Drink Battle: Original Blood And Sand vs PDT Blood And Sand

Note: This is just too good to be true, and probably the only type of drink I ever need to write about on this website: it’s a drink named after a movie!!!  Get it?!  Cinebriated = drunk on film, but this drink gives one the potential to actually drink while watching a film it’s been directly inspired by!  Granted I still haven’t watched the whole movie (travesty I know) but if you’re interested, it’s right below for your viewing pleasure.  If you like this, they even remade it as a talkie (which you can also find below)!  But I digress...

In celebration of both #NationalScotchDay (yesterday) and #WhiskeyMonth (all July), I needed to have a Scotch cocktail (I’ve got all month to drink different Whiskeys; only 1 DAY to focus on Whisky without the e).  Penicillin is one I’ve loved at #EtsiBravoBar, as well as #BlackCypress for some time.  However, one that I couldn’t recall having recently was a wholly different beast: Blood and Sand.

What makes this wonderful:  it’s named after a movie (apologies: I just can’t stop being excited about this). This drink completely encompasses a solid combination of what we originally set out to do with this site.

Ingredients:

• Monkey Shoulder Blended Malt Scotch Whisky - special thanks to Joe here, this Whisky is named after a condition stirrers of the malt (I’m going to start searching for that when looking for a job on LinkedIn) obtained, until better work practices came into play
• Orange Juice - fresher the better (though this unfortunately had an expiration date of April 2014...)
• Cherry Liquor - what I’ve read to be recommended everywhere has been Cherry Heering Liquor is the standard in the drink, but I happened to recently invest a good deal of coin in Luxardo Maraschino and used this instead, though I’ve since learned that it’s much more herbal than the recommended spirit from this guy (which was a great site to uncover in general): 
  discovering dionysus
• Carpano Antica Formula Vermouth - some good stuff recommended by PDT, and I happened to still have it!  - note if you’re my roommate (I’m looking at you Joe), and you see a shot full of this sitting on the counter, it isn’t for you...

Blood and Sand PDT

• Smell it and the scotch comes right through, though I’m not complaining; it’s the prime ingredient.  Did someone say this was a   Why drown a good thing (assuming you can handle it) in all that nonsense.  
• taste has bite, and you might be able to tell about orange juice right off, but everything else isn’t clear which is exactly how you want it to be.  Plus that look… daymn

Blood and Sand - Savoy

• Original recipe supposedly had equal parts of the drink, which create for a sweet and tasty drink, but the scotch is gone.  Plus, cherry overpowers this way to easily.  Where’s the titular “Blood and Sand”? Only in the color I think
• Smell - pretty delicious.  I think I’m getting a cool fast cocktail, which could be worth pursuing in the first place.  

Winner - PDT!!!

At first I thought they might be crazy for changing a classic drink like this, but now I’ve realized they made such a good choice.  Now I may be way off base for using Luxardo vs. Heering, but I’d still recommend this drink in particular.  

Now I need to try and find time to watch that silent film...