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Harry Potter cocktails
Jun. 23rd, 2011 01:02 amOkay, just trying to get rid of some tabs here. I was recently invited to a "Happy Birthday, Harry Potter!" party in July, and as a bartender and mixology nerd, I immediately started looking up whatever Harry Potter-related cocktails the internet could give me. My favorite finds:
Frozen Butterbeer
So I'm actually not the hugest fan of the usual recipes for butterbeer (which are usually based around the Official, Taste-Tested By JKR version that is at some theme park or whatever), which are variations on a combination of cream soda and butterscotch schnapps. Occasionally someone goes old-school and pulls up the original Tudor recipe for actually-buttered beer, but it looks pretty gross. However, it's kind of a required item, and I think that it would be delicious frozen. (Especially since it's been 105 around here lately.) Haven't tried the proportions on this, so can't speak to taste, but I think the general principle is sound. And anything with whipped cream is automatically awesome.
The Backyard Bartender: The Hermione Granger, The Ron Weasley, and The Harry Potter
I am somewhat dubious about the sloe gin in the Hermione, but I've only ever had the cough-syrup brand version of sloe gin, so there's that. I think the sloe gin-grapefruit-pomegranate combination sounds promising, though, citrus and fruit with sweet balancing bitter (and I'm a sucker for champagne, I will admit). The Ron is basically a Blood And Sand plus Campari, which is a-okay with me because I really like a good Blood And Sand. Would probably be too bitter/strong for most of my friends, though (wimps!), so not a party drink. The Harry sounds really intriguing; I'm going to have to make it some time. Chocolate, butterscotch, and absinthe? Cool.
Harry Potter Mixology #1: The Fred & George Weasley, The Luna Lovegood, The Neville Longbottom, The Draco Malfoy
I will love the Fred&George regardless of how it tastes solely because they had the genius idea of rimming the glass (hush, gutter-minded peanut gallery) with Pop Rocks. The Luna reminds me a lot of another drink, made with pear vodka rather than lemon vodka, without raspberries, and lemon juice/simple syrup instead of pink lemonade. I think I'd want to play with this one to make it weirder and more unique rather than its somewhat girly, lemonade-y current condition. Maybe use poivre AND citron Grey Goose in combination, and go with lemon/simple to keep it stronger, and garnish with a kumquat and a blueberry or something... The elderflower liqueur-lemony combo is perfect for her, though; it stays. The one I really want to try is the Neville, though, which is basically a mojito made with green tea, of all the brilliant things, doesn't that sound amazing? And the Draco -- a dirty martini with gruyere-stuffed olives? HI, SIGN ME UP. Although I might mix and match one of the olives with a cocktail onion, because technically those came first, and are also more delicious (I am a Gibson fangirl, so sue me), and Draco is nothing if not a slave to tradition (and deliciousness).And I tend to put about three olives AND three cocktail onions in my martinis anyway, because I am a heathen. Yum.
Harry Potter Mixology #2: GoF Edition -- The Goblet of Fire, The Fleur Delacoeur, The Victor Krum, The Cedric Diggory
The Goblet of Fire is basically a Blue Lagoon PLUS FIRE!, although the recipe provided here measures out the lemonade instead of the usual fill, which when you experiment (...which I did >.>) tastes rather awful until you add twice as much lemonade. I will probably end up bringing these; nothing like a little pyrotechnics to spice up a party, and the ingredients aren't exorbitantly expensive/weird. Um, these would be served outside, of course. (Although...as an aside to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
katieupsidedown, I was thinking of using Blue Things as a base instead -- because the only reason I can see for using the Blue Lagoon is for the color, not the taste -- and then 151 'em up and light the suckers on fire, plus the cinnamon trick. Only, I can't remember what the Blue Things are composed of -- the result of one too many Blue Things, I assume. :D Pineapple and...something delicious, that's all I got.) The Fleur is too girly to be in-character, imo -- that girl has a backbone to her, give her some credit instead of going all champagne-and-pink-cliche -- but I kinda like Fleur, so maybe I'm biased. I want to do something weird like add a dash of Tabasco, or something else slightly less crazy to it. Maybe a cinnamon stick garnish? Ginger? Hmm. Will wait to try Nuvo before passing judgement. The Victor Krum bores me (shockingly enough, just like the character) and the Cedric is basically a whiskey sour made with cognac (i.e. probably tastes a lot the same, only overhyped and expensive! and fine, smoother), I don't have a lot to say.
List of Harry Potter cocktail names
These seem to be just differently-named regular cocktails -- e.g., Long Island Iced Tea -> Hogsmeade Iced Tea; Bloody Mary -> Bloody Malfoy (my favorite, because it makes me giggle). But I'm duly entertained by it, and it really would be the easiest way to do it at a party: *waves wand* "Your rum and coke is now...a Remus Lupin!" That's real bartending magic -- making someone think they're getting something awesome and special when all you're doing in squeezing a lime in and giving it another name (that's my personal favorite; magically turning rum&coke into a Cuba Libre! actually, lime is kinda legit magic, though, trufax).
Well...that got long. I really meant to go to bed early so I'm not dead while driving to another city/moving furniture for relatives tomorrow. Or do the beta I owemarinarusalka. Or reply to the super-awkward FB message I just received (which is a GIANT FACEPALM of a message, god help me). Or finish my book. But no! Apparently it was really important that I link to a bunch of Harry Potter cocktail recipes and then completely nerd out about them. Go team! :)
Frozen Butterbeer
So I'm actually not the hugest fan of the usual recipes for butterbeer (which are usually based around the Official, Taste-Tested By JKR version that is at some theme park or whatever), which are variations on a combination of cream soda and butterscotch schnapps. Occasionally someone goes old-school and pulls up the original Tudor recipe for actually-buttered beer, but it looks pretty gross. However, it's kind of a required item, and I think that it would be delicious frozen. (Especially since it's been 105 around here lately.) Haven't tried the proportions on this, so can't speak to taste, but I think the general principle is sound. And anything with whipped cream is automatically awesome.
The Backyard Bartender: The Hermione Granger, The Ron Weasley, and The Harry Potter
I am somewhat dubious about the sloe gin in the Hermione, but I've only ever had the cough-syrup brand version of sloe gin, so there's that. I think the sloe gin-grapefruit-pomegranate combination sounds promising, though, citrus and fruit with sweet balancing bitter (and I'm a sucker for champagne, I will admit). The Ron is basically a Blood And Sand plus Campari, which is a-okay with me because I really like a good Blood And Sand. Would probably be too bitter/strong for most of my friends, though (wimps!), so not a party drink. The Harry sounds really intriguing; I'm going to have to make it some time. Chocolate, butterscotch, and absinthe? Cool.
Harry Potter Mixology #1: The Fred & George Weasley, The Luna Lovegood, The Neville Longbottom, The Draco Malfoy
I will love the Fred&George regardless of how it tastes solely because they had the genius idea of rimming the glass (hush, gutter-minded peanut gallery) with Pop Rocks. The Luna reminds me a lot of another drink, made with pear vodka rather than lemon vodka, without raspberries, and lemon juice/simple syrup instead of pink lemonade. I think I'd want to play with this one to make it weirder and more unique rather than its somewhat girly, lemonade-y current condition. Maybe use poivre AND citron Grey Goose in combination, and go with lemon/simple to keep it stronger, and garnish with a kumquat and a blueberry or something... The elderflower liqueur-lemony combo is perfect for her, though; it stays. The one I really want to try is the Neville, though, which is basically a mojito made with green tea, of all the brilliant things, doesn't that sound amazing? And the Draco -- a dirty martini with gruyere-stuffed olives? HI, SIGN ME UP. Although I might mix and match one of the olives with a cocktail onion, because technically those came first, and are also more delicious (I am a Gibson fangirl, so sue me), and Draco is nothing if not a slave to tradition (and deliciousness).
Harry Potter Mixology #2: GoF Edition -- The Goblet of Fire, The Fleur Delacoeur, The Victor Krum, The Cedric Diggory
The Goblet of Fire is basically a Blue Lagoon PLUS FIRE!, although the recipe provided here measures out the lemonade instead of the usual fill, which when you experiment (...which I did >.>) tastes rather awful until you add twice as much lemonade. I will probably end up bringing these; nothing like a little pyrotechnics to spice up a party, and the ingredients aren't exorbitantly expensive/weird. Um, these would be served outside, of course. (Although...as an aside to
katieupsidedown, I was thinking of using Blue Things as a base instead -- because the only reason I can see for using the Blue Lagoon is for the color, not the taste -- and then 151 'em up and light the suckers on fire, plus the cinnamon trick. Only, I can't remember what the Blue Things are composed of -- the result of one too many Blue Things, I assume. :D Pineapple and...something delicious, that's all I got.) The Fleur is too girly to be in-character, imo -- that girl has a backbone to her, give her some credit instead of going all champagne-and-pink-cliche -- but I kinda like Fleur, so maybe I'm biased. I want to do something weird like add a dash of Tabasco, or something else slightly less crazy to it. Maybe a cinnamon stick garnish? Ginger? Hmm. Will wait to try Nuvo before passing judgement. The Victor Krum bores me (shockingly enough, just like the character) and the Cedric is basically a whiskey sour made with cognac (i.e. probably tastes a lot the same, only overhyped and expensive! and fine, smoother), I don't have a lot to say.List of Harry Potter cocktail names
These seem to be just differently-named regular cocktails -- e.g., Long Island Iced Tea -> Hogsmeade Iced Tea; Bloody Mary -> Bloody Malfoy (my favorite, because it makes me giggle). But I'm duly entertained by it, and it really would be the easiest way to do it at a party: *waves wand* "Your rum and coke is now...a Remus Lupin!" That's real bartending magic -- making someone think they're getting something awesome and special when all you're doing in squeezing a lime in and giving it another name (that's my personal favorite; magically turning rum&coke into a Cuba Libre! actually, lime is kinda legit magic, though, trufax).
Well...that got long. I really meant to go to bed early so I'm not dead while driving to another city/moving furniture for relatives tomorrow. Or do the beta I owe
marinarusalka. Or reply to the super-awkward FB message I just received (which is a GIANT FACEPALM of a message, god help me). Or finish my book. But no! Apparently it was really important that I link to a bunch of Harry Potter cocktail recipes and then completely nerd out about them. Go team! :)
