When I turned 21 my friend Kass got me a cocktail book that got me started with a long passion for cocktails. I got some fun books along the way, my favorite being Smuggler's Cove since it exposed me to so many fun ingredients.
The most work I put into a cocktail was for the Aviary's Jungle Bird where I made rum boba and layered the ingredients (per-the recipe) so that the boba would rest in the middle.
I also had fun during college making bitters and Limoncello which were mad easy and passive to make
In lockdown I had a captive audience and tore through Smuggler's Cove giving my family tiki cocktails at least once a week
My friend Imran is also very into cockails so at one point we had a grenadine blind taste test, comparing the common grenadine syrup, cocktail codex grenadine, and aviary grendaine against eachother.