This drink is one of the Boothby Top 50 Drinks of the Year 2022 — you can see the full Top 50 here.
You might cringe when you hear certain cocktails called: a Fluffy Duck, a Blue Hawaii, a Grasshopper. Disco drinks from the bad old days of the 1970s and 80s. They hardly scream sophistication these days, right?
Bartenders, too, will cringe at even the briefest thought of those drinks. But the better bartenders? They get to work on making the best possible version of those drinks — like this take on the Stinger here — sometimes ending up with something many orders of magnitude better than the original.