Brightest Young Things

On Fridays I like to shake things up, throw in some cocktails that I wouldn't normally feature. Or perhaps look for some cocktails that are so incredibly bizarre or inappropriate that you might not see them elsewhere. This is the day to let down your hair and admit that you once ordered a cherry-bomb-lotus-surprise-blossom-choco-loco-tini at Policy and kinda liked it. The Negronis and Sazeracs can wait; let's get trashy and weird.

As The Adventures of Pete and Pete told us, Riboflavin is excellent for time travel. Unfortunately for us there is no ultra-Riboflavin fortified Krebllogs cereal yet in existence to aid us on our time travel journeys. My goal this Friday is to find cocktails rich in Riboflavin and read up on some John Titor: alcohol will help me better process his ramblings and hey, if Riboflavin and time travel actually works, it'll help to have a boozey open mind.

Foods rich in Riboflavin that would make it into cocktails would be egg whites, milk and almonds, so let's do one of each and see how weird/gross this can get.

So named because the color resembles this thing...

Carabini

• 1 oz Galliano
• 1 oz fresh lime juice
• 1 oz orange juice
• 3/4 oz Creme de Noyeau

Shake with ice and strain. Serve in a chilled cocktail glass. Creme de Noyeau is an almond flavored liqueur with a nuttier flavor than Amaretto (unlike Amaretto, it actually tastes like real almonds. Or so I've read. I'm allergic to almonds so I haven't tried this one).

Brandy Puff

• 1 1/2 oz brandy
• 3 oz milk

Put in a highball glass with several ice cubes and fill with soda. It's that easy. And not that great. I think brandy and warm milk might be alright, but once you add the soda it just gets weird. If you're going to try this I recommend skim milk. The combination of milk and soda water is just too weird to my taste buds.

This is what came up when I Googled "Bachelor's Bait". Seriously.

Bachelor's Bait

• 1 1/2 oz gin
• 1 egg white
• 1 dash orange bitters
• 1/4 grenadine

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Frankly, I can think of a lot of other things that would bring the boys to the yard. This doesn't mean it's bad; the bitters go well with the grenadine (don't substitute Angostura!) and egg whites are always fun to play with. This is the best of the three by far.