I just realized…this month I’ve published drinks about bad guys (bad, more or less); last time Mordru and Quicksilver , Professor Zoom and Weather Wizard before them. Maybe it’s all this covid stuff, I dunno…

Well, let’s go with it and proclaim January -21 as “The Month of Villain Cocktails” ;P

BATROC

Purple layer, top (yes, it’s there, although faint):

Parfait Amour and gin, half and half

Orange layer, bottom:

1 part bourbon

1 part Campari

3 parts orange juice

Shake or stir layers separately with ice and layer into a highball glass with some ice in it; purple on top. Serve with a straw.

Sharp-eyed readers might notice the orange part of this drink is almost like my first version of Deathstroke, dark rum is replaced with bourbon. Well, I could have published this as a “Deathstroke, take three”(there’s a second version of Salde Wilson) but I got my mind fixed in Batroc already…

So I added a top layer. If you hate it, just skip it… but there’s an idea behind that horrible gin+P-Amour-combo… Georges Batroc is not a nice man, so his namesake cocktail shouldn’t be one either: both layers have kinda “nasty surprises” in them… but the drink is actually enjoyable when using a straw to alternate between layers: if Campari in orange layer gets into you, just sip the purple and you’ll welcome orange again 🙂

JUDGE CALIGULA

1 part bourbon

3 parts red wine

sarsaparilla syrup, to taste

Build into a suitable glass, add some ice if you like.

I was checking my old drink recipes and stumbled upon Judge Dredd; “Whoa! This drink is evil and mean! I actually published this?!? I really should design a new version.”

Well, I came up with the idea above; I wanted to stick with the red wine (for some reason). Days went by, and just before I begun writing this I tried a small glass of Judge Dredd and this new version… “No! JD The Cocktail is rude, but it should be! He doesn’t have any friends, and he doesn’t want any!”

So, on a last minute I changed this drink to my personal favourite JD villain, Judge Caligula. We already have Judges Fear and Fire, Death and Mortis; we even got Satanus, so it’s time for some Judge Cal’s Justice!

Well, now I’ve kinda committed myself for creating Mean Machine the Cocktail… ;P

Next time: more villains, or good guys for a change? We’ll see…

I made some experiments with white wine. As usual, I use cheapo wine with sugar 40 grams per litre: dried whites just don’t work in cocktails, and sweeter tend to turn drinks into cloying sludges. And there’s no point in using more expensive wines in cocktails, enjoy their nuances on their own.

MORDRU

2 parts Campari

2 to 3 parts De Kyuper Blueberry

6 parts white wine

2 parts vodka

Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass, add one ice cube.

While ago I was checking out some wizard-themed cocktails I’ve designed earlier and I felt like one more: something weird, something with colliding tastes which still somehow function together. You know, something “magical”; when I bought a wine bottle I decided to pursue that.

The combination of Campari and De Kyuper Blueberry did the trick this time; white wine works as a satisfying “lubricant” for the pair, and vodka (oddly enough) softens the overall taste to suitable level.

I think it’s a worthy drink for a mighty wizard such as Mordru. De Kyuper Blueberry is “an active ingredient” in this drink: try it with two and three parts – you’ll notice the difference.

QUICKSILVER

1 part mezcal

1 part Triple Sec

1 part white wine

1 part lemon juice

Shake with ice and strain into a shot glass.

After opening the wine bottle I decided to start my cocktail research session with small Kamikaze, “enhanced version”. Everyone knows basic Kamikaze: vodka, Sec, lime and/or lemon juice, one part each… adding some white wine gives this (in my honest opinion) vulgar drink “a royal touch” – something to actually enjoy, not just a crude instrument to get wasted.

I already had some sort of ideas about Mordru, but I set them aside for a while and decided to refine “Royal Kamikaze” further; I substituted vodka for different clear spirits…and mezcal hit my nerve. Not as a full-sized drink, but as a shot.

And how is this Pietro Maximoff? As a shot, it’s “quick”…but The Idea is not just in a way you serve it, it’s also in the taste: mezcal hits you quickly, but Triple Sec and white wine instantly soften the impact… then there’s a sour aftertaste (still mellowed by Sec and wine) which lingers.

So, it’s like getting punched by Quicksilver when he’s speeding by 🙂

By the way, please check out Pietro’s sister here.

I hope you enjoy these cocktails. See you next time!

I spend the turn of the year hiding from civilization: up north, in the middle of snow banks, charging my batteries and getting ready for the coming year.

I came up with these ideas… they’re both based on very familiar drinks, Lemon Drop Martini and Screwdriver, but they are so twisted that they stand on their own feet, so to speak.

PROFESSOR ZOOM/REVERSE-FLASH

2 parts vodka

1 part Triple Sec

1 part lemon juice

1 part orange juice

dash of Tabasco sauce

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with red cherry.

I enjoyed few Lemon Drop Martinis during the holidays… 3 parts vodka (according to IBA it should be vodka citron, but I think regular does it), 2 parts Triple Sec and 1,5 parts lemon juice. Zesty little drink… I decided to do some experiments with the ratios; adding orange juice kinda “softens” the drink, still retaining citrus sourness… but it needed something…

Please don’t overdo Tabasco! You have the right amount of sauce when you taste the drink and start pondering “what’s this extra kick in here..?” The key is to preserve the sourness and not overcome it with pepper.

And how is this Reverse-Flash? Compare it with The Flash; this is the “evil version”, am I right? ;P

WEATHER WIZARD

1 part vodka

1 part lemon juice

3 parts orange juice

Sarsaparilla syrup, to taste

Blue Curacao, for adjusting colour to green

Stir with ice and strain into a highball glass with some ice in it. More beautiful version: use Blue Curacao only for the half of the drink, leaving the other half yellow. Layer into the glass, yellow on top of the green. It’s done in the pic above but I guess camera didn’t catch the light colour variations properly… IRL you can see the difference. It’s nice, worth extra labour.

It’s a storm in the glass… not because of the alcohol content, but because sarsaparilla and lemon juice twist the tornado in your mouth. Feel free to cut down orange juice.

And a nice bonus… this works OK as mocktail, simply skip the vodka.

Screwdriver acted as a basis for Weather Wizard… but I wandered pretty far from basic orange+vodka concept; as I usually do when screwing around with Screw, please check out Electro and Wolverine (Logan).

Couple of pretty simple designs; something more ambitious next time 🙂

Test Subject K. has been a pest about this, and finally I decided to do it. Lantern Corps: Willpower, Fear, Hope, Life, Death, Rage, Avarice, Compassion and Love… and same approach as in Thanos: Infinity Gauntlet consists of six drinks, Lanterns includes nine drinks! 🙂

Infinity Gauntlet cocktails had one ingredient in common, extra dry vermouth: the rest was mixture of various liqueurs. The idea was that there is one common nominator and you could taste the dry spiciness in all of them, but despite of that all were basically different.

Same here. I decided to use sambuca as common Lantern nominator. No, there is nothing common in different Lantern Corps and anise, but it’s a taste I can mix with different liqueurs and still taste it in all of them.

You are going to be drunk after drinking these. Suggested drinking order: Compassion, Life, then Fear/Hope/Death/Avarice/Willpower, Rage and Love last. Compassion and Life have elegant aromas, it’s best to drink them first while you can enjoy the flavour (and Compassion’s colour takes really steady hand to produce). Rage and Love have the most powerful tastes, you can get the idea even when roaring drunk.

WILLPOWER (Green)

3 parts vodka

1 part creme de menthe

1 part sambuca

Shake with ice and strain into a small glass with some ice in it.

Combination of mint and anise makes you feel good aka. boosts your willpower.

FEAR (Yellow)

2 parts vodka

2 parts Strega

1 part sambuca

Shake with ice and strain into a small glass with some ice in it. Pour some Strega on top.

Strega adds “violent” anise to sambuca’s anise, this will make you afraid.

HOPE (Blue)

1 part vodka

2 parts Malibu

1 part Blue Curacao

1 part sambuca

Shake with ice and strain into a small glass with some ice in it.

They say there is no hope without fear, so I added a little “off balance” element in the form of Malibu: I think it binds the drink under the word “Hope”.

DEATH (Black)

1 part vodka

1 part Kahlúa

2 parts Cynar

1 part sambuca

black food colouring

Shake with ice and strain into a small glass with some ice in it. The picture is without black colouring, I wanted to show it “natural”.

It’s kinda “thick” and suffocating… it’s Death.

AVARICE (Orange)

2 parts cognac

1 part Strega

1 part Aperol

1 part sambuca

Shake with ice and strain into a small glass with some ice in it.

This drink has some “royal” taste in it… but it’s still bitter, because greedy person always wants more, no matter what.

COMPASSION (Indigo)

3 parts tequila blanco (100% puro de agave)

1 part Bols Cacao White

1 part sambuca

Blue curacao and Parfait Amour (see below)

Pour tequila, Cacao White and sambuca in suitable mixing jar. Add some Blue Curacao until faint blue. Add Parfait Amour, little by little and mixing, until the colour is somewhat indigo. Then… Shake with ice and strain into a small glass with some ice in it.

What is Compassion? That you feel another person’s pain, and you want to do something about it: the result is something that can be called a good deed. So, other people’s pain is sharp tequila; it’s softened with sweet and gentle Caco White.

RAGE (Red)

1 part vodka

2 parts Aperol

1 part sambuca

some red grenadine for adjusting colour

dash of Tabasco sauce

Shake with ice and strain into a small glass with some ice in it. Feel free to substitute some of Aperol with Campari, in this case no red grenadine needed. Be warned, Campari version is v_i_o_l_e_n_t!

Aperol/Campari and Tabasco… rage!

LOVE (Purple)

4 parts Parfait Amour

1 part sambuca

Shake with ice and strain into a small glass with lots of ice in it. If you have De Kyuper Cocoa Bitters please add some for bittersweet love.

Well, this is a no-brainer… even the liqueur is called Parfait Amour.

LIFE (White)

4 parts Bols Natural Yoghurt

1 part sambuca

Shake with ice and strain into a small glass with some ice in it. Unfortunately sambuca starts to separate yoghurt but don’t worry: it’s so delicious you’ll finish the drink before any serious damage 🙂

No-brainer like Love, above. This is the Potion of Life.

I hope you like Lanterns The Cocktail(s)! Yearn for more Lantern-themed drinks? Please check out Green Lantern and Sinestro and way more better Green Lantern in the form of Hal Jordan. Don’t forget Kilowog and Parallax.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! SEE YOU IN JANUARY!

Last time I promised more layered drinks, let’s check them out:

DEADMAN

Red part:

8 parts Edinburgh Gin Distillery’s Elderflower Liqueur

1 part bourbon

1 part Aperol

(red grenadine, adjusting colour for deeper red)

White part:

1 part milk

1 part De Kyuper Pineapple

Shake parts separately with ice and layer them into old fashioned glass with some ice in it: red part first, white part on top… and don’t panic when layering seems to fail. The drink uses specific liqueurs, and their densities are pretty close to each other – even though it looks like it, they don’t mix if you enjoy your drink carefully (and I guess milk has something to do with surface tensions).

Anyway, what I tried to achieve with this design? Contemplating the shifting border of two kingdoms, both the living and the dead; in taste as well as in visual sense.

HAWKMAN (PRINCE KHUFU)

Top layer, green:

1 part vodka

dash of absinth

1 part pineapple juice

Blue Curacao (to adjust colour green)

Middle layer, brown-yellow:

10 parts lager

3 parts bourbon or cognac

1 part sambuca

some pineapple juice (to turn the layer opaque)

Bottom layer, red:

2 parts Aperol

1 part sambuca

1 part vodka

some pineapple juice (to turn the layer opaque)

(red grenadine, adjusting colour for deeper red)

Stir layers separately with ice and layer into a highball glass with some ice in it.

I thought it was about time to take a better look at Hawkman…

Prince Khufu has born in many bodies throughout ages: the idea in this drink is that although there are many layers, they still have thing in common – prince Khufu, in this case represented with anise taste. Unfortunately sambuca cannot be used in the top layer, please substitute with absinthe with strong anise flavour (and less wormwood).

The colours of the layers are, of course, taken from Carter Hall’s costume. I deliberately designed the middle layer to be more brownish, kinda “battle damaged”; the look I like in Hawkman.

Sharply separated layers look nice in drinks, too, but this time I wanted to go with “sliding” colours. Don’t forget to add some pineapple juice to two bottom layers; they look some much better when they’re opaque.

We’ll put layering aside for a while, but next time we’ll continue exploring sambuca 🙂

Last time I promised to introduce more drinks utilizing Bols Natural Youghurt liqueur. The taste is pretty one-dimensional: fresh youghurt and that’s it, but at least the taste is solid.

Downside is that mixing it with pretty much anything dissolves the freshness, the remaining aroma retains “heavy” substance but lacks refreshing element.

Or maybe I’m wrong, it’s not the first time I don’t approve with a particular booze at first glance… but within time I find some value in it: remember how I thrashed Passoã in the beginning, but then I realized the error of my ways?

Passoã definitely isn’t so-called “high quality connoisseur liquer” and neither is Bols Yoghurt, not much “natural flavour” but synthetic essence instead… but let’s check out what we can come up with. I decided to develop two shots: one, where Yoghurt is one layer just as it is, and another where the liqueur is mixed with some other element.

HAVOK

Top layer, black:

1 part vodka

1 part Fernet Branca

black food colour

Middle layer, white:

Bols Natural Youghurt

Bottom layer, black again:

1 part Aperol

1 part simple syrup

1 part brandy/cognac with sharp taste

black food colour

Shake layers separately with ice and layer into a shot glass. Down in one.

Okay, the colour theme is definitely “Havok-ian”… and the taste? Taste sensations follow each up really quickly, there’s no time for “horrible start, but sweet relief”-effect as in The Atom… but I’m not aiming for that.

Let’s think about those Alex Summers’ plasma blasts… enormous cosmic power, and in the past he had problems controlling it. So, the taste of Havok The Cocktail should be a pandemonium of different aromas, cruising around in the taste buds… and a shot is a natural choice, since the plasma beams are so fast.

So how does Bols Yoghurt perform in this one? There are lots of competing tastes, but even as Yoghurt is mixed with all the rest the fresh taste manages to manifest itself when you knock the glass back .

…or at least that’s what I think. Please feel free to replace some simple syrup with Aperol if you yearn more kick. And enlarging the white layer, of course, adds more Yoghurt’s “cooling” effect.

(Btw…started to think about that other Summers boy? You can find his cocktail here.)

HIGH EVOLUTIONARY

2 parts Bols Natural Yoghurt

1 part red wine

Stir with ice and strain into a shot glass. Alternatively, you can enjoy it in a suitable small glass with plenty of ice.

You think this a joke? Such a cuddly pink drink for such a powerful character? Well, taste it 🙂

The hue of pink is actually pretty “sullen”, and the taste… the sourness of the wine really kicks up, luckily the Youghurt keeps it down, barely… it might look like a joke, but it is a tribute to High Evolutionary…

…well, there’s no going around it: the drink also honours H.E.’s costume – the pink part of it 🙂

(Fancy that “sullen pink” colour? Please check out Big Barda.)

Bols Natural Yoghurt is pretty okay liqueur; not for the pretty simple taste, but for the great layering qualities! I’ll be back with some other Yoghurt drinks in the future, but let’s put that bottle aside for now… I must confess, I’m really into layering at the moment. Next time we’ll check out more multi-coloured cocktails, but not with Yoghurt.

Take care, and stay safe.

This double act has been waiting and waiting for their drinks, it’s about time they get theirs!

BLUE BEETLE

Top layer, black:

Fernet Branca

(black colouring, should you not be content with Fernet’s colour)

2nd topmost layer, light blue:

Bols Natural Yoghurt

Blue Curacao, for colour

3rd topmost layer, dark blue:

2 parts Bols Natural Youghurt

1 part Malibu

2 parts Blue Curacao

Bottom layer, yellow:

Strega

few dashes of Rose’s lime cordial

Shake parts separately with ice and layer into an old fashioned glass with some ice in it.

It’s amazing how long it took to give birth to Blue Beetle The Cocktail… I had not a single solid idea about the concept of the drink; something that would “nail it” at first glance.

I consulted some geeks from local comics store, that was a mistake… “is it about old or new Beetle? Maybe you should do both? Hey, but whaddabout this-and-that storyline, how are you going to represent that in the cocktail?…”

Aaargh! Weeks turned into months, and Blue Beetle still didn’t have his namesake cocktail…Damn it! So here it is: nothing particularly “blue-beetleyish” in this one, except the colour theme.

You will go through all sorts of aromas when drinking this; I hope you’ll enjoy them and find some forgiveness in your heart… it’s pretty delicious, I dare to say, but it’s just that – without any actual reference to Blue Beetle. Layering suitable colours doesn’t cut it, I’ve ranted about that earlier and I’m not going to cut myself slack with this.

One day I’ll find An Inspiration, and come back with The Essential Blue Beetle Cocktail 🙂

While waiting for that…

BOOSTER GOLD

2 parts prosecco

1 part orange juice

dash of Strega

few dashes of Malibu

few dashes of Rose’s lime cordial

Build into a champagne flute, add some crushed ice.

Michael J. Carter… a showoff from the distant future, boasting around in our time – I love it 🙂

Bubbly seemed as an obvious choice for the base of the drink, and while thinking about gold/yellow colour I instantly reached for orange juice… “Hey, wait a minute! Don’t do a Mimosa!”

Well, why not? Mimosa, with a twist! Malibu adds kinda exotic aroma, and Strega introduces harsher element for balance; the amount of lime cordial is up to personal taste.

You noticed I used Bols Natural Yoghurt again, in B-Beetle? Originally I bought it for creating white stripe into Captain America (Land of The Free), and even as it isn’t my favourite liqueur it has its uses… that being said: next time, youghurt drinks 🙂

No, this post is not about certain masked killer in certain movie franchise; instead of that we’ll check out couple of fellas who truly bring bad luck upon others.

ARCANE

1 part coffee (let it cool down)

1 part orange juice

1 (or more) part red wine

Simple syrup, to taste

(vanilla extract, see below)

Build into a suitable glass. No ice, this is meant to be room temperature.

I decided to create red wine-based punch for this year’s Halloween party: I’ve had this red wine obsession for over a month now, unfortunately very few of those experiments are worth exploring further 😐

Anyway, this turned out to be okay Halloween punch: easy to make, no worrying about ice, and it looks yucky but it’s still pretty interesting. No, I didn’t say “delicious”, I said “interesting”… During the evening I realized this drink would make great Arcane Cocktail 🙂

Red wine and orange juice go well together, everyone knows that, but instead of turning it into a one more Sangria variant I wanted something mysterious and threatening… well, add some coffee: the whole shebang turns opaque, starts to look like a mixture of mire water and clotted blood…and naturally you gotta love the bitterness of coffee: of course you’ll need to add some sugar, but please don’t overdo it! Let the coffee “breath” through… if you can’t handle the aroma, dont drown it with simple syrup: add some vanilla extract instead.

By the way… Swamp Thing cocktails right here

BLACK MANTA

2 part Campari

1 part Kahlùa

2 parts vodka

2 parts extra dry vermouth

(black food colouring)

Shake with ice and strain into an old fashioned glass with some ice in it. If you go with a black colouring, garnish with two red cocktail cherries 🙂

Coffee adds mystery and danger to Arcane The Cocktail; Kahlùa does that here. Campari and Martini are harsh combo, but luckily the sugar of Kahlùa softens it up a bit… and still there is a bottomless bitterness of David Hyde. The combination is a bit too tense, lets cut it down with neutral vodka.

I think it’s okay. Need some rhyming drinks? Aquaman, Mera and Ocean Master… enjoy. Unfortunately it looks like it’s going to be miserable rowanberry year here in Finland 😐

Next time: something less harsh.

I found myself reading good ol’ 90’s comics: edgy, grim… and oh so nineties! Let’s see what kind of ideas I got…

MARTHA WASHINGTON (Second Civil War)

1 part Aperol

1,5 to 2 parts Luxardo Maraschino

2 parts extra dry vermouth

1 part vodka

Shake with ice and strain into a an old fashioned glass with some ice in it.

Martha Washington, Heroine on The Second Civil War. Her namesake drink is suitable for chilling out after one more victory, be it against degenerated rednecks or whatever xenophobics.

SPIDER JERUSALEM

Top layer, red:

4 parts gin (cheap and stingy)

2 parts De Kyuper Sour Rhubarb

1 part Aperol

Bottom layer, green:

Pisang ambon and (cheap) whisky, 50-50

Creme de menthe, for taste

tequila blanco, for taste

Shake parts separately with ice and layer into a cocktail glass.

Spider drinks (among other things) gin, whisky and tequila: all of them lethally strong, and equally cheap. I felt I had no choice, I got to include all those three ingredients in his drink 🙂

Even though S.J. The Cocktail is a tribute to horrific dystopia the infamous reporter lives in and his even more horrific drinking habits, it doesn’t mean the cocktail has taste disgusting. Sure, it has an acquired taste, but I think it’s okay.

Red and green, of course, are tribute to Spider’s glasses… and this drink also contains optical illusion: it has two distinctive layers, but if you gaze it from above…

Slight tint of red, but it looks green? I didn’t design this, it was just a lucky accident.

What will future bring to us? Some hope for the better future, or monstrous dystopia filled with fear and distrust?

Halloween is closing in. Instead of grim killers or supernaturals, this year I’m gonna speculate with realistic threats, true horror scenarios… what happens if a madman manages to “wheel and deal” him/herself to an Oval Office?

For example: Lex Luthor did it twice (thrice, if you count an animated series)… In “Red Son” and “No Man’s Land” storylines. Both times ended bad for the American people (and humanity in general).

He claimed to be “listening to the Common Man”; I used this as an inspiration for my earlier Lex Luthor drink. Lex doesn’t give a fudge about a common man, or everyone else but himself for that matter – I’ll keep that in mind while introducing his drink today.

So, there is a real threat that Lex is going to make it to the office; who’s gonna save America? I guess no one else but our beloved Captain America; yup, he’s a character from different publisher, but in the darkest hour we don’t care about such minor details.

I published my first version of Cap almost three years back, it’s about time to honour him with another cocktail recipe… even more than one.

Shopping list for this alternative Halloween Horror party cocktail list: Russian vodka, Passõa, bourbon (Jim Beam recommended), Campari, Blue Curacao, sour apple liqueur (I prefer De Kyuper Sour Apple, but Sourz Apple is ok also), Bols Natural Yoghurt liqueur, gin, champagne, Fernet Branca/Jägermeister/Gammel Dansk, simple syrup, lemon juice, apple juice

CAPTAIN AMERICA (RISE AND FALL OF THE MADMAN)

Top layer, white (well, transparent):

Russian vodka

Upper middle layer, red:

2 parts Passõa

1 part bourbon

2 parts apple juice

(some red grenadine, should you want to adjust the colour)

Lower middle layer, red:

As upper middle layer, but add up to 1 part Campari (try it with few dashes first)

Bottom layer, blue:

Sour Apple liqueur

Blue Curacao, for adjusting colour (you won’t need much)

Shake layers separately with ice and layer into a highball glass with some ice in it. It might take couple of trial-and-errors to get the top layer right: just the right ice-vodka ratio to create illusion of white stripe, and to make sure the amount of ice is correct – meaning that there’s barely nothing of them left when you finish the blue layer (just the right the amount of “cooling power” without watering down).

So what’s the story of this drink?

Let’s say Lex made it for president 2016, and now he’s running for the second term. White layer represents the shock in 2016: “whatta hell happened? Somehow that maniac is now in Oval Office?” I think Russian vodka is great for representing that kick to the groin.

Red layer: After the initial shock the people calm down a little, “okay, it’s only four years”… life goes on, with basic American household items: bourbon, and apple juice (since that famous “American as an Apple Pie” is not a liquid). Passõa worked nice in my first Captain America cocktail, I’ll use it here too: it’s here just for the taste, no particular thematic reason. Well, colour fits nice.

(If you’re a fan of bourbon-rhubarb-combo, try substituting Passõa with De Kyuper Sour Rhubarb. You’ll probably need some red grenadine too, I think the colour is a bit too brownish in this option.)

Then the reality kicks is… Lower middle layer represents life in USA when people realize they’re living in a nightmare: it’s still Land of The Free and Home of The Brave, but the bitterness of Campari turns it into a nation on its way to a dictatorship.

And then… Blue layer represents the relief when Lex doesn’t make it in 2020. That famous American Apple Pie is depicted with Sour Apple: tastewise it’s really nice relief after the bitterness of Campari.

Yes, it’s very laborious drink to make, but it sure tells a story: initial shock, people coping with it, harsh reality kicking in, and a relief when The Madman is thrown from the throne.

We’ll stick with the layering in the next one, too…

CAPTAIN AMERICA (LAND OF THE FREE)

Top layer, red:

2 parts Passõa

1 part bourbon

2 parts apple juice

Middle layer, white:

Bols Natural Yoghurt

Bottom Layer, blue:

Sour apple liqueur

Blue Curacao, for adjusting colour (you won’t need much)

Shake layers separately and layer into a cocktail glass with one or two small ice cubes in it.

This is the drink people enjoy when their work in the ballot boxes pays off, when Lex Luthor is denied his second term. You’ll notice that red and blue layers are exactly the same as in “Rise and Fall of The Madman” above: Bols Natural Yoghurt creates nice “breezy” moment somewhere there, between the different depictions of American Apple Pie.

If you’re into serious celebration, you can serve this drink as a shot…

It might seem that all that layering labour is for nothing (except for visual value) when you’re going to down it with one shot, but it’s surprisingly nice: the rush of aromas is pretty enjoyable.

CAPTAIN AMERICA (…AND HOME OF THE BRAVE)

Top layer, red:

Passõa and gin/vodka, roughly 50/50

Middle layer, white:

French 75

Bottom layer, blue:

Sour apple liqueur

Blue Curacao, for adjusting colour (you won’t need much)

Shake the blue and red layer separately with ice, and prepare French 75. Layer into a champagne flute with some crushed ice in it (crushed ice helps red layer to float on top, please don’t replace with ice cubes).

In my honest opinion French 75 is THE best champagne cocktail if you’re planning to get wasted with bubbly, hence I chose it as a basis of the drink. Red layer serves a similar “initial shock” as a plain Russian vodka in “Rise and Fall of The Madman” earlier; there is no actual need for “the dessert” after a delicious French 75, but The Blue Bottom, familiar from drinks above, is there pretty much for visual reasons.

(If you didn’t know… French 75 was named after World War I artillery piece, “it hits hits you like French 75mm” :D)

Oh, I almost forgot about our bad guy…

LEX LUTHOR (HE FORGOT HIS ORANGE WIG HOME, THAT’S WHY HE IS BALD)

3 parts champagne

1 to 2 parts sour apple liqueur

some Fernet Branca or Jägermeister or Gammel Dansk on top

Build into a champagne flute with some crushed in it, top with a bitter of your choice.

This is not a very good cocktail, Lex doesn’t deserve such a thing. I designed it as a means to dispose leftover champagne (in the strange case you don’t use it all on French 75s). The drink starts with a brute slap in the face and continues into a green part (representing kryptonite, Lex’s last hope against Superman) which tastes kinda bland: add some simple syrup if you want to enhance the aroma… but instead of that this bubbly cocktail should be sipped in the silent contemplation: “what can I do in the future to prevent a tyrannical psycho ever entering White House again?”

Happy Halloween. See you November 3rd.