The Cocktail Thread
It's Summer in the Northern Hemisphere! Time for shorts, sandals, inappropriate toplessness and silly drinks.
What are your favorites and how do you take them?
*Edit* The management encourage patrons to drink responsibly.
What are your favorites and how do you take them?
*Edit* The management encourage patrons to drink responsibly.
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Though I do like cocktail sausages!
Anyway, give me a schwarzbier with mead mixed in any day of the week and I'll be one, happy ooze.
45ml vodka
6 green grapes
2 pieces of rockmelon
Half green chilli
Schweppes Agrum Collection Citrus Blend
Add green grapes, rockmelon and chilli into a hurricane glass. Muddle.
I was pretty uncivilized back then. . . But what can you say? I'm a colonial.
I'm trying to cut back on the booze myself, which is why I'm thinking about cocktails. I find it easier to have one or two then stop than I do with beers. The ritual of making them is also fun, and you get to tweak the recipes to your taste.
My current favorite, the Old Fashioned:
Add a half a teaspoon of brown sugar to a lowball glass, muddle with a dash of water until dissolved. Add a dash of Bitters and top the glass up with ice. Gradually add about 50-60ml of good bourbon while stirring, should take a couple of minutes. Garnish with a twist of orange zest and a maraschino cherry - one of the proper dark ones, not bright red "cocktail cherries".
*Edit* Caipirinhas are pretty damn nice, @FinneousPJ, but cachaca is hard to find here. Daquiris are almost identical but substituting rum for cachaca. Unfortunately if you ask for a Daquiri half the time you'll get some strawberry or banana monstrosity with half a fruit basket hanging off it.
Also, a drink that tastes much better than it sounds is a vodka-water. That's it. It sounds terrible, but if you mix the right proportions it's very brisk and refreshing, and is a nice change from the sweetness of most mixed drinks.
But at the end of the day I'm definitely a beer guy.
Used to drink mostly beer, but I have celiac, and our beer is costly.
For mixed drinks, I like Rusty Nails, Manhattens, Margaritas (I only make lime), Gin Martinis and obviously Scotch and Water. Thats totally a cocktail. I generally dont like sweet in my drinks, and am not partial to ice.
1) Black Russian.
2) Cuba Libre.
3) Sex on the Beach.
4) Blue Angel.
5) Bloody Mary (this one makes you really thirsty, and it is not very easy on your taste).
6) Asian... Pussy... (sorry, honestly, that was its real name in the menu...).
7) Long Island ice tea (a mix of many drinks, one of my favorites; too bad everyone makes this too damn light).
8) This one, i never drank it, and i always wanted to; the famous, elusive, legendary, Death in the Afternoon, with Champagne and Absinthe.
9) Or the Gladiator, which contains absinthe, and turns out in a three colored liquid in your glass.
Of all these, i mostly remember (and think i liked the most, too), the Blue Angel. It contained a measure of all white drinks, like rum, tequila, vodka and one or two more i now forget, with blue curacao, and one or two more ingredients. Very heavy, very biting, satisfying, cold and refreshing in taste and feel, me and my buddies drank this at summer, and it was a real breeze! The waitress though did not know how to make this one, despite it being on the menu, we waited a lot, for her to telephone a friend of hers to give her instructions, to prepare it for her first time, and to serve it to us. She made it heavier that it normally should had been, maybe the dosage were more than it should, and after drinking it, two of us accidentally dropped our glasses down on the floor (and she came to clean, looking at us embarrassingly).
3 and 6, the profane ones, i tried during a trip to Italy. They were really something else. Enjoyed them pretty very much. Honestly, though, i swear, the menu named them exactly this!...
P.S. When you are deeply in love, or in a relationship, or both, please, everyone, avoid drinking entirely. This is my advice, my legacy and blessing, to all of you. Just heed my words. If you want a bigger chance to become and remain happy...
Dirty extra dry Vodka Martinis - prefer Belvedere
Not big on other cocktails, more of a dark beer and red wine guy myself.
1 measure Vodka
1 measure Kahlua (or other coffee liquer)
Full-fat milk or light cream
Ice
Combine in a highball glass, serve.
Optional - serve with a dressing gown and sunglasses
It's like a boozy milkshake. If it's good enough for the Dude it's good enough for me.
@Awong124 ever try a Rusty Nail? Scotch and Drambui... its really one of the few scotch cocktails thsts not an insult to the distillery; even then, I would use a good blend, or affordable singlemalt. Its also delicious.
I feel the same about scotch and good brandy or cognac: never mix aged hard liqor with anything that will interfere with the flavour. I knew a guy that insisted cognac was 'great' with cola. $40mif its cheap ffs, and he might has well have mixed it with cheap whisky.
Whenever I end up drinking and wearing a suit at the same time I have a perverse desire to drink gin Martinis. Naturally, you've got to use very good gin, as little dry vermouth as the bartender will allow and and an olive. There's a perverse kick to be had from someone noting that you've got a girly looking drink, then watching their face as they take a sip. Done well they're chilled rocket fuel, it only takes two and I'm finished for the night.
I was never a big drinker and my knowledge is very limited, but I did try something once called a New Orleans Fizz that was pretty good. It was fairly thick and tasted sweet. I believe it had eggs in it, which initially made me not want to try it, but I actually liked it.