#19. Bourbon Highball

My neighbor-to-be came by too, and brought a bottle of Maker's Mark, because he's awesome like that. I'm a total bourbon novice, but this stuff was pretty great, and I suspect I could learn to appreciate it, and plan to.

The highball is pretty straightforward. Booze, ice, fizzy water, lemon peel. Ensslin says carbonated water or ginger ale, but that strikes me as ridiculous. Ginger ale and carbonated water or about as different as could be, despite looking the same. Winn Dixie has club soda in aluminum cans, so I got some--I can't recycle glass bottles, so I didn't want any of those, and the usual way it's available is in liter bottles, and I never need a whole liter bottle before it goes flat. We drank a lot today and didn't make it all the way through a single can. (I'm finishing it off now, with lemonade. Mmmm. Lemony.)

This is a pretty basic operation. So long as you basically like the base spirit, a little fizzy water and lemon peel can only make things better. Works for me.