{"id":900,"date":"2009-03-02T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T21:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2009-03-02T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T21:52:13","slug":"lemon-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I haven’t spent much time covering vodka cocktails as yet.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of my fellow cocktail enthusiasts are vehemently opposed to vodka and while I can’t say I fall in to that category, I will say I don’t find myself reaching for it particularly often.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is particularly odd when you consider that I have a lot of vodka in my collection.\u00c2\u00a0 Fifteen bottles at my last count.<\/p>\n

My problem with regard to vodka in cocktails is that vodka rarely brings much to the party.\u00c2\u00a0 A good vodka is typically characterized by it’s abject lack of flavor.\u00c2\u00a0 There are people that will claim you can pick up subtle flavors, and I wouldn’t disagree with that, but overall the goal is to make a spirit that is so smooth it’s nearly undetectable.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t give us a ton to work with in the way of flavor blending.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have a spirit that brings nothing then your other ingredients have to bear the weight of the cocktail as a whole.\u00c2\u00a0 In the case of the Cosmopolitan this fell on the cranberry juice, cointreau and lime juice.\u00c2\u00a0 This week we’re going to explore another vodka cocktail that has gained considerable popularity, the Lemon Drop.<\/p>\n

Lemon Drop (Joy of Mixology)<\/strong><\/pre>\n
2 oz Citrus Vodka\r\n1 oz Lemon Juice\r\n1\/2 oz Simple Syrup\r\nLemon Wedge for Garnish<\/strong><\/pre>\n
1) Combine ingredient in a shaker with ice\r\n2) Shake until well chilled\r\n3) Strain in to a chilled cocktail glass<\/strong><\/pre>\n
One thing this cocktail, like the Cosmo, has going for it is the use of citrus vodka.\u00c2\u00a0 Although, my concern is that, with this amount of lemon juice the citrus vodka may not make much difference.\u00c2\u00a0 Like I did with the Cosmo I’ll be sure to try it with citrus vodka and regular and let you know my thoughts.<\/p>\n
This cocktail comes at the perfect time for me.\u00c2\u00a0 My parents recently went out of town for a few weeks and asked that I clean out their fridge and take anything that I’d eat.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the many things I ended up with was enough citrus fruit to make a ton of cocktails.\u00c2\u00a0 Specifically there was a whole bag of lemons to be had and have them I do.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, the picture you see above is from my citrus drawer in my fridge circa last night.\u00c2\u00a0 Going to be a good week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I haven’t spent much time covering vodka cocktails as yet.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of my fellow cocktail enthusiasts are vehemently opposed to vodka and while I can’t say I fall in to that category, I will say I don’t find myself reaching for it particularly often.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is particularly odd when you consider that I have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,81,10],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-cocktail","tag-lemon-drop","tag-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}