuff) and Pantona’s Lemon Orchard is legendary, I figured, that was the way to go for Athena’s drink of choice.

The Drink

1 part Lemonade
1 part Vodka
1/2 Part Lemon Juice
Sugar (for garnish)

Juice a lemon and create a sugar rim on a cocktail glass by dipping it the edge in the juice and rubbing it in a circle around sugar in a shallow bowl.

Shake the vodka and lemonade and some fresh lemon juice over ice and strain into the glass.

Contemplate what the gods have in mind for you, while cherishing your wonderful family.

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Cocktails In Cammadan: Lisette’s Regret

What Is This?

So, the big social media blitz for the 5th Anniversary was a lot of fun for me (Hoping for Y’all too!) and I decided that while I can’t keep that level up, (Cosplays and fanart and interludes, OH MY!) I CAN do some extra stuff pretty regularly, so I’ve decided to make cocktails for everyone!

I like designing cocktails and I like my characters, so I figure this could do it. Some will just be light tweaks on standbys, some will be new creations. It’ll be fun.

Lisette’s Regret

Upon yet another physical rejection from Eric, Annalise got a little buzzed on the pink wine that they make in Brightcoast (It’s Rose, y’all) and maybe got bolder with Harran than she would have otherwise, which lead to…uh some messiness, right? Anyway, I started there and made this delicious riff on The French 75…

The Actual Drink

1 oz Grapefruit Juice
1oz Lillet Rose
1.5 oz Vodka
Top with Sparkling Rose

Shake Juice, Lillet and Vodka over Ice and strain into a champagne flute and top with Sparkling Rose wine.

Down a few and proceed to have an ill advised hook up with you childhood crush that may or may not lead to a war between your country and your true love’s.

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