Gin and Toxic

Ingredients

• 2 dashes of Gold dust

• Shavings of impressionist painting on wood panel

• ½ pour of cinder block simple syrup

• ¼ pour of alphabet surveillance

• 19ml of New York “water”

• Gin

Depending on the source, the color gold is symbolic of wealth and purity. It can also be representative of love and peace, apparently except for when it is strewn upon the Webster doorsteps. Like bitters, two dashes is often enough and anymore can tip the drink into an angered fit.

Color wars, disoriented parents, and an unfortunate loss to the Harlem High School football team are the impetus for what can only be described as the most Ivy League soap opera. Letters strewn, message boards frequented and opium dens robbed of their precious artwork. In the chaos one must take liberties when crafting a new drink for such an occasion. Shavings of wood tables are the hipster equivalent of smoking the glass. Coupled with cinder block simple syrup it allows the drinker to put the Granite in their rapidly deteriorating State.

What is quite the rocky start for a libation does pay its dividends. It is diluted and magnified in flavor by utilizing a mainstay of NY Bagels: their “water.” Lightly pour the “water” into the glass, any amount will do, maybe anywhere from 19 to 0mls should do. Pour the concoction into a whipped cream canister and load a charge. Flaunt theatrical flow and to live up to its name fill the Gin and Toxic with gin to taste comatose.