Fair warning: it's Eurococktail time

 Look, you can blame Katy for this (she mentioned Eurovision). Or you can blame Katie for this (she mentioned liquorice and blackcurrant syrup as a cocktail ingredient). But the fact is, next weekend will be our first ever #ConfinedCocktails to coincide with Eurovision. If you lay up your drink right, you should be in the perfect mood for when the final starts at 8pm.

Now, you may adore and revel in Eurovision's high camp delights or you may flinch and hope that it's an episode of Midsomer Murders you've only seen twice before on ITV3. But the fact is, it's a theme and a chance to think about something else. And The Spirits is taking a week off so I can't just do as they tell me. Therefore, I declare next week's #ConfinedCocktails theme to be EuroCocktails. 

It's not the toughest theme, but bear with me. Should you choose to join us, you can stick to a classic spritz, negroni or kir, a nice glass of Chablis, a Hugo that reminds you of the last time you were in Berlin, a stoutly British bitter, a crafty Pilsner, a refreshing Badoit or San Pellegrino, a frozen Stoli. You could go back to our roots with a Mumsnet Bellini. You might scour Diffords for a suitably-named recipe to explore. Or you could do what I did here and create a Frankencocktail. 

It's a kir-slash-Russian-spring-punch-with-liquorice, that classic Franco-Russo-Swedish mix of cassis, fresh raspberries, raw lakrits powder and the end of a bottle of sauvignon blanc.

I'm distressed/delighted to report that it was delicious. 

This abomination does not have a name. If anyone would like to suggest a good one, they might well get some cocktails through the post.