COCKTAILS Anybody?

[catherinewheel77]

I’ll have a Mimosa.

An ideal Sunday cocktail. The Don and Betty Draper kind.

I’ve been on a Mad Men tangent lately.

 

[Modern_drunkard]

https://media.tenor.com/images/0938cf1a94589e452901b0746209a07d/raw

 

[catherinewheel77]

Manhattans?
What do they mostly drink?


Mine is with Prosecco, but it’s dry. I’m saving my champagne for... something.

Along with these:

Gibson
Bloody Mary
Old-Fashioned
Gimlet
White Russian
Mint Julep

 

[AbsintheFather]

I’ll have a Mimosa.

An ideal Sunday cocktail. The Don and Betty Draper kind.

I’ve been on a Mad Men tangent lately.

I always thought Megan was the much hotter wife. Oh, and Megans mother was a babe too.

 

[FranklyFrank]

https://i.imgur.com/oymlSD8.jpg?1

 

[JediSurfer]

Since I’m up I’ll have a White Russian please.

 

[Daisy_Love]

https://i.imgur.com/oymlSD8.jpg?1

Franky, Margarita protein shake?
Actually no, that sounds gross, don’t try it

 

[Mr_bogey]

My favorite salad.


Okay... ‘fess up, Lit.

How many Luxardo cherries do you use/eat when you make an OF, and do you use the juice?

I do use some juice. It's virtually unavoidable to use some given the consistency but I will spoon a cherry out for muddling and let the teaspoon puddle some juice. I use 1 cherry to muddle and then once the drink is made, I'll add another as a garnish and rinse off the spoon in the drink before giving it a little shake.

 

[TheOriginalSA]

Raspberry Margarita


I originally made Strawberry Margaritas, but I spilled my blender after a cup.

Raspberry is really good, but the strawberries were better.


I just adapt

 

[BongoGal]

Tonight's cocktails? Fancy-ass bourbon beyond my pay-grade and some excellent beer.

 

[Jd192235]

Tonight's cocktails? Fancy-ass bourbon beyond my pay-grade and some excellent beer.

What kind of excellent beer?

 

[BongoGal]

All local stuff you've never heard of.

 

[Jd192235]

All local stuff you've never heard of.

Depends where local is?!

 

[AbsintheFather]

My favorite salad.


Okay... ‘fess up, Lit.

How many Luxardo cherries do you use/eat when you make an OF, and do you use the juice?

Two. Plus one or two orange segments depending on size. I put them in a pint glass with a little splash of soda water which acts like a lube when you muddle them up. I muddle, then add sweetener - simple or maple syrup, bitters and liquor. Add Ice, put a Boston shaker over the pint glass and shake.

I think the proper way is then to strain into the drink glass, over ice, and add fresh cherry and orange garnish. But I usually just pour the shaken mixture into my glass and top with a little more soda and drink.

 

[AbsintheFather]

I don't have a bar in my home. I wish I did. So I just keep my sipping whiskies in some old wooden beer crates in my basement and bring them out when friends come over to drink with me. There's a hutch in the kitchen and I put them out and we help ourselves. I had a friend over last weekend and took a pic.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/62a20cc9af5b1fae0f59d664f52b410b/13140a2f7cc24adc-07/s540x810/68e0df4bbe26c7ced7538a71a7f16ec9b74488e5.jpg

 

[Mr_bogey]

I don't have a bar in my home. I wish I did. So I just keep my sipping whiskies in some old wooden beer crates in my basement and bring them out when friends come over to drink with me. There's a hutch in the kitchen and I put them out and we help ourselves. I had a friend over last weekend and took a pic.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/62a20cc9af5b1fae0f59d664f52b410b/13140a2f7cc24adc-07/s540x810/68e0df4bbe26c7ced7538a71a7f16ec9b74488e5.jpg

Middle shelf, far left, single big cube, please and thank you.

 

[beachbaby179]

Middle shelf, far left, single big cube, please and thank you.

Blanton's. Excellent choice. Looks like AF is trying to hide it for himself, though - all the way in the corner there...

Vodka and lemonade tonight. Cheers!

 

[BrainTeez]

Dry Martini

Citadelle gin (French, 19 botanicals) + Martini & Rossi, up with olives, stirred not shaken.

Brain "Libations lubricate Life" Teez

 

[TalkToMeInSB]

https://imgur.com/gallery/eKC4tlB

Tequila Sunrise?!

 

[AbsintheFather]

Where’s the Pappy?

I wish

I am going to a bourbon event on Wednesday after work and I believe it'll be there. Cost? I don't know but the last I saw it on a menu, I believe it was about $80 an ounce. That was too rich for me . . .

 

[TTawhere]

More of a Sunday brunch drink, but how about a French 75?


Ingredients

• 1 ounce gin
• 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 ounce simple syrup
• 3 ounces Champagne or other sparkling wine
• Garnish: lemon twist

Steps

• Add all the ingredients except the Champagne into a shaker with ice and shake well.
• Strain into a Champagne flute.
• Top with the Champagne.
• Garnish with a lemon twist.

 

[AbsintheFather]

More of a Sunday brunch drink, but how about a French 75?


Ingredients

• 1 ounce gin
• 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 ounce simple syrup
• 3 ounces Champagne or other sparkling wine
• Garnish: lemon twist

Steps

• Add all the ingredients except the Champagne into a shaker with ice and shake well.
• Strain into a Champagne flute.
• Top with the Champagne.
• Garnish with a lemon twist.

Those are great drinks anytime. As an evening cocktail, I double the quantity of the first three ingredients and serve it in a Collins glass.

Make it with soda instead of sparkling wine and it's called a Tom Collins.

 

[TTawhere]

Those are great drinks anytime. As an evening cocktail, I double the quantity of the first three ingredients and serve it in a Collins glass.

Make it with soda instead of sparkling wine and it's called a Tom Collins.

I like gin, but strangely enough I prefer a vodka Collins if I'm having one.

 

[Mr_bogey]

I’ve only tried it once. It was memorable. It’s good to have generous friends.

I have sampled the
10 (reasonably priced at a bar in Memphis)
15 and 23 (generous friends).

They are very good bourbons and while the 23 yr old smelled like heaven, I can't say it was the best bourbon I ever tasted. For the price, I think it should be. I enter a lottery every year to win a bottle where the profit goes to a local children's charity. That's the only way Pappy will ever grace my bar. I think the legend (and I know the price) have grown well beyond the bourbon.

 

[TTawhere]

I have sampled the
10 (reasonably priced at a bar in Memphis)
15 and 23 (generous friends).

They are very good bourbons and while the 23 yr old smelled like heaven, I can't say it was the best bourbon I ever tasted. For the price, I think it should be. I enter a lottery every year to win a bottle where the profit goes to a local children's charity. That's the only way Pappy will ever grace my bar. I think the legend (and I know the price) have grown well beyond the bourbon.

I could get a lot of good rum for the cost of a bottle of that...