S is for ...

.. Sonic Screwdriver cocktail

(Picture from here)

If you have ever watched Doctor Who, you know that he carries a sonic screwdriver.  There were several options for this drink.  I went for this one.  It actually has two different recipes.  One for the 10th Doctor; one for the 11th.  The picture above is for the 11th Doctor's cocktail. The drinks match the lights of the screwdrivers.

Ingredients (11th Doctor):

• 1 oz Blue Curacao
• 1 oz Vodka
• 6 oz Orange juice

Ingredients (10th Doctor):

• 1 oz Blue Curacao
• 1 oz Citrus Vodka
• Ginger ale

R is for ...

...  Rose Cocktail

(Image from here)

Rose was the Doctor's first companion in the modern series.  

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. French vermouth
• 1 oz. kirsch (cherry brandy)
• 1 tsp. raspberry syrup, such as Monin
• 1 maraschino cherry, to garnish

Recipe from here.

Q is for ...

... Queen Elizabeth cocktail.

(Image from here.)

It was either this or the Queen Victoria - since Rose and the Doctor spent some time with her (in Tooth and Claw). However, the Doctor married Queen Elizabeth I -- so this is the better one to pick.... Of course, she was also a Zygon ....

Ingredients:

• 1 Part Lemon Juice
• 2 Parts Gin
• 1 Part Triple Sec

Recipe from here.

P is for ...

... Pond Water.

(Image from here)

Amy Pond was one of the 11th Doctor's companions -- one of my favorites.  She was the girl who waited.

There are many different Pond Water recipes -- one of them is beer and coke. However, I opted for the following recipe instead.

Ingredients:

• 2 parts Vodka
• 1 part Blue curaçao
• 1 part Malibu
• top up Orange soda

Recipe from here.

O is for ...

... Osgood

I'm calling this the "Osgood Cocktail".  Osgood is a character in Doctor Who who is a fan of the Doctor -- she wears a 4th Doctor scarf, a 7th Doctor vest and various other Doctor clothing items -- sometimes at the same time, sometimes not.  In the Day of the Doctor, a Zygon took her form and now there are two Osgoods.  However, we never know which Osgood is which (human or Zygon).

This cocktail was originally called "The Imposter" (recipe from here).

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. gin
• 1 oz. fresh lime juice
• 1 oz. simple syrup (1:1)
• 3 cherry tomatoes, halved
• 3 basil leaves
• 2 dashes Tabasco
• basil leaf (optional garnish)

According to the cocktail description, "This savory cocktail takes the familiar flavors of a Bloody Mary and gives them a lighter, brighter spin, with a kick of Tabasco spice."  So, is it a Bloody Mary or an Imposter? or rather is it Osgood or the Zygon?  The answer:  it doesn't matter.

N is for ...

... Nevada Cocktail

(image from here)

What, you may ask, does Nevada have to do with Doctor Who? For most everyone else, absolutely nothing.  But for me, Nevada is why I watch.  She introduced me in 2013 and I'm hooked. 

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces light rum
• 2 ounces grapefruit juice
• 1 ounce lime juice
• 2 teaspoons superfine sugar
• Dash bitters

Recipe from here.
In my search for an appropriate cocktail, I ran across the following "N" quote ..."No, not the Mind Probe!" Exclaimed by a character in "The Five Doctors" (1983), and thought to be the most melodramatic line in the history of Doctor Who. So celebrated that a fanzine used it as a title.
(I took this from l;p.)

I thought it was funny.

M is for ...

... the Missy Cocktail.

(image from here)

I was going use The Master for the letter M (stealing from doctorwhococktails.wordpress.com), but when I read the blog post with the Master Cocktail,  which was a very good explanation of the Doctor/Master relationship (photo of the drink shown below), there was no mention of Missy - the Master's latest regeneration .

... so I thought she should have her own drink -- I say that but I actually stole the drink below from Mary Poppins ...

Mary Poppins? (you may ask).  Well here's a picture of Missy that may help...

(image from here)

Ingredients:

1 ½ oz. Apple brandy
¾ oz. Maurin Quina
½ oz. King's Ginger Liqueur
½ oz. Maple syrup
½ oz. Lemon juice
3 dashes Clove bitters

Recipe from here.

L is for ...

... LINDA (London Investigation N Detective Agency)

The Crazy Linda. (This isn't the Crazy Linda but I had to have some sort of picture.)

Ingredients:

• 1/2 oz. Peach Schnapps
• 3/4 oz. 7-Up
• 1 dash(es) Lemon Juice

 Recipe from here.

Anyway, LINDA was a group of people in a Doctor Who episode, "Love & Monsters".  Anyway this group of people formed a group looking for the Doctor.  They ended up having a wonderful time -- until the met the monster ...

K is for ...

... Kangs

(image from here)

These are the Red Kangs, there were also Blue and Yellow Kangs -- they lived in Paradise Towers (in an episode of the same name).  So in their honor, I am renaming the Paradise Tropical Cocktail, the Kang Cocktail.

(I pulled this from google images -- couldn't find who/where to credit)

Ingredients:

• 3 oz pineapple juice
  2 oz malibu coconut rum
• 0.25 oz blue curacao 
• 1 oz water
• 0.5 oz grenadine 
• ice

Recipe from here.

I've tried to embed the video below .. hopefully it works.

J is for ...

John Smith (he is the Doctor's alter ego on Earth -- see more here).

Apparently there is a John Smith brewery, who knew?

as for cocktails, J is for Jelly Baby Cocktail:

Ingredients:

1 oz vodka
1 oz peach schnapps
1 oz grenadine syrup
1 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
1 oz white rum
6 oz pineapple juice


Recipe from here.

Jelly Babies were the fourth Doctor's favorite and he always seemed to have them to hand out -- they are similar to gummy bears (for those of us in the US).

I is for ..

... Impossible girl cocktail

 

(image from here)

So, the Doctor Who Cocktails blog has a drink called Clara Oswin Oswald - Clara's Peach Lemonade (link here).  Clara was called the impossible girl by the 11th doctor, so I figured I could change the name.  I also decided I wanted a different peach lemonade recipe so I switched that up too ...

Their explanation of why they picked this drink was that it was pretty and sweet just like her -- I can go with that.

Ingredients:

• sugar
• diced peaches
• freshly squeezed lemon juice
• peach vodka
• 2-3 basil leaves
• Barefoot Refresh Crisp White Spritzer

recipe from here.

The website gives directions making the peach lemonade which sounds amazing -- first you make a simple peach syrup with sugar, water, and peaches.  Then you add fresh lemon juice and you've got your peach lemonade.