Recipe for Happiness
- The Juice of One Lemon
- Sugar
- Water
- Collins (Tall) Glass
- Microwave
- One Metric Fuck-Ton of Ice
- A Burlap Bag (or Beach Towel if no Bag is available)
- A Hammer
- Bourbon (Buffalo Trace works Nicely)
- Orange Bitters (optional)
Put the Ice in the Bag. If no Bag is available, put the Ice in the Towel and fold it over. Place Bag/Folded-Towel on Concrete Floor. (Note: Not on the Table or wooden Floor. Seriously.) Hit Bag/Towel repeatedly with Hammer until Ice is throughly smashed.
Put a bunch of Sugar in a microwavable Cup. Put some water in the Cup with the Sugar, enough to cover it (so that there’s about as much Water as Sugar). Microwave for about twenty Seconds, until there is Syrup.
Juice the Lemon into the collins Glass. Add about four ounces of Bourbon. Pour in the Simple Syrup. Optionally add the Orange Bitters. Mix lightly. Add crushed Ice until the collins Glass is filled. Stir briskly until Frost appear on the Glass.
Twist a Lemon Peel on the top of the Drink, and add the Twist, lightly onto the top of the icy Surface.
Serve With or Without a Straw.
Drink. Repeat until Happiness is produced.
