Yep I have jumped the shark! The funny thing is this drink is pretty good showing even P. Diddy has good taste… on occasion!

Alcoholic:

Ingredients:

Instructions:

Pour all the ingredients into a highball glass with ice.

Economy in the toilet? Your house being foreclosed on? Just lost your job?  Well somebody apparently doesn’t share your grief as an “unnamed couple” visiting the new XS nightclub at the Encore expansion of the Wynn hotel in Las Vegas dropped a bank breaking $10,000 for single cocktail (yes, you read that right). So here is what $10k buys you:

Ingredients: 

• 1/2 oz Louis XIII black pearl cognac
• 1/2 oz fresh squeezed orange juice
• 1/4 oz apricot puree
• 1/4 sence rose nectar
• 2 ice cubes
• 4 oz Charels Heidseck’s 1981 Champagne Charlie

Directions:

The orange juice and apricot puree are mixed and poured into the custom champagne glass. The champagne glass and Black Pearl cognac (served in its own custom-designed glass) are presented on a crystal tray along with a bottle of Charles Heidsieck’s “1981 Champagne Charlie”. The “XS” pearl necklace and “XS” cufflinks are also presented on the tray in their respective boxes. While the guests are ooohing and aaahing over their treasures, the server opens the champagne and finishes building the drink by pouring the Black Pearl cognac and 4 oz. of champagne into the glass with the juice mixture.

Comments:

If there was ever a drink to wash it all away this would be at the op of the list I would think!  Credit on the profile goes exclusively to myvegasscene.com which broke all the info and are an all around cool site.

For all of you twitter fans out there, I was at the Las Vegas Twestival event and this blue concoction was being served.  Seeing as how its beyond my moral sensibilities to pass up free drinks for charity I had 3 or 4!  One of the organizers spilled the goods on the anatomy of this cocktail so here you go:

Ingredients: 

• 1 oz Vodka
• 1 oz Blue Curcao
• 1 oz Sour Mix
• splash of Sugar Syrup
• 1 Lemon twist (for garnish)

Directions:

Combine Vodka, Blue Curcao, Sour Mix, and Sugar Syrup in a a mixer and shake thoroughly.  Strain into a martini glass and garnish with a lemon twist.

Comments:

A bastard child of a blue martini with real hangover potential.  Credit goes to @toddhuish for the photo.

On a night out and about in Sin City I dropped into an dante’s inferno decorated restaurant called “Rum Jungle”.  While I remain a fan of almost all types of alcohol rum can be a tricky mistress.  The waitress was quick to point out the specialty drink menu, I asked “Give me your strongest”.  This is rather rummy in flavor with a fruit punch chaser.  I give it a 4/5.  Enjoy:

• 1 shot Ron Rico Gold
• 1 shot Appleton VX
• 1 shot Goslings 151
• 1 shot Bacardi 151
• 2 shots Fruit Punch

Combine everything into a mixer with ice and mix.  Strain into a highball glass with ice.

So here’s what I had for New Years.  There are 3 different flavors that hit your pallet on this: sweet, sour, and oh shit thats spicy!  A microserf was mixing this drink and it was only when I promised to stop making fun of his Zune’s blue screen of death did he give up the goods on the recipe.  Enjoy:

•  3 Thin Slices of Ginger
• 3 Medium Thick Slices of Cucumber
• 3 Medium Thick Slices of Jalapeno
• 4 Cilantro Leaves
• 2 Shots Agave Syrup
• 2 Shots Sweet and Sour
• 3 Shots Gin
• 6 Shots Vodka

Take all the veggies and agave syrup and place them into a mixer and mash/muddle them to your hearts content. Now add ice, sweet and sour, gin, and vodka and shake vigorously.  Strain into a martini glass (this recipe makes 2).

There is a bar named “Caramel” inside the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas that I love.  The best drink they have there, imho, is their Chocolate Martini.  It is smooth and creamy and goes down perfectly.  I bugged the bartender to give up the goods on the recipe and after several rounds he finally gave up the goods!  Here you go:

• 1 shot Vanilla Stoli
• 3/4 shot Godiva Dark Liqueur
• 3/4 shot Godiva Light Liqueur
• Splash of Half and Half

Combine into a shaker filled with ice and shake vigorously.  Strain and pour into a martini glass and enjoy!