Brandy Squirt

Shake one and a half ounces of brandy, one tablespoon of powdered sugar, and one teaspoon of grenadine with ice and strain into a highball glass. Fill with club soda.

An entire tablespoon of powdered sugar is quite a bit for one drink and it shows. Shannon likes it. She thinks it tastes like gatorade. It is a tad too sweet for me.

Brandy Sour

Shake the juice of half a lemon, half a teaspoon of powdered sugar, and two ounces of brandy with ice. Strain into a sour glass.

This drink isn't bad, but the taste is awfully similar to several other drinks in this chapter. Shannon got angry and said she could not tell the difference "if [her] life depended on it."

Brandy Sangaree

Dissolve half a teaspoon of powdered sugar in one teaspoon of water. Add two ounces of brandy. Pour over ice into a highball glass and fill with club soda. Float one tablespoon of port and top with nutmeg.

For starters, my normal floating skills failed me, so that this drink mixed a little more than appears to be intended. The taste is not bad, but it is nothing special. Shannon agrees with my assessment of the taste. She adds that this drink is completely unappealing aesthetically.

Brandy Highball

This one is simple. Pour two ounces of brandy over ice into a highball glass. Fill with club soda or ginger ale. We do not have ginger ale on hand, so we used club soda. There is another drink with this precise recipe, just in a collins glass, called brandy and soda. Since we do not have all the exact glassware, this review will count for both.

It's not bad, a little dull though. Shannon likes it, but adds that she likes anything with club soda in it.

Brandy Fizz

Shake the juice of a half a lemon with one teaspoon of powdered sugar and two ounces of brandy with ice. Pour into a highball glass over ice. Add club soda.

Shannon and I both really like this drink. My first thought was that it tastes like lemonade, to which Shannon replied: "Yeah, but better."

Brandy Sling

In an old fashioned glass dissolve one teaspoon of powdered sugar in one teaspoon of water and the juice of half a lemon. Add ice and two ounces brandy.

This drink tastes both sweet and sour. It's not bad.

Shannon doesn't like it. It tastes like medicine to her, but she wonders if it is just that she's out of practice.

Sorry for the lack of posts recently. We ran out of brandy and didn't get around to getting any more until today. Luckily there was quite the sale on giant bottles of Christian Brothers brandy.