cocktail review no. 23 - Double Standard Sour

And so, as the Eve of the New Year approacheth, I shall bestow upon thee the benediction of delicious cocktails. Let there be booze! Like gin and whiskey but don't want to limit yourself to one or the other? There's a cocktail for that.

• 1 ounce blended whiskey
• 1 ounce gin
• 1 ounce lemon juice
• ½ teaspoon superfine sugar
• ½ teaspoon grenadine
• 1 maraschino cherry
• 1 orange slice

In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine the whiskey, gin, lemon juice, sugar, and grenadine. Shake well and strain into a sour glass. Garnish with the cherry and the orange slice. This seems a good candidate for New Year's Eve because it's really like two drinks in one. It's a mildly evil combination of a whiskey daisy and a martini. You can taste the gin and the whiskey both. This is a sweet and sour cocktail, like the whiskey sour, but with the gin sting to remind one of the martini, and some grenadine to add some bizarre cherry flavor out of left field. Just be warned: thanks to the grenadine, this drink is pink. (And slightly cherry-tasting.) Guys: if you're comfortable enough in your masculinity to not care if you're drinking a pink drink, try this cocktail. Ladies: go for it. You might like it.