It's Friday, it's after 5:00 and I think

[KatieLoeb]

I'm sipping a Limonrita. Tequila, Limoncello, a tiny splash of Grand Marnier and some sour mix shaken like someone you loathe. Pretty tasty and defintely having the desired sedative effect.

[viva]

I thought I'd revive this old thread... although it's 3:00 on a Sunday. Since it is 80 degrees and sunny here in Phoenix today, I mixed myself a frosty pineapple margarita, made with my El Tesoro anejo that's been infusing in pineapple chunks, piloncillo sugar, and vanilla bean for the last 3 months. Huzzah to an Indian summer!

"It's 5:00 somewhere..." what are you drinking?

[Liz Johnson]

It's 535 on a Thursday, but I'm headed out of the office on vacation. I've got the makings for egg nog in the fridge.

[JAZ]

It actually is Friday after five, and since I finally bought found some bergamot oranges, I'm having a Friday After Five, created by Trillium. I tried a version with a "faux" sour orange juice mixture when I first read about it, but the bergamot juice takes the drink to a new level.

[LadyOscar]

I was going to finally try a Blinker, having obtained raspberry syrup two weeks ago and forgotten to buy a grapefruit, and having obtained a grapefruit last week and forgotten I had it. However, I discovered that the wretched bottle of raspberry syrup had a dent in the cap and the safety button popped up. I should have known that it was a bad sign that I had to climb up on the supermarket shelf and rummage around behind all the bottles of strawberry and boysenberry syrup.

So, I'm consoling myself with an Aviation.

[Squeat Mungry]

It actually is Friday after five, and since I finally found some bergamot oranges, I'm having a Friday After Five, created by Trillium.

Janet, mind sharing where you found the bergamot oranges?

Cheers,

Squeat

[JAZ]

I got them directly from Greenleaf, a wholesaler that Trillium recommended. You have to go there (it's down in the wholesale produce market on Jerrold -- off Bayshore), and be sure to call ahead to place an order.

[little ms foodie]

mmm...Friday starting at 5:30 we had ginger-ini's.....perfect!!

[MHesse]

one part vodka

one part guavaberry liquer from St Martin (guava berries are not from guava fruit, but some kind of tropical berry)

two parts plum juice drink

ice

in a tall glass

sweet enough that it slips right down, and then kicks you in the head

if I waited 10 minutes more, I won't be able to spell

[foodie52]

...I just got home from working in retail hell and I'm going to have

Tequila shot(s)

[ned]

Dirty Gib

2 pts Miller's gin

1 pt Noilly Prat vermouth

splash from jar of Vietnamese pickled leeks

shaken and served up

garnished with 3 pickled leeks

Edited December 21, 2004 by ned (log)

[Liz Johnson]

It's Sunday, yes, but it's Memorial Day weekend and it's almost 5:

Mint juleps! In the pewter cups I had engraved as a gift for my husband.

[winesonoma]

Picon punch and sit in the sun.

[Liz Johnson]

Almost 5 on the East Coast.... Any takers?

I'm thinkin' mojito.

[HeatherM]

It's almost warm here in the Great White North, so it's a gin tonic for me tonight.

[Daddy-A]

I'm having a Opera, and "J" has a Manhattan.

Happy Friday!

A.

["T"]

Started with Pastis, moved on to a bottle of Super Bock beer from Portugal, some Pooles Rock Firestick Chard from Oz with dinner and now finishing a glass of Frescobaldi Nipozano CCR 2001 I openned yesterday.

Working tomorrow so no Scotch tonight.

Cheers, Steve

[evilhomer]

it ain't friday but tonight was our first fully settled evening in the new apartment so cocktails away.

i had a negroni - i'd only read about these before so without any baseline to compare, I think it was exceptionally good, 1:1:1 campari:martini&rosso vermouth:blackstone gin with an orange twist. It was bitter refreshing sweet herbal pungent complex intense and ultimately very refreshing drink. somewhere between a manhattan and a campari soda i suppose, i think a lot of blackstones subtlety got overwhelmed and if we still had something more juniper-y i'd give that a go. the negroni of june 14 will henceforth be the baseline.

mrs. homer had a G&T with a splash of ouzo which gave it the slightest milkiness.

good drinks for watching a serious thunderstorm unfold

[eje]

Decided I was in the mood for a Sour last night. I thought I remembered that Whiskey Sours had egg whites sometimes and had some left over from doughnuts, so I put one in.

1 1/2 ounces Wild Turkey 101 Bourbon

1/2 tsp. simple syrup

juice of 1/2 small lemon

1 egg white

Dash Angostora Bitters

Combine in an iced cocktail shaker and shake, shake, shake!

This was my first time trying a cocktail with egg whites. Boy does it give the cocktail a neat texture and rich flavor.

Discovered today what I made was a "Boston Sour".

-Erik

[Alchemist]

Tonight, we'll be making a drink that blew me away at Bemelman's the other night, Audrey "Libation Goddess" Saunders' Earl Grey MarTEAni.

That sounds wonderful. I love Earl Grey tea. I'm not so crazy about foamy drinks, though -- what's the texture like? Does the egg white make the whole thing like a light mousse, or is it more subtle than that? With advance apologies to Audrey, could I make it without the egg white and get a good drink, or is the texture key?

Hmmm... Hard to say. The foam more or less rises to the top of the drink -- so it doesn't stay foamy throughout. I have to think that the egg white also adds some silkyness to the mouthfeel.

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And don't forget the froth, with egg whites make sure you use really cold, fresh ice and a jackhammer shake. There should be a cold souffle on top of that drink.

[Alchemist]

It's saturday night, I'm sitting with a wicked cold P.B.R and a double Monte Cristo 12, one small cracked cube. Heaven.

[mbanu]

...Monkey Glands, as gin is cheap, I have some homemade grenadine to work through, I never use that damn Pernod, and I seem to have come across a steady supply of free oranges.

"Monkey Gland"

2 ounces gin

1/2 ounce orange juice

1/2 ounce grenadine

Several dashes of Pernod

Shake and strain.

Edited October 19, 2005 by mbanu (log)

[Alchemist]

I think someone here needs to design a drink called "I Dropped the Baby" for Ned.

Ned?  What do you like?

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You could call it the "Ironweed" cocktail.

[Liz Johnson]

At about 7 o'clock last night (Friday, after 5 — hence the bump on this thread) I tried The Brooklyn Cocktail.

I used the recipe from CocktailDB.

Too bitter.

[KatieLoeb]

Last night I finally got around to trying a concoction Alchemist had suggested to me in another thread:

2.0 oz aged rum

.75 oz fresh lime

.50 curacao

One barspoon Orgeat

This was quite tasty and refreshing. In fact, I had two!

The Appleton V/X I have in the house worked fine. I'm certain this drink would be even better with some really well aged rum in it.