The Pink Shoe Diaries

I have discovered blended whiskey.

Specifically, canadian blended whiskey.

More specifically, Canadian Mist.



I bought a bottle of this fine alcohol for Adam kind of as a gag for Christmas (he likes whiskey and looooves being French Canadian). So I thought it could be like the best of both worlds.

Little did I know that I would love it.

And I am not really a whiskey girl. I mean there was a time in my sordid youth where my signature drink was a scotch on the rocks not so much because I enjoyed the mellow smoothness but because it got the job done. fast. But in general I am a strictly gin martini or gin & tonic or Tom Collins (thanks Chris!) kind of gal.

And then this funny shaped plastic bottle of blended Canadian goodness waltzed into my life and into my highball glass.

I have discovered thus far that

1) It is really good with ginger ale either mixed in or as a chaser
2) To make a Mist Sour, combine 2 oz of the whiskey, juice of 1/2 lemon, 1 teaspoon powdered sugar. Shake with ice and pour into glass. Garnish with maraschino cherry.

I admit, my adventures in Mist Sour making went, well, sour, when i used instead of 1/2 lemon , a 1/4 of an old nasty lemon and instead of 1 teaspoon of powdered sugar, i just used regular old granulated sugar. Learn from my mistakes. Old fruit and clumpy sugar does not a cocktail make.

Anyway, I am of the impression that Canadian Mist is not the classiest of liquors. But sometimes a girl doesn't need class. Sometimes, what a girl needs is a stiff drink in a pretty glass.

And that girl is me.