Lucid Fly Cocktail
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Serves: 1
 
Ingredients
  • 1 oz. bourbon
  • 1 oz. cherry herring
  • 2 oz. Tang
  • ¼ tsp absinthe
  • Dash cherry bitters
  • Orange rounds
  • Glass type: Old fashioned
Instructions
  1. Make your Tang.
  2. That’s integral you see, spaceman.
  3. Add your bourbon, cherry herring (that’s the liqueur), Tang and absinthe to your cocktail shaker with ice.
  4. Shake.
  5. Stop.
  6. Fill your old-fashioned glass with ice.
  7. Pour in your Lucid Fly Cocktail.
  8. Garnish with an orange round.
  9. Listen to Building Castles in Air.
  10. Rock out my friends, rock out.
Notes
Now, let’s upsize this. It’s 1 part bourbon, 1 part cherry herring, 2 parts Tang, 1/24 part absinthe and 1/32 part cherry bitters. You can see where those numbers get wonky, so let’s do some easy math for everyone.

1 bottle of bourbon (750ml)
1 bottle of cherry herring (750ml)
1.5 liters of Tang
1 oz. absinthe
¾ oz. cherry bitters

Add all of those in your pitcher without ice (you don’t want to water it down). Stir, shake, rattle, roll or whatever you want to combine. Toss in some orange slices to look awesome. Then distribute to whatever drinking glasses you use. Those will have your ice. Oh, garnish those with orange rounds too if you’re feeling super decorative.

If you want to make the boring non-alcoholic version, that’s 3 parts Tang, 1 part cherry juice, 1 part star anise simple syrup (take one part water and one part sugar, boil them with a bunch of star anise in it). If you’d like more volume, I’ll let you handle that math.
Recipe by The Drink Blog at https://thedrinkblog.com/lucid-fly-cocktail/