It’s game day. College season begins tonight. Grab a cocktail,* find a comfy chair, and settle in. The season is going to go by faster than you think.
In the interim, check out my column today for the NY Times Fifth Down Blog, about zone blitzing.
* I recommend a Tom Collins or an Old Fashioned, though maybe go easy if you’re not quite in mid-season form.
Tom Collins
- ice cubes
- 2 oz. dry gin
- 2 oz. lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon sugar (gomme) syrup
- soda water
- slice of lemon
Old Fashioned (two recipes, I think every man should know how he likes his)
- 2 ounces (60 ml) bourbon
- Splash of simple syrup or 1 cube sugar and just enough water to dissolve the sugar
- 2 dashes bitters
- Old Fashioned glass
- Place sugar (or syrup), bitters, and water in old-fashioned glass
- Crush sugar if needed and coat glass
- Add 2–3 cubes ice and whiskey
- Garnish with twist
And an old school version:
- Dissolve a small lump of sugar with a little water in a whiskey glass
- Add two dashes Angostura bitters
- Add a small piece of ice
- Add a piece lemon peel
- Add a (1.5 ounces or 44 mL) whiskey
- Mix with small bar spoon and serve, leaving spoon in glass.