Vodka Soda: an Airplane Mini-Bottle Cocktail

I don't drink much, so keeping bottles of liquor is not a cost-effective thing to do. They evaporate before I finish them. Therefore, I'm on a quest to find cocktail recipes that use those little airplane bottles of liquor.

What you need are:

1. Half a tray of ice.
2. An airplane mini-bottle of vodka.
3. A single-serving can of club soda.
4. Something to stir with
5. There's no reason you couldn't use an iced-tea spoon; I just happen to have this cocktail spoon laying around from dreams since abandoned.
6. A 12-oz. glass
7. I'm using a 12-ounce Highball glass I bought on Amazon {no longer available}.

Put the ice in the glass. Pour in the vodka. Pour in enough soda to fill the glass. Gently stir.

At $2 for all the ingredients, it isn't that expensive, especially when you think of what you pay at a bar.

Taste-wise, there is almost no taste to this cocktail at all, just the bitter fizziness brought by the club soda. If you want a drink that doesn't interfere with your tastebuds, this is the one. It feels like drinking chilled bubbly water. This is a nice little sipper, but I liked the whiskey ginger better.

I'm sipping my way through this, so it is taking some time to determine effect. At about 5 minutes with much less than half the glass drank, I am feeling a little woozy in the head. At the rate I'm drinking this, I don't see things getting any dizzier. Again, try the whiskey ginger instead: Tastier and more potent.

Chow for now!