Golden Dawn

• equal parts dry gin, Calvados, apricot brandy, and Cointreau
• dash of grenadine

This sounded good on paper, but ends up as a sickly sweet concoction. On second glance, I can't figure out what the grenadine is doing there at all, since a drink that's half Cointreau and/or apricot brandy should be more than sweet enough already. Unlike with some sweet cocktails, though, the taste of the gin was still there, so this one might be worth tinkering with. (Perhaps my mistake was using bottled grenadine instead of lacerating a pomegranate plucked under a gibbous moon with a silver dagger and letting two exquisite trembling drops fall into the glass at the first light of dawn on the equinox? Still time to rectify that.)

AAN: Coiscíní

Is deacair liom a chreidiúint gurbh é seo an chéad uair gur cheannaíos coiscíní im shaol, ach má dheineas riamh é, dáiríre níl aon chuimhne agam air!