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National Mojito Day is tomorrow which really made me not want to post this today. I’m sick of all these fake PR holidays. I’ve been sitting on this Cocktails We Love post for a couple weeks now though, so it was time to let it go.
It knew it was only a matter of time before I got a mint plant after moving in with 1st Lady of Boozist and realizing our balcony enjoys a decent amount of sunlight. That’s what guys do when they move in with their girlfriends, right? Get a plant? Who needs a puppy or babies when you have fresh mint? OK, maybe that’s a degenerate way of looking at things, but that’s how I roll.
The best part about a mint plant is that a mojito is always just a pinch away. That’s also the downside. There’s a perma-urge to make cocktails. Of course I’m happy to give into my urges at any given moment, so I took to the internet to find the best recipe. I’ve made my own version a couple times, but I figured there had to be a better way. That’s when I found Jason O’Bryan’s blog, and my life was forever improved.
O’Bryan claims that it’s impossible to over-muddle mint and that there’s no downside to shaking instead of muddling. I didn’t believe that for one second, so I put it to the test myself. Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle (Why does’t my brother have an actual monkey!?) if the three cocktails I made – one ideally muddled, one super muddled, and one shaken – tasted nearly identical. Everything I’ve ever been told has been a lie. Making a mojito doesn’t actually have to be a huge pain!
Don’t take my word for it though. Make this mojito the old way and the easy way, and tell me you can taste the difference. They both taste like liquified happiness.
World’s Greatest Mojito Recipe
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