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
It always changes on the day but couple of my favourites are
-corpse reviver No. 2 -absinthe sour -pina colada -bloody mary( with gin instead of vodka and homemade chili sauce instead of tabasco)
I am also here to rep Corpse Recover No. 2.
It’s very refreshing. Gin, lemon juice, lillet, cointreaux, and a touch of absinthe.
Black Russian is my thing most of the time. Also gin sour without egg is great.
Rye Manhattan up. Rye old fashioned if you want rocks and sweeter profile. But always rye.
Straight rye can be good too.
Dark, unspiced rum and any of the fruit juice monsters mixed 1:1 in a big gulp.
Keeps my heart on it’s toes.
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Can’t beat a good gin and tonic on a hot summer’s day.
I second the gun and tonic. I enjoy them quite often.
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Lol. *Gin. However one of my favorites is Gunpowder gin.
Is that the American recipe?
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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!
Get you some tonic syrup and kick that gin & tonic game up to 11. So worth it!
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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
If you’re ok with bitter flavors, I’m a big fan of the Negroni.
I prefer mine straight up so it doesn’t dilute too much.
I prefer its big sibling the Boulevardier.
- 1.5 parts bourbon or rye
- 1 part campari
- 1 part sweet vermouth. I prefer Carpano Antica
Express an orange peel over and garnish with it
But if I have good rye I’m making a Manhattan so there’s a booze cherry as “dessert”.
If I have to pick one drink to take to a desert island, it’s the classic Sazerac.
That is what I will want most of the time when I want a cocktail. However, I will allow a few others to enter rotation, depending on mood, time/temperature, and place:
- Margarita.
- Vesper.
- Pastis.
And, finally, my embarrassing guilty pleasure (which I never order except when I am in company I know well or I am on a Caribbean island): piña colada.
Amoretto sour or gin gin
By far, Negroni.
1/3 dark vermouth 1/3 Campari 1/3 gin
Add to a low and wide glass with a fair amount of ice. Smoked rosemary and orange peel for extra infusion of flavour and stir.
You can experiment with the brands and types of vermouth and gin but Campari stays.
You can have my bottle of campari, I LOVE gin but a Negroni? Nah, that shit is like drinking cough medicine from the 1800s sans heroin.
My house does a lot of Negroni variations. I will often swap the Campari for Ramazzotti or Cappelletti to dial down the bitterness and add some herbal notes. Also works great as a Boulevardier or with mezcal.
Replace the gin with bourbon and it becomes a boulivardier! That’s one of my favorites.
Gimlets with homemade lime cordial if I’m trying to get hammered. Alternatively: death in the afternoon to black out
Dark n stormy with lemon hart 151 and a couple dashes of ango if I’m feeling lazy
Old fashioneds with a nice barrel proof bourbon to unwind
Amaretto sour for something sweet
Vieux carre if I want vermouth
There’s a whole wide world of fancy booze out there, I couldn’t pick just one favorite lol
Anything spicy or peppery. I’m pretty basic. Jalapeños are enough, but if you’re creative about it, so much the better.
Personally a fan of the Sonic Screwdriver, because I like my drinks like I like my ladies: sweet, bubbly, geeky as hell, and able to knock my ass out.
2 parts Sprite
2 parts orange juice
1 part vanilla vodka
1 part Blue Curaçao
Combine and serve in a highball glass on the rocks.
An Old Pal - which is a minor variation of a Boulevardier
- 1 ounce Rye
- 1 ounce Campari
- 1 ounce dry Vermouth
- Served straight up garnished with a twist of lemon
If I can find it, Time Release is fantastic and should be on everyone’s must try list
- 1.5 ounces Dry Gin
- 1 ounce White Port
- 0.5 ounce Sloe Gin
- 0.25 ounce Yellow Chartreuse
- Stirred not shaken, served straight up, garnished with a cherry
Great sipper that changes in flavor significantly as it warms up. Most places don’t have White Port on hand and few have Sloe Gin on hand so can be difficult to get at a bar.
I’ve invited one based on my taste for palomas and pisco sour. El Condor:
- 1oz of Tequila or Mezcal
- 1oz of Pisco (Peruvian)
- 0.5oz Syrup Agave (you can find it in the muesli section) or simple syrup
- 2oz Lime juice
- 2oz grapefruit juice
- 1 Eggwhite to shake if you like it more smooth
- chili salt rim or chilistring garnish
Probably the best cocktail I did so far.
All time favorite: Jungle Bird. The perfect mix of tiki drink in spirit but with a punch and grown up flavors!
Also love me a Bee’s Knees with some high quality gin and honey. There’s a fantastic New England distillery called Barr Hill that makes gin from honey, which makes for an extra amazing one.
I’ve really been enjoying the “Sour” format lately, too. Very versatile with all the random liquors or lower-proof alcohols I’ve collected over the past few years making random drinks.
An Ethicurean. I genuinely believe it’s the perfect cocktail but I’ve only ever come across it in a single bar in all my life.
- Serves 1
- ice cubes
- lemon ¼
- thyme 2 sprigs plus 1 to serve
- honey 1 tsp
- vodka 25ml
- apple juice 100ml
