Drinks! 2015 - 2016

[JoNorvelleWalker]

7 hours ago, Anna N said:

"Wikipedia, pubic domain."

 

Perchance you have been enchanted by that fairy?

 

oops.

[Craig E]

Audrey Saunders' Re-animator

 

• La Favorite Blanc (Rhum JM)
• Lemon Hart 151 (Hamilton 151)
• Ginger beer
• Demerara syrup
• Green Chartreuse
• Lime juice
• Angostura bitters
• Cholula hot sauce (Tabasco)
• Nutmeg

Nice drink on a hot day, though the rums get buried. Certainly doesn't taste as high-proof as it must be. 

[blue_dolphin]

In honor of the holiday, I tried the frozen G&T recipe featured over on Serious Eats.  I'd been meaning to try the Small Hand tonic syrup and figured this was as good an excuse as any to pick up a bottle.

I expected this to be a fail as I consider carbonation to be a key ingredient in a G&T.  For a slushy drink, this was surprisingly and unmistakably a G&T.

 

3 ounces Beefeaters (instead of Hendrick's)
1 ounce Small Hand Foods tonic syrup
0.5 ounce 2X simple syrup 
2 dashes orange bitters
1.5 ounces fresh juice

 

Mix the above and chill in freezer for 1 hr, then into the blender with plenty of ice. This makes 2 drinks of the size pictured.  I drank both of them. It's a holiday.  

 

 

[HungryChris]

Maker's Mark old fashioned

HC

 

 

[EvergreenDan]

@HungryChris Deborah has nice nails.  That cherry scares me though.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Following dinner I had a generous bowl of iSi expressed cherry juice and one lorn carbonated cherry left over.  So of course it was a Balaklava Special No. I.

 

Charles H. Baker Jr adds:  "A dash of any red syrup like grenadine is optional and pretty."

 

Indeed.

[EvergreenDan]

Tried the Pineapple Negroni with

1 oz Pineapple Rum

1 oz Contratto Bitter

1/2 oz Alessio Vermouth Chinato

1/2 oz Dolin dry vermouth

 

Very nice. Not sure how it would compare to a more traditional Negroni template with the Pineapple Rum. The pineapple is pretty subtle with all the other flavors. Need to try the Pineapple Sazarac idea with Green Chartreuse.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I was graced with a two mai tai lime tonight from the back of the refrigerator, so there was not much else to do but a second mai tai.*

 

 

*Though be assured I gave most serious consideration to the construction of a Crafty and Elusive Elk.  However that would have required a bit of planning.  And turning on the light in the bedroom.

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Before bed:  a widow's kiss.  This time with yellow V.E.P., Benedictine, Angostura, and Laird's 7 1/2.  Served in a Baccarat Champagne flute, so sue me.

 

 

 

 

[Craig E]

Allie Elizabeth Sleeping

 

• Lustau Pedro Ximénez Sherry (El Candado)
• Dolin dry vermouth
• Smith & Cross rum
• Del Maguey Vida mezcal
• Regans' orange bitters

Complex and fascinating drink, I guess not surprising since it's made of complex and fascinating ingredients. 

 

Enjoying this first bottle of PX sherry. It comes with a cute little padlock on the bottle top! Tastes like fig/date concentrate.

 

[rustwood]

On 7/4/2016 at 10:17 PM, blue_dolphin said:

In honor of the holiday, I tried the frozen G&T recipe featured over on Serious Eats.

 

Thanks for posting this.  I think this alone may have been sufficient to justify my new Blendtec.  They are almost too good in this hot weather.

[Tere]

Classic Gin and Tonics on a hot summer's day.

 

 

 

[FrogPrincesse]

@TereThese gin & tonics look wonderful!

 

Here is a recent Ti Punch with Neisson rhum agricole, J.M cane syrup.

 

 

 

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

It's too horribly hot for rum.  Not that it is too horribly hot to drink rum, mind you, but too horribly hot for me to make a mai tai.  I made do with Methode Rotuts.  But in my delirium I saw I'd used the silver cylinders.  Oops.  I pressurized with two more cylinders of CO₂.  Vapors are color coded for a reason.

 

Still, a liter of freezer temperature MR is a liter of freezer temperature MR.

[Craig E]

Yes, I completed a batch of pineapple syrup but it was too hot in the kitchen to bother using it in anything!

[HungryChris]

It got to 94 F here today. Time for an Irish coffee.

HC

[lesliec]

The best we could expect today was 15C/59F, and that's high for the time of year. But a Mezcal Martini is still pleasant by the fire.

 

 

 

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