Aqua Velva (cocktail)

An Aqua Velva is an alcohol-based cocktail.

Ingredients:

A sprig of fresh mint
2 cups high quality vodka
1/4 oz of Blue Curacao

Place enough mint in the bottom of a mortar and pestle and grind with a tablespoon of vodka until it's a green pulp. Put the mint paste into a mason jar with vodka and refrigerate overnight, or over several days until the vodka is a greenish color. The longer you keep the mint in, the stronger the mint flavor will be. Filter out the leaves with a cheesecloth or tea strainer and keep the vodka refrigerated.

Serve several ounces of the green vodka with a splash of Blue Curacao over ice. Add soda water if desired. Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint (or an orange slice).

An alternate, but still prevalent, form of the drink (excluding mint) can be made with vodka, blue curacao, gin and lemon-lime soda served over ice.

The Aqua Velva name comes from the Aqua Velva brand aftershave, due to their similar blue appearance. In the movie "Zodiac", the Aqua Velva is referenced as it is drunk by both Jake Gyllenhaal's and Robert Downey Jr's characters.

External links

* [http://www.cocktailmaking.co.uk/displaycocktail.php/2675-Aqua-Velva cocktailmaking.co.uk]
* [http://houstonist.com/2007/06/15/houstonist_bart_26.php Houstonist Bartender]