It’s been quiet here in the Alley. CC is a rather sober crowd, so I propose adding mocktails to the menu. In fact, I recently bought this book to ensure that our teetotaler friends can freely enjoy Happy Hour with the more dissolute among us:
A trip to Total Wine supplied the zero-proof whiskey, rum, gin, and coffee liqueur, and I made an ample supply of simple syrups (mint, lavender, honey, juniper, orange, and ginger shot) to ensure we can mix up delicious concoctions for our more abstemious posters. So, pull up a stool, and peruse today’s offerings:
LOL, that drink was actually a clear gin based drink, but the blue spotlight from above makes it appear to glow.
The female bar tender is kind of an anomaly in Japan, but she has won best bartender in Tokyo a few times so we decided to try some her drinks. Mine is just a simple Manhattan.
We did have one and it was really refreshing. The drinks we had had the Jigger & Pony were over the top. The pros really take things to a new level. So fun to watch. Even better to drink!
I was getting concerned that my Cliffhanger cocktail made with blue Curaçao might have poisoned me, but research shows it likely was made with a safe dye. Whew.
They do! This is Arizona–the Margarita list (almost everywhere) is a mile long, and they’ll make you anything you want. This place is one of the best, though. (Shhh!)
About 10 years ago we did a week long float trip down the Grand Canyon. At Phantom Ranch we tied up and hiked into the camp to get ice cream and check phone messages. Passed a thicket of prickly pear with numerous ruby red pears. One of the couples on the trip were from England and the woman asked me “What are those fruit? Can you use them for anything?” I replied that one could make jam, but usually they went into syrup to flavor a margarita. “Oh. And what is a Margarita?” It was hard to restrain a group of mostly Texans from over-sharing.
A couple years ago we went to Grand Cayman, and let’s just say we had a lot of chances to chat with the beach-bar-tender about how to make a great Rum Punch. I have to say, mine are now excellent, and we enjoyed a couple this evening, even though we woke up to snow this morning! Cheers, all!
sounds like you have not been exposed to carcinogens then. 
This place is one of the best, though. (Shhh!)