Drinks! (2013 Part 2)

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Nothing wrong with being gay. Had one of my Mai Tais tonight (with Gunpowder) and my head is ever so slightly spinning, so nothing constructive to add.

True, but there sometimes is with posting drunk. On the whole I wish I'd left the Mount Gay on the shelf. I had confused the Black Barrel that I bought with Extra Black, or whatever it was called, which they released for Mount Gay's three hundreth anniversary. I can't help but think the product name confusion was part of the marketing.

[choux]

Ramona Flowers from Kindred cocktails, love this drink, a bit bitter, a bit floral, terrible colour though. Strangely looks

pinker in photo than it actually is.

[EvergreenDan]

Ramona Flowers is excellent, I agree, and I'm not a Creme de Violette fan.

For the curious, the reference is to a comic character.

[Rafa]

I like to float the violette/other liqueur and watch her hair change color.

Edit: based on choux' photo it seems that the R&W violette gives a more purplish color.

Edited December 29, 2013 by Rafa (log)

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Something new for me tonight. I've been looking for a way to use up my recent purchase of Mount Gay Black Barrel. Black Barrel is a rum that tastes to me like whiskey, so I decided to try it in a whiskey recipe:

Cold Whiskey Punch (Imbibe!, p 76)

1 teaspoon sugar, dissolved in a little water

juice of a half lemon (I did not get much juice so I used a whole lemon)

1 1/2 wineglassesful Black Barrel (recipe calls for Red Top Rye)

2 dashes Appleton 12 (recipe calls for rum, Splificator specifies Jamaican)

"Shake well [with shaved ice] and strain into cool stem punch glass.... Serve with a straw"

Wow this is good. I haden't had anything to eat or drink all day (and I notice from the clock that it is now tomorrow). I would not have believed Black Barrel would turn into anything so wonderful. My garnish, as specified, was a lemon slice. Wonder what this would be like with rye? But to my knowledge I have never tasted rye, and I am a bit afraid to buy a bottle to find out that I don't like it.

Nice thing about this drink is it makes the level in the Black Barrel bottle go down real fast. The hard part was finding a big enough stem punch glass.

[FrogPrincesse]

I've been in Tokyo for the past week. I bought a bottle of Yoichi single malt whisky at my little neighborhood grocery store and started mixing. I started with an Old Fashioned with Boker's bitters. Intense. The Yoichi has a lot of smoke and a ton of flavor overall.

The next day I stumbled upon a farmer's market and bought a very aromatic dogwood honey, fresh ginger, and a couple of lemons. I thought that, with its smoke, the Yoichi would work well in a Penicillin.

I found a really cool coffee shop/cocktail bar/vintage design store in Shibuya and they made me a textbook perfect Negroni. Also a Whiskey Mac with blended whiskey, stone ginger wine, and lemon peel.

The next day it was time for a visit to the Park Hyatt for a Lost in Translation moment. We ordered their house Manhattan (Templeton, Carpano Antica, and Abott's bitters), and a Brandy Sour with Earl Gray-infused brandy and fresh yuzu. The cocktails were good; it's too bad that their bad menu is not up to par (fish and chips, mini sliders, etc).

[EvergreenDan]

The cocktails were good; it's too bad that their bad menu is not up to par (fish and chips, mini sliders, etc).

Nice typo.

Also like the toothpicks-as-chopsticks on the garnish of the drink with Japanese whiskey.

[Vieux Carré]

To toast out the old year: A Bitter Pill To Swallow

[Rafa]

To toast out my year, a Martini with Champagne. Robert Hess has something similar he calls a Champagne Antoine. For now I'll call mine a Good Riddance. Cheers to all.

[heidih]

See this topic for Drinks 2014 http://forums.egullet.org/topic/146762-drinks-2014/