Riff on a Tequila Sunrise cocktail with tequila, coconut Clarified Cara Cara orange juice, orange Cordial, and Grenadine.

Let's ease into the weekend with a sunrise fit for sunset. Midnight Sun. 🍸🍹 #cocktails #poliscidrinks #appalachiadrinks

A Cynar cobbler cocktail with Lillet Rouge, lemon, and grenadine in a rocks glass with orange peel garnish.

This week's #cocktail is for an old friend. She's the best in the business at the science of water policy and biggest Cynar fan I know. Here you go @eakoebele.bsky.social, Cardoon's Cousin! #keepingmyword. 🍸🍹🥃 #WestVirginia #poliscidrinks

A gin and sake cocktail with lychee liqueur in a coupe glass with cherry garnish.

Spring is sadly coming to an end, a casualty of the tyranny of the sun. Here is a cocktail for contemplating the enormity of it all and recall cooler, colorful days. 🍸🍹🥃 #cocktails #poliscidrinks #WestVirginia

An Amaretto Sour cocktail in a rocks glass with foamy top and lean peel garnish.

Long week means a bonus cocktail. Perfect weather in middle Appalachia for an Amaretto Sour. This Jeff Morgenthaler's spec. 🍸🍹🥃 #cocktails #WestVirginia #poliscidrinks #amaretto #bourbon #lemon

An Amaretto Sour cocktail in a rocks glass with foamy top and lean peel garnish.

Long week means a bonus cocktail. Perfect weather in middle Appalachia for an Amaretto Sour. This Jeff Morgenthaler's spec. 🍸🍹🥃 #cocktails #WestVirginia #poliscidrinks #amaretto #bourbon #lemon

A Strawberry Sherry Cobbler Cocktail in a Collins glass with salt rim and salted strawberry garnish.

Cobblers are old, like 1820s old at the latest, and one of the OG's of cocktails. They are also pleasantly low alcohol in the good way. This version is strawberry. The world is heating up and this one is refreshing. WV
🍸🍹 #cocktails #poliscidrinks

Aviation cocktail in a stemmed glass with cherry at bottom.

Christ is risen and you can take to the skies too - Spring screams flowers and flowers imply Aviation, so here's mine. 🍸🍹 #cocktails #poliscidrinks WV

The Angel Face cocktail in a Nic and Nora glass with Orange Supreme garnish.

I saw Anders Erickson make this one and it's in my Savoy cocktail book. I love Calvados, so had to try it. 🍸🍹 #cocktails #poliscidrinks

A cocktail made with Vodka, vermouth, and Strawberry-Balsamic Shrub with a kiwi garnish in a rocks glass.

Here's to all my comrades with 8 am panels on Sunday braving the airlines back home. Sip The Straw Man! #poliscidrinks #cocktails 🍸🍹WV

A clover club cocktail made with some London Dry Gin, lemon juice and raspberry syrup, garnished with fresh mint.

This one is a must for Spring and a perfect way to dispatch the last bag of frozen raspberries you picked last summer. I tried out an egg white alternative here. 🍸🍹 #cocktails #poliscidrinks

A Tequila cocktail. 1 oz Reposado Tequila (1800 here) 1 oz Cointreau (orange liqueur) 1 oz Lillet Blanc 1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice Orange wheel All in the tin for a shake. Out into a chilled coupe. Sort of a riff on a riff. Enjoy.

I'm not a huge fan of Tequila, but here is a riff on a riff of a Corpse Reviver. Let's call it Romance Language. Here's hoping it brings you some sweet nothings. Recipe in the alt. 🍸 #cocktail #poliscidrinks #appalachiadrinks
Romance Language

Marguerite or The Deuce 2 oz Gin (@botanist here) 2 oz Lilet Blanc (or vermouth you like) 2 dashes Orange Bitters Dried orange and Star Anise garnish Grandmother of the Martini - this rewards more serious palettes. Pre-chill your glass for this one. Stirred not shaken. Traditionally, you'd hit this with an anisette (like Pernod), may in an atomizer Absinthe would be good too. I prefer to float it here. Sub a split, scraped (for another purpose) vanilla bean for the orange and Star Anise garnish if you're drinking this at midnight. This absolutely belongs in a coupe.

Spring means Gin. The grandmother of the Martini and for more sophisticated palettes. Take your botanical wines more seriously in your drinks folks. Notes in the alt. 🍸#cocktail #westvirginiadrinks #poliscidrinks

Marguerite

Hot Buttered Rum 2.5 - 3 oz Rum (Spiced is nice) How cold are you? Pinch Each - Salt, Cinnamon, Clove, Nutmeg, and Allspice. Cinnamon stick ~1 tbs Butter Top with 2-4 oz of water depending on the mug. All in a mug, float the butter, can mix with your stick. Use your stick to stir. Stay toasty my friends.

Are you in the storm's path? We'll then, a Hot Buttered Rum is for you.
Recipe in the alt. Stay toasty my friends. #cocktail #poliscidrinks

An oleo saccharum of lemons and sugar.

Dragging Dry January into the Fish House. Only one staggers out. #poliscidrinks 🍸🍹

Flor De Jerez cocktail 1/2 oz Appleton Estate Rum 1 1/2 oz Amontillado Sherry 1/2 oz Apricot Liqueur 3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice 1/2 oz Simple Syrup 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters Orange peel garnish All in the tin and shake. Out into a stemmed glass. Express the orange.

Citrus and nuts are the flavors of the season. Today's cocktail comes from Death & Co.'s Joaquin Simo. Flor De Jerez Recipe in the alt. #cocktail #poliscidrinks

A white Russian cocktail.

The Dude in the Dappled Light 🌐🏛️ PoliSciSky WV
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A White Russian cocktail made with Rumchata.

Tonight we revisit the Caucasian. This is a popular take using Rumchata. #cocktail #westvirginia #poliscidrinks #Appalachiadrinks

This one has been floating around the internet lately. The Bijou. #cocktail #westvirginia #Appalachia #poliscidrinks