Campari best drink evah!

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I can sort of see the burnt-rubber thing, though I love Campari. But manhattans? What could be more delicious? Where have you been drinking them?

Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 19 April 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

i love manhattans - basically its the only mixed drink i like. but now that its getting warmer, its time for the mint juleps!!

phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 19 April 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago) link

ive been meaning to go to that fancy bar at that fancy hotel (the st. regis maybe?) because i hear they make the best manhattans

phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 19 April 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago) link

the king cole bar is at the st.regis - is that the one that you're thinking of? better yet, let's just go to pete's candy store and drink juleps until we fall down. possibly my all-time favorite cocktail.

lauren (laurenp), Monday, 19 April 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago) link

as soon as possible, lets go. i love mint juleps.

phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 19 April 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link

(i live near Pete's)

Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 19 April 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

julep fap! julep fap!

lauren (laurenp), Monday, 19 April 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

I love mint juleps. I wish I lived in New York.

Anna (Anna), Monday, 19 April 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

I remember ordering Campari and soda in Venice because it seemed appropriate and old-world glam, but then I remembered I didn't really like it much.

They must have been wondering why you didn't want wine in that.

Ed (dali), Monday, 19 April 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

Freud FAP?

Ed (dali), Monday, 19 April 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago) link

Manhattans rock the parti.

Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 19 April 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

<em>julep fap! julep fap! </em>

For real?!~

Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 19 April 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link

Dang! I keep forgetting not to use that HTML stuff anymore!

Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 19 April 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link

hasn't anyone noticed that campari tastes exactly like bile?


mandee, Monday, 19 April 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link

I always imagine it to be the "Water of Life" from Dune.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 19 April 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

i'm totally serious. i'm sure that phil is serious. let's get it together!

xpost

lauren (laurenp), Monday, 19 April 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

Camparis should only be drunk whilst wearing linen suits. Me, I am a mojito girl. Barbados rum, brown sugar, crushed ice, muddled mint leaves. None of yer Barcadi flim flammery.

badger Kitten (badger Kitten), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

oh ho ho i am serious! lets have a mint julep fap to celebrate hstencil's new job!

phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

or whenever really, im not fussy.

phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 19 April 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

Camparis should only be drunk whilst wearing clothing you don't mind getting slightly reddish vomit on.

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 19 April 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

I tend to love any bitter liquor, especially when mixed with a sweet liquor, like Cointreau (more Campari than Cointreau, please). Other bitter liquors I should know about?

libcrypt, Friday, 13 July 2007 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link

NO BARTENDER I've ever asked knows what a sidecar is. "What's in that?" Oh crap, now I have to tell them I don't know what's in one but I saw the recipe in a cocktail book once and it looked good & yummy but fuck if I remember anything, and oh I liked the name...too... "Oh, no worries bartender, I'll just have a ginger ale w/whiskey."

No sloe gin fizzes either. And last time John ordered Chivas on the rocks, he got Sauza tequila. Stupid crappy bars.

Abbott, Friday, 13 July 2007 04:12 (sixteen years ago) link

Every bar in SF knows what a sidecar is.

libcrypt, Friday, 13 July 2007 04:13 (sixteen years ago) link

Every Abbott is within 100 miles of bars that are only crappy and know how to mix four kinds of well boozes with coke, tonic, or (if you're in an especially nice one) ginger ale. And they'll usually open your budweiswer for you and sometimes give you fresh glasses, too, if you ask a couple times.

Which is why I drink at home.

Abbott, Friday, 13 July 2007 04:22 (sixteen years ago) link

You should move to SF. I'll sponsor you.

libcrypt, Friday, 13 July 2007 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Is Campari served in skanky old public houses or only in classy establishments?

Hard like armour, Friday, 13 July 2007 05:07 (sixteen years ago) link

In the US, both but only on the coasts.

libcrypt, Friday, 13 July 2007 05:35 (sixteen years ago) link

In Aust? I am looking for a new drink to try tonight.

Hard like armour, Friday, 13 July 2007 05:35 (sixteen years ago) link

What the fuck is Campari? Pics please.

Bimble, Friday, 13 July 2007 05:37 (sixteen years ago) link

I generally have decent luck asking barkeeps what they like to pour. Ask for a drink with campari and see what you get.

libcrypt, Friday, 13 July 2007 05:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Campari is a red liquor. It's quite bitter, and extremely delicious.

libcrypt, Friday, 13 July 2007 05:39 (sixteen years ago) link

The staff type of pub I am going to tonight will probably give me a look of "whatthafuk?"

Hard like armour, Friday, 13 July 2007 05:40 (sixteen years ago) link

It's quite bitter

like Benedictine? That stuff tastes like grass clippings. So I would find it quite different to Malibu & pineapple then?

Hard like armour, Friday, 13 July 2007 05:42 (sixteen years ago) link

I haven't had either, but I think that if you find bitter tastes appealing, you may like campari.

libcrypt, Friday, 13 July 2007 05:47 (sixteen years ago) link

Bitter tastes...so are you supposed to mix it with anything? What would happen if you mixed it with soda water?

Bimble, Friday, 13 July 2007 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link

How about cranberry juice?

Bimble, Friday, 13 July 2007 06:02 (sixteen years ago) link

mmm Campari on the rocks....the official drink of Team Zissou.

l, Friday, 13 July 2007 07:22 (sixteen years ago) link

i always suspected a chinotto/campari connection, but now it's confirmed

"The chinotto is a small bitter citrus fruit from the chinotto, or "myrtle-leaved orange" tree (Citrus aurantium var. myrtifolia). The tree grows to a height of 3m and can be found in Liguria, Tuscany, Sicily and Calabria regions of Italy. The chinotto is an essential flavor component of most Italian bitter amari digestifs, and of the popular Campari liqueur."

gershy, Friday, 13 July 2007 07:44 (sixteen years ago) link

three years pass...

ive missed u

just sayin, Thursday, 24 February 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link

i love campari!!

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Thursday, 24 February 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link

looking fwd to a negroni when i get home

http://www.sushiesque.com/sushiesque/images/negroni.jpg

just sayin, Friday, 25 February 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link

two years pass...

tried this recently

oooft. so bitter. had to force it down

cozen, Thursday, 17 October 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link

its an acquired taste iirc

just sayin, Thursday, 17 October 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link

how did you have it? just with soda?

just sayin, Thursday, 17 October 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link

soda, large wedge of orange

was seriously difficult to finish it. does a negroni take the edge off?

cozen, Thursday, 17 October 2013 19:03 (ten years ago) link

yeah, it has sweet vermouth in it which balances the bitterness.

just sayin, Thursday, 17 October 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link

if you're not in the mood for the full hit of a negroni you can make a campari americano - a negroni but with soda water in place of gin.

i find campari often tastes a little too much like marmalade for me these days, though i still drink it on the regular (i'm drinking a campari-soda right now!)

can't imagine finding it bitter, unless you also find marmalade bitter.

Well, I mean, it's bitter - it's an amaro! - but it's... sweet-bitter. (one of my housemates once said he found it too sweet and syrupy, like cough medicine, which i didn't really understand)

I keep meaning to branch out into the other amari - amaro ramazotti, say, or that one that's made from artichokes or something.

i was going to post the video for Jennifer Hudson's "Spotlight" where she bails on her possessive boyfriend and goes to a club where they ONLY SERVE CAMPARI, but the edit on Vevo has significantly fewer shots of red glasses and campari bottles.

that shit is nasty.

da croupier, Thursday, 17 October 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link

campari g&t

buzza, Friday, 18 October 2013 02:09 (ten years ago) link

Now that it's October swap the gin for bourbon. Boulvardier!

Playoff Starts Here (san lazaro), Friday, 18 October 2013 03:22 (ten years ago) link

that one that's made from artichokes or something.

Cynar is my favorite of all of the amaros

money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Friday, 18 October 2013 04:35 (ten years ago) link

Spritz, yo. (1 part soda 2 campari 3 prosecco.)

as a chocolate salesperson (ledge), Friday, 18 October 2013 09:33 (ten years ago) link

I normally like bitter tastes but found this astringent

may give it one more go, with something to take the edge off

cozen, Friday, 18 October 2013 09:36 (ten years ago) link

Campari and cheap white wine, mixed in equal amounts, with ice.

mahb, Friday, 18 October 2013 10:00 (ten years ago) link

i love those campari soda bottles

just sayin, Friday, 18 October 2013 10:07 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

converted

now want to try campari IPA spritzer

cozen, Saturday, 23 November 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link

also 1x sbagliato

cozen, Saturday, 23 November 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link

campari + hoppy IPA = ridic good

cozen, Sunday, 24 November 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link

whaaaat?

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 25 November 2013 10:18 (ten years ago) link

I've often wondered if hops are among Campari's secret ingredients; that earthy, tannic, oily bitterness reminds me of US IPAs.

mahb, Monday, 25 November 2013 12:00 (ten years ago) link

whaaaat?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, November 25, 2013 10:18 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

srs. try it

the hoppier the better I reckon

cozen, Monday, 25 November 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link


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