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What's your favorite cocktail? What's the recipe for it, if it's not an obvious one?

Mine: La Floridita Daiquiri, despite it being Hemingway's drink of choice.

Two parts grapefruit juice (I prefer 100% Ruby Red)
Two parts rum
One part simple syrup
One part lime juice

I don't drink cocktails, I do however like a nice red wine or a good beer (not some Blue light crap, but something good).

im thirteen so i like root beer

lord twiggy1 wrote:im thirteen so i like root beer

I like root beer.

hecter wrote:I don't drink cocktails, I do however like a nice red wine or a good beer (not some Blue light crap, but something good).

I turned to cocktails after I moved away from the MICROBREW CAPITAL OF THE WORLD as I, too, am a beer snob.

Tom Collins.

gin
lemon juice
sugar
splash of soda


Voila!

Tom Collins

Jesse, Bad Boy wrote:Tom Collins.

gin
lemon juice
sugar
splash of soda


Voila!

Tom Collins

Good drink! - If you like that try a "Tod Cooler"
2 oz gin
2/3 oz creme de cassis
2/3 oz lemon juice
4 oz soda water

(I've Americanised the measurements!)

My personal favorite is a Moscow Mule though:

2 ounces vodka (a good vodka - but don't go overboard using your finest kind)
3 ounces ginger beer (the hotter the better)
1 ounce lime juice (fresh is best)

"Old Fashioned"

2 oz bourbon whiskey
2 dashes Angostura bitters
1 sugar cube
1 maraschino cherry
1 orange wedge

muddle the sugar, cherry, bitters, and orange in the bottom of the glass before adding ice and bourbon. Some like it with a splash of water or club soda. Use a lowball glass

'Irish Tonic'

1 pint of Guiness

Pour it properly into a suitable pint glass and drink.


None of your fancy pancy cocktails. The word contains two analagies for penis for a reason you know!

flashleg8 wrote:My personal favorite is a Moscow Mule though:

2 ounces vodka (a good vodka - but don't go overboard using your finest kind)
3 ounces ginger beer (the hotter the better)
1 ounce lime juice (fresh is best)

I just made this as per your recipe. Quite good. Tart and spicy.

I wouldn't say bourbon is "fancy pancy" heh

btownmeggy wrote:What's your favorite cocktail? What's the recipe for it, if it's not an obvious one?

Mine: La Floridita Daiquiri, despite it being Hemingway's drink of choice.

Despite? DESPITE? Dear Papa!

I had a massive argument with two girls I was once travellign with about Hemingway. I love him, and I am only a fairly ineffectual, slightly camp man, so I never dug the bullfighting and the misogyny, but what a writer...

On a real hot day I like this one:

Peel 1 ripe mango and slice off the meaty part avoiding the nut in the middle.
Throw into a blender with ice, then add a small bit of limeade concentrate and generous amount of Malibu Rum. This recipe also works with Strawberry's instead of a mango. Whip cream if you prefer on top.

Not really a mixed drink kind of guy I like my Makers Mark(cheap whiskey is for alcoholics) on the rocks but I occasionally enjoy a,

White Russian


kahlua vodka creme (not milk!)

pretty well known recipe

Discovered my fave cocktail by accident: bartender thot I said "one of mine, in one of hers".......I usta drink gold tequila and orange juice, ex wife drank fuzzy navels....... so.............

1 1/2 oz gold tequila, 1 1/2oz peach schnapps, orange juice, and crushed ice. I call it either a "demented fuzzy navel, or a furry navel"
enjoy.

Try a splash of angostura in almost anything. The zest it adds is amazing.

Thorthoth wrote:Try a splash of angostura in almost anything. The zest it adds is amazing.

It figures you would be a fan of "bitters."

Describing a flavour as bitter is interesting. Sweet, sour and salty are fairly simple, but 'bitter' almost seems to be a catch-all for all the other strong flavours, that when used in proportion give us our rich array of tastes.

Not describing a flavor, but a thing....

A bitters is traditionally an alcoholic preparation flavored with botanical matter such that the end result is characterized by a bitter, sour, or bittersweet flavor. Numerous longstanding brands of bitters were originally developed as patent medicines, but are now sold as digestifs and cocktail flavorings.

However I look up angostura and see a T & T rum (mon).....buddy of mine is from Trinidad (mon) and always brings back killer rums unavailable here when he visits....mmmmmmm

KoolBak wrote:Not describing a flavor, but a thing....

A bitters is traditionally an alcoholic preparation flavored with botanical matter such that the end result is characterized by a bitter, sour, or bittersweet flavor. Numerous longstanding brands of bitters were originally developed as patent medicines, but are now sold as digestifs and cocktail flavorings.

However I look up angostura and see a T & T rum (mon).....buddy of mine is from Trinidad (mon) and always brings back killer rums unavailable here when he visits....mmmmmmm

Yes, but the thing (a class of flavouring liqueurs, basically) is being named after a flavour (bitter).