sleeve, that sounds like the bourbon version of the Negroni variant I have been interested in recently - which has gin instead of bourbon, with choice of amaro (suze/gran classico/amaro ciociaro), and apertif (kina l'aero d'or/lillet/cocchi americano)
― Dan S, Thursday, 8 August 2019 01:43 (four years ago) link
The store was having a big sale on spirits so I got a bottle of white rum today to make Hemingways. But I don't have Luxardo so me trying out substitutes might be a bad idea.
― Yerac, Saturday, 24 August 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
tough to find a sub for luxardo. could just make regular daiquris?
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 24 August 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
ugh, no that would make too much sense.
― Yerac, Saturday, 24 August 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
I added some blueberry juice and honey.
― Yerac, Saturday, 24 August 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
https://punchdrink.com/articles/goodbye-fat-washing-hello-switching-spirit-infusion-cocktail-technique/
Brilliant concept, great potential for silliness.
― WmC, Monday, 23 September 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
whoa
― sleeve, Monday, 23 September 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
wow, that is really something.
i could totally sneak a chest freezer into the basement, my wife hates it down there.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 23 September 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
Preview of a new game where you have to out-drink the Devil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ8qcIVmr1M
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 September 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
This is good. A bunch of vintage cocktail books archived by Exposition Universelle des Vins et Spiritueux, a museum on the island of Bendor (FR) (and most are readable) here:
https://euvs-vintage-cocktail-books.cld.bz/
― Yerac, Friday, 11 October 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
There's so many amazing book covers. I have a poster/print of L'Art de Boire le Vin (from a 1920s book) that I still need to get framed.
― Yerac, Friday, 11 October 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
I've discovered the Toronto.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
A long standing favorite
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
I got a bottle of genever last month in Atlanta (Boomsma Oude) and erstwhile ILXor Bill/Tep hipped me to the Shaddock -- equal parts genever, Aperol, elderflower liqueur and lemon juice. So many dancing flavors -- I'm sure this will be one of my alltime faves.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 02:34 (four years ago) link
Nice. I've been curious about genever for a while. I imagine it being somewhat like Old Tom gin?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 02:42 (four years ago) link
I haven't had Old Tom (only came around to gin recently after a long aversion) but from brief research that seems to be so.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 02:52 (four years ago) link
it's considerably more malty than old tom....very different animal. more like an unaged whiskey with a hint of gin's botanicals.
here's an absolutely killer cocktail from the first death & co. book:
1 oz. appleton estate signature rum (fka v/x)1 oz. bols genever1 tsp galliano ristrettoo1/2 tsp absinthe.25 oz. simple syrup1 dash aromatic bittersorange twist
stir and strain over 1 large ice cube, garnish with orange twist
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 03:10 (four years ago) link
Okay, the Ristretto in that recipe reminds me: Does anyone have a favorite coffee liqueur? It seems like it would be a nice thing to add to the collection. I'm leaning toward the St. George NOLA.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
i haven't had the st george but dude the ristretto is amazing
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 03:27 (four years ago) link
Yeah? Maybe I'll try it.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 03:44 (four years ago) link
Interestingly we've sold $5,600 worth of Margarita kits from Alinea. We've been doing this all wrong for years...— nick kokonas (@nickkokonas) March 19, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 March 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
i forget if i've ever talked about it in this thread but one of the products i've been spending a lot of time trying to figure out is italicus, the bergamot liqueur. it tastes amazing but i've been having a hard time finding things that work well with it. having tried about a million variations on gin/vermouth/italicus, it hit me today that the botanicals in most gins are just going to clash and that i should go in a different direction--a mild rye or even an irish whiskey.
so tonight i tried 2 oz. old overholt, half an ounce each of dry vermouth and italicus, and a couple dashes of orange bitters. i think this is the aperitif i've been looking for.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 29 March 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
didn't alfred buy a bottle of that recently (last year)? I remember because I thought the bottle was beautiful.
― Yerac, Monday, 30 March 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link
yeah i think you're right! it's a nice bottle, very art deco.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 30 March 2020 00:40 (four years ago) link
Yup, I have it, too -- and have barely used it! I will try that concoction.
― jaymc, Monday, 30 March 2020 02:16 (four years ago) link
drinking a Little Italy, thankful for this thread
― sleeve, Monday, 30 March 2020 02:23 (four years ago) link
Made a Campari Americano yesterday, and an Old Fashioned today
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 30 March 2020 02:38 (four years ago) link
Made my wife a Martinez tonight (I've been cycling through recipes).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 March 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link
The great Chicago tiki bar Lost Lake is doing a twice-weekly newsletter for donors to its (COVID-related) GoFundMe, and each installment has a couple of cocktail recipes. Tonight I made the bar's Something from Nothing, a delightful mix of bourbon, aged rum, lemon juice, coffee *and* coffee syrup, cinnamon syrup, and coconut cream.
― jaymc, Monday, 30 March 2020 03:17 (four years ago) link
re Italicus, I just mix it with Prosecco and squeeze half a lemon into it. 3:1 Prosecco, not 1:1 as the recipe on the bottle suggests.
― Josefa, Monday, 30 March 2020 05:05 (four years ago) link
Great warm weather drink:
Take 32 oz Cynar3⁄4 oz Elderflower liqueur, St. Germain3⁄4 oz Lemon juice2 oz Seltzer water1 wdg Orange (as garnish)InstructionsShake all but seltzer and orange wedge, strain over fresh ice into a highball, top with seltzer, garnish with orange wedge.
It ends up tasting like the coldest, most refreshing Coca Cola on the hottest day of the year (and I don't really like Coke).
― Fetch the Bolt Thrower (PBKR), Friday, 1 May 2020 13:18 (four years ago) link
would tonic water work as a seltzer substitute?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 May 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
ooh I love Cynar-based drinks, I'd probably cut the lemon to 1/2 like I usually do
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Friday, 1 May 2020 14:15 (four years ago) link
Just got some Cynar last week. No elderflower liqueur though, which is a shame as that sounds good.
― brain (krakow), Friday, 1 May 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link
I often put a drop or two of St. Germain in my martinis.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 May 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link
Gonna try this now! It's Friday, last day of the semestser, 72 degrees, etc.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 May 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
How was it Alfred? Tonic is not a direct sub for seltzer (club soda better sub), but in this drink might not matter much.
What I like so much about this cocktail is that it doesn't really taste like any of its constituent parts; they combine into a distinctive blend.
― Fetch the Bolt Thrower (PBKR), Saturday, 2 May 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
yo PBKR I made a Paper Plane (two actually) last night, eternal thanks again!
― epicenter of the fieri universe (sleeve), Saturday, 2 May 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
I got a sack of lemons the other day. Going to juice a bunch of them for paper planes and shaddocks (genever, aperol, elderflower, lemon) later today.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Saturday, 2 May 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
― Fetch the Bolt Thrower (PBKR),
Fine! I used club soda. I wouldn't mix one late afternoon before dinner, but as a light lunch cocktail it was tasty.
From the taste it looks like I can substitute Fernet-Branca.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 May 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
Made an equal parts Old Pal with Irish whiskey (which probably means it's called something else), definitely one I'll have again: 1oz dry vermouth, 1oz Campari, 1oz whiskey; stir.
― coptic feels (seandalai), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
Another drink I really love is the Bijou, which is a Negroni variant: 1/1/1 Gin, sweet vermouth, and green chartreuse, with orange bitters, lemon peel and maraschino cherry (if you got them).
― Pissed Jeans Genie C. Riley (PBKR), Saturday, 9 May 2020 01:51 (four years ago) link
i love bijous but for any of the curious i'd recommend trying the dead rabbit modified bijou proportions:
1.5 oz. gin1.5 oz. vermouth.5 oz. chartreuse2 dashes orange bitters2 dashes angostura bitters2 dashes absintheorange peel
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 9 May 2020 02:06 (four years ago) link
It's been a while since I made a Bijou, but that modification makes sense to me. I love Green Chartreuse, but more than a little can be cloying, especially mixed with another sweet ingredient. (Also reminds me of Dead Rabbit's recipe for the Tipperary, which is Irish whiskey, sweet vermouth, and Green Chartreuse.)
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 May 2020 02:31 (four years ago) link
Today I made an oleo saccharum for the first time, so I could make a Quoit Punch. (I have a bottle of Madeira in the fridge that I don't use enough, and I recently acquired Smith & Cross rum for the first time in a while.)
I started with David Wondrich's recipe, which makes about 24 servings, and scaled it down to 2. That meant 2 oz each of rum, cognac, and Madeira, and 1 1/3 oz each of sugar (to mix with lemon peels) and lemon juice. I think it turned out pretty well, though it was a little sweet, so maybe I'll use less sugar next time. Or else just dilute it more to start (I didn't shake it, just added ice as though my glass were a punch bowl and stirred a bit).
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 May 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
yeah that modified bijou is a more structured, thought-out drink. i think there's a few equal-parts cocktails that could benefit from not being equal parts but have stayed that way for ease of transmission.
re: green chartreuse, my wife spent a college year in grenoble, france not far from where they make chartreuse. when we went there together 5 years later we met up with one of her friends who met a local guy while in the program and wound up going back and marrying him. we went out with them one night and dude ordered a neat green chartreuse just to sip on. i chalked it up to being a local thing.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 9 May 2020 02:56 (four years ago) link
A bar I used to live near (now defunct) had a neon Chartreuse sign in the window, which I always liked.
https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/10991532_766754133423136_8290960104367919861_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_sid=85a577&_nc_oc=AQlI0V3XvszTI8fmCtoZpdV_Pp0-iT2UtdNTcr_NI6x3dNHOxpYVO0rOMXNBYgiTgBI2sLUGo_1AYrg-txsa0Hhd&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=ffd8fe007fbb1b200a435ac8fe553d3b&oe=5EDC1CFAp
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 May 2020 04:59 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ZbrpbWX.jpg
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 May 2020 05:01 (four years ago) link
We're very proud of our jeroboam of green chartreuse in my work. Eventually a staff member will win the lottery and buy it.
Here it is standing guard over its 70cl and 5cl wee buddies...
https://i.imgur.com/q34il4P.jpg
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 9 May 2020 10:10 (four years ago) link
I will definitely try that modified Bijou tonight.
Have you ever had a Sixth Borough?
https://kindredcocktails.com/cocktail/the-sixth-borough
2 oz Rye1 oz Amaro Nonino1⁄2 oz Green Chartreuse1 ds Orange bitters, Regans' orange bitters
Pretty good drink.
― Pissed Jeans Genie C. Riley (PBKR), Saturday, 9 May 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link