My Stupid Cocktail recipe rant [View All]

[JBoy]

From time to time I have a bonanza of some ingredient (like fresh lemons or a fruit juice), and I get the itch to make something boozy and tasty from it. What to make? Simple - just Google it!

What pisses me off is how many recipes on the internet require you to have on hand some ridiculously pretentious or obscure ingredient to complete the drink.

Today's example. I got myself some Tropicana pink grapefruit juice the other day. Now I know how to make a Greyhound - a simple combination of Vodka and grapefruit juice. I got crazy and did a Gin variant, and then tried it with some Angostura bitters added. All very nice.

I've still got over 1/2 the juice left, so I figured I'd look for other cocktails with grapefruit juice as an ingredient. Here are some of them, with the dumbass ingredient that Cocktail Blocked me:

Christi Extreme - lingonberry syrup. Fuck you!
Blushing Lady - OK, I'm having trouble enough with the name, but Pomegranite Liquer? Fuck you!
Jet Pilot - cinammon syrup. Never even seen that before!
Kyoto Sour - agave nectar. Yeah, I think 7-11 has that.
Rhyme & Reason - Boca Loca Cachaca. Go to hell!