Cocktails!

It’s About Thyme

1-2 sprigs fresh thyme 1/2 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice 1/2 oz. thyme simple syrup 2 oz.. Gin 1/2 oz. elderflower liqueur (Saint Germain)

To make the thyme simple syrup, combine equal parts sugar and water over low heat. Once sugar is dissolved, turn off the heat and add several sprigs of fresh thyme. Allow the mixture to sit, covered, for 10-15 minutes – more for a stronger syrup. 

Combine the fresh thyme, lemon juice, and thyme simple syrup in the bottom of a cocktail shaker and use a muddler or the back of a wooden spoon to muddle everything together and infuse the mixture with the fresh thyme. 

Once muddled, add your Gin and Elderflower Liqueur along with 2-3 ice cubes. Shake, strain, and serve. Garnish with more fresh thyme. 

The Time Crystal

1 oz. Del Maguey Crema de Mezcal (http://delmaguey.com/crema/) (or sub mezcal of choice + small amount of agave or simple syrup)

1 oz. Triple Sec

½ oz. Maraschino liqueur

½ oz. freshly squeezed lime juice

To make the time crystals:

Red cabbage

Baking soda

Ice cube tray

To make the blue ice, slice up some red cabbage leaves and boil for 10-15 minutes. Strain out the cabbage and continue to reduce the remaining liquid over heat until it begins to thicken only slightly. Cool the mixture and transfer to a glass bowl or jar, so that you can observe the color change. Add baking soda one pinch at a time, being careful to add enough baking soda to create your desired blue color, while avoiding altering the taste. Pour the mixture into an ice cube tray and freeze.

Tutorials can be found at https://www.feastingonfruit.com/natural-blue-food-coloring/ or https://www.feastingonfruit.com/natural-blue-food-coloring/.

When ready to serve, combine the Mezcal, Triple Sec, and Maraschino in a glass or cocktail shaker and stir over ice. Pour into your glass of choice and add two or three blue ice cubes. Last, stir in the freshly squeezed lime juice and watch your time crystal turn into a beautiful Red Angel.

While I didn't care for the most recent DIS episode or the name for Valerie's cocktail, I did think the drink itself sounds fantastic. And it changes colors?! Even Martha Stewart would envy how Valerie made her own natural food coloring!

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So do you guys actually make these? How do you know what to do? If you make them I NEED PHOTOS! Or vids.

To help you navigate your journey through Season 2 and to celebrate Project Daedalus!

The Golden Thread

2 oz. light or white rum (I used Plantation)

1 oz. Strega

1 oz. lemon juice

Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, shake, strain, and serve! Garnish with hand-crafted, miniature wax wings!

If you want all your drinks to look like a Katra Stone, just put them in a carnival glass! You can’t really see the iridescence here but it’s quite stunning in person.

The Grayson

2.5 oz. Strega

1 oz. Earl Grey infused gin

(you make this just by steeping some Earl Grey tea in some gin for as long as you like)

Angostura Bitters

Chicory-Pecan bitters

This is a drink you stir not shake, and should be served in a coupe glass with a lemon twist.

Calypso

1 oz. dark rum

1 oz. Aperol

1 oz. orange juice

Shake with ice and pour into a coupe glass.

The Harvest

2 tequila

1 Canton Ginger (because Georgiou)

.5 Blue Curacao (color of the episode)

.5 maraschino liqueur

Garnish with lemon twist and 3-4 blueberries on a little umbrella

Hormonal Space Rabbit

1 oz. Kona coffee liqueur

1 oz. Armagnac

1 oz. Cream

Shake with ice and strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with a sprinkle of nutmeg or cinnamon to taste.

A salty shot to take your mind off of those salty tears!

The Salty Spore

1 oz. vodka

1/2 oz. Giffard pamplemousse grapefruit liqueur

1/2 oz. lemon juice

Shake with ice and strain into a shot glass. Proceed as you would for a shot of tequila, replacing lime with lemon (salt, shot, lemon wedge!).

A Risan Mai Tai that will make you feel like you, too, have found a New Eden:

Risan Mai Tai

1 oz dark rum

1 oz light rum

1/2 oz Cointreau or triple sec

1.5 ozs orange juice

1.5 ozs passion fruit juice

1 tablespoon fresh lime juice

1.5 teaspoons orgeat syrup

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, add ice, shake, and strain. Garnish with a cherry or grape tomato and an orange slice that's been died green. Enjoy!

For everyone who wants to sip a Jipper on a beach, but didn't know how:

The Jipper

1 oz. gin

1 oz. vodka

1 oz. lychee nectar (I used FOCO brand)

1/2 oz. fresh lime juice

2 tsps. crème de cassis (I used Gabriel Boudier)

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, add ice, shake, and strain. I wouldn't be mad if you served it with a tiny umbrella, for effect. Enjoy!

I ponied up an absurd amount of money for bottles of Chartreuse Green and Luxardo just so I could make The Last Word. Wow is that sour! But also cool and satisfying. Thanks, Valerie, for introducing it to all of us!

For those moments when you find yourself wondering "Is Spock on that ship?!"

The Distress Call

1 oz. tequila

1/2 oz. Aperol

1/8 oz. Cynar

1/8 oz. White Whale "The Mob Man" Rye Mixer

Stir, pour into a shot glass, and let the panic set in.

I don't know if I've ever had white rum! And I know I've never had Strega, is that just strong tranya?

(Can't imagine how many BevMo rewards points Valerie & Glenn must have..)

The First Step

3/4 oz. white rum

3/4 oz. Strega

3/4 oz. Maraschino liqueur

3/4 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake until mixed, but not long enough for the ice to melt, about 30 seconds. Strain and serve in a coup class, or whatever class you can reach as you stare out the window hoping for Burnham to come back.

Haha, I mean, alcohol probably should be forbidden on the ship. But they also probably shouldn't have babies and puppies on a warship, so I don't know what the rules are.

Do you think that when a Federation crewmate orders a drink from the ship's replicator, that it offers a choice between synthehol and alcohol - or is alcohol just forbidden?