Cocktails

[tp4tissue]

Watching Cheers' (TvShow), compelled to drink something.

Saw dat cocktail Goldrush, whiskey, lemon, honey, wow Tp4 actually has all the ingrediants.

Drank some, tastes horrible.  Poured it in some mountain dew spark (pink lemonade). Delicious.

Tp4's just not ritzy enough for the real-deal.


What is Gekha's recommended cocktail. 

[tp4tissue]

You konw, Tp4 shouldn't have just multipled everything by 3,

This is alot of whiskey. Didn't like it in the beginning, but it grows on ya.

[noisyturtle]

I was a bartender for almost 1.5 years at an upscale lounge, and before going on this exercise and diet kick, made cocktails nightly.
3 of my favorites are -

Paper Plane:
3/4 oz bourbon (personally I go 1oz for taste)
3/4 oz Aperol
3/4 oz Amaro Nonino
3/4 oz fresh lemon juice (can sub grapefruit juice)
Shake with ice and strain, garnish w/ lemon or orange peel

Painkiller Punch:
1oz White Overproof Rum (W&N)
2oz Dark Rum
3oz Pineapple Juice
1oz Guava Nectar
.5oz Coconut Syrup
Spoon of Allspice Dram
shake w/ ice, serve over crushed ice and garnish w/ pineapple slice & an umbrulla

My own creation, Norwegian Soda:
1.5 oz Aquavit (toasted caraway/brown variety)
.5 oz Cynar
.5 oz Amaretto
Fill w/ Club Soda
Serve in tall glass w/ ice cubes and 2 cherries

[fohat.digs]

Since I have a large patch of high-quality heirloom mint, my go-to drink for impressing guests is the Mint Julep.
Our generations-old family recipe uses "mint water" (a large amount of mint crushed in a small amount of water then strained), simple syrup (2:1 sugar to water, heated to dissolve then cooled) and bourbon in equal parts over ice.

Second is the margarita, on the rocks (no salt!). The way I learned it when I waited tables was tequila, triple sec, and Roses Lime in equal parts.

These are strong drinks but if you sip slowly the ice dilutes them at a steady rate without changing the inherent flavor profile very much.

I usually choose strong drinks and consume them very slowly, usually only 1 (occasionally 2).