Your favorite cocktails - a reference thread for the newish bartender

Guys, a caipirolo is a real treat I found at a random bar in Peru: a shitload of limon (closest thing ive found to this here is key limes but they are not as good), sugar, ice, pisco. Amazing. Now I have to find good pisco :(

Also hooray this thread has inspired me to get mad herbs @ the farmer's market this afternoon and make a flight of summer simple syrups :)

Dude, I made 2 cups of simple syrup with spearmint two weeks ago and I'm still tipping a quick slurp of it into my lime-and-water at night. It's the best thing ever.

I love citrus juices but at full strength they give me a really bad sore, swollen throat the next day if I have more than one or two drinks. The juice of one lime and the rest of the glass cold water and about a teaspoon of simple syrup is a great way around that.

I just discovered that sangria with citrus is not good 2 days later because all the bitterness from the rinds emerges. Durr. i thought it would just taste fruitier :( at least it looks prettier.

Oh rats, that's too bad. Yeah, some things continue to give off their flavors over a long time. Leaving hot peppers in your tomato juice, btw, is another one -- it'll get a lot hotter after a few days, if you were planning on re-using that bloody mary mix from the weekend.

That I would like, actually. So the lesson is to make smaller batches, or find some friends (wah wah).

I made 3 syrups tonight: mint, rosemary, and lemon balm/lemon verbena. Need to find some lavender.

also tonight made tamarind syrup
i think it is best of all

how would u drink it?

REVIVE!

I feel like talking about cocktails. Anyone had anything particularly good lately?

Dudes, seriously - cocktails. whats up?

Bottoms!

Here we go.

i like a rusty nail

btw here is my nu drink 4 u: http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink5931.html

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 :(

lol wtf didn't check your link first, Hi dere. Coincidence!

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

Prosecco sounds intriguing.

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.

traditionally yes, I just linked the first recipe for pisco sour that I came across

standard cocktail order for me = Manhattan

here's the Wikipedia recipe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisco_sour

btw I need a suggestion for a gin drink that isn't a martini or a G&T

pimm's cup!

gin, lime, cucumber, rosemary, soda

oh man got very hammered at college roommates' wedding this summer drinking Pimm's cup #1

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.)

oh those are great, very simple. not very wintery tho.

oh also, hi dere, if you are not a grapefruit hater, try a greyhound!

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

woah hold the fone i thought greyhounds/salty dogs were vodka drinks.

a vodka greyhound is a vodka drink.
traditional greyhound is made with gin.

this is like how people ruined martinis with vodka.

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

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.

oh I might start drinking Tom Collinses

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

we were saying the other day that we want to invent a Phil Collins. But couldnt decide what would be in it.

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.

we were saying the other day that we want to invent a Phil Collins.

Tom Collins + Rogaine?

dan you should drink negronis

oh I should, should I

well I think you should drink caucasitinis

lookin for gin drinks--i offer a gin drink. i'm here to help!

^_^

hahahahahhahahahahah

oh yeah negronis are amazing

they are definitely! but you have to like bitter flavours, none of my friends like them

I am totally down for unconventional-tasting drinks, for a while my go-to beverage was Absolut Peppar and tonic.

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