 Welcome to Cocktails 101 by Drinks Made Easy, our ongoing series where we teach you how to make some of the simple classic cocktails at home. If this is the first episode that you've seen, you can click on the link above and see some of our past episodes. Today we're taking a look at an American classic that became really popular when Sex and the City set its center stage. There have been tons of different variations of this cocktail and different people claim it, but the modern variation came out of New York City in 1988. But many different variations of the Cosmopolitan. Some of them recently have become really, really sweet, but the original one by Tobey Chikini was just a simple 2-1-1-1 part cocktail that is actually a bit tart. Now the one that was popularized in Sex and the City that isn't super bright red but more of kind of like a pastel pink, that would be the original and I would say superior form of the Cosmopolitan. To build your Cosmopolitan, you'll start by using one and a half ounces of citrone vodka. If you don't have citrone vodka and you want to try this cocktail, go ahead and do it. But if you find that you like it with the non-citrone vodka, buy a bottle, try it out, you'll like it even more. Next you're going to use three quarters of an ounce of Good Triple Sec, in this case Quattro, three quarters of an ounce of fresh lime juice, and three quarters of an ounce of cranberry juice. Now if you use too much of this, it's going to start getting really sweet and if you want it even more tart, you can pull back on that. But these are the original ingredients, give it a good shake. Strain your Cosmopolitan into a martini glass, and if you're feeling extra fancy, you can flame an orange across your cocktail. You could also just use a peel of orange or a lime, and there you have the Cosmopolitan. 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.