Thursday, April 19, 2012

Pisco Pilot

Now, folks—everyone should know that you shouldn’t drink and fly a plane. But you may be wondering what to do with your hands instead. Well I have the answer: paper planes. You can’t kill anyone in a paper plane. (Except if you try to get into one and go sailing out the window.) Maybe you haven’t made a plane in years. No sweat—you can find swell instructions from Alex’s Paper Airplanes. I found this site and knew I was in for hours of harmless cocktail time fun.

For a moment, I wondered if Alex would approve of having his planes plugged from a booze blog, but to my amazement and delight, Alex has a booze site too! How cool is that?




Pisco Pilot
  • 2 oz pisco
  • 1/2 oz maraschino
  • 1/2 oz lemon juice
  • 1/4 oz or less crème de violette (optional)
Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
SOURCE: ROWEN, FOGGED IN LOUNGE

This here’s the old Aviation with pisco instead of gin. Nice and bright with a little wine-like grape note. It works pretty well, though as usual, people will have different ideas about the amount of violette, if any. More candy than perfume here.

3 comments:

  1. Sexy photo, man! Super eye catching. I'm a big fan of the Aviation variations too. Though, I find that the violette and maraschino need something herbaceous to play off of, or else (as you say) there is "more candy than perfume." I might throw a dash or two of celery bitters in there. Or a rinse of absinthe. Or maybe even sub a quarter ounce of the pisco out for aquavit. I may have to try that last one actually. Cheers!

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  2. And that drink would be a... Luftfart? Doesn't sound appealing.

    :P

    Cheers!

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  3. Luftfart—indeed, almost any fart—is a defining element of the current age.

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