14 Book-Inspired Cocktails that Need to Exist
If you’ve already mixed and sipped your way through the recipes in Tequila Mockingbird and Hickory Daiquiri Dock, you’re our kind of reader. (Please tell us we aren’t the only ones who fantasize about making Mockingbird author Tim Federle our personal bartender and ordering up a cocktail for a pleasurable night of reading.) If you’re too thirsty to wait for Mr. Federle to make house calls, try one of the cocktails below. (If you can’t guess the literary inspiration for these libations, click through for the reveal!) These cocktails haven’t been invented yet, but surely with a few bitters, a jug of simple syrup, and a shelf of shiny accoutrements, you’ll make something swoon worthy. Mention alcohol, and you can probably rustle up a few book club members to help you perform a highbrow taste test too. Then let the good puns roar!
The Life Changing Magic of Tequiling Up
Mix 2 parts club soda with 5 parts personal development, add a shot of tequila, and garnish with a lime. (Chase with a Spark Joylep.)
Harry Potter and the Curaçaoed Punch
Combine curaçao, cream, ice, and butterbeer into a cauldronlike punchbowl. Cheeruxus!
The Girl on the St. Germain
Find an innocent looking water bottle and fill it with vodka, cranberries, St. Germain, and a dash of mint for unconvincing fresh breath.
StrengthsFizzer 2.0
Muddle 4 parts soda water + 1 part lime juice with insight and empowerment, and prepare to bubble over with enthusiasm.
The DaVodka Code
Requires 1 degree in symbology + advanced studies in mixology + taste for adventure
Me Before U-Boot
A bottle of beer + 1 shot of vodka + 4 million tears = the perfect chaser to this love story
The Martian Martini
Potato vodka + freeze-dried olives, shaken but not terrified (preferably served by Matt Damon)
Never Gimlet Me Go
2 parts gin + 1 part dystopian syrup + a squeeze of lime juice. Garnish with a cucumber. Swap in sake for a contemporary take on a classic drink.
Truly Madly Daiquiri
Ice + 2 parts rum + 1 part lime juice + simple syrup to taste. Blend frantically so you can return to reading as quickly as possible.
The Drinking Games
Includes a flight of 3 shockingly strong beers.
A Gentlemule in Moscow
Mix 5 fingers of vodka with spicy ginger beer + an elegant squeeze of lime juice + a night of wry of observations and toasts to the meaning of life
A Series of Unfortunate Liqueurs
(Only for children’s book lovers 21 and over.)
The Little Pisco Bookshop
Angostura bitters from your local literary apothecary +1 ounce lemon Juice + 1 egg white + 1 1/2 ounces Pisco + 3/4 ounce simple syrup (Perfect for book clubs! )
The WholeThirsty
More kale than you thought could fit in a shotglass + liquid smoke + basil (always basil)