Summer's Signature Drink

Hey ya'll!  Just a quick little post to tide you over this week until the big reveal this weekend of The Back Porch (henceforth called The BP).  We are busy trying to do the last few finishing touches to the porch and get to our much neglected yard before Saturday....the grand opening of the aforementioned BP.


Last weekend we had a few soft openings of The BP.  One big development is that we found the signature drink of The BP and, quite frankly, the signature drink of my summer at this point.  It is refreshing, delicious, not too sweet, packs a punch and has less calories than beer. What's not to love, right?

The Grapefruit Vodka Tonic 

aka "Deep Eddy!"  

So how simple does this get:

• Deep Eddy Grapefruit vodka (not sure why the bottle in the picture isn't full)
• Tonic water
• grapefruit slices
• mint leaves
• ice

Mix one part of Deep Eddy grapefruit vodka to 3 parts of tonic water.

 Pour over 4 cubes ice. Garnish with a wedge of grapefruit, lightly squeezed.  Throw in a mint leaf.  Just to make it cute.  Or you can eat it for fresh breath, I guess.

Now, a word about your vodka choices.  The first grapefruit vodka tonic we made was with some other grapefruit vodka.  It was good.  But then I saw Deep Eddy brand at the ABC store  I got so excited because it is made in Austin, Texas.  So of course, being the good Texas native, I wanted to try it.  IT IS THE BOMB!  So, while they are not sponsoring my blog in any way, I wholeheartedly endorse them and say this to you my friends:  don't use any other grapefruit vodka (Deep Eddy - call me and we can talk).

I made a "batch", which was 1 cup of Deep Eddy vodka and 3 cups tonic.  

I bought this super cute bottle at Hobby Lobby (another person who should probably endorse me but doesn't) for my homemade creamer.  Well, it makes a great pitcher for vodka tonics, let me tell you.  Plus, it has a little chalkboard label on it. Just in case you get confused about what you are drinking.  Or maybe you want to make multiple kinds of vodka tonics.  Just sayin.

As Deep Eddy would say, "Dive In!".  

Don't you just love these paper straws?  I think they are one of the greatest things since sliced bread and they certainly make anything you are drinking more fun.  Because I am a big dork, I bought two colors that match The BP's color scheme.  You can get them at just about anywhere now in all kinds of colors.  If you don't like drinking out of a straw, throw it in there anyway.  Think of it as an adorable drink stirrer. Compliment your drink color or the holiday you are celebrating.  It's all in the presentation folks.  Get fancy.  You know you want to.  

Hope you will get a chance to try our new favorite cocktail!  Can't wait to show you the much talked about BP!

Stay thirsty my friends!
K