#22. Brandy Cocktail

This isn't even really a cocktail. Brandy, plus two dashes each syrup and Angostura bitters. Do you like brandy? I don't. Do you like brandy when it's been barely modified with the faintest whisper of bitters and sugar? No? You think it basically tastes exactly the same as straight brandy, only colder, because you shook it with ice?

Yes. That's what I also think. I need more tail in my cocktail. This just lingers in your mouth, with a super-strong, hot, alcohol taste that's just too strong for it to taste like anything. I feel like this sort of drink is the booze equivalent of putting way too much wasabi on your sushi. It's fun, but at a certain point, it just tastes like wasabi, and you forget that any other tastes were involved. (I'm assuming you're drunk when you're eating the sushi. That's why you're so forgetful. It's only fair that you be drunk when you eat the sushi, like I'm drunk now, so that the phenomena are equivalent.)

I want to say that this might be a drink you'd like if you really liked brandy, but on second thought, if you were a brandy connoisseur, you wouldn't put up with your brandy being adulterated, so this drink is for no one.

I chose it because I'm drinking alone, and I like saving the stuff that seems like it could actually be good for when friends are around. When you're drinking alone, you shouldn't drink anything too tasty. That makes it too fun. Drinking alone needs to be a little unpleasant. Just to be safe. For safety.