xp. I also like a rusty nail, nice aperitif.
Pisco sour is my favourite cocktail but you can't get limón de pica here so i have to make do with just using Barman pisco sour mix :(
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
lol wtf didn't check your link first, Hi dere. Coincidence!
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha terrifying, I thought you were commenting ON my link!
Also like: mojito variants that replace the club soda/sparkling water with:
- Sprite/7-Up- PROSECCO <-------------- srsly the fucking BOMB in every sense of the word, two of these will fuck you up
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Prosecco sounds intriguing.
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
try key limes - they're the closest i've found to peruvian limes.
an awesome variation on the pisco sour is to add prickly pear and make it a colca sour. also i don't know about that recipe - i thought they were traditionally blended and contained egg white for top froth.
― tehresa, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
traditionally yes, I just linked the first recipe for pisco sour that I came across
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
standard cocktail order for me = Manhattan
― hoth as fuck (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
here's the Wikipedia recipe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisco_sour
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
btw I need a suggestion for a gin drink that isn't a martini or a G&T
pimm's cup!
― goole, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
gin, lime, cucumber, rosemary, soda
― tehresa, Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man got very hammered at college roommates' wedding this summer drinking Pimm's cup #1
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Bloody Caesar for me thanks!
One of these days I'm gonna try me one of those Salty Dogs. (Artie from "The Larry Sanders Show" was fond of 'em.)
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
oh those are great, very simple. not very wintery tho.
― goole, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
oh also, hi dere, if you are not a grapefruit hater, try a greyhound!
― tehresa, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
haha lol at my rogue apostrophe, I think my roommates would be very annoyed with me for inadvertently starting rumors about them (also they live in different countries, which would put a large strain on a relationship already suffering from neither of them being gay)
xp: wait gin and grapefruit juice is a real drink? tell me more, this sounds like heaven
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
woah hold the fone i thought greyhounds/salty dogs were vodka drinks.
― goole, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
a vodka greyhound is a vodka drink.traditional greyhound is made with gin.
this is like how people ruined martinis with vodka.
― tehresa, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
ok actually the internet is not helpful on which came first at all. i always thought it was gin. omg ew i found something for a 'racing greyhound' that includes red bull ew ew ew ew ew
― tehresa, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i always thought a martini was on the rocks in a lowball to begin with, and putting it up in a 'cocktail' glass was arriviste, but i can't find any corroboration on the inter-net.
xp red bull is not to be consumed.
― goole, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
oh I might start drinking Tom Collinses
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
History
In 1874, people in New York, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere in the United States would start a conversation with "Have you seen Tom Collins?"[1][2] After the listener predictably reacts by explaining that they did not know a Tom Collins, the speaker would assert that Tom Collins was talking about the listener to others and that Tom Collins was "just around the corner", "in a [local] bar," or somewhere else near.[1] The conversation about the nonexistent Tom Collins was a proven hoax of exposure.[1] In The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874 as it became known, the speaker would encourage the listener to act foolishly by reacting to patent nonsense that the hoaxer deliberately presents as reality.[1] In particular, the speaker desired the listener to become agitated at the idea of someone talking about them to others such that the listener would rush off to find the purportedly nearby Tom Collins.[1] Similar to The New York Zoo hoax of 1874, several newspapers propagated the very successful practical joke by printing stories containing false sightings of Tom Collins.[1] The 1874 hoax quickly gained such notoriety that several 1874 music hall songs memorialized the event (copies of which now are in the U.S. Library of Congress).[1][3]
goddam i'm glad we have all this shitty media to waste our time on now
― goole, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
we were saying the other day that we want to invent a Phil Collins. But couldnt decide what would be in it.
― hulk would smash (Trayce), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I am in full-on Old Fashioned mode right now. Light on the seltzer, if at all, angostura, and Maker's. Tried a rye one last week, but it didn't have that bourbon caramel flavor which I find necessary. I cannot bring myself to make one with Booker's - just too good by itself. Perhaps one day when I'm feeling particularly flush and not really giving a fuck about standards.
― Ultraviolet Thunder (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
we were saying the other day that we want to invent a Phil Collins.
Tom Collins + Rogaine?
― Ultraviolet Thunder (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
dan you should drink negronis
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
oh I should, should I
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
well I think you should drink caucasitinis
lookin for gin drinks--i offer a gin drink. i'm here to help!
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
^_^
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahahhahahahahah
oh yeah negronis are amazing
― tehresa, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
they are definitely! but you have to like bitter flavours, none of my friends like them
― just sayin, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I am totally down for unconventional-tasting drinks, for a while my go-to beverage was Absolut Peppar and tonic.
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
There are two popular versions as to who invented the Negroni cocktail. One of them is that it was invented by General Pascal Olivier Count de Negroni, a Corsican French citizen, as a digestive aid.[1][2][3] The other is that the Negroni was invented in Florence, Italy in 1919, at Caffè Casoni, later called "Caffè Giacosa", by Count Camillo Negroni, who invented it by asking a bartender (Fosco Scarselli) to add gin to the Americano, his favorite drink. [4] The word Negroni does not appear in English cocktail guides before 1947.
After the success of the cocktail, the Negroni Family founded Negroni Distillerie in Treviso, Italy, and produced a ready-made version of the drink, sold as "Antico Negroni 1919"
oh for the days when rolling in somewhere and saying "put gin in that" was enough to get shit named after you
― goole, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
xp then i think you would like them! still lollin' here btw
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
great part abt the negroni is that they're hard to fuck up, i dont think i've ever got a bad one at a bar
― just sayin, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i would love to see someone put the nipsy russell on actual bar menu, especially since the only bartender i ever got to make them left his job u_u
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
love a negroni sbagliato:
2 oz Spumante (or champagne)1 oz red vermouth1 oz Campari1 slice orange for garnishStir over ice
― I DIED, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
When I was a bartender there was a guy, a european diplomat of some kind, who would order them with cognac instead of red vermouth. Had to be precisely identical measures of the gin, cognac and campari, stirred and then strained over ice. It sounds weird but it's quite good.
― antexit, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
― tehresa, Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:55 PM (3 hours ago)
I had something very similar to this on Sunday at Parkside in Austin. It was called a Rosemary Cucumber and the ingredients were Hendrick's Gin, rosemary, and cucumber puree. It was like a very mild and cucumbery martini. Good times!
― Moodles, Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
there are some good gin/lemon cocktails u can make too.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
A gin delicious is an amazing cocktail - basically a lemon drop but with gin!
― Ultraviolet Thunder (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
A friend of mine invented a drink - gin in Bud light lime - proportioned like a G&T but with the Bud instead of tonic and lime. No great shakes, but drinkable. Can't remember what he called it, something pornographic.
― nickn, Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck are you kidding
― goole, Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
it was called "the unholy abomination" or "waste of gin" or something similar
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not crazy about the cucumber purée. i prefer a few muddledy slices, but to each his own!
xposts
― tehresa, Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i was out with a friend once and her drink had cucumber purée, and her description was that it tasted too much like a face mask.
― tehresa, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm glad this thread popped up actually cos we'll be at a swanky bar tonite for my best mate's annual wedding anniversary drinking get together. Think I might have myself a few classicks.
― hulk would smash (Trayce), Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
here was the inspiration for the cucumber thing http://www.overthehillandonaroll.com/2008/06/bringing-gin-back.html
but you can leave out tonic if not into it, or put it in. either works!
― tehresa, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link