Not familiar QV, but can offer you a nice vodka, some absolut raspberry vodka. One of the better vodkas, absolut make some good ones. Their lime one is nice too, especially with fresh lime.
Or next time the pharmacies open, I could whip up my signature cocktain, a manhattan project (ingredients-tesco own brand cheap lime fizzy pop, a good neutral vodka or lime vodka plus fresh lime slices, carefully once mixed, poured over a layer of care+ or Bell's brand codeine linctus, the non-sugarfree version (sugar free tastes of vile synthetic orange and just does not even entertain the possibility of suitability for a manhattan project.
The manhattan project, then has a little shooter full of diethyl ether floated on top of the long tall glass of codeine syrup (those brands are flavoured/preserved as manufactured, with chloroform of all things and it smells and tastes lovely, a distinct smell of chloroform and taste of that same smell, an aromatic sweetness, the CHCl3 is a natural ingredient of it and is not added by the cocktail maker) with mixed lime pop/fresh lime juice and pulp plus grated zest added to the boundary between the hydroalcoholic layer and the codeine-linctus chloroform-flavoured layer for most efficient extraction of the lime zest terpenes) is wedged two pieces of sliced lime, plopped onto the edge of the cocktail glass, the shooter of diethyl ether is placed between them and trapped with a third, axially oriented slice of lime with two slashes cut into it to allow it to slot over the first two wedges. Drunk like a jagerbomb. Hence the pun name manhattan project. It being a reference to the united states nuclear bomb programme. Tastes great and packs a real punch. The ether should be floated over a little neutral vodka with sweetened lemon and lime fresh juices to dilute in the shot and drunk in one swallow, followed by some of the rest of the drink (more diethyl ether can be added, although just a few drops, if its to the taste of the drinker, diisopropyl ether can also be used, and neither of them are to be industrial grade, but ether of the finest quality. They may however contain traces of butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) or butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) which are common both as food additives and in minute quantities as an inhibitor to peroxide formation in ethers, peroxidized or hydroperoxidized ether must not be used (and indeed its fucking dangerous all round, since it likes to explode with the least of provocation, so much as a whispered profanity in the next room is about enough to set the likes of ethylidene peroxide off in a catastrophic explosion. And doubtless toxic. But peroxides/hydroperoxides can be tested for by starched paper soaked in potassium iodide solution and allowed to dry, a drop of ether is then applied to a strip, and a blueing indicates presence of peroxides, darker, esp. violet-black to blackish is a case for the bomb squad to take disposal of. And if ever you see a bottle of ether that has a crystalline crusty deposit round the edges of the cap DO NOT ATTEMPT TO OPEN IT! these peroxides are incredibly shock and friction-sensitive. The hydroperoxides deflagrate, but alkylidene peroxides detonate, as highly brisant primary high explosives that are sensitive as hell made flesh. a mere few single digit milligrams is enough to cause a blast that will ignite the ether and shatter any glass vessel its contained in, in a big sodding fireball. And a little more...I've seen pictures of a fridge. Or parts of one anyway, embedded in a ruined ceiling after a bottle of ether peroxidized and detonated. Blew the windows out of whoever's lab it was from the shockwave, pulverized the fridge and blew its fragments up through the roof. Literally. And being oxidizing, not something you want to drink, and probably not to get near chloroform either.
ponds from now on.
