Cocktail Friday: Florida Edition

Perhaps you noticed (or, perhaps not) that there was no Cocktail Thursday in this space yesterday evening. There were good reasons for that, reasons that ultimately forced me to recast my entire pregame libation recitation.

Much of the state of Georgia was lashed by heavy rain and wind on Halloween day. I found myself driving through the worst of it to the north side of Atlanta for professional reasons in the morning, then making my way back south to Macon in the afternoon in hopes of posting the cocktail recipe below then taking part in our neighborhood Halloween festivities.

On the way back I was cruising down I-75, minding my own business and hewing (sort of) close to the speed limit when…