Drinks! 2014 (Part 2)

[pto]

2 oz Fighting Cock

1/2 oz Cherry brandy(Tsing Tao/ 60 proof)

1 oz lemon juice

1/2 oz simple

2 dash Bittercube Cherry-Vanilla bitter

 

Nice, rather complex whiskey sour.

[EvergreenDan]

Yet another Negroni-template. You just can't go wrong.

 

1/2 oz Islay

1/2 oz Other Scotch of your choice

1 oz Cynar

1/2 oz Punt e Mes

1/2 oz dry vermouth

1/4 oz Amaro Sibilia (or dell'Erborista)

Expressed lemon peel

 

Lovely. Sibilia comes through on the end. Lemon on the nose. I thought of sherry in lieu of dry vermouth, but was scared. Maybe I'll be more courageous next time.

[Fernet-Bronco]

So is Gold Rush the new name for this?

1 oz Rye, Angel's Envy

3/4 oz Jamaican rum, Appleton V/X

1/4 oz Jamaican rum, Smith & Cross

3/4 oz Lemon juice

3/4 oz Honey Ginger Syrup

And is there a specific recipe for honey ginger syrup or do you just add ginger to a basic 1:1 honey syrup?

 

Made one of these last night. Quite nice. Went over well with my drinking partner who very much likes ginger and rum. Served with a candied ginger garnish. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I couldn't figure out what to cook for dinner, so I made a second mai tai.  I may yet fix dinner, or I may not.

[Fernet-Bronco]

My belief is if you're having a couple egg white drinks and a salad, you're getting a full meal of protein, vegetables, and fruit from whatever juice you've got in there.

[Craig E]

Cocoa Puff Smash (or rather Cocoa Krispie Smash).

Green Chartreuse, lemon, creme de cacao, mint, Cocoa Krispies.

(I muddled the cereal—couldn't commit to infusing a bottle of Chartreuse!)

[pto]

Made 2 drinks trying to kill of this bottle of J&B scotch.

 

First one was a recipe I came across on EG about 8 months ago and copied onto my phone, but hadn't made yet.

 

I take it all back

2 oz blended scotch

.5 oz elderflower liqueur

1 dash regans orange/fees orange

1 dash whiskey barrel aged bitters

 

Preceding the recipe, the poster had written "OK, I take it all back. I just made this new old fashioned thing. Oh man oh man."

 

I don't know the name of this drink, so in my cocktail recipe book, I called it the "I take it all back" and I agree, Oh man oh man!

 

Second one is from Difford's Guide, French Whisky Sour

2 oz blended scotch

.5 oz Ricard

1 oz lemon juice

.5 oz ss

egg white

3 dashes angostura

 

Pretty good, if a tad sweet

Edited March 12, 2015 by pto (log)

[EvergreenDan]

@Craig E - I was going to toss you out of the club until I, uh, clicked the link. Oh dear.

[Fernet-Bronco]

Made a nice suissesse last night (recipe's perhaps a touch heavy on the absinthe for me, or the St. George isn't sweet enough) and this lovely Ramos Gin Fizz.

 

 

Found these awesome old peacock glasses on eBay in my neverending search for the perfect Ramos glass.

[ChrisTaylor]

An experiment I'm calling the Belfast Negroni but could maybe called the Boyovardier. Equal parts Poitin (Teeling), Campari and Punt e Mes. The ... distinctive smell of moonshine was peeking out from behind the crushed bugs and Punt before I put the glass anywhere near my face so I floated a couple of dashes of Regan's orange bitters on top. You know, if you're the kind of person that likes Negronis made with genever ... this is pretty fucking good. Even if it's the first time I've seriously contemplated a Negroni variation that works on a 1:1:0.75 setup, with the Poitin making up the 0.75.

 

EDIT

 

Just pointing out: this thing hits you like a truck full of fuck.

 

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No. Seriously.

[EvergreenDan]

crushed bugs

You wish. Me too.

[Hassouni]

Busy two days:

1934 Zombies

 

Aku Aku Lapus

 

Colonial Cocktail from Martin's Index App (man, too much Maraschino, not enough gin...)

 

 

Unnamed creation of mine: 2 oz coconut water, 1.5 oz Forres Park rum, 3/4 oz lime, 1/2 oz pineapple syrup, shaken and served on the rocks. Delicious.

 

Daiquiri No. 3 from La Floridita

Edited March 15, 2015 by Hassouni (log)

[JoNorvelleWalker]

After a long hard rainy day, dinner, and a couple much more than satisfactory mai tais, white and brown -- I'm chewing a simple glass of Chartreux V.E.P.  One could do no better.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Following a very satisfactory Mississippi punch and a less than satisfactory attempt at dinner, barely washed down with some soave (no fault of the soave) -- at least I made room in the refrigerator -- I am enjoying a wineglass of Colonel Edmund Haynes Taylor straight rye.  A good way to spend an hour.  Not a Jerry Thomas wineglass.  My wineglass.

[ChrisTaylor]

Les' Tolkien to try out one of my latest acquisitions, Ramazzotti. I used Grand Marnier as I didn't own tangelo liqueur. This is nice.

[lesliec]

Les' Tolkien to try out one of my latest acquisitions, Ramazzotti. I used Grand Marnier as I didn't own tangelo liqueur. This is nice.

 

Well done, sir - glad you liked it.  Although I must disavow any claim to 'ownership'.  All we did was provide the inspiration; Gian did the work (he's now in Vancouver, unfortunately for us).

 

I'd be inclined to go Cointreau rather than Grand Marnier, in the absence of tangelo.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

The amaretto was just what I had on hand, and close enough in spirit to crème de noyaux (an apricot pit-flavored liqueur) to work in a pinch.

The Small Hand orgeat is indeed powerful. But the eau de vie is intense, and the liqueur is no slouch, and together they create a layered flavor in which the orgeat is just one component. To my taste, anyway. You're welcome to experiment. Blume Marillen should be available from any retailer that carries other Haus Alpenz products (e.g. Smith & Cross, van Oosten arrack, Cocchi Americano, etc).

 

What would you think of Combier abricot in place of the amaretto?

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Being in a rye mood, waiting for the snow to come, I'm contemplating upon an after dinner sip of Whistlepig.  As much as I appreciate Colonel Taylor, I have to say I prefer Whistlepig...at least I do tonight.

 

If I had to choose one bottle to replenish I think it would be Whistlepig.  Fortunately, that is not the case.

[Rafa]

What would you think of Combier abricot in place of the amaretto?

Worth a shot (or two).

[tanstaafl2]

Well done, sir - glad you liked it.  Although I must disavow any claim to 'ownership'.  All we did was provide the inspiration; Gian did the work (he's now in Vancouver, unfortunately for us).

 

I'd be inclined to go Cointreau rather than Grand Marnier, in the absence of tangelo.

 

Solerno Blood Orange liqueur comes to mind as a possible alternative to the local tangelo liqueur. Have you tried that one before to be able to say if it would work? If not Cointreau or another curacao is always readily available. The Pierre Ferrand perhaps or is that too dry?

[JoNorvelleWalker]

My ship came in, and a brown mai tai, which following the Glendalouch seemed a little sweet.  One can do far worse.

 

I have a problem that my mint is wilting and going bad before I can use it up.  Don't know what to do about this.

[lesliec]

Solerno Blood Orange liqueur comes to mind as a possible alternative to the local tangelo liqueur. Have you tried that one before to be able to say if it would work? If not Cointreau or another curacao is always readily available. The Pierre Ferrand perhaps or is that too dry?

I suspect the PF would be too dry. The original tangelo, or the equivalent I make, are quite sweet. I made a Tolkien myself last night with some orange liqueur that's close to Cointreau and it was most satisfactory.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Widow's kiss, Kappeler via Imbibe! ...following my customary mai tai, etc.  I knew at the first sip I had neglected the Angostura, so I added it as a float.  I may assay a second kiss, just to get it right.  Mindful that the warning is "the combination if taken in rapidly repeating doses is said to be intoxicating."  I may have to take the chance.  Besides, I have no other way to use up Benedictine.

[ChrisTaylor]

Improved Whiskey Cocktail: 2 oz Ritt, .25 oz Luxardo Mara, .25 oz simple and three dashes of Angostura bitters stirred/poured over a lonesome ice cube. Absinthe (Grande Absenthe) rinse. Rather pleasant. I reckon it'd be especially pleasant with the beastly Millstone 100 I recently purchased. I mean, if you're going to set out to make a rye whiskey, it doesn't hurt to do a better job than most of the American and Canadian distillers ...

 

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Rocking the adverb.

[ChrisTaylor]

A work in progress. The Old Main Drag. 1.5 Jameson, .5 Byrrh, .25 Dolin sweet, .75 Campari. It's not balanced. But it's amusing enough that I'll probably go back and tinker with the quantity of whiskey (a full two ounces?) and/or Byrrh.