Blood and Sand (Cherry Liqueur, Cont.)

Too lazy to flip through the Mr. Boston for whiskey recipes that use Cherry Heering so I googled it. Found this recipe for a Blood and Sand: 1 ounce blended Scotch, 1 ounce orange juice and 3/4 ounce Cherry Heering. It was good but wanted it more boozy (perhaps that’s because of using the lower alcohol Nalewka Lwowecka). As a rule I avoid orange juice because alcohol and orange juice reminds me of a screwdriver, but this was definitely not too orange-y. For what it’s worth, I used Grant scotch, which isn’t the cheapest one on the bottom shelf, but it’s close. The bottle does have a charming triangular shape that I like to think is somehow space saving. I haven’t found a cheap go-to blended scotch mixer — part of it may be my ideas about what constitutes “cheap”; my go-to cheap bourbon has been Evan Williams and cheap mezcal has been that thing with the gnarly worm . . . [googling] . . . Monte Alban. Here are About.com some more recipes that look good; also, seems like there are variations on Blood and Sand.