Try your hand at this Post Holiday Blues Cocktail recipe, a gin-based Blue Curaçao cocktail to beat the post holiday blues.
Post Holiday Blues Cocktail – Photo © Cocktails & Bars
For many people in Australia, today is the first day back at work after the Australia Day long weekend and summer break. What better way to beat the post-holiday blues than with a Blue Curaçao cocktail to brighten up the return to work.
Blue Curaçao is an orange flavoured liqueur made from the dried peel of bitter oranges from the Caribbean Island of Curaçao with blue colouring added. It adds a vibrant blue hue to drinks and is a key ingredient in the Blue Hawaii and Blue Lagoon cocktails.
The Post Holiday Blues Cocktail is the love child of the Corpse Reviver No. Blue created by Jacob Briars in 2007 and the Carbonated Corpse Reviver by maestro Salvatore Calabrese. Corpse Reviver No. Blue is a riff on the classic Corpse Reviver #2 but swaps Cointreau for blue Curaçao. The Carbonated Corpse Reviver, as its name suggests, is another twist to the equal parts cocktail with Pinot Grigio and still water added, poured into a siphon and charged with CO2.
If you have a soda siphon, it’s all good but as we wanted to create a simple and summery drink with little fuss. The recipe for the Post Holiday Blues Cocktail takes the best of worlds by adding a splash of cold soda water and serving the cocktail over small cubed ice from these mini ice cube trays. The soda water and ice add effervesce and chill respectively with enough dilution to make the spirit-forward cocktail easier to sip on hot afternoons.
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Post Holiday Blues Cocktail Recipe
Original recipe created by Cocktails & Bars
Ingredients
- 30 ml dry gin
- 30 ml Lillet Blanc
- 30 ml blue Curaçao
- 30 ml lemon juice
- dash of absinthe
- 30 ml soda water
Glassware: short glass
Garnish: cocktail umbrella
Method
Add all ingredients except soda water in a cocktail shaker over ice and shake vigorously until the tin is very cold. Strain into a glass filled with small cubed ice. Top with soda water and garnish with a cocktail umbrella.
