Or what has been your go to lately? I’m usually a whiskey and ginger kinda guy but I’m trying to branch out a little these days. What’re you drinking?
Currently sipping on a Paloma:
- 1.5 oz Tequila (blanco)
- .5oz lime juice
- 4 oz Grapefruit soda (Jarritos today)
- Pinch of salt
Absolute favorite is the Sazerac. Any recipe you find use less sugar.
Do you make yours with a split base of rye and cognac or do you go for straight rye? Love me a good Sazerac! If you haven’t had one yet, give the bijou or la louisiane a try too. Both are delicious new orleans style cocktails
I like it straight rye mostly but always love to try and see if a good bartender can make it 50/50 too.
Salmiakki, keep it classic.
Oh look it’s a Finn. The premade salmiakkikossu or home made turkinpippuri infusion?
Koskenkorva, I haven’t tried steeping my own.
Negronis, I love campari and gin
I also love coming up with cocktails so I’d love to share one of my favorites, the Fire Eater (I’m also an actual fire eater)
- Dried whole chili peppers, broken in half
- Fireball
- Maraschino cherries and syrup
- Fill with coke and serve over ice, alternatively use cherry coke
The drink gets spicier as you drink. For the full experience eat the chilis at the end.
Dark, unspiced rum and any of the fruit juice monsters mixed 1:1 in a big gulp.
Keeps my heart on it’s toes.
Rye Manhattan up. Rye old fashioned if you want rocks and sweeter profile. But always rye.
Straight rye can be good too.
A gin and tonic.
I also like ginger, so a ginger mule with gin is also a favorite
Can’t beat a good gin and tonic on a hot summer’s day.
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But I’ll add a dry martian in there too! Gin, vermouth, olive(s) or Gibson’s.
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Hey that’s how Jack says it in The Shining. “The martians have landed somewhere on earth” he used to say to old Al, y’know, back before he took the family up to The Overlook for the winter…
(Reference book not movie.)
Set me up, Loyd!
I second the gun and tonic. I enjoy them quite often.
Is that the American recipe?
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Lol. *Gin. However one of my favorites is Gunpowder gin.
Get you some tonic syrup and kick that gin & tonic game up to 11. So worth it!
Do you have a recommendation? I’ve actually been looking so I can make my own tonic water.
I’ve heard liber and co is good, can’t personally attest to it though. My go to is jack rudy’s. FYI the recipe on the bottle says .75 syrup to 2oz gin. Do yourself a favor and bump that up to 1 oz. A good quality gin is going to dominate the flavor and mask the bitterness. I usually do 3 oz soda water( the only cocktail I measure the soda on lol) and a barspoon of lime juice. Let the ice handle the rest of the dilution
Seconding Jack Rudy’s. While you’re doing yourself a favor, do yourself a favor and try 0.75oz syrup and 0.75oz st. Germain. That extra floral note is great with some gins (I’ve tried citadelle and malfy with this recipe to great success)
That sounds like a great idea! Gin and st Germain are a match made in heaven
Rarely drink cocktails, but Long Island Ice Tea is probably my go-to.
Tanqueray and cranberry juice with lime
Is your mind on your money?
For a cocktail, I’ll take a well executed Mojito 9/10 times. That other 1/10 is often a White Russian.
Else a gin & tonic as a long drink, as long as they got decent stuff.
These days I have maybe 2-3 drinks a year at most, so I’m not willing to settle for inferior ingredients.
Well executed being the key here! I don’t know how many Mojitos I’ve had with just 5 limp mint leaves barely muddled in them
Yeah, or using syrups for lime, mint and even sugar. I’ve once received something that can only be described as a glass of sprite with a dash of toothpaste. Utterly repulsive.
I have multiple - it depends on the occasion:
- illegal (I love mezcal)
- moscow mule
- bloody mary
- piña colada
Piña coladas are fucking king.
Dark & Stormy is my favorite, from what I’ve tried
The Last Word is my favorite, but I rarely have the ingredients on hand. The Bees Knees is a more common go-to.
Naked & Famous is my favorite. It’s been described as the result of a Oaxacan love affair between The Last Word and a Paper Plane.
I like tiki drinks.
Painkillers are incredible. I’ll take 12.
measurements:
- 2 oz Dark Rum (preferably Pusser’s Rum, as it’s the traditional choice)
- 4 oz Pineapple Juice
- 1 oz Orange Juice
- 1 oz Cream of Coconut *Garnish: Grated Nutmeg and optionally a pineapple wedge or cherry
Instructions:
- Combine Ingredients: In a shaker, add the dark rum, pineapple juice, orange juice, and cream of coconut with ice.
- Shake Well: Shake vigorously until well chilled.
- Strain: Strain the mixture into a hurricane glass or large snifter filled with ice.
- Garnish: Generously grate fresh nutmeg on top of the drink and, if you like, add a pineapple wedge or cherry for decoration.
I really like both the Jungle Bird and Artichoke Hold served on crushed ice as tiki drinks.
The Jungle Bird
- 1.5 oz Jamaican rum
- .75 oz Campari
- 1 oz pineapple juice, preferably fresh
- .5 oz lime juice
- .5 oz Demerara syrup (1:1 sugar to water) Shake on ice and strain into crushed ice. Garnish: pineapple wedge and frond
Artichoke Hold:
- 0.75 oz Jamaican Rum preferably Smith & Cross
- 0.75 oz Cynar
- 0.5 oz Elderflower Liqueur preferably St Germain
- 0.75 oz Lime Juice
- 0.5 oz Orgeat
Same as above, shake on ice and strain onto crushed ice.
The jungle bird is one of the greatest. I typically use blackstrap rum. I’ve even clarified it before with milk
French 75 (use good champagne)
French 76 (use good champagne)
Old fashioned (use expensive cherries)
Side car (use orange brandy instead of orange liqueur)
Manhattan (don’t skimp on bitters)
Cosmopolitan (throw the used lime into the shaker)
Whiskey sour (use egg white)
Gimlet (add a cedar leaf for more flavor)Fresh fruit is a must to make the best drinks.
Whiskey sour (use egg white)
I’ve never heard of putting an egg white in those. What does that do?
Adds texture, almost creamy. Shake the hell out of the drink until it gets a nice foam topping.
That sounds pretty gross to be honest. Is it like meringue?
Second the whiskey sour (with egg white) and the Manhattan…
…and I’ll add a Moscow Mule when on a sunny patio and it’s a scorching day
Kentucky Mule here. Bourbon rather than vodka.
I also recommend Bundaberg ginger beer in any mule.
I like the cut of your jib! 🎩
Great list. Missing Sazerac, but someone else has you covered already.
Off to find a cedar leaf, I haven’t tried that…
I don’t do cocktails much, mostly because I don’t really have the ingredients around. One I like to do now and then is whisky (around half the drink, preferably spicy rye) and the rest about equal proportions of apple juice and ginger ale, poured over a chunk of ice.
