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Aristus

(72,848 posts)
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 09:01 PM Saturday

Enjoying an Indigo Lemonade tonight.

Gin, St. Germaine, and lemonade, with some blue curaçao floated on top. Yummy!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend…

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yellow dahlia

(7,069 posts)
4. I had not heard of St. Germaine. It has been many decades since I was a bartender.
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 10:16 PM
Saturday

This sounds like the perfect cocktail combination. Love the blue color.

Enjoy!

Aristus

(72,848 posts)
8. It's an elderberry liqueur.
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 10:39 PM
Saturday

A nice mixer. And also perfect as an aperitif. And I have a lovely set of aperitif glasses.

Aristus

(72,848 posts)
12. It has grown significantly since I became interested in cocktail culture a number of years ago.
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 11:03 PM
Saturday

My latest acquisition is a bottle of butterscotch schnapps. It will come in handy in the making of what I like to call dessert cocktails.

Funny story: I was a tank crewman in the Army. And tankers have a reputation as a hard-drinking bunch. Once, when I was stationed at Fort Knox, I was hanging out in Louisville with a group of liberal friends (most of the people in my unit were pretty right-wing, so I had to get away on the weekends).

I got into a drinking match with a very glamorous, attractive young businesswoman. The poison of choice was butterscotch schnapps. I thought I could hold my own. But she drank me under the table.

surfered

(15,431 posts)
13. If you ever open a bar, let me know. I'll move there. Cheers 🍷 from the Willamette Valley.
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 11:56 PM
Saturday

Aristus

(72,848 posts)
14. Every once in a while, I have daydreams about opening a bar
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 12:40 AM
Yesterday

across the street from the Pierce County Courthouse. Cater to the lawyers relaxing after a hard day.

I like the idea of calling it “Association”. Get it? The bar Association. It’s too silly to be anything other than a daydream.

surfered

(15,431 posts)
15. Good idea. Those lawyers can throw down a few. If we were only younger that dream could come true.
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 12:46 AM
Yesterday

Nittersing

(8,619 posts)
16. Oh, I think you would have loved the bar I worked at many years ago.
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 08:36 AM
Yesterday

Sorry to say I was not very tuned in to news and politics at the time....

But we were across the street from the Rocky Mountain News (rip), down the block from the court house, down the block from both police and fire headquarters and a few more blocks from the DAs office. On Friday nights, we had a VERY small dance floor and two narcs that would DJ for the night. (Owner was retired DPD) It was tradition, if a court case had been won, to play, "I fought the law and the law won."

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