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Main Forums => Sticky Stuff (no pun intended) => Topic started by: Demosthenes on July 28, 2008, 11:29:35 AM
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I used to bartend for a living years ago and I don't anymore, but I still like mixing drinks and I often do so at home.
I thought it'd be cool if we had a thread made up of nothing but interesting and tasty drink recipes.
I'll start this off with one I posted already today. I don't have a name for it though. Any suggestions?
Demo's "Fruity With A Kick" cocktail, a.k.a., "The Xolik"
Ingredients
1 part vodka
1 part Maker's Mark
1 part TripleSec
3 parts pineapple juice
1 orange slice, quartered
Pour the liquor and the pineapple juice into a shaker with some ice. Shake thoroughly. Pour into a tall glass over ice and the orange pieces.
Enjoy!
EDIT to add the name ;)
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Ingredients
1 part vodka
1 part Maker's Mark
1 part TripleSec
3 parts pineapple juice
1 orange slice, quartered
Pour the liquor and the pineapple juice into a shaker with some ice. Shake thoroughly. Pour into a tall glass over ice and the orange pieces.
Sounds fruity with a kick. You could call it a xolik
nothing but love xol
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Ah, shucks. My own drink! I'm flattered. :-D
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Just to keep this thread alive somewhat
This summer I started drinking Dark and Stormy (http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink3117.html)
Pretty refreshing stuff, I usually add a lime wedge.
Also found Cold River Vodka (http://www.coldrivervodka.com/home.php) which is fantastic stuff, lime wedge and a couple of ice cubes and you're fine
Other than that I've been drinking mostly wine this year. Just came back from a wine festival in the New York finger lakes region with 9 cases from various wineries.
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1 Handle Everclear
2 Containers Powdered Kool-Aid (Grape)
8 Cans Red Bull (or other energy drink)
Mix in cooler with water to taste. Great for parties if you're in college and a cheapskate like me. Not highbrow or classy by any means.
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Demo's Quick-And-Dirty Whiskey Sour
Ingredients
2 shots Maker's Mark
1 teaspoon powdered sugar
6 ounces Minute Maid Limeade
Mix ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake well (or else the powdered sugar won't dissolve right). Pour over ice.
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At the local Stop and Shop they've been selling this stuff Simply Limeade and Simply Lemonade. I've found they make great mixers because they aren't too sweet. The normal whiskey sour or margarita mixers are way too sweet for me.
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At the local Stop and Shop they've been selling this stuff Simply Limeade and Simply Lemonade. I've found they make great mixers because they aren't too sweet. The normal whiskey sour or margarita mixers are way too sweet for me.
I agree, which is why I never use them. I buy cans of Minute Maid frozen limeade and usually have a pitcher of it mixed up on-hand in the fridge. The above recipe also works well substituting rum for the whiskey.
EDIT:
Since I'm posting, I might as well type up another recipe I've been using occasionally of late.
Demo's Purple Cosmo
Ingredients
2 shots of quality vodka (I like Grey Goose or Chopin's for something like this)
1 shot Blue Curacao
1.5 ounces Cran-Apple juice
dash of lime juice
dash of Grenadine
Very carefully pour the dash of Grenadine into the bottom of a martini glass so it pools cleanly in the apex. Pour the other ingredients into a shaker and shake. Pour carefully into the martini glass, taking care not to mix up the Grenadine. Garnish with a quarter of an orange slice on the rim of the glass if desired. If you have the proportions right, it'll be a nice purple color with a little pool of red (from the Grenadine) at the bottom.
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Well these are a couple of drink recipies for somewhat large quantities of people. Not really cocktails but I fear I wouldn't live up to my new avatar if I didn't post in this thread.
Apple Pie
2 gallons apple juice
1/2 pint Hot Damn! or like
1/2 pint E&J
1/2 pint Everclear
Don't let the Everclear deter you, this stuff is great. It can be served like a shot because it does the trick but doesn't have to be.
Summer Brew
Litre of vodka
1 case (30) beers (Doesn't really matter what. If it comes in 30, you can use it)
4 frozen concentrate limonade mixes.
Grab a cooler, put some ice in it, add ingredients.
Yeah. I'm in college.
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Summer Brew
Litre of vodka
1 case (30) beers (Doesn't really matter what. If it comes in 30, you can use it)
4 frozen concentrate limonade mixes.
Grab a cooler, put some ice in it, add ingredients.
We used to call that one a Strip And Go Naked (http://www.freedrinkrecipes.com/punches-drinks-recipes/stripandgonaked-drink-recipe.html), back-in-the-day. :lol:
Yeah. I'm in college.
Obviously. :wink:
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That whiskey sour is made of win.
One of my favorites to make was the layered mudslide in a cordial glass.
A variation of that was The Duck Fart
1/3 kahlua
1/3 baileys
1/3 crown royal
layer in a cordial and drink it down.
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An old family recipe ...
Moon Juice:
1 bottle of thunderbird
1 packet of unsweetened koolaide
rescrew cap and rotate gently to mix
enjoy
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Fairly well-known but great nontheless.
Irish Car Bomb
Glass of Guiness full enough to drop a shot glass into
1/2 shot Irish creme
1/2 shot Irish whiskey or other whiskey
Mix the Irish creme and whiskey in one shot glass. Drop the shot into the Guiness and drink. Some people just use the creme but, ya know.
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Made this one last night as an experiment.
Demo's Pear Cosmo
Ingredients
2 shots of quality vodka (I used 42 Below Vodka (http://www.42below.com/) from New Zealand)
1.5 ounces Cran-Apple juice
dash of lime juice
0.5 ounces pear liqueur (I used Mathilde (http://www.newenglandspirits.com/mathilde-pear-375ml-p-764.html?cPath=41_97))
Chill a standard martini glass in the freezer for at least 30 minutes prior to mixing this drink. Once the glass is chilled, pour the half-shot of pear liqueur into the glass and swirl it around, coating the interior of the glass evenly (since the glass should be ice-cold, the pear liqueur should get kind of syrupy and adhere to it nicely).
Mix the vodka, Cran-Apple juice and lime juice in a shaker with some ice. Pour carefully into the prepped martini glass. Garnish with a lemon slice.
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Famous Cocktail recipies~
=) Hairy Navel
~1/4 Peach Scnappes
~1/4 Lemonade or Orange Juice
~1/2 Vodka or Lemonade (lemonade changes the name to Fuzzy Navel though)
Stirred for as long as it takes for someone to run there finger down from your head to your navel... Very sexy drink, tastes like crap though. Ice and fruity pieces. Prince Charming drinks one on Shrek 3.
=) Rusty Nail
~1/3 Irish Cream
~1/3 Scotch
~1/3 Drambuie
Difficult to make, if you wanna be fancy you put the irish cream on the top with a lil' swirl, it looks nice but if your planning on just getting hammered, don't bother. Again stir it. Very sweet with Drambuie and served with ice. Desperate Housewives drink this crap but don't let that stop you, it at least SOUNDS manly...
=) Grasshopper
~1/4 Mint Cream
~1/4 Vanilla Cream
~1/2 Vodka
Fancy green drink that people usually drink after dinner. Vodka brings out this really wierd taste in the Vanilla, something you don't dislike or like until your completely smashed. Thats just my opinion. I don't use ice, but people tend to add an apple slice into it... Grasshoppers are usually referred to in Kung Fu movies. Who knew they were talking about getting drunk?
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had a Coconut Cloud Martini on Maui, it was very nice.
Involves Cream of Coconut, White Rum, Malibu Coconut Rum and Stoli Vanilla vodka. I tried making it at home using 2 parts white rum, 2 parts malibu to 1 part vodka, 1 part cream of coconut ratio. Came out pretty good.
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I had this creme brulee liqueur at a party a few years back. Just drink it chilled.
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"Oatmeal Cookies" we used to drink these all the time they're really good and taste very close to what they're called
1 part butterscotch schnapps
1 part bailey's
1 part goldschlager
1 part vodka
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I got one!
Flaming Dr. Pepper:
1 full beer of the light variety poured into a tall cup
1 shot Disaronno topped with a small amount of Bacardi 151
Light the Disaronna / 151 shot and drop into the beer. Chug, and it resembles a Dr. Peppery taste.
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Flaming Auto
*cough syrup
*auto
*tree
mix all three parts at high speed
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Flaming Testicles
Ingredients
1 sleepy man in a seated position
1 lit cigarette
Cough syrup (optional)
I've got a pair of jeans with a big ol' burn hole right over the ballular area. I don't smoke when I'm tired anymore.
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A Margarita is Tequilla with lime juice and Triple Sec (or similar orange liqueur, like Grand Marnier).
A classic ratio is 2-1-1: 2 parts Tequilla, 1 part lime juice, 1 part Triple Sec.
Mix ingredients in a glass (or other vessel) with ice. Wet the rim of an empty glass with lime juice, then upend the glass in a dish of sea salt, to salt the rim. Pour the cocktail in carefully, add ice if wanted.
The ratio can -- and should -- be monkeyed with to achieve the one perfect combination that resonates deeply within your soul.
Usually, I use 2-2-1: 2 parts Tequilla, 2 parts line juice, 1 part sweet orange liqueur.
Sometimes the lime is very limey, so I add some simple syrup (about .25 part).
Or you can buy Margarita mix... but why?
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To clarify, the above was posted in response to this question I saw dangling in the Shout Box:
[Today at 04:46:53 PM] Probie: How do you make a margarita
Probie, if you meant the pizza rather than the cocktail, then you'll need to swap out some ingredients.
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I usually put some Goya Guanabana juice in mine.
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What do you yanks know about margaritas anyway.
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The list of what you can put in a Margarita is substantial.
(cf. earlier remark in re. achieving "the one perfect combination that resonates deeply within your soul")
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What do you yanks gabachos y gabachas know about margaritas anyway.
FTFY.
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Lot of fruity cocktails in here. Tsk. Time to get back to the classics. Here is one man's guide, first to the morning drinks. Drinking in the morning is a dying practice that should be revived.
Luci's Interpretation of an 8th Ward
(Lowball, can be consumed at any time of the day. Luci's favored morning drink.)
- 1 oz rye whiskey
- 1 oz bourbon whiskey
- 1/2 oz lemon juice
- 1 1/2 oz pulpy orange juice
- Eyeball teaspoon of grenadine.
Shake with ice, strain straight or over ice into chilled Old Fashioned, or red wine glass. (Red wine glass for early morning stability.)
The Mimosa
- 3 parts champagne
- 2 parts orange juice
Combine and serve in a champagne flute. Drink multiple. Enjoy morning.
The Bloody Mary
- 1.25 oz vodka
- 2. oz tomato juice
Collins glass. Pour vodka first, then tomato juice. Add a dash of Tabasco sauce, dash of worshtershire sauce, dash of salt and pepper, and a slapdash of oregano. Add celery stalk and stir.
The Champagne Cocktail
Place sugar cube in a chilled flute or martini glass. Fill with champagne, add dash of bitters, stir lightly.
Final step to all above drinks:
Serve with plenty of bacon or sausage, sundry breakfast items such as potatoes and eggs, smoke plenty of dunhills, and enjoy.
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Lot of fruity cocktails in here. Tsk. Time to get back to the classics. Here is one man's guide, first to the morning drinks. Drinking in the morning is a dying practice that should be revived.
Luci's Interpretation of an 8th Ward
(Lowball, can be consumed at any time of the day. Luci's favored morning drink.)
- 1 oz rye whiskey
- 1 oz bourbon whiskey
- 1/2 oz lemon juice
- 1 1/2 oz pulpy orange juice
- Eyeball teaspoon of grenadine.
Shake with ice, strain straight or over ice into chilled Old Fashioned, or red wine glass. (Red wine glass for early morning stability.)
The Mimosa
- 3 parts champagne
- 2 parts orange juice
Combine and serve in a champagne flute. Drink multiple. Enjoy morning.
The Bloody Mary
- 1.25 oz vodka
- 2. oz tomato juice
Collins glass. Pour vodka first, then tomato juice. Add a dash of Tabasco sauce, dash of worshtershire sauce, dash of salt and pepper, and a slapdash of oregano. Add celery stalk and stir.
The Champagne Cocktail
Place sugar cube in a chilled flute or martini glass. Fill with champagne, add dash of bitters, stir lightly.
Final step to all above drinks:
Serve with plenty of bacon or sausage, sundry breakfast items such as potatoes and eggs, smoke plenty of dunhills, and enjoy.
I was ready to marry you until you started measuring in oz. I still might marry you...maybe! x
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Lot of fruity cocktails in here. Tsk.
The Mimosa
Always room for one more, I see.
Here is what I'm exploring lately (besides the indispensable Margarita Fridays):
Sazerac Cocktail
- 1 sugar cube
- 1 jigger Rye Whiskey
- Enough Absinthe to coat a glass
- 3 dashes Peychaud's
- 3 dashes Angostura
- Lemon peel
Chill an Old-Fashioned glass.
In a second glass, muddle the sugar cube with Peychaud's and Angostura. Add the Rye, stir.
Quickly coat the chilled glass with absinthe, discard excess. Pour in Rye mixture, add lemon peel.
In place of absinthe, you can use Herbsaint (some of which I recently got and am looking forward to trying) or any good anisette.
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Until another paradigm shift occurs, here is the perfect martini:
5 parts Gordon's or Beefeater Gin (depending on mood).
1 part Martini & Rossi Dry Vermouth.
Pack metal cocktail shaker with ice, pour in gin and vermouth, shake until ice forms on outside of shaker.
Pour into chilled martini glass.
Add chilled olive.
When mixing this for 2 (me and P), I use smallish glasses, so a perfect 2-glass round is 100 ml gin and 20 ml vermouth.
We have this most cocktail nights, but occasionally instead of a Martini we feel like a Vesper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesper_(cocktail)).
I will not repeat here what Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesper_(cocktail)) conveniently recounts in regards to the Vesper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesper_(cocktail)), but to say that we have found Beefeater Gin, contemporary Lillet, regular Moskovskaya Vodka, Angostura bitters and a nice Meyer Lemon twist to be satisfactory ingredients.
But I am planning to find a source of quinine, just for antic reasons.
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Until another paradigm shift occurs, here is the perfect martini:
5 parts Gordon's or Beefeater Gin (depending on mood).
1 part Martini & Rossi Dry Vermouth.
Pack metal cocktail shaker with ice, pour in gin and vermouth, shake until ice forms on outside of shaker.
Pour into chilled martini glass.
Add chilled olive.
When mixing this for 2 (me and P), I use smallish glasses, so a perfect 2-glass round is 100 ml gin and 20 ml vermouth.
We have this most cocktail nights, but occasionally instead of a Martini we feel like a Vesper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesper_(cocktail)).
I will not repeat here what Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesper_(cocktail)) conveniently recounts in regards to the Vesper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesper_(cocktail)), but to say that we have found Beefeater Gin, contemporary Lillet, regular Moskovskaya Vodka, Angostura bitters and a nice Meyer Lemon twist to be satisfactory ingredients.
But I am planning to find a source of quinine, just for antic reasons.
Lately I've been on a Bombay Sapphire kick, but I definitely love Beefeater.
If you can find them, I highly recommend feta cheese stuffed olives (http://www.mezzetta.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=mezzetta&Product_Code=10106634&Category_Code=stuffedolives) to give your martinis a different twist.
I'll have to give a Vesper a try some time. I usually have most of the ingredients on-hand, and I'm a fan of the original novel, but I've never tried mixing one.
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I use Tanqueray Ten for mine. Sure it has some other botanicals in it, but it tastes damn good.
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You call that a Martini? Well, that's your right in this country.
This is how I make a martini.
- Chill martini glass. A real one, not one of these metrosexual large twirly ones. Reidel's plebian target line makes a good size. Which you can get there.
- Take one bottle Martini & Rossie vermouth, dry.
- Look at it. Look at it good.
- Take it, and the chilled martini glass, and proceed to the roof of the tallest building in your town.
- Throw them over the ledge. At someone who looks like they would drink a "flirtini" or whatever.
- Pour a glass of Gordon's over ice in a rocks glass, and enjoy.
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Two problems with your recipe, LS:
1. The Vermouth and glassware bill is prohibitive, and
2. Too much excersize.
So I would have to skip steps 4 and 5.
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You're a Churchill man, I see. Very good, most discriminating. Progressive, you know. I approve.
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Yes, I am.
Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down and wait for the urge to pass.
When mixing a Martini, Churchill would gaze at a bottle of Vermouth from across the room as he poured the Gin. When even that is not dry enough, I pour the Gin and imagine Churchill gazing at a bottle of Vermouth.
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He was, in so many ways, a nincompoop. But in others, quite a genius.
Continuing on my dogmatic belief that nothing new is good, especially in the world of drinks, here is a belated part two to my above - this being drinks for any other time of the day than morning, and morning if you so choose. I mostly deal in whiskey cocktails when I'm cocktailing, so part three will have to be everything else.
Section 2: Whiskey Cocktails for drinkers with quality and discrimination.[/i]
The Highball, The Burgundy, or the Rye and Dry
The classic drink that all other whiskey cocktails aspire to be.
- Rocks glass
- Ice, to taste
- Generous double of Rye. Used to be I'd say to go with Jim Beam rye, Sazerack, or Alberta Premium. However, Old Potrero from Anchor Brewing, who make my favourite steam ale, is my new favourite rye whiskey.
- Top with Ginger Ale.
- Despite name, don't put it in a "highball glass" which is really a Tom Collins glass, and anything but a Tom Collins in it - and even that, is not dignified.
To get rinsed, repeat.
The Manhattan
The only thing that's changed about this guy in a while is the tendency to use a stupid cocktail glass these days.
- CONSERVATIVE cocktail glass, or a rocks glass, or double recipe for a Collins glass if you're gauche. Please. You're not Truman Capote, it's not 10 in the morning, and damn it - you're a man - no big twirly "flirtini" glasses. Ever.
- If it's a cocktail glass, chill it. Otherwise, set that aside for a moment.
- In another glass with ice, mix the following. STIR! STIR! You're not a metrosexual Scotsman. Shakers are best used for Vodka and Gin drinks.
- A generous double of good rye whiskey OR
- If you are in a smokier mood, a good bourbon.
- Half ounce of sweet vermouth, I prefer Boissiere for sweet and dry. Martini and Rossi is good for throwing at things.
- Bitters. To your taste, I guess. Enough to disguise the fact that you're drinking something with vermouth is my take.
- Strain into chilled rocks glass, put in a cherry,
The Old Fashioned
Pretty much luci's favourite drink after the breakfast hour, possibley exempting the Julep
- Old fashioned glass, which is now called the rocks glass.
- If you touch ANY other kind of glass, or look at club soda while you're doing this, I will KNOW. And I will find you. Ugh. Barbarism.
- Round up a bottle of Woodford bourbon, or whatever you prefer that's bourbon. Rye can be used if you want something a little lighter than the norm. Woodford is always the best bet, though. Years have taught me this.
- Drop a sugar cube in that glass.
- Gain regional hegemony over that sucker with bitters - just saturate the hell out of it, but don't be hasty. Then drop on a thinnish orange slice.
- Muddle it with just the smallest amount of SPARKLING water. Two spoons, max. I prefer Pelligrino, but water.
- No SODA! Flat water is okay, but NO SODA!
- If you don't know what muddling is, learn, it's important. Muddle it good.
- Muddling is not something from Stupid Sexy Flanders; you shouldn't read silly semi-literature, anyway.
- fill glass with ice.
- DON'T TOUCH THAT SODA I KNOW YOU'RE LOOKING AT IT HEATHEN.
- Fill glass with Bourbon from there.
- It should be about a double of bourbon, did I mention NEVER TOP OFF WITH SODA?
- Appropriate garnish is another orange slice, and a cherry if you're bold.
It's the perfect cocktail. A sweet, a sour, a bitter, water.
The (double) Sidecar (sling), as done by luci
I'm not a Sidecar purist. The real recipe is great, but I was taught a strange method. Here it is.
- Rocks glass. Yes, that's right - mine is more a sidecar sling.
- Shot EACH of bourbon and a good brandy. Traditionally, only brandy or armagnac is used, but the later is nasty anyway.
- Drop those into a shaker, which is appropriate for this drink, and three quarters of an ounce of a strong triple sec like cointreu and a quarter ounce of lemon juice. And ice, naturally.
- Shake it good.
- Shake it right.
- Shake it all night.
- Pour into rocks glass OVER ICE! (I told you this would get strange!)
- Drink repeatedly and with rapidity, as a sling. Yes, the ice is extraneous. No, I don't care - it's how I learned the sidecar.
The Mint Julep
The Mint Julep. The drink of the enlightened man. Need I say more?
- NO SODA WATER!
- NO 7UP! Yes I have seen this. Isn't it monstrous?!
- Julep glass if you have one, if not, make do with a rocks glass, or a double wide of same, or a Collins glass. I prefer to drink multiple juleps from rocks glasses.
- You'll need five or six sprigs worth of mint leaves. Make sure they're very fresh.
- Take two sugar cubes, the mint, and just enough sparkling to muddle.
- Muddle it really well - the room should smell like a mint explosion.
- Fill with crushed ice and bourbon, and stir until glass is very frosty.
- Drop a mint sprig in to be traditional, drink, relax. Repeat.
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Awe-inspiring.
I agree -- The Old Fashioned is pretty much it.
In a few days I hope to relate my attempts to mix a Marconi Wireless. It combines apple brandy, sweet vermouth and orange bitters in some way, but I am told the specific apple brandy and vermouth used is critical. I am looking for Laird's Bottled in Bond Straight Apple Brandy, and Carpano Antica Red.
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Lairds seems to be a little hard to find on the West Coast, but it's about. I haven't seen Carpano Antica for years, though. Be interested to know how it turns out. I haven't seen many applejack drinks, much less the wireless, floating around for about two decades.
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I want you to know that I will be copying down these recipes to utilize at home, complete with Luci's rather inspired insults and derision.
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Yeah, a lot of interesting.
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I'm fooooooreeeeever you're girl. /nice picture novice.
Thanks! Alms for the pudgy?
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Ok so I came up with this at a birthday party,
Mount and do me
2 shots 151
1/2can mt. dew
Tastes like a sweet margarita without the salt.
I also have a recipe for eggnogg but I can't give it out...secret family recipe...
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Something the wife and I have been enjoying lately:
A Corvette Summer
1 part Patron Silver tequila (or sequila, of you prefer)
2 parts grapefruit juice
a splash of club soda for a little fizz
Stir to mix, pour over ice.
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Is it as bad as the movie? Although I seem to recall Annie Potts being pretty hot in that one, but it could have been the adolescent hormones at the time.
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Captain and OJ
1 oz Captain Morgan
5 oz (or whatever) orange juice
Just heard of this one. I thought it would taste terrible but it's actually amazing and has an Orange Julius-type flavor.
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Here's another good grapefruit juice recipe:
Salty Dog
1 part vodka
2 parts grapefruit juice
Brutally shaken, poured over rocks in a highball glass rimmed with salt.
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Yeah, yeah, thread necro.... Interesting combination I discovered recently. No name, but tasty nonetheless:
2 oz. Tuaca
4 oz. Amaretto
8 oz. Cherry Limeaid (I used Minute Maid...)
4 oz. Mountain Dew
names?
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In Soviet Russia, if you're name is Mary, chicken chokes you (http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/226086/americans-are-now-stuffing-whole-fried-chickens-in-their-bloody-marys/)
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