 Welcome to Cocktails 101 by Drinks Made Easy, our ongoing series where we teach you how to make simple classic cocktails at home. If this is your first episode, you can click on the link above to see our past episodes. Today we're taking a look at a quite sweet but also tart modern classic cocktail that a lot of people like as a social lubricant. Make this and you'll get lucky. That's not what we do here. We keep it classy. To build a lemon drop, you'll start by adding two ounces of vodka. Next you'll add half an ounce of triple sec. Now some recipes do not call for triple sec and if you don't have any, don't worry about it just skip it and just use simple syrup. Next we'll add one ounce of simple syrup, which is equal parts sugar and water and one ounce of fresh lemon juice. Put that into a shaker tin full of ice and give it a good shake. Pour your lemon drop into your glass. Now you can either use a sugar rimmed or an unsugar rimmed glass. I tend to like to rim half the glass with sugar. That way your guest has a choice of how sweet they want the cocktail to be. And last but not least, if you so choose, you can express a fresh peel of lemon. Thanks so much for watching and please remember to always drink responsibly because everybody likes to make friends but no one likes to make them in a prison shower. We're going to need to do another one of that. That was perfect. That was awesome.