Used to be a fine and discriminating gentleman's club, before they let the damned Xolik's women Mongolians in.

Some people are Just.

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.

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.

Excuse me? That's Touché. Let's remember our orthography here. Haven't you read Be Like Mike?

Use l'accent aigu when appropriate, M'KAY? Sheesh.

Do you think your Wu-Tang Sword can defeat me?

You can rip me a new one any day, toots.

It's a guy thing, toots.

Fraternity, or any other form of collective, is not fun without hazing. Boys these days, no balls. Hazing is the non-Germanic mensur, when practiced correctly - a way to understand, categorize, or encourage the growth of an individuals character. Military as well, as 12 points out.

Some of my most treasured memories in life have involved hazing, whether it was in schools, Shriners, what have you. I should also point out that hazing is a big part of this forum and others that have proceeded it.

Whoa, hey, slow down cat. Tell us some things about yourself.

Who was your favourite member of the Kaiserlicher Marine, for example?

You'd think that was a joke, yes. But it wasn't.

Well I would hate to be totally right.

On a scale of 1 to 10, what is your personal level of guilt regarding the post-colonial fallout from your abandonment of infrastructure development in Guinea-Bissau and it's lovely beaches?

Also, listen to PB. Your course of study sounds ominously like work in and of it's self.

Boa vinda à coisa.