Category: Cocktail/mixed

• King Kong

  King Kong? Pynchon helpfully explains that it’s “Crown Royal plus banana liqueur.” (Banana for the monkey, Crown for the King–a little poem in itself.) The internet helpfully elaborates that you can down your King Kong either as a shooter or over ice. Or both! Here we go: As a shot, the King Kong tastes primarily of cough medicine.…

  mjhorn

  June 20, 2014

  Bleeding Edge, Cocktail/mixed

  banana liqueur, Canada, Crown Royal, Pynchon, Shot

• Tequila Sunrise

  Bleeding Edge is the book that inspired this project. According to my (very work in progress) list, it mentions 32 different specific drinks, crushing V.’s paltry 17. Benny Profane and the Whole Sick Crew in V. are way drunker than Bleeding Edge’s Maxine Tarnow, but they’re always just drinking “beer” or “wine.” Bleeding Edge gets nice and specific. Mamajuana? Fernet-Branca? A…

  mjhorn

  May 25, 2014

  Bleeding Edge, Cocktail/mixed

  Pynchon, Tequila Sunrise