June 12-Blue Lagoon

The Blue Lagoon was described as my mom as “A hangover waiting to happen”. After she tried it though, she though it wasn’t bad. And if you are going to make cocktails as the son of Harry MacElhone, the legendary bartender, it should be good. Maybe I’m being too hard onm Andy MacElhone, I don;'‘t know if Harry taught him or not, maybe I’m seeing this like we see sons of former NFL players and expect them to go off immediately.

In all seriousness this was not a bad first impression to Andy’s work. I’m usually not a huge fan of blue curacao but it kind of works here aesthetically. I still think this cocktail would be more appealing with regular dry curacao, but it wouldn’t look as tropical or appetizing. I also think that the sprite in this cocktail works as it adds a necessary sweetness and dilutes the strength of the drink to make it more appetizing to the casual drinker.

Full judging here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tba-rRZ0y-OKDBWyzV6uQyw5sI24c58c_aTPUANIoMk/edit?tab=t.0