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Cocktails and streaming content for the casual consumer

Each quarter, the YAF Knowledge Focus Group curates streaming video content and a cocktail recipe to salute each Connection issue theme. In Q4, we celebrate practice innovation through provocative shows and drinks.

Cocktail Recipe: “Mindblown” When real innovation occurs, minds are blown. This take on a highball is loosely based on the popular “mindblown” emoji, using coconut flakes and fire. Innovation often takes on various forms, and this drink is flexible in its composition. Either way, this drink aims to inspire creative ideas to arrive at an innovative outcome.

Ingredients 1 oz Irish whiskey or vodka 1 oz white vermouth ½ oz passion fruit puree (can substitute with lemon juice) ½ oz simple syrup Ginger ale (if using vodka) or club soda (if using whiskey) Crushed coconut flakes Dried fruit slice (pear, lemon, blood orange, etc.) High-proof alcohol, such as 151 or Everclear

Instructions Wet top third of highball glass and dust rim with coconut flakes. Fill the cup with ice to the very top. Combine whiskey or vodka, vermouth, fruit juice, and simple syrup and pour into a highball cup. Top with ginger ale or soda. For the garnish, soak dried fruit in high-proof alcohol, then place directly on top of the drink. Using a match or lighter, light fruit carefully to ignite alcohol. Fruit will caramelize until alcohol is burnt away. Enjoy!

Above: Mindblown cocktail, based on the popular emoji, with flame garnish

Streaming Recommendations (available on Netflix):

The following ranges from fictional series to documentaries, each exploring possibilities of the mind, of human kind, and of the future.

Black Mirror (2011-2019) Human: The World Within (2021) Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates (2019) Print the Legend (2014)

AIA YAF Knowledge Focus Group (Allie Ditzel, AIA; Ashley Hartshorn, AIA, NCARB; Kiara Luers, AIA; Caitlin Osepchuk, AIA; Jason Takeuchi, AIA, NCARB, NOMA)

The YAF Knowledge Focus Group is dedicated to identifying important issues of recently licensed architects and the creation of knowledge resources to enable young architects to advance their careers.

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