A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

SUMMER COCKTAIL SERIES #7

Sorry for the lack of SCS-7 last week. This week, I provide you with Heather K's resolution to a problem which I did not know existed.

I DO NOT DRINK BEER

My drink we call an "I do not drink beer" because my boyfriend, Sam, threw a big cast party for a live gay soap opera I am in here in Chicago. Pause, here is where the story will seem to go off track, but I swear it comes back around. He bought a TON of beer, but the party consisted of mostly girls and gays, and he had a fully stocked bar that had all sort of ingredients for much girlier drinks. We hit the girly drinks pretty hard, and the beer was left almost untouched. My boyfriend does not like beer and he hardly ever drinks it, but his fridge was stuffed to the point where it alsmost could not close with a variety from miller light to goose island 312 (it happens, you get a little excited on peapod one night in preparation for a party). That was Friday night. Monday night was Memorial Day, and he decided to throw a second party where he would invite over all of his beer swilling friends in order for him to take back his fridge. They were under strict orders to drink as much beer as they could.

A little into the party, where the boyfriend had been drinking wine and basically anything but the beer in his fridge, he decided it was time to do some mixology with what was left from the cast party. All the usual mixers were gone or almost gone which left him a little perplexed and a little creative. Usually would gravitate to a whiskey and coke or, failing that, a "Sam Special" of Vodka with equal parts oj and cranberry juice--also known as a Cranberry Toad (I guess). But there was no whiskey and no vodka, only a little bit of oj and an abundance of cran. There was also an almost full bottle of Bacardi Peach Rum which no one seemed quite to know what to do with at the cast party. So he took a glass full of ice, poured in equal parts bacardi peach and cranberry juice and added a splash of orange juice. Someone asked him what he was doing, and he said, "I do not drink beer," in a voice that suggested he certainly had been drinking something else. New drink. Turns out it is just as tasty without oj, and you can have a lighter hand on the alcohol and still have a tasty beverage. It tastes like drinking a jolly rancher candy.